PowerShell Community Call - January 17, 2019
- PowerShell-Docs repo move postponed to next week (1/23)
- Will be migrating from PowerShell GitHub org to MicrosoftDocs
- only affects contributors, docs will remain in place on docs.microsoft.com
- contributors should update their remotes
(see this blog post)
- PowerShellGet released an update a couple days ago
- a few bug fixes, including removal of Gallery availability checks that impacted some folks
- PowerShell Core 6.1.2 released 2 days ago (1/15)
- servicing release, make sure you update
- 6.2 release
- Preview.4 coming out next week
- includes ExperimentalFeature cmdlets, fuzzy command matching, perf fixes
- will likely be last Preview release before our RC next month
- the bar for contributions will be going up as we approach our RC
- after 6.2 (6.3+)
- moving to .NET Core 3.0, first preview shipping after 6.2 GA in March
- w/ 6 month release cadence, would GA ~September 2019
- support lifecycle
- will likely be updating this in the future, keep your eyes peeled on aka.ms/pslifecycle
- will likely align closer to .NET support lifecycle, includes a possible LTS at some point
- documentation hosted by Gallery (CAB/XML)
- looking into company wide solution for this problem, would like to expose it to community as well
- early days
- packaging a script as an application package with all its dependencies
- hard problem, not something we've looked into lately
- Twitch livestreaming
- Tyler has been live coding every Thursday at 10a at twitch.tv/TylerLeonhardt
- also check out a new feed stood up by markekraus at twitch.tv/PowerShellLive
- auto-hosts lots of different PS streamers in one channel
- more and more PS livestreamers are popping up
- reach out to Tyler on Twitter if you're interested in setting up your own channel
- PowerShell RFCs: "they seem a bit stale, what's the progress on that?"
- stood up a new 1.5 hour weekly meeting to JUST review RFCs
- recently closed on RFC0002 (taking longer than expected)
- if you are ready to implement a feature and the RFC is stagnant, @mention Steve and Joey, and we'll see if we can "experimentally approve" so you can implement a PR behind a feature flag
- VS Code PS extension and Editor Services
- (soon) we're releasing an update to VS Code extension
- will also be releasing a preview extension solution
- will include PSReadline support (will also require PowerShell 5.1)
- this preview will be update more frequently than the stable extension
- will just be named differently than the stable one
- thanks to Bergmeister we now have Run/Debug Pester tests
- Cloud Shell
- tracking module updates (e.g. Az)
- a few minor things, like updating the MOTD
- PowerShell Core in Azure Functions
- Currently being developed in this repo
- Please reach out to Joey on Twitter if you're interested in the private preview