PSCoreUpdate

New cross-platform PowerShell update tool.

Motivation

PSCoreUpdate supports automation update of new cross-platform PowerShell (pwsh).

Currently, PowerShell Team is planning on supporting security updates of PowerShell through Microsoft Update on Windows (#6118), but it will take some time for realization.
Homebrew Cask is now available on macOS, but the installation of Homebrew is a bit heavy.

PowerShell Team began supporting updates to PowerShell via Microsoft Update starting with PowerShell 7.2, but updates cannot be performed at any time, and there is no module that can manage release assets.

This module is a little tool to solve such inconvenience.

How to install

You can install it from PowerShell gallery.

# Using PowerShellGet
Install-Module PSCoreUpdate

# Using Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet
Install-PSResource -Name PSCoreUpdate

Upgrade from version 2

If you use PSCoreUpdate version 2 or earlier, please uninstall all version first.

Uninstall-Module PSCoreUpdate -AllVersions
Install-Module PSCoreUpdate

Note : PSCoreUpdate version.3 has many breaking changes.

• See the release note for detail.

First-time installation

This module is for updating PowerShell.
So, the first-time installation must be performed manually.

You can use the official installation script.

Invoke-Expression "& { $(Invoke-RestMethod 'https://aka.ms/install-powershell.ps1') } -UseMSI -Quiet"

Usage

Test-LatestVersion

Check if the current console is the latest version.

PS C:\> Test-LatestVersion
No updates. PowerShell 7.4.3 is the latest version.

If you use preview release PowerShell, you can use -Release Preview parameter.

PS C:\> Test-LatestVersion -Release Preview

if you use LTS version PowerShell, you can can use -Release LTS parameter.

PS C:\> Test-LatestVersion -Release LTS

Update-PowerShellRelease

Update PowerShell if the newer version found.

PS C:\> Update-PowerShellRelease -Latest

If you want to update preview release, you can use -Release Preview parameter.

PS C:\> Update-PowerShellRelease -Latest -Release Preview

if you use LTS version PowerShell, you can can use -Release LTS parameter.

PS C:\> Update-PowerShellRelease -Latest -Release LTS

You can do silent install with -Silent switch parameter.

PS C:\> Update-PowerShellRelease -Latest -Silent

• This cmdlet supports only Windows and macOS.
  You can use a package management tool like yum, apt etc. on Linux.

Find-PowerShellRelease

Find PowerShell release information from GitHub.

[!NOTE]
This function uses GitHub REST API Version 2022-11-28.

PS C:\> Find-PowerShellRelease -MaxItems 10

Version Name                          Published           PreRelease
------- ----                          ---------           ----------
7.4.3   v7.4.3 Release of PowerShell  2024/06/18 23:13:56 False
7.4.2   v7.4.2 Release of PowerShell  2024/04/11 23:07:12 False
7.4.1   v7.4.1 Release of PowerShell  2024/01/11 23:08:30 False
7.4.0   v7.4.0 Release of PowerShell  2023/11/16 17:06:48 False
7.3.12  v7.3.12 Release of PowerShell 2024/04/11 22:57:39 False
7.3.11  v7.3.11 Release of PowerShell 2024/01/11 22:01:05 False
7.3.10  v7.3.10 Release of PowerShell 2023/11/16 17:05:59 False
7.3.9   v7.3.9 Release of PowerShell  2023/10/26 17:57:23 False
7.3.8   v7.3.8 Release of PowerShell  2023/10/10 17:15:04 False
7.3.7   v7.3.7 Release of PowerShell  2023/09/19 16:28:10 False

New features from version.3

Find-PowerShellRelease stores local in-memory cache for 10 minutes.
If you don't want use cache, use -NoCache parameter.

Find-PowerShellRelease -MaxItems 10 -NoCache

-VersionRange parameter is added instead of -MinimumVersion, -MaximumVersion.
This parameter follows Nuget version range syntax.

PS C:\> Find-PowerShellRelease -VersionRange "[7.3,7.4]"

Version Name                          Published           PreRelease
------- ----                          ---------           ----------
7.4.0   v7.4.0 Release of PowerShell  2023/11/16 17:06:48 False
7.3.12  v7.3.12 Release of PowerShell 2024/04/11 22:57:39 False
7.3.11  v7.3.11 Release of PowerShell 2024/01/11 22:01:05 False
7.3.10  v7.3.10 Release of PowerShell 2023/11/16 17:05:59 False
7.3.9   v7.3.9 Release of PowerShell  2023/10/26 17:57:23 False
7.3.8   v7.3.8 Release of PowerShell  2023/10/10 17:15:04 False
7.3.7   v7.3.7 Release of PowerShell  2023/09/19 16:28:10 False
7.3.6   v7.3.6 Release of PowerShell  2023/07/13 22:39:48 False
7.3.5   v7.3.5 Release of PowerShell  2023/06/27 23:21:50 False
7.3.4   v7.3.4 Release of PowerShell  2023/04/13 18:37:36 False
7.3.3   v7.3.3 Release of PowerShell  2023/02/24 1:22:55  False
7.3.2   v7.3.2 Release of PowerShell  2023/01/24 19:34:31 False
7.3.1   v7.3.1 Release of PowerShell  2022/12/13 16:17:08 False
7.3.0   v7.3.0 Release of PowerShell  2022/11/09 0:37:40  False

Find-PowerShellBuildStatus

Find PowerShell build status.

PS C:\> Find-PowerShellBuildStatus -All

Version         Release ReleaseDate
-------         ------- -----------
7.4.3           Stable  2024/06/18 23:26:06
7.5.0-preview.3 Preview 2024/05/28 18:13:56
7.4.3           LTS     2024/06/18 23:26:06

Find-PowerShellSupportStatus

Find PowerShell support status.

• Official information : PowerShell end-of-support dates

[!NOTE]
This function uses endoflife.date raw data on GitHub.

# Find all versions
PS C:\> Find-PowerShellSupportStatus

Version Is EOS  EOS Date
------- ------- --------
7.4     False   2026/11/10
7.3     True    2024/05/08
7.2     False   2024/11/08
7.1     True    2022/05/08
7.0     True    2022/12/03
6.2     True    2020/09/04
6.1     True    2019/09/28
6.0     True    2019/02/13

# Find supported version only
PS C:\> Find-PowerShellSupportStatus -ExcludeEOS

Version Is EOS EOS Date
------- ------ --------
7.4     False  2026/11/10
7.2     False  2024/11/08

Save-PowerShellAsset

Download PowerShell release assets.

PS C:\> Save-PowerShellAsset -Latest -AssetType MSI_WIN64 -OutDirectory .\

The types of assets are as follows.

Old release assets

• These assets are not available from the latest version.