PowerShell Community Call - March 17, 2022
- Move to .NET 7 - Aditya
- Local SessionConfiguration support – Paul
- Custom ConnectionInfo
- AMSI and WDAC enhancements
- Additional Azure Mariner support - Travis
- More Windows ARM64 support
- Making it easier to find out what’s new in PowerShell – Jason
- Crescendo 1.0
- PlatyPS 2.0
- PSDesiredStateConfiguration 3.0
- Docs update - Sean
- CompleterPredictor - Dongbo
- PowerShellGet 3.0 - Anam
- PowerShell VSCode Extension – Andy
- OpenSSH for Windows – Balu/Danny
- Questions
- Theme of today's call is the teams' 2022 investments
- We have released servicing updates for PowerShell 7+
- The latest preview release is still on .Net 6, but future will .Net 7
- We are making improvements to local SessionConfiguration support probably by adding a new keyword
- This would allow for support of things like SSH endpoints, setting language mode, import modules ect.
- Look out for an RFC on this work item
- The PR is out for Custom Remote Connections based on this RFC
- We have made enhancements to AMSI and WDAC, these are Windows only security features
- Azure Mariner is a version of linux which we will be making packages available as well as docker containers
- We are also investing in Windows ARM64 MSI packages which will allow us to keep these things up to date
- We are working on a cmdlet
Get-WhatsNew
to learn differences in PowerShell versions from the cmd line
- The RFC for this will be available next week, please give us feedback
- Crescendo
reached GA on March 10th --give it a try :)
- Crescendo allows you to wrap command line tools with PowerShell to make them more useable
- We have also created documentation for Crescendo, as well as community blogs
- PlatyPS 2.0 is a project we have been working on to help teams who produce modules get on
updateable help
- Look forward to more previews on PlatyPS 2.0 mid year
- We are working to open source the repo for PSDesiredStateConfiguration
- Welcome Mikey Lombardi to the Docs Team!
- New DSC 3.0 docs
- New about_Member-Access_Enumeration
- Updated What's New in PowerShell 7.3
- The CompleterPredictor (demoed last community call) is expected to be open sourced by mid April
- The module isolation work is based on RFC #298, a PR is open to refactor module loading
- We are continuing work on the PowerShellGet 3.0 project in 2022
- We are in the early stages of investigating architecture changes to PowerShell gallery in order to
meet scale and performance needs
- We have continued to ship preview releases of the PowerShell extension for VSCode and are getting
closer to GA
- Welcome Patrick to the team!
- Our focus for the VSCode extension continues to be performance, reliability and stability
- Look out for updates to Win32- OpenSSH in windows server later this year
- Adding support for two factor auth