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Announcing the PowerShell 7.0 Release Candidate

December 16, 2019 Dec 16, 2019 12/16/19
Joey Aiello
After 6 previews, we're happy to announce the release of the PowerShell 7 Release Candidate (RC). Whether you've been running PowerShell Core since our first alpha releases or you've been clinging to Windows PowerShell for backwards compatibility, 7.0 delivers a host of improvements to make your life better. This is a "go live" release...

Improvements in Windows PowerShell Container Images

December 9, 2019 Dec 9, 2019 12/9/19
Joey Aiello
Beginning with Windows Server 20H1 Insider builds, Windows Server Core Insider images have been reduced in size from ~2.1 GBs to ~1.1 GBs. How did the Server Core images get over 40% smaller? Traditionally, Windows 10 and Windows Server have always included a set of .NET native binaries that were pre-compiled using the Native Image ...

PowerShell 7 Preview 6

November 21, 2019 Nov 21, 2019 11/21/19
Steve Lee
Today we shipped PowerShell 7 Preview.6! This release contains a number of new features and many bug fixes from both the community as well as the PowerShell team. See the Release Notes for all the details of what is included in this release. This will be the last preview release as we head towards a Release Candidate in December. For ...

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 Preview 5

October 23, 2019 Oct 23, 2019 10/23/19
Steve Lee
Today we shipped PowerShell 7 Preview5! This release contains a number of new features and many bug fixes from both the community as well as the PowerShell team. See the Release Notes for all the details of what is included in this release. We are still on track to have one more preview release next month in November. Then, barring any ...

PowerShell 7 Preview 4

September 19, 2019 Sep 19, 2019 09/19/19
Steve Lee
We continue to make progress towards our PowerShell 7 release which currently is targeting December 2019 for a Release Candidate and January 2020 for General Availability and will be our first LTS (Long Term Servicing) release! Please see the previous blog post on Preview 3 for more details about LTS and also Windows PowerShell ...

Updating Help for older versions of PowerShell

September 17, 2019 Sep 17, 2019 09/17/19
Sean Wheeler
UPDATE: We are now publishing updated help for PowerShell 5.1 and higher. See the announcement. PowerShell's Updatable Help system was introduced in PowerShell 3.0. It was designed to assure that you always have the newest help topics on your local computer so that you can read them at the command line. Help was updated with every new release...

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. ...