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PSScriptAnalyzer (PSSA) 1.19.0 has been released

May 4, 2020 May 4, 2020 05/4/20
Jim Truher
TL;DR; (Too Long; Didn't Read) This new minor version brings 5 new rules, the formatter is much faster and other enhancements and fixes. You can get it from the PSGallery here. At the same time the PowerShell extension for VS Code has released a new preview version. This ships with this new version of PSSA so that you can also take advantage...

Release of PowerShell Script Analyzer (PSScriptAnalyzer) 1.18.2

September 10, 2019 Sep 10, 2019 09/10/19
Jim Truher
In keeping with the tradition of releasing improvements to  more often, we're happy to announce that 1.18.12 is now available! As a dependency of PowerShell Editor Services (a module used by editor extensions like the PowerShell Visual Studio Code extension), this release is motivated by a desire to further stabilize our editor experience. ...

Release of PowerShell Script Analyzer 1.18.1

June 13, 2019 Jun 13, 2019 06/13/19
Jim Truher
Overview  ()  is now available on the PSGallery and fixes not only a lot of the issues reported for  but has also been made twice as faster compared to . Additionally, the  switch on has been improved to be platform agnostic and should now also work on Linux systems if DSC has been set up. A long standing concurrency bug related to...

Using PSScriptAnalyzer to check PowerShell version compatibility

April 18, 2019 Apr 18, 2019 04/18/19
Robert Holt
PSScriptAnalyzer version 1.18 was released recently, and ships with powerful new rules that can check PowerShell scripts for incompatibilities with other PowerShell versions and environments. In this blog post, the first in a series, we'll see how to use these new rules to check a script for problems running on PowerShell 3, 5.1 and 6. ...

PowerShell ScriptAnalyzer Version 1.18.0 Released

March 22, 2019 Mar 22, 2019 03/22/19
Jim Truher
 ()  is now available on the PSGallery and brings a lot of improvements in the following areas: There are some minor breaking changes such as e.g. requiring the minimum version of PowerShell Core to 6.1 as 6.0 has reached the end of its support lifecycle. With this, it was possible to ...

PowerShell Script Analyzer 1.17.1 Released!

June 14, 2018 Jun 14, 2018 06/14/18
James.W.Truher
Summary: A new version of PSScriptAnalyzer is now available with many new features, rules, fixes and improvements. You might remember me from my previous cross-platform remoting blog post, but just to introduce myself: I am Christoph Bergmeister, a full stack .Net developer in the London area and since the start of this year I am now also ...

PSScriptAnalyzer Community Call – Oct 18, 2016

October 13, 2016 Oct 13, 2016 10/13/16
Kapil Borle
Please join PSScriptAnalyzer community call on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 10:00 AM PDT via Skype or telephone. You can find the meeting agenda here. Skype Click the following link to join the meeting via Skype. Join online meeting Phone Dial +1-323-849-4874 to join the meeting via telephone. OR To join the meeting through a local number...

PSScriptAnalyzer v1.4.0 release and support on PSv3.0

February 18, 2016 Feb 18, 2016 02/18/16
Raghu Shantha [MSFT]
Hello All. The first ScriptAnalyzer release of year 2016 added the ability to run on platforms containing PowerShell versions 3.0 and above. This means that Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 is no longer a dependency to use ScriptAnalyzer. ScriptAnalyzer v1.4.0 (available in PowerShellGallery), ships with binaries compatible on systems ...