PowerShell 7.5 GA is now available

We’re pleased to announce the release of PowerShell 7.5.0! For this release the focus has been on quality, security and stability of the platform. We greatly appreciate the enormous amount of community contributions in this release along with new cmdlets, experimental features and other quality of life additions. PowerShell 7.5 is built on top of .NET 9 and will be supported for 18 months as a standard support release.

Please note that support for PowerShell 7.2 is ended November 8, 2024. PowerShell 7.4 is the current LTS release of PowerShell and is supported until November 2026.

How do I get it?

PowerShell 7 is supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Consult the documentation for installation instructions and supported platforms.

What’s new in this release?

The PowerShell 7.5 milestone focused on security, quality and community contributions. A few highlights include:

• PSResourceGet now supports ACR as a container gallery, for more information check out the documentation
• PSReadLine has been updated to version 2.3.6
• New cmdlets ConvertTo-CliXml and ConvertFrom-CliXml (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
• Performance improvements to the += operation for an array of objects. (Thanks @jborean93!)
• Web cmdlet improvements as well as improvements to other cmdlets (Thanks @CarloToso, @ArmaanMcleod, @Snowman-25 and @LNKLEO!)
• Many Tab completion improvements (Thanks @MartinGC94 and @ArmaanMcleod!)
• Many engine improvements. (Thanks @JustinGrote, @jborean93! and @ArmaanMcleod!)
• New experimental features PSDirectToVariable, PSNativeWindowsTildeExpansion, and PSSerializeJSONLongEnumAsNumber (Thanks @jborean93 and @domsleee!)
• This release also contained a number of bug fixes — for the full list of changes please refer to the changelog

For more information on what’s changed, see What’s new in PowerShell 7.5.

Experimental feature changes

The following experimental features were converted to mainstream features in PowerShell 7.5:

• PSCommandNotFoundSuggestion
• PSCommandWithArgs
• PSModuleAutoLoadSkipOfflineFiles

PowerShell 7.5 also includes the following experimental features:

• PSRedirectToVariable
• PSNativeWindowsTildeExpansion
• PSSerializeJSONLongEnumAsNumber

For more information, see Using Experimental Features in PowerShell.

What’s next?

We are also releasing previews of PowerShell 7.6, our next long term servicing (LTS) release. We appreciate all the efforts of the community, both individuals and working group members. We look forward to your continued feedback and contributions!

Jason

PowerShell Team

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