PowerShell Community Call - March 16 2023

Agenda

PowerShell 7.4 preview 2 @adityapatwardhan
PowerShellGet 3.0 preview 20 @anamnavi
PSReadLine 2.3.0beta0 release @StevenBucher98
Docs update @sdwheeler
ConvertTextTable demo @JamesWTruher
Update on SSH mark of the web @ Tess Gauthier
Updated release of PSDesiredStateConfiguration v2 @anmenaga
VSCode preview extension update @andschwa

Community Demos

Windows Terminal Shell integration
PowerShell Assistant

Notes

PS 7.4.0-preview.2 release and based on .NET 8 preview2
Expect to go back to monthly releases
Thank you to Carlos and Martin for community contributions!
PSGet 3.0 preview 20 coming soon!
- rewrite to be off of NuGet APIs
- Pref improvements
- Hope to ship with next PowerShell preview and closer to RC!
- Doc announcement, different versions of PSGet and so are moving the docs to its own doc set and pages for a version selector to navigate
  - Sometime in April
PSReadline 2.3.0preview 0 update
- Scrollable listview
- Auto adjusting listview
- Deduplication the results
Docs Update
- Create classed based DSC resources for machine config
- 7.4 preview data
- Contributing quality improvements doc and host a Doc-a-thon at PSSummitNA in April!!
Convert text table demo
SSH Mark of the web
- Removing mark of the web from ftp upload,
- fully remove in ftp and smp, not worth the impedance on user experience
PS Desired state configuration module
- released patch version 2.06 has mostly bug fixes
- InvokeDSCResource is no longer experimental feature
- Shipped with software bill of Materials SBOM
- Available on PSGallery
VSCode extension
- Prerelease and stable are going to be in one extension but have a switch
Conferences coming up
- End of April, PSSummitNA in Bellevue
- Mid June, PSConfEU
Windows Terminal Demo
PowerShell assistant