PowerShell

Welcome to the PowerShell GitHub Community! PowerShell Core is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with your existing tools and 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.

Windows PowerShell vs PowerShell Core

Although this repository started as a fork of the Windows PowerShell code base, changes made in this repository do not make their way back to Windows PowerShell 5.1 automatically. This also means that issues tracked here are only for PowerShell Core 6. Windows PowerShell specific issues should be opened on UserVoice.

New to PowerShell?

If you are new to PowerShell and would like to learn more, we recommend reviewing the getting started documentation.

Get PowerShell

You can download and install a PowerShell package for any of the following platforms.

Supported Platform	Downloads (stable)	Downloads (preview)	How to Install
Windows (x64)	.msi	.msi	Instructions
Windows (x86)	.msi	.msi	Instructions
Ubuntu 18.04	.deb	.deb	Instructions
Ubuntu 16.04	.deb	.deb	Instructions
Ubuntu 14.04	.deb	.deb	Instructions
Debian 8.7+	.deb	.deb	Instructions
Debian 9	.deb	.deb	Instructions
CentOS 7	.rpm	.rpm	Instructions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	.rpm	.rpm	Instructions
OpenSUSE 42.2	.rpm	.rpm	Instructions
Fedora 27, Fedora 28	.rpm	.rpm	Instructions
macOS 10.12+	.pkg	.pkg	Instructions
Docker			Instructions

You can download and install a PowerShell package for any of the following platforms, which are supported by the community.

Platform	Downloads (stable)	Downloads (preview)	How to Install
Arch Linux			Instructions
Kali Linux	.deb	.deb	Instructions
Many Linux distributions	Snapcraft	Snapcraft

You can also download the PowerShell binary archives for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Platform	Downloads (stable)	Downloads (preview)	How to Install
Windows	32-bit/64-bit	32-bit/64-bit	Instructions
macOS	64-bit	64-bit	Instructions
Linux	64-bit	64-bit	Instructions
Windows (arm) Experimental	32-bit/64-bit	32-bit/64-bit	Instructions
Raspbian (Stretch) Experimental	.tgz	.tgz	Instructions

To install a specific version, visit releases.

Community Dashboard

Dashboard with visualizations for community contributions and project status using PowerShell, Azure, and PowerBI.

For more information on how and why we built this dashboard, check out this blog post.

Chat Room

Want to chat with other members of the PowerShell community?

We have a Gitter Room which you can join below.

There is also the community driven PowerShell Slack Team which you can sign up for at Slack Sign up.

Add-ons and libraries

Awesome PowerShell is a great curated list of add-ons and resources.

Building the Repository

Linux	Windows	macOS
Instructions	Instructions	Instructions

If you have any problems building, please consult the developer FAQ.

Build status of master branches

AppVeyor (Windows)	Azure (Windows)	Azure (Linux)	Azure (macOS)	Azure (spelling)

Build status of nightly builds

AppVeyor (Windows)	Azure CI (Linux)	Azure CI (macOS)	Code Coverage Status	Code Factor Status

Downloading the Source Code

The PowerShell repository has a number of other repositories embedded as submodules.

To make things easy, you can just clone recursively:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell.git

If you already cloned but forgot to use --recursive, you can update submodules manually:

git submodule update --init

See working with the PowerShell repository for more information.

Developing and Contributing

Please see the Contribution Guide for how to develop and contribute.

If you have any problems, please consult the known issues, developer FAQ, and GitHub issues. If you do not see your problem captured, please file a new issue and follow the provided template. If you are developing .NET Core C# applications targeting PowerShell Core, please check out our FAQ to learn more about the PowerShell SDK NuGet package.

Also make sure to check out our PowerShell-RFC repository for request-for-comments (RFC) documents to submit and give comments on proposed and future designs.

Legal and Licensing

PowerShell is licensed under the MIT license.

Windows Docker Files and Images

License: By requesting and using the Container OS Image for Windows containers, you acknowledge, understand, and consent to the Supplemental License Terms available on Docker hub:

• Window Server Core
• Nano Server

Telemetry

By default, PowerShell collects the OS description and the version of PowerShell (equivalent to $PSVersionTable.OS and $PSVersionTable.GitCommitId) using Application Insights. To opt-out of sending telemetry, create an environment variable called POWERSHELL_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT set to a value of 1 before starting PowerShell from the installed location. The telemetry we collect fall under the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Governance

Governance policy for PowerShell project is described here.

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.