PowerShell Community Call - July 15, 2021
- PowerShell 7.2 update (Steve)
- Datetime JSON serialization fix
- DetailedView ErrorView
-View tab completion- FileInfo colors
- Microsoft Update update (Travis)
- SecretManagement 1.1 release (Paul)
- PowerShellGet 3.0 update (Anam)
- Crescendo preview 3 (Jason)
- PSArm update (Danny)
- Demos
- PowerShell 7.2 preview 8 coming out in the next week or so
- JSON serialization DateTime fix no longer includes extended members
- @Jaykul: Would be useful to also support auto-casting to
DateTimeOffset when getting that
from remote JSON
$ErrorView = 'DetailedView' will give you the full Get-Error output at failure time
- this is great for CI/CD where the session is lost after execution is finished
Get-Foo | Format-Table -View <tab> now has proper completions,
making formatter views more discoverable and potentially useful- Added colorization as an experimental feature to
Get-ChildItem output
- Microsoft Update is now working as an opt-in for 7.2 preview customers
- Resolved some minor issues during preview 7
- You can still opt in via these blog instructions,
but you can also use the MSI now to opt-in to both 7.2 updates and MU in general
- SecretManagement 1.1 going to GA this/next week after a small brekaing change preview from last month
- PowerShellGet 3.0
Find- has been merged in, Install- and Save- are going through bug bashes before we merge them- Expect a new preview within the next couple weeks
- Working towards GA this year depending on feedback for backwards-compatibility to 2.x
- Crescendo preview 3
- Will include breaking changes on schema updates in order to handle multiple command
definitions within a single JSON
- Better output parsing for creating objects from text
- Adding native command elevation
- platyPS 2.0 preview 2
- New release coming within the next couple weeks, look to blogs for new features
- Used across Microsoft for 1st party modules, driving consistency in module reference documentation
- PSArm update
- Working very closely with the Bicep team,
we want to take advantage of their momentum as much as possible going forward
- Will be sharing a blog update within the next couple weeks
- Demo: GitHub Copilot
- Update on Windows 11
- No major changes from PowerShell on the first release
- We are aggressively investigating and having discussions on how PowerShell 7 can be more inbox
- Could be installed by default from Store
- Investigating FoD
- Dependent on our ability to make minimal PS7 small enough for Windows requirements
- Updating PackageManagement and PowerShellGet will only happen after we've validated strong
compatibility from 2.x to 3.x