Last Updated on March 17, 2021 by Mathew Diekhake

PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and the associated scripting language. Initially a Windows component only, known as Windows PowerShell, it was made open-source and cross-platform on 18 August 2016 with the introduction of PowerShell Core. The former is built on the .NET Framework, the latter on .NET Core.

PowerShell 7.1, which now includes both Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core, is now built on .NET Core 5.0. It also introduces PSReadLine 2.1.0. You can now find PowerShell 7.1 to download from the Microsoft Store as an application.

Nowadays every PowerShell release always coincides with another .NET Core release. However, what isn’t nearly as obvious is what that number for the .NET Core release might be. For instance, the original PowerShell 7.0 was released alongside .NET Core 3.1 whereas PowerShell 7.1 is released alongside .NET 5.0, which constitutes quite a large jump. This jump is because the new iterations of PowerShell Core have been such a success, and Microsoft is looking to develop more on it than ever before.

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts

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  • powershell-7.1.0-preview.7-osx-x64.pkg
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  • PowerShell-7.1.0-preview.7-win-arm32.zip
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  • PowerShell-7.1.0-preview.7-win-arm64.zip
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  • PowerShell-7.1.0-preview.7-win-fxdependent.zip
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  • PowerShell-7.1.0-preview.7-win-fxdependentWinDesktop.zip
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  • PowerShell-7.1.0-preview.7-win-x64.msi
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  • PowerShell-7.1.0-preview.7-win-x86.msi
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  • PowerShell-7.1.0-preview.7-win-x86.zip
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  • powershell-preview_7.1.0-preview.7-1.debian.10_amd64.deb
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  • powershell-preview_7.1.0-preview.7-1.debian.11_amd64.deb
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  • powershell-preview_7.1.0-preview.7-1.debian.9_amd64.deb
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  • powershell-preview_7.1.0-preview.7-1.ubuntu.16.04_amd64.deb
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  • powershell-preview_7.1.0-preview.7-1.ubuntu.18.04_amd64.deb
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  • powershell-preview-7.1.0_preview.7-1.centos.8.x86_64.rpm
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  • powershell-preview-7.1.0_preview.7-1.rhel.7.x86_64.rpm
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