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We’re excited to announce the General Availability of PowerShell 7.7, the next Standard Term Support\n(STS) release of PowerShell. PowerShell 7.7 is built on .NET 11, continuing the alignment between\nPowerShell and the modern .NET platform.<\/p>\n
PowerShell 7.7 focuses on security hardening, new and improved commands, and reliability across the\nengine, remoting, and interactive shell experience.<\/p>\n
Notable areas of improvement include:<\/p>\n
For support dates, see the PowerShell support lifecycle<\/a> article.<\/p>\n PowerShell 7.7 includes a small number of breaking changes. Review them before you upgrade\nproduction scripts.<\/p>\n These changes might also affect existing scripts:<\/p>\n PowerShell is built by a global community of users and contributors. Thank you to everyone who\nfiled issues, tested previews, improved docs, and submitted fixes during the PowerShell 7.7\nrelease cycle.<\/p>\n We want to give a special thanks to the community members who spent the most time helping\nothers in the repository this release:<\/p>\n The following individuals contributed code to the PowerShell 7.7 release:<\/p>\n Install PowerShell 7.7 now.<\/p>\n For more information, see the following articles:<\/p>\n We continue to work on future releases of PowerShell. Preview releases will continue to provide\nearly access to new capabilities and improvements, and your feedback on them helps us ship with\nconfidence.<\/p>\n PowerShell Team<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post announces the General Availability (GA) of PowerShell 7.7, the next Standard Term Support (STS) release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-21034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell","tag-powershell-release"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" This post announces the General Availability (GA) of PowerShell 7.7, the next Standard Term Support (STS) release.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21035,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034\/revisions\/21035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Highlights<\/h2>\n
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New-TemporaryDirectory<\/code> cmdlet<\/li>\n-Extension<\/code> parameter to Join-Path<\/code><\/li>\n-ExcludeProperty<\/code> parameter to Format-Table<\/code>, Format-List<\/code>, and Format-Custom<\/code><\/li>\nGet-AuthenticodeSignature<\/code> now returns a SubjectAlternativeName<\/code> property<\/li>\nToRegex()<\/code> method to WildcardPattern<\/code><\/li>\nNew-Guid<\/code> now generates version 7 (time-sortable) UUIDs by default<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n
Test-Json<\/code> no longer resolves external schema references unless you ask it to<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n
-Switch:$false<\/code> values are now respected by Split-Path<\/code>, New-PSSession<\/code>,\nTest-Connection<\/code>, Get-TimeZone<\/code>, Get-Random<\/code>, Get-SecureRandom<\/code>, Get-Uptime<\/code>, and\nNew-Guid<\/code>, and by the operator parameters of Where-Object<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n
powershell.config.json<\/code> no longer stops PowerShell from\nstarting<\/li>\nResolve-Path -Relative<\/code> for names that begin with a dot<\/li>\nGet-Command<\/code> fuzzy matching<\/li>\nClear-Host<\/code> for remote Windows sessions from non-Windows platforms<\/li>\n$PSBoundParameters.Keys<\/code><\/li>\npwsh -file<\/code> dot-sourcing of advanced-function scripts<\/li>\nA quick example<\/h2>\n
New-TemporaryDirectory<\/code> creates a uniquely named directory in the system temp folder and returns a\nDirectoryInfo<\/code> object. Use -Prefix<\/code> to make the directory easier to recognize:<\/p>\n# Create a uniquely named directory in the system temp folder\r\n$workDir = New-TemporaryDirectory -Prefix build\r\n$workDir.FullName\r\n\r\n# Remove it when you're done\r\nRemove-Item -LiteralPath $workDir.FullName -Recurse<\/code><\/pre>\nBreaking changes<\/h2>\n
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New-Guid<\/code> generates version 7 (time-sortable) UUIDs by default instead of version 4. Use\n[guid]::NewGuid()<\/code> when you need a fully random GUID.<\/li>\nFormat-Table<\/code>, Format-List<\/code>, and Format-Custom<\/code> now validate that -Property<\/code> is not null or\nempty.<\/li>\nSystem.ArgumentException<\/code>.<\/li>\nWhere-Object<\/code> operator switches, such as -EQ:$false<\/code>, are now handled correctly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOther behavior changes<\/h2>\n
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Test-Json<\/code> requires -FetchExternalReference<\/code> to resolve external schema references.<\/li>\nExport-Csv<\/code> no longer accepts -Append<\/code> together with -NoHeader<\/code>. Using -NoTypeInformation<\/code>\non the CSV cmdlets now writes a deprecation warning and has no effect.<\/li>\nGet-ChildItem -Name<\/code> with -Recurse<\/code> now returns matching files in subdirectories when the path\ncontains a wildcard or names a file.<\/li>\nForEach()<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nCommunity contributions<\/h2>\n
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Looking ahead<\/h2>\n