Microsoft today released the final version of the next gen PowerShell scripting language, PowerShell 7. It contains a number of new features and many bug fixes from both the community as well as the PowerShell team.
PowerShell 7, also known as PowerShell Core, is a cross-platform scripting solution available on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
PowerShell 7 now utilizes .NET Core 3.1, but keeps backward compatibility with modules previously available for the classic PowerShell product. Also, PowerShell introduces a new argument, -UseWindowsPowerShell, to force run a cmdlet under the classic engine.
New features of PowerShell 7
- Pipeline parallelization with
ForEach-Object -Parallel - New operators:
- Ternary operator:
a ? b : c - Pipeline chain operators:
||and&& - Null conditional operators:
??and??=
- Ternary operator:
- A simplified and dynamic error view and
Get-Errorcmdlet for easier investigation of errors - A compatibility layer that enables users to import modules in an implicit Windows PowerShell session
- Automatic new version notifications
- The ability to invoke DSC resources directly from PowerShell 7 (experimental)
PowerShell 7 currently supports the following operating systems on x64, including:
- Windows 8.1, and 10
- Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019
- macOS 10.13+
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS 7
- Fedora 30+
- Debian 9
- Ubuntu LTS 16.04+
- Alpine Linux 3.8+
Additionally, PowerShell 7.0 supports ARM32 and ARM64 flavors of Debian, Ubuntu, and ARM64 Alpine Linux.
Check out the full introduction HERE to learn more about this update.
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Thanks Sergey! Installing while we speak. :)
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