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- PowerShell v7.6.1 Released
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On Linux, system-wide installations are handled through the system's package manager.
On Windows, if you have the "Install updates for other Microsoft products" option enabled, .NET [Core] runtimes will be updated through Windows Update.
If the domain's group policy won't let you turn it on from the UI (or if you want to turn it on programmatically for other reasons), the PowerShell 7 installer has a PowerShell script that can be adapted to do the trick: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/ba02868d0fa1d7...
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Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust
"can" is doing some heavy lifting there, especially based on my experience with VSCodium (which by definition is forced to work within Microsoft's opinion of build systems)
Anyway, uh-huh:
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github... -> https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github...
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github... -> https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github...
As a frame of reference, to build bash one only needs /bin/sh not a pre-built copy of bash itself https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/configure?h=...
- PowerShell 7.5.0 Released
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Fish shell announces 4.0 release
I'll take this moment to point out that the PowerShell feels like a modern shell and is open source https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell (MIT license). If you want something more modern give it a try. Native support for JSON and XML and parallel streams.
That said, I'm glad to see another major release of Fish because it's for having option that we get evolution.
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Best PowerShell Dev Environment on Windows
Download: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.4.5/PowerShell-7.4.5-win-x64.msi
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