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PowerShell 7.1 Team Investments and Preview.1 Release

March 26, 2020 Mar 26, 2020 03/26/20
Steve Lee
The PowerShell 7 release marks a huge milestone for PowerShell, the community, and the team! Today we released the first preview for PowerShell 7.1! This release includes a number of changes that did not make it in time for the 7.0 release. It also includes .NET 5 preview 1! The PowerShell team is not resting on our laurels and are ...

PowerShell Extension Roadmap

November 4, 2019 Nov 4, 2019 11/4/19
Sydney Smith
Over the last year we have committed to making the PowerShell editing experience in Visual Studio Code a rich and productive cross-platform alternative for the PowerShell ISE. To that end, we have focused on two primary areas: bringing the PSReadLine experience to the Integrated Console, and improving the stability of the extension while ...

PowerShell 7 Roadmap

May 30, 2019 May 30, 2019 05/30/19
Steve Lee
Last month we announced that PowerShell 7 will be the next release of PowerShell. Here I will provide more details of areas we'll be investing in for the PowerShell 7 release. When will I get it?! Today, we're releasing our first preview of PowerShell 7. Keeping with our monthly cadence, expect new preview releases approximately every...

The Next Release of PowerShell – PowerShell 7

April 5, 2019 Apr 5, 2019 04/5/19
Steve Lee
Recently, the PowerShell Team shipped the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell Core 6.2. Since that release, we've already begun work on the next iteration! We're calling the next release PowerShell 7, the reasons for which will be explained in this blog post. Why 7 and not 6.3? PowerShell Core usage has grown significantly ...

Desired State Configuration (DSC) Planning Update – September 2018

September 13, 2018 Sep 13, 2018 09/13/18
Michael Greene
2018 has been the most active year ever for the DSC community. We are taking on major new areas of work in Azure, and have made significant progress in development of the new DSC platform. In this Planning Update for DSC, I want to cover these topics in detail and share major changes to the timing of our Open Source plans for the DSC platform.

Desired State Configuration (DSC) Planning Update – January 2018

January 26, 2018 Jan 26, 2018 01/26/18
Michael Greene
In September 2017 we communicated some of our plans for PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC). Over the past few months, we have been executing on these plans and collecting feedback from customers and partners. The intent of this blog is to provide an update on the plans we shared back in September. I will have additional posts in the ...

PowerShell Core 6.1 Roadmap

January 24, 2018 Jan 24, 2018 01/24/18
Steve Lee
The release of PowerShell Core 6.0 is only the beginning and we are already thinking about the next leg of our journey. Most of the effort of the team with PowerShell Core 6.0 was in these areas: Learning how to work in an Open Source project (and we are still learning) Complete the port of PowerShell to CoreCLR Add test coverage for...