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Notes

  • Releases
    • 7.0.0-preview.4 out later today, blogpost to come with GIFs on features
    • Working towards ~December Release Candidate, ~January General Availability
    • Bound to .NET Core 3.1 and their dates
      • Will get LTS support for 7.0 and .NET Core 3.1
    • PowerShell Script Analyzer 1.18.3 released with a critical bugfix (get it from the Gallery!)
  • RFCs
    • Going through an exercise of rewriting our processes and principles around PowerShell and RFCs
    • Want to provide more transparency and dependability, but also the Committee is an executive body that sometimes has to make unpopular decisions
    • "We want to be sure we don't preclude behavior when we add behavior." - Jim
  • PowerShellGet 3.0
    • We want to make sure that new modules are well-tested and used in production before they ship into PowerShell
    • PSGet 3.0 will be in preview in 7.0 GA, and will not make it's way into PS until 7.x
  • Some PS Team owned cmdlets are missing in PS Core vs. Windows PS
    • We cannot legally use private/undocumented Windows APIs from PowerShell as it ships outside of Windows*
    • Some "work just fine" when sideloading inbox Windows modules (like Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts), but others cannot be imported because they have the same name as existing PS Core modules
      • For these, use the WindowsCompatibility module to call into them via Windows PowerShell
  • DSC
    • Invoke-DscResource being made available cross-platform in 7.0
    • Not calling through a Local Configuration Manager (LCM), but invoking directly in user context via PowerShell
    • Configuration blocks now compile correctly on macOS as well
    • Still some bugs/kinks that need to be documented, but it's a good start
  • 3.0, 4.0, and 5.1 documentation is being maintained on PowerShell-Docs and windows-powershell-docs repos, but hasn't been finding it's way into updateable help
    • Sean has a blog post on platyPS and using the Markdown source in the docs repo to manually update your console help on downlevel versions
    • Currently in the process of archiving (read-only) the 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0 help (5.1 will continue to be maintained)
  • PS Conference Asia
  • Demos
    • ForEach-Object -Parallel is awesome, check out the demo and Paul's blog post
  • Go through GitHub Issues
  • Q&A
    • Conditional chain operator (&& and ||) going to make it in time for PS7?
      • Would like to make this into 7.0-preview.5 as experimental
    • Is PS Conf Asia being streamed online?
      • We don't believe so, but there will likely be recordings
    • When does 6.2 support end?
      • 6 months after 7.0 GAs, roughly July of next year
    • Is this being recorded?
    • @@ "generalized splatting" will likely not make it for PS 7.0, no one from our team is working on that
    • Is Dispose() work being done?
      • Joel Sallow needs us to finish his RFC before he can finish code