We’re thrilled to unveil the public preview of AI Shell! AI Shell enhances your shell with AI capabilities to facilitate your interactions with the command line. AI Shell create an interactive shell that can interact with various large language model and provides a framework that you can use to build a custom system that meet…
We’re proud to announce the availability of PowerShell 7.5.0-rc.1! This is the first release candidate version of PowerShell 7.5 and is considered a “go-live” release meaning that it’s a supported release in production. PowerShell 7.5 is built on top of .NET 9 and will be supported for 18 months as a standard support release. Please…
PlatyPS is the primary tool for creating the PowerShell help displayed using Get-Help. PowerShell help files are stored in an XML format known as Microsoft Assistance Markup Language (MAML). Prior to PlatyPS, the help files were hand authored using complex tool chains. Markdown is widely used in the open source community, supported by many editors…
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…
PowerShell 7.5 We continue to follow our yearly release schedule for PowerShell 7 and the next version will align with .NET 9. Pseudo-terminal support PowerShell currently has a design limitation that prevents full capture of output from native commands by PowerShell itself. Native commands (meaning executables you run directly) will write output to STDERR or…
As we come to towards the end of 2023, we are excited to announce the general availability of PowerShell 7.4! This release is built on .NET 8 and similarly, is our latest Long Term Support (LTS) release supported for 3 years. We want to thank our community and many contributors for their invaluable help identifying…
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…
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…
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…
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…