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PowerShell 7.5 Generally Available Under Standard Support April 13, 2025 PowerShell 7.5, the latest Standard Term Support (STS) version of Microsoft’s cross-platform administrative scripting technology,...more PowerShell 7.4 Generally Available with Long-Term Support Updated: February 27, 2024 PowerShell 7.4, the latest Long-Term Support version of Microsoft’s cross-platform scripting language, is generally available. The Continued Importance of PowerShell Updated: November 26, 2023 PowerShell is critical for most management tasks with Microsoft products and services on-premises, in the...more PowerShell Crescendo Can PS-enable Old Command-Line Tools Updated: October 23, 2023 Crescendo is a free framework that can help run some legacy command-line tools within PowerShell...more PowerShell Crescendo Generally Available Updated: May 31, 2023 PowerShell Crescendo, now generally available, enables rapid development of PowerShell cmdlets that wrap existing command-line...more PowerShell 7.3 Generally Available with Shorter Support Updated: May 31, 2023 PowerShell 7.3, the latest Current version of Microsoft’s cross-platform scripting language, is generally available with...more PowerShell 7 Generally Available Updated: March 14, 2022 Latest release of cross-platform PowerShell drops Core name, focuses on Windows backwards compatibility PowerShell 7.1 Generally Available Updated: November 23, 2020 PowerShell 7.1 is generally available for Windows, macOS, and several Linux distributions. This version is...more Management Backported to Older Windows Updated: July 16, 2020 Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.1, which is built into the latest versions of Windows, became...more Windows PowerShell Enters Maintenance Mode Updated: July 16, 2020 PowerShell Core will gradually replace Windows PowerShell, which will receive limited future updates. Windows PowerShell...more PowerShell Desired State Configuration Goes Cross-Platform Updated: July 16, 2020 Desired State Configuration (DSC), a feature of Windows PowerShell that sets and maintains configuration state...more PowerShell Core 6.0 Generally Available Updated: July 16, 2020 PowerShell Core 6.0 is generally available, but modules and scripts written for Windows PowerShell may...more Windows Management Framework 5.0 Republished Updated: July 15, 2020 After fixing a bug that forced a recall, Microsoft has again released the Windows Management...more PowerShell Open Sourced, Available for Linux and Mac Updated: July 15, 2020 PowerShell, Microsoft's command-line shell used for management, has been open sourced and made available for...more PowerShell 4.0 Maintains Configurations Updated: July 14, 2020 The latest release of PowerShell (version 4.0), integrated into 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2012...more