PowerShell 7.0 GA officially released. In addition to the new common cmdlet / API and bug fixes, PowerShell 7.0 also introduces many new features, including:
- Use ForEach-Object -Parallel conduit for parallelized
- New operator
- Ternary operator:
a ? b : c - Main Pipeline operators:
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- Ternary operator:
- Simplified view of the dynamic error and Get-Error cmdlet, make it easier to investigate the error
- Compatibility layer such that the user modules can be introduced in the Windows PowerShell session implicit
- Automatic new version notification
- Capacity (experimental) from PowerShell 7 DSC call to invoke the resources directly
PowerShell Core transition from 6.x to 7.0 also marks the transition from .NET Core 2.x to 3.1. .NET Core 3.1 brought a lot of .NET Framework API (especially on Windows), so that the backward compatibility with existing Windows PowerShell module greatly improved. This includes a number of modules required GUI functionality on Windows, such as Out-GridView and Show-Command, as well as many role management module that comes with Windows. More information can be viewed in PowerShell 7.0 module compatibility table .
Officials said, PowerShell 7 marks backward compatibility with Windows PowerShell maximize the journey has been completed, "PowerShell 7 and later versions will be real PowerShell".
PowerShell 7 x86 supported on the following operating systems:
- Windows 7, 8.1, and 10
- Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019
- macOS 10.13+
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS 7+
- Fedora 29+
- Debian 9+
- Ubuntu 16.04+
- openSUSE 15+
- Alpine Linux 3.8+
It also supports Debian and Ubuntu versions of ARM32 and ARM64, and ARM64 Alpine Linux.
Next, PowerShell first preview of the upcoming release of version 7.1, which contains a number of new features and bug fixes 7.0 does not have.
For more details see announcement:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/announcing-powershell-7-0/