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PowerShell Gallery TLS Support

Sydney SmithApril 9, 2020Apr 9, 202004/9/20

Summary
To provide the best-in-class encryption to our customers, the PowerShell Gallery has deprecated Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 and 1.1 as of April 2020.
The Microsoft TLS 1.0 implementation has no known security vulnerabilities. But because of the potential for future protocol downgrade attacks and other TLS vulnerabilities,

Depending on the right PowerShell NuGet package in your .NET project

Robert HoltApril 7, 2020Apr 7, 202004/7/20

Alongside the pwsh executable packages published with each PowerShell release, the PowerShell team also maintain several NuGet packages that are available on NuGet to allow targeting PowerShell as an API platform in .NET.
As a .NET application that both provides APIs and expects to load .NET libraries implementing its own (binary modules),

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 1

Sydney SmithMarch 30, 2020Mar 30, 202003/30/20

We are excited to announce that our first preview release of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This is a major update to PowerShell’s experience for discovering, installing, updating and publishing PowerShell resources like modules, DSC resources, role capabilities and scripts.

PowerShell 7.1 Team Investments and Preview.1 Release

Steve LeeMarch 26, 2020Mar 26, 202003/26/20

The PowerShell 7 release marks a huge milestone for PowerShell, the community, and the team!
Today we released the first preview for PowerShell 7.1! This release includes a number of changes that did not make it in time for the 7.0 release.

Secret Management Preview 2 Release

Sydney SmithMarch 19, 2020Mar 19, 202003/19/20

Note this blog post is the third in a series on the releases of this module:

Secrets Management Development Release
Secrets Management Module Vault Extensions

We are excited to release a second preview of the Secret Management Module. Thanks to the tremendous feedback we received from the first preview release of this module,

A new kind of GridView right in your console: Introducing the early preview of ConsoleGuiTools

Tyler LeonhardtMarch 6, 2020Mar 6, 202003/6/20

Yes. This is yet another post about GridViews. We love them. You love them. What’s not to like?
If you’re not familiar with Out-GridView, it can be used to interactively view objects as a table allowing sorting and filtering. Many PowerShell users like to use it within a pipeline for interactive selection of objects that get processed later in the pipeline.

Visual Studio Code for PowerShell 7

Sydney SmithMarch 5, 2020Mar 5, 202003/5/20

We are excited to announce that we have released a major update to the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code. This release contains months of architectural work that first shipped in our PowerShell Preview extension in November of 2019, along with incremental bug fixes in the intervening months.

Announcing PowerShell 7.0

Joey AielloMarch 4, 2020Mar 4, 202003/4/20

Today, we’re happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Before 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.

Secrets Management Module Vault Extensions

Paul HiginbothamFebruary 6, 2020Feb 6, 202002/6/20

Secrets Management Module Vault Extensions
A new PowerShell Secrets Management module has been published on PowerShell Gallery. It is currently in a pre-release state and still in active development. Even though the module is not complete, we have released it to gather early community feedback.

Public Preview of PowerShell Support in Jupyter Notebooks

Tyler LeonhardtFebruary 6, 2020Feb 6, 202002/6/20

Public Preview of PowerShell Support in Jupyter Notebooks
Today, the .NET team shipped an exciting new preview of .NET Interactive. If you’re unfamiliar, .NET Interactive (within a Jupyter environment) provides the ability to write .NET Jupyter Notebooks which are a powerful tool that combines documentation and the ability to execute and see the output of code all in the same file.