State of the Shell
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PowerShell 7.5 is released with many community contributions and the team previews 7.6, DSC v3 and an AI Shell tool that is shipped and demoed. The gallery averages ~450 publishes a day and ~21 billion total downloads while ~200 million machines run PowerShell monthly and ~2 billion pwsh.exe invocations occur per month. A suite of modules lands in Microsoft Artifact Registry for supply‑chain signing. DSC v3 becomes a small native command accepts JSON YAML and bicep and a bicep->JSON demo creates a working web server.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00PowerShell Summit welcome
- 1:14PowerShell usage and community
- 3:42Platform engineering in PowerShell
- 6:33Building PowerShell as platform engineers
- 7:15PowerShell 7.5 release and contributions
- 8:39PowerShell Gallery statistics
- 10:49Stability and security in PowerShell
- 11:55Microsoft Artifact Registry
- 13:23AI Shell for PowerShell automation
- 17:18DSC v3 evolution
- 27:04PowerShell long-term support
- 28:53Platform engineers' responsibility
- 30:17Secure PowerShell code best practices
- 32:01Call to action at Summit
- 33:48Upcoming sessions and resources
