PowerShell Servicing Wave Squashes Configuration Crashes
The PowerShell Team shipped a coordinated update wave on GitHub across PowerShell 7.6.7, PowerShell 7.5.12, and PowerShell 7.4.21 to fix parsing crashes when reading user configuration files. The latest build also cleans up path handling for MSIX packages and restores session restriction checks inside Show-Command.
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Virtual PSConfEU MiniCon 2026 Recap
Harm Veenstra at PowerShell is fun recaps the 2026 PSConfEU MiniCon, where community members gathered in the 8 bit virtual world of Gather to attend live technical sessions and connect in social lounges. The day featured Arnoud Charles showcasing PSBite and PSWEE for remote file management without external dependencies, followed by Steve Lee walking through the process of building DSCv3 resources using GitHub Copilot.
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Jason Helmick on the October 2026 Community Call
Jason Helmick hosted the October 2026 PowerShell Community Call to run through the latest development updates for PowerShell 7, Windows OpenSSH, and the PowerShell Gallery. The monthly sync includes community demos and open discussion on the active RFCs shaping the upcoming releases.
๐ https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/tree/master/CommunityCall
Community Fix Solves Microsoft Graph SDK Assembly Clashes
Tony Redmond at Office 365 for IT Pros covers the release of Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK V2.41, which finally resolves the long running assembly conflicts that broke coexisting delegated sessions with Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. The solution came directly from a community pull request by MVP Stephan van Rooij, though administrators running older PowerShell versions or Azure Automation runbooks should watch out for a separate JSON dependency issue.
James Brundage on Audio Manipulation and the PowerShell Pipeline
James Brundage joined Andrew Pla on The PowerShell Podcast to recap an experimental season of side projects that push the boundaries of what the language can do. He opened the show by demonstrating his Wave module, which lets users generate and manipulate real audio files directly in the console using math and sine waves.
PowerShell 20 Anniversary Live Stream with Jeffrey Snover
Heiko Brenn is hosting Jeffrey Snover and members of the community on his YouTube channel for a live broadcast celebrating twenty years of PowerShell. The scheduled November event will feature live polls and open discussion reflecting on the automation engine that permanently reshaped the IT landscape.
Repo Roundup
Merill Fernando merged the Maester 3.0 rewrite with its native test engine and shipped four 3.0 previews in a day, along with typed test attributes, severity review, and dashboard insight panels. ๐ maester365/maester#2334
The PowerShell team shipped servicing releases 7.6.7, 7.5.12, and 7.4.21, which tolerate a broken per-user powershell.config.json, add a session restriction check to Show-Command, and let 7.6 force AutoSize formatting. ๐ https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.6.7
Nathan McNulty hit the feed cap again after eleven TokenForge releases that added native Windows, macOS, and Linux builds with passkey login, then moved his whole azd portfolio toward PowerShell 7.6, Pester 6.2, and .NET 10. ๐ https://github.com/nathanmcnulty/TokenForge/releases
Jos Lieben released VFS365 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 after a full code review that makes failed saves retry until they upload, and shipped a security-focused review pass for Collaborate 0.7.1. ๐ https://github.com/jflieben/VFS365
Chrissy LeMaire released dbatools 2.9.1, adding Key Storage Provider support to the network certificate commands and getting Save-DbaDiagnosticQueryScript past a new 403 on Glenn Berryโs resources page. ๐ https://github.com/dataplat/dbatools/releases/tag/v2.9.1
Fabien Tschanz released Microsoft365DSC 2.26.1015.1 with new AADDomainFederation and SCDLPCompliancePolicy properties, alongside DSCParser 3.1.0.7 and a PSDesiredStateConfiguration update that orders MOF resources by ordinal. ๐ https://github.com/Microsoft365DSC/Microsoft365DSC/releases/tag/2.26.1015.1
Steve Lee added a Microsoft.Filesystem/ACL resource and registry ACL support to DSC, and opened fixes for how secret() and expressions handle secureString and secureObject. ๐ PowerShell/DSC#1751
Prateek Singh published the companion code for his new book, AI Engineering Visualized, Vol 1. ๐ https://github.com/ganakailabs/ai-engineering-visualized-code
Fabian Bader launched XDRSchemaExamples (synthetic JSON and XML event structures for XDR Schema & Internals, with a PowerShell collection tool) and opened a ROADtools PR so roadrecon honors a custom user agent. ๐ https://github.com/f-bader/XDRSchemaExamples
Jorge Suarez shipped public MCP job search for EndpointJobs with a Human/Agent setup guide, added verified employer roles, and published a BitLocker startup PIN tutorial. ๐ jorgeasaurus/EndpointJobs#74
Jannik Reinhard spent a day clearing his backlog, closing reported issues in intune-scripts and adding a previewable bulk import to intune-remediation-scripts. ๐ JayRHa/intune-remediation-scripts#114
Doug Finke published three batches of validated PowerShell Idea Labs on dougfinke.dev and gave 18 existing labs new titles and opening hooks. ๐ https://github.com/dfinke/dougfinke.dev
Michael Grafnetter kept plaintext Okta client secrets out of openhound-oktaโs collection artifacts, sped up collection, and opened PRs to limit MFA and app-user collection. ๐ SpecterOps/openhound-okta#57
Fred Weinmann shipped ADMF 1.15.125 and ADMF.Core 1.4.22 and 1.4.23, and merged ADSec 1.0.5. ๐ https://github.com/ActiveDirectoryManagementFramework/ADMF
Gilbert Sanchez followed the PSDepend lock-file beta with an Add-PSDepend PR that appends dependencies to a DependencyFile. ๐ PowerShellOrg/PSDepend#205
Frank Lesniak merged about twenty PRs across his PowerShell and Terraform style guides and filed four design issues for macOSLab. ๐ https://github.com/franklesniak/PSStyleGuide
Brad Wyatt released W365-CLI-Native 1.8.0, his native .NET CLI for Windows 365 Cloud PC workflows. ๐ https://github.com/bwya77/W365-CLI-Native
Adam Driscoll opened a PowerShell Universal agent device enrollment PR in Devolutions Gateway. ๐ Devolutions/devolutions-gateway#2066
Events
MMS Midway | October 25 to 28, 2026 | San Diego, California
๐ https://mmsmoa.com/
SpiceWorld 2026 | November 12 to 13, 2026 | Austin, Texas
๐ https://www.spiceworks.com/spiceworld/
Zero Trust World 2027 | February 17 to 19, 2027 | Orlando, Florida
๐https://ztw.com/
PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2027 | April 5 to 8, 2027 | Orlando, Florida
๐ https://powershellsummit.org/
PSConfEU 2027 | Dates and location to be announced SynEdgy is organizing the eleventh edition of PowerShell Conference ๐
https://psconf.eu/