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Expand Up @@ -606,10 +606,10 @@ When new versions of PowerShell are released, simply update Homebrew's formulae

```sh
brew update
brew cask reinstall powershell
brew cask upgrade powershell
```

> Note: because of [this issue in Cask](https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/29301), you currently have to do a reinstall to upgrade.
> Note: The commands above can be called from within a PowerShell (pwsh) host, but then the PowerShell shell must be exited and re-entered to complete the upgrade and refresh the values shown in $PSVersionTable.

[brew]: http://brew.sh/
[cask]: https://caskroom.github.io/
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -804,4 +804,4 @@ On Linux and macOS, the [XDG Base Directory Specification][xdg-bds] is respected
Note that because macOS is a derivation of BSD, instead of `/opt`, the prefix used is `/usr/local`. Thus, `$PSHOME` is `/usr/local/microsoft/powershell/6.0.0/`, and the symlink is placed at `/usr/local/bin/pwsh`.

[releases]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/latest
[xdg-bds]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
[xdg-bds]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html