Microsoft PowerShell

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PowerShell is a cross-platform automation and configuration tool/framework 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 .NET Version
7.5 9 months ago
(23 Jan 2025)
Ends in 6 months
(12 May 2026)
7.5.4
(16 Oct 2025)
.NET 9.0
7.4 (LTS) 1 year and 11 months ago
(16 Nov 2023)
Ends in 1 year
(10 Nov 2026)
7.4.13
(16 Oct 2025)
.NET 8.0
7.3 2 years and 11 months ago
(09 Nov 2022)
Ended 1 year and 5 months ago
(08 May 2024)
7.3.12
(11 Apr 2024)
.NET 7.0
7.2 (LTS) 3 years and 11 months ago
(08 Nov 2021)
Ended 11 months ago
(08 Nov 2024)
7.2.24
(22 Oct 2024)
.NET 6.0
7.1 4 years and 11 months ago
(11 Nov 2020)
Ended 3 years and 5 months ago
(08 May 2022)
7.1.7
(26 Apr 2022)
.NET 5.0
7.0 (LTS) 5 years and 7 months ago
(04 Mar 2020)
Ended 2 years and 11 months ago
(03 Dec 2022)
7.0.13
(20 Oct 2022)
.NET Core 3.1
6.2 6 years ago
(29 Mar 2019)
Ended 5 years ago
(04 Sep 2020)
6.2.7
(16 Jul 2020)
.NET Core 2.1
6.1 7 years ago
(13 Sep 2018)
Ended 6 years ago
(28 Sep 2019)
6.1.6
(12 Sep 2019)
.NET Core 2.1
6.0 7 years ago
(20 Jan 2018)
Ended 6 years ago
(13 Feb 2019)
6.0.5
(13 Nov 2018)
.NET Core 2.0

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.

pwsh -v

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