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PowerShell is a cross-platform automation and configuration tool/framework that is optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and object models. It includes a command-line shell, an associated scripting language and a framework for processing cmdlets.

Release Released Support Status Latest
7.3 1 month and 1 week ago
(08 Nov 2022)
Yes 7.3.1
(13 Dec 2022)
7.2 (LTS) 1 year and 1 month ago
(05 Nov 2021)
Ends in 1 year and 11 months
(30 Nov 2024)
7.2.8
(13 Dec 2022)
7.1 2 years ago
(11 Nov 2020)
Ended 6 months and 3 weeks ago
(31 May 2022)
7.1.7
7.0 (LTS) 2 years and 9 months ago
(03 Mar 2020)
Ended 2 weeks and 3 days ago
(03 Dec 2022)
7.0.13
6.2 3 years and 8 months ago
(28 Mar 2019)
Ended 2 years and 3 months ago
(04 Sep 2020)
6.2.7
6.1 4 years ago
(13 Sep 2018)
Ended 3 years ago
(28 Sep 2019)
6.1.6
6.0 4 years and 11 months ago
(10 Jan 2018)
Ended 3 years and 10 months ago
(13 Feb 2019)
6.0.5

PowerShell follows the Modern Lifecycle Policy.

More information is available on the Microsoft PowerShell website.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

You can check the version that you are currently using by running:
pwsh -v

You can submit an improvement to this page on GitHub :octocat: . This page has a corresponding Talk Page.

A JSON version of this page is available at /api/powershell.json. See the API Documentation for more.

This page was last updated on 16 December 2022. Latest releases are automatically updated.