PowerShell 7.1, the upcoming version of the cross-platform scripting solution available on Windows, MacOS, and Linux, is getting closer to its release. Today, its Release Candidate 2 has become available for download.
The preview release of PowerShell 7.1 includes .NET 5 preview 1. Starting with PowerShell 7.0, devs have shifted to align with .NET’s release and support life-cycle more closely. PowerShell 7.1 is expected to become available within a week or two of .NET 5’s release date of winter 2020 and align with their annual release cadence going forward.
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Starting with Preview 6, PowerShell 7.1 Preview is available in Microsoft Store.
What's new in PowerShell 7.1 RC 2
Engine Updates and Fixes
- Rename
Get-Subsystem
toGet-PSSubsystem
and fix two related minor issues (#13765) - Add missing
PSToken
token table entries to fix thePSParser
API (#13779) - Add additional PowerShell modules to the tracked modules list (#12183)
- Fix blocking wait when starting file associated with a Windows application (#13750)
- Revert
PSNativePSPathResolution
to being an experimental feature (#13734)
General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes
- Emit warning if
ConvertTo-Json
exceeds-Depth
value (#13692)
Build and Packaging Improvements
- Change Linux package script call to publish to the production repository in release builds (#13714)
- Update
PSReadLine
version to2.1.0-rc1
(#13777) - Move PowerShell build to dotnet
5.0-RC.2
(#13780) - Bump
Microsoft.PowerShell.Native
to7.1.0-rc.2
(#13794)
What to expect in PowerShell 7.1
- PowerShellGet 3.0
- Secret Management Module, an extensible abstraction layer in PowerShell for interacting with Secrets and Secrets Vaults, will get Linux support.
- PSScriptAnalyzer 2.0 for better user experience with VSCode-PowerShell and PSEditorServices.
- Improvements made to PowerShell Jupyter Kernel
- Improvements made to platyPS vNext, a PowerShell module that devs currently use to convert PowerShell documentation from markdown to updatable-help.
There are also a number of areas where it is possible to make more improvements and changes, including Installation and Updating, Shell Improvements, Interactive User Experience.
Finally, PowerShell may get a minimal setup, that only includes the parts of PowerShell needed for your scripts. Not only would it take less disk space, but more importantly, a minimal set of code means less patching and security attack surface.
You can download it here:
Download PowerShell 7.1 Preview
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