PowerShell: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for PowerShell from Microsoft

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-11

What is PowerShell?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementPowerShell 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.
 

The entire lifecycle of PowerShell

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of PowerShell. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
PowerShell (Microsoft) release, version and end-of-life information
XPowerShell (Microsoft) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product PowerShell (Microsoft)
 

Facts and figures about PowerShell

Product
PowerShell
Vendor
Microsoft
Latest version
7.24.1000
Number of releases
22
Number of versions
213
Number of unstable versions
91
Number of versions affected by CVE
61
Licence
MIT license
Licence details
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell?tab=MIT-1-ov-file
 
 

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