Download PowerShell 7.3.1

Microsoft has released version 7.3.1 of PowerShell. PowerShell is an object-oriented shell and scripting language for task automation, consisting of a command-line shell, a scripting language, and a configuration management framework. The software has been around since 2006 and has been a standard part of Windows since version 2.0. Since the end of 2016 it has been open source and also available for Linux and macOS. PowerShell 7.3 is built with the recently released .NET version 7. The following changes and improvements have also been implemented in version 7.3.1:

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Remove TabExpansion for PSv2 from remote session configuration (Internal 23331)
• Add sqlcmd to list to use legacy argument passing (#18645 #18646)
• Change exec from alias to function to handle arbitrary args (#18644)
• Fix Switch-Process to copy the current env to the new process (#18632)
• Fix issue when completing the first command in a script with an empty array expression (#18355)
• Fix Switch-Process to set terms appropriate for child process (#18572)
• Fix native access violation (#18571)

Tests

• Backport CI fixed from #18508 (#18626)
• Mark charset test as pending (#18609)

Update package versions

• Update packages (Internal 23330)
• Apply expected file permissions to linux files after authenticode signing (#18647)
• Bump System.Data.SqlClient(#18573)
• Don’t install based on build-id for RPM (#18570)
• Work around args parsing issue (#18607)
• Fix package download in vPack job