Built on the .NET Framework, Windows PowerShell allows IT professionals to manage computers via commands or scripts, improving productivity through system automation.
Installation Process:
After the package is installed, run pwsh from a terminal. Specific procedures for different Linux distributions can be found here.
Officially supported platform releases for PowerShell 7.1:
- Ubuntu 16.04/18.04/20.04 (including ARM64)
- Ubuntu 19.10 (via Snap package)
- Debian 9/10
- CentOS and RHEL 7/8
- Fedora 30
- Alpine 3.11+ (including ARM64)
What's New
Engine Updates and Fixes
- Add instrumentation to AmsiUtil and make the init variable readonly (#18727)
- Fix support for NanoServer due to the lack of AMSI (#18882)
- Adding missing guard for telemetry optout to avoid NullReferenceException when importing modules (#18949) (Thanks @powercode!)
- Fix VtSubstring helper method to correctly check chars copied (#19240)
- Fix ConciseView to handle custom ParserError error records (#19239)