PowerShell v5 Preview

PowerShell Magazine notes that the September 2014 preview of Windows Management Framework 5.0 (PowerShell v5) is available for download here.

Here’s a list of changes as noted in this article by PowerShell Magazine:

Some of these changes are:

• Generate Windows PowerShell cmdlets based on an OData endpoint
• Manage .ZIP files with new cmdlets
• DSC Authoring Improvements in Windows PowerShell ISE
• New Attribute for defining DSC meta-configuration
• Use partial configurations DSC
• Cross-computer synchronization through DSC
• Get the current DSC configuration status
• Compare, Update, and Publish DSC configurations
• Audit Windows PowerShell usage by transcription and logging
• Extract and parse structured objects out of string content
• Extend the item noun to enable Symbolic Links
• Develop with classes in Windows PowerShell
• Register a PSRepository with PowerShell Get
• Network Switch management through Windows PowerShell (improvements)