PowerShell 7.0 released added with a number of features

Microsoft has released the update to its Powershell automation tool and scripting language.  This PowerShell 7 update, the successor of PowerShell Core 6.X is available for Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 for all supported platform including Windows 10, macOS and various linux distros.

The Microsoft announced last that the next version of the PowerShell would be Power 7 and not the PowerShell 6.3. It was also announced that the there would an update of Windows PowerShell 5.1 released in coming year. Like it’s doing with .Net -converge the previous versions with a move to .NET 5.

Microsoft has added a number of features to this PowerShell including the new operators, cmdlets and pipeline parallelization with this update. The Get-Error Cmdlet help the users to analyze the error quickly and t he feature of pipeline parallelization is a command that allows DSC or Desired State Configuration resources to be invoked directly from the PowerShell 7.

This PowerShell was built on .NET Framework and PowerShell core on .NET core (version 3.1).  It also offers increased backward compatibility which is an important addition as the compatibility issues have crippled some users in the predecessors.

 PowerShell 7 is a long term servicing release. It will be supported for approx 3 days from Dec 3, 2019 – the released data of .NET Core 3.1.

The Microsoft plans to release PowerShell 7.1 very soon, the officials said.