This gap in releases reflects competing priorities across the PowerShell engineering team but does not reflect a shift in investment or commitment to Visual Studio Code as the premier free development environment for PowerShell. We recognize that in the time since users have had to deal with longstanding bugs and performance deficiencies. The time between these releases was longer than we anticipated and would have liked. This is our first stable release of the PowerShell extension since June 2020. What’s been happening since the last release We have chosen to prioritizes fixes which we believe will improve the stability and reliability of the extension overall in the short term and hope to re-invest in PowerShell extension integration with the Visual Studio code notebook APIs once they stabilize.Ī PowerShell notebook experience in Visual Studio Code insiders is still available through the. This feature, which was only available on Visual Studio Code insiders in the PowerShell preview extension, was removed due to changes to the preview notebook APIs breaking the functionality of the feature. This release contains a breaking change which removes PowerShell notebook mode. For the full list of updates please refer to the changelog.

This preview release contains updates to our build infrastructure, bug fixes, and updates to our language server client. Further goals of this release are well discussed on GitHub. (Thanks Updated PSScriptAnalyzer to 1.19.1. Which fixes formatting bugs! (Thanks Many squashed bugsįor the full list of updates please refer to the changelog.

Added Pester v5 support to problem matcher.This incremental release incorporates changes from four preview releases! Some highlights of the release include: What’s new in the PowerShell Extension release This blog will explain what is new in these releases as well as what you can expect from the extension in the coming months. We are excited to announce that updates to our PowerShell extension and PowerShell Preview extension are now available on the Visual Studio Code marketplace.

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