Wow that was really fast!! In case you missed it last week, PowerShell 5.0 "Preview" has been released by Microsoft part of Windows Management Framework 5.0 (WMF 5.0) Preview. The release of the version 4 was not so long ago (October 2013), Microsoft is definitely increasing the pace of releases.
Download WMF v5 here.
What's New?
This preview release brings the following update/features:
- Update of PowerShell Desired State Configuration: performance improvements + bug fixes,
- Module OneGet to manage lists of software repositories, search/acquire/install/uninstall packages
- Module NetworkSwitch. to manage Windows network switches
In my opinion, the coolest feature is the module OneGet which allows you manage/install/uninstall packages, (Linux world has something similar called Apt-Get for a very long time). I think this is a very good news and it will had more flexibility to the sysadmin work.
Once installed, $PSVersionTable will report the following result :-) PSVersion: 5.0.9701.0
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| Upgraded :-) |
