brings to your fingertips the entire knowledge of the Azure documentation customized to your current session.

anything else, we'd like to thank our many, many open-source contributors for making this release possible by submitting code, tests, documentation, and issue feedback. PowerShell 7 would not have been possible without your help.

release includes a number of improvements and fixes that build on top of the PowerShell 7.0 release in March and the recent GA release of .NET 5. Since then, the PowerShell Team (and many of you, our community contributors, thank you!) have been hard at work addressing some of the community's top bug reports and feature requests.

native commands have their own unique syntax, sometimes containing many subcommands and parameters/switches, and are often like its own language. Wouldn't it be great to have an option to leverage your PowerShell skills to use new commands or be even more proficient with native commands you are already using?

develop PowerShell cmdlets for native commands, regardless of platform.

PowerShell cmdlets for native commands, regardless of platform.

develop PowerShell cmdlets for native commands, regardless of platform.

PSDesiredStateConfiguration 2.0.5 for DSC as a separate module on PowerShell Gallery. This is in preparation for publishing previews of the 3.0 version of this module which will have new capabilities, but also some breaking changes.

than ever for PowerShell customers to create Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates: PSArm.

PowerShell, delivered to the local terminal experience.

to what caused the downtime, what actions were taken to mitigate the issue, and what steps we are taking to improve the PowerShell gallery experience moving forward.

Services, intending to create a more reliable and stable user experience.

no major issues reported.

based on .NET 5 as we wait for the first preview of .NET 6 which we expect PowerShell 7.2 to be based upon.

explicitly enable them to use them:

rapidly develop PowerShell cmdlets for native commands, regardless of platform.

Studio Code Marketplace. This blog will explain what is new in this release as well as what you can expect from extension updates in the coming months.

are now available on the Visual Studio Code marketplace. This blog will explain what is new in these releases as well as what you can expect from the extension in the coming months.

itself follows the .NET schedule of release every year. In this blog post, we'll cover the year long plan for PowerShell 7.2 as well as tooling and modules work we have planned for the next semester.

available on the PowerShell Gallery!

the PowerShell Gallery!

the PowerShell Gallery!

ever to update on Windows 10 and Server.

editing experience in the PowerShell terminal. This release is supported for PowerShell 7.x and downlevel to Windows PowerShell 5.1.

command-line editing experience in the PowerShell terminal.

solution before we can ship another MSIX. In the meantime, please use the MSI packages.

details!)

PowerShell Gallery. These releases contain an exciting new feature which allows users to provide non-sensitive metadata for secrets (note: this feature may not be available for all extension vaults).

changes, one of which is a potentially breaking change for extension authors. For more information on the changes in this release, see the CHANGELOG document. This blog discusses the primary changes, why one is potentially breaking, and is especially relevant for extension vault owners who may want to test their vault and make any changes while these updates are in a preview state.

in versions 7.0 and 7.1. We recommend that you install the updated versions as soon as possible. Windows PowerShell 5.1 isn't affected by this issue.

.NET 5.0.0-rc.1. Given the impact of these regressions, particularly in interactive scenarios on non-Windows systems, we will only be publishing PowerShell v7.1.0-rc.1 packages for Windows and Linux, skipping macOS until v7.1.0-rc.2 is available with the proper fixes.

Predictive IntelliSense feature. PSReadLine 2.2.2 expanded on that feature by adding a plugin model that allows you create your own command-line predictors.

summary of information found in the release notes. More detailed information can be found in the release notes:

checks the quality of PowerShell code by running a set of rules. The rules are based on PowerShell best practices identified by PowerShell Team and the community. It generates DiagnosticResults (errors and warnings) to inform users about potential code defects and suggests possible solutions for improvements.

contains an exciting new feature which allows users to non-interactively create, and configure a SecretStore. This feature was added to support CI systems and other automated scenarios.

explaining and demoing aspects of the release. The intent of these videos was for User Groups to host events celebrating and discussing PowerShell 7, however, in light of the current guidance against group gatherings, we have decided to make these videos available publicly on the PowerShell Team YouTube channel.

previous versions and making them work in PowerShell 7 and PowerShell Core. We'll also take a serious look at Learning PowerShell with PowerShell, at Predictive IntelliSense, at the VS Code extensions, at Crescendo, and secret management with PowerShell to avoid the ever-annoying problem of hardcode creds or use prompts.

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