PowerShell 7.2 integrates with Microsoft Update and is now available

Microsoft recently released PowerShell 7.2. The updated PowerShell includes several improvements and new features. It at present integrates with Microsoft Update, meaning information technology will automatically receive servicing releases when they include critical problems fixes or security updates. Microsoft announced the release of PowerShell seven.2 in a weblog post and outlines all of its changes in depth in a support document.

The first affair Microsoft highlights about PowerShell 7.2 is that it can stay up to appointment automatically. "The MSI installer will automatically enable updating PowerShell 7 besides as enabling Microsoft Update," explains the weblog post. You tin can run stable and preview versions of PowerShell side-past-side, meaning you could have the preview of 7.2 update to version vii.3 when information technology becomes available while keeping a stable version of version seven.ii.

Enhanced support for ANSI allows people to decorate text and other elements in PowerShell. This allows users to easily differentiate between information, such equally using a unlike colour for metadata vs. data when using a tabular array or list view.

PowerShell 7.2 tin predict what you may be typing based on your history. PowerShell users can customize this feature, including setting the color of predictive text.

As it is an fifty-fifty-numbered pocket-sized version release, PowerShell 7.2 volition be supported in production for three years. At that place's a 1 year overlap in which PowerShell seven.0 is still supported and PowerShell seven.two is bachelor. Microsoft recommends taking this time to evaluate version seven.2 and to report any issues that would prevent migration.

Microsoft has a guide on how to install PowerShell.

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