PowerShell Universal v5.1

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PowerShell Universal v5.1

PowerShell Universal v5.1 is now available. This release includes a number of new features and improvements. Below you’ll find some highlighted features as well as a roadmap for the next couple of releases.

New Features

App Improvements

We’ve added some new features to apps that users have been requesting. These include:

• Nested Modals - Calling a modal from a modal is now supported. Closing the nested modal will return to the parent modal.
• Column Properties in -OnLoadData - Tables now provide column properties and selected row IDs to provide more information about the data being displayed.
• Improved Prompts - Prompts now can be submitted with an enter key and also support -AsSecureString
• JavaScript Endpoints - Using New-UDEndpoint, you can now pass a JavaScript literal to event handlers.

psucli

psucli is a new tool for interacting with PowerShell Universal. You can use psucli to manage your PowerShell Universal instance from the command line.

It currently has two command groups:

• db - Commands for migrating between data types and schema versions
• git - Commands for using the PowerShell Universal git services

psucli will be the primary way to perform administrative tasks in PowerShell Universal in the future. We have some other tools planned, including:

• admin - Commands for managing the admin account
• collect - Commands for collecting diagnostic information

Deployments (Preview)

We have also introduced a new deployment feature in this release. Deployments provide a simpler way to deploy PowerShell Universal in production environments. Rather than relying on git, you can now package PowerShell Universal configuration repositories as PowerShell modules and deploy them to PowerShell Universal clusters.

We have a number of ways to perform deployments that include:

• Directly in the admin console
• The Universal module with Publish-PSUDeployment and associated cmdlets
• A GitHub action that uses the management APIs
• From a PowerShell Resource Repository

Documentation on the preview feature can be found here. Git sync is not supported when using deployments.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

We’ve also fixed over 20 bugs in this release as well as improved the performance of the admin console.

Roadmap

The following features are planned for the next couple of releases. This timeline is subject to change.

v5.2 - January

v5.2 will focus on some improvements in agents, permissions, git and on-boarding.

• Improved Event Hub Connection Resilience and Reporting
• Telemetry and Security Settings in the First Run Wizard
• Permissions for Resources such as APIs, Scripts and Apps
• Send-PSUEvent\Invoke-PSUCommand Improvements
• Git Repository and Branch Switching
• PSResourceRepository Management

v5.3 - February

v5.3 will bring in another PowerShell staple, Pester, to allow for better reporting of testing in PowerShell Universal. Additionally, we’ll be introducing a simple terminal for issuing PSU specific commands without the need to setup terminals or app tokens. Finally, we’ll have some quality of life features for APIs and authentication.

• Pester Integration
• PowerShell Universal Command Terminal
• Run As Options for Endpoints
• App Tokens without Identities
• Saved API Test Queries