The PowerShell 7 platform has received a new update. A preview for the upcoming version 7.2 is now available for download. Microsoft has announced a number of improvements that already included in 'Preview 1', so interested users can check them out.
What's new in PowerShell 7.2 Preview 1
Engine Updates and Fixes
- Change the default fallback encoding for
GetEncoding
inStart-Transcript
to beUTF8
without a BOM
General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes
- Update
pwsh -?
output to match docs - Fix
NullReferenceException
inTest-Json
- Make
Dispose
inTranscriptionOption
idempotent - Add additional Microsoft PowerShell modules to the tracked modules list
- Relax further
SSL
verification checks forWSMan
on non-Windows hosts with verification available - Add the
OutputTypeAttribute
toGet-ExperimentalFeature
- Fix blocking wait when starting file associated with a Windows application
- Emit warning if
ConvertTo-Json
exceeds-Depth
value
Tools
- Enable
CodeQL
Security scanning - Add global
AnalyzerConfig
with default configuration
Download PowerShell 7.2
The app is available for download on the GitHub.
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Don’t wait at all after the public release. :D Thanks Sergey!