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)