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2w ago
We are pleased to announce the public preview of AI Shell.
The post Announcing the Public Preview of AI Shell appeared first on PowerShell Team ..read more
Windows PowerShell Blog | Automating the world one-liner at a time
2w ago
Availability of PowerShell 7.5 RC1
The post PowerShell 7.5 RC-1 is now available appeared first on PowerShell Team ..read more
Windows PowerShell Blog | Automating the world one-liner at a time
1M ago
We are pleased to announce the release of Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.0-Preview1, a tool to build PowerShell help files.
The post Announcing Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.0-Preview1 appeared first on PowerShell Team ..read more
Windows PowerShell Blog | Automating the world one-liner at a time
8M ago
Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet 1.1.0-preview1 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery.
This preview adds support for Azure Container Registry (ACR) as a private repository for PowerShell. Although ACR is a container registry by name, in this release we add support for PowerShell resources as modules, scripts and DSC resources to be directly published and consumed in the repository. To support this we publish the PowerShell resources as OCIArtifacts, and created a dependable schema to store the needed PSResource metadata.
The documentation for PSResourceGet is also updated to reflect thi ..read more
Windows PowerShell Blog | Automating the world one-liner at a time
1y ago
PowerShell 7.4 RC-1 is now available
We’re proud to announce the availability of PowerShell 7.4.0-rc.1! This is the first release candidate version of PowerShell 7.4 and is considered a “go-live” release meaning that it is a supported release in production. Now is the time to test out PowerShell 7.4 in your environment. PowerShell 7.4 is built on top of .NET 8 and as a LTS (Long Term Support) release will be supported for 3 years.
How do I get it?
Since PowerShell 7 is supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS, there are a variety of ways to get it. If you had installed the previous PowerShell 7 ..read more
Windows PowerShell Blog | Automating the world one-liner at a time
1y ago
PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code Fall 2023 Update
We are excited to announce that the fall update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the extension marketplace.
In this update, thanks to efforts across the team, we are shipping the extension with the latest and greatest PSReadLine, v2.3.4! In addition this release contains a number of bug fixes and community contributions.
Thanks to all the many community contributors whose efforts make releases such as these possible!
Updates in the Fall Release
Note that these updates all shipped in our preview c ..read more
Windows PowerShell Blog | Automating the world one-liner at a time
1y ago
PSResourceGet is Generally Available
Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet is a continuation of the PowerShellGet 3.0 project. The module under this new name is now generally available on the PowerShell Gallery.
The documentation for PSResourceGet is also live.
How to install the module
To install from PSResourceGet (which is included since PowerShell 7.4 Preview 5)
Install-PSResource -Name Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet
To install from PowerShellGet 2.2.5
Install-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet
With this release we have also included an update to the PowerShell Gallery UI to ..read more
Windows PowerShell Blog | Automating the world one-liner at a time
1y ago
We are excited to announce the general availability of PSReadLine 2.3.4! After three preview releases we are ready to release the GA version of PSReadLine 2.3.4. There are no new features in this release from the previous preview but wanted to highlight some of the key changes since the previous stable version, 2.2.6.
Installing PSReadLine 2.3.4
As usual, here are the instructions for installing the latest PSReadLine module. PSReadLine is available from the PowerShell Gallery.
Use the following command to install PSReadLine using PowerShellGet v2.x:
Install-Module -Name PSReadLine -Force
If ..read more
Windows PowerShell Blog | Automating the world one-liner at a time
1y ago
The latest preview of PowerShellGet is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. In this new preview version of PowerShellGet, PowerShellGet is a compatibility module that allows use of PowerShellGet 2.x (and below) cmdlet syntax with PSResourceGet functionality by making a best effort mapping between the cmdlet interfaces of both versions of the module. This module is a continuation of the CompatPowerShellGet project, but will now be shipping under the PowerShellGet module name.
How to install the module
To install from PSResourceGet (which is included in PowerShell 7.4 Preview 5)
Install-PSRe ..read more
Windows PowerShell Blog | Automating the world one-liner at a time
1y ago
We’re pleased to announce the availability of PowerShell Crescendo 1.1.0. Crescendo is a framework to rapidly develop PowerShell cmdlets for common command line tools, regardless of platform.
The release is now available for download on the PowerShell Gallery.
Making Cmdlets with PowerShell Crescendo
Crescendo is a development accelerator enabling you to rapidly build PowerShell cmdlets that leverage existing command-line tools. Crescendo amplifies the command-line experience of the original tool to include object output for the PowerShell pipeline, privilege elevation, and integrated help inf ..read more