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What's new in PowerShell Docs for 2023

This article lists notable changes made to docs each month and celebrates the contributions from the community.

Help us make the documentation better for you. Read the Contributor's Guide to learn how to get started.

2023-Dec

Lots of minor updates but no new content. The Docs team is taking a break for the holidays.

Top Community Contributors

GitHub stats

  • 24 PRs merged (4 from Community)
  • 21 issues opened (18 from Community)
  • 18 issues closed (15 Community issues closed)

The following people contributed to PowerShell docs this month by submitting pull requests or filing issues. Thank you!

GitHub Id PRs merged Issues opened
Blake-Madden 2
shyguyCreate 1
ryanperrymba 1
jp2images 1
mklement0 2

2023-Nov

Updated content

New content

Top Community Contributors

GitHub stats

  • 37 PRs merged (7 from Community)
  • 32 issues opened (31 from Community)
  • 33 issues closed (31 Community issues closed)

The following people contributed to PowerShell docs this month by submitting pull requests or filing issues. Thank you!

GitHub Id PRs merged Issues opened
jmiller76 2
VShrubowich 1
TEBandCo 1
skycommand 1
darthwalsh 1
diecknet 1
tabad 7
mklement0 2
radkedan 2

2023-Oct

New content

Updated content

  • Updated release notes for PowerShell 7.4-rc.1
  • Updated release notes for PSReadLine GA 2.3.4
  • Updated release notes for PSResourceGet 1.0.0

Docs platform changes

  • Released new feedback experience at the bottom of each page

Top Community Contributors

GitHub stats

  • 55 PRs merged (11 from Community)
  • 41 issues opened (37 from Community)
  • 37 issues closed (33 Community issues closed)

The following people contributed to PowerShell docs this month by submitting pull requests or filing issues. Thank you!

GitHub Id PRs merged Issues opened
baardhermansen 1
diecknet 1
dipstar 1
ehmiiz 1 1
G2-Games 1
indented-automation 1
jhribal 1
Joeselorm 1
matziq 1
RAJU2529 1
ThomasNieto 1 2
iRon7 2
JustinWebDev 2
o-l-a-v 2
tabad 4

2023-Sep

New content

Updated Content

Quality improvement project contributions

  • @ehmiiz contributed 5 PRs to update 35 files

New Learn platform features

  • Deployed the new feedback experience at that bottom of each page

Top Community Contributors

GitHub stats

  • 52 PRs merged (9 from Community)
  • 24 issues opened (22 from Community)
  • 24 issues closed (23 Community issues closed)

The following people contributed to PowerShell docs this month by submitting pull requests or filing issues. Thank you!

GitHub Id PRs merged Issues opened
ehmiiz 5 5
bubbletroubles 1
JamesDBartlett3 1
not-not-kevin 1
skycommand 1
jsilverm 3
mklement0 2

2023-Aug

New content

66 New articles for DSC v3 (alpha)

Updated Content

Top Community Contributors

GitHub stats

  • 29 PRs merged (3 from Community)
  • 16 issues opened (12 from Community)
  • 21 issues closed (17 Community issues closed)

The following people contributed to PowerShell docs this month by submitting pull requests or filing issues. Thank you!

GitHub Id PRs merged Issues opened
ehmiiz 1 1
crisman 1
deadlydog 1
JamesDBartlett3 1

2023-Jul

Updated content

Top Community Contributors

GitHub stats

  • 31 PRs merged (10 from Community)
  • 21 issues opened (17 from Community)
  • 17 issues closed (13 Community issues closed)

The following people contributed to PowerShell docs this month by submitting pull requests or filing issues. Thank you!

GitHub Id PRs merged Issues opened
crisman 2 3
TSanzo-BLE 2
MilekJakub 1
Atman-Shastri 1
BraveJhawk 1
coolhome 1
johndward01 1
lor3k 1

2023-Jun

New Azure Cloud Shell content

New PowerShellGet v3 content

Lot of updates for the PowerShell 7.4-preview.4 release

Quality Project contributions

  • @XXLMandalorian013 contributed 3 PRs to update 2 files in the MicrosoftDocs/windows-docs-powershell repository

Top Community Contributors

GitHub stats

  • 59 PRs merged (15 from Community)
  • 44 issues opened (30 from Community)
  • 47 issues closed (31 Community issues closed)

The following people contributed to PowerShell docs this month by submitting pull requests or filing issues. Thank you!

GitHub Id PRs merged Issues opened
thegraffix 4
crisman 4 3
RAJU2529 1
dstreefkerk 1
vontompers 1
mubed 1
Frederisk 1
khaffner 1
noamper 1
aksarben 4

2023-May

New content

Updated content

Quality Project contributions

  • @robderickson contributed 1 PR to update 10 files in the MicrosoftDocs/windows-docs-powershell repository

Top Community Contributors

GitHub stats

  • 38 PRs merged (7 from Community)
  • 24 issues opened (18 from Community)
  • 20 issues closed (17 Community issues closed)

The following people contributed to PowerShell docs this month by submitting pull requests or filing issues. Thank you!

GitHub Id PRs merged Issues opened
rwp0 1
pronichkin 1
Ooggle 1
mavaddat 1
IanKemp 1
mcdonaldjc 1
Brizio 1
dotnvo 1
r0bfr 1
mklement0 3
aksarben 2
crisman 2

2023-April

New content

Updated content

  • Updated release notes for PowerShell 7.4-preview.3
  • Migrated the PowerShell Gallery and PowerShellGet docs to new location to enable version selectors for PowerShellGet

PowerShell Summit 2023 - Hack-a-Doc event

  • We hosted a Hack-a-Doc event on April 27th. Special thanks to the following 19 people. They contributed 62 PRs to update 204 files in the MicrosoftDocs/windows-powershell-docs repository.
GitHub Id name Count of PRs Count of file
RobBiddle Robert Biddle 28 48
pbossman Phil Bossman 1 27
ThomasNieto Thomas Nieto 1 24
kevinCefalu Kevin Cefalu 1 24
robderickson Rob Derickson 4 17
Snozzberries Michael Soule 13 16
Spoonsk Joseph Gast 1 12
thedavecarroll Dave Carroll 1 11
raynbowbrite Vanda Paladino 2 7
majst32 Melissa Januszko 1 6
XXLMandalorian013 Drew McClellan 1 4
ThePoShWolf Anthony Howell 1 1
mdowst Matthew Dowst 1 1
thepowerstring 1 1
KevinMarquette Kevin Marquette 1 1
53883 1 1
zockan Michael Svegmar 1 1
lanwench Paula Kingsley 1 1
stevenjudd Steven Judd 1 1
Grand Total 62 204

Top Community Contributors

GitHub stats

  • 23 PRs merged (2 from Community)
  • 16 issues opened (14 from Community)
  • 17 issues closed (15 Community issues closed)

The following people contributed to PowerShell docs this month by submitting pull requests or filing issues. Thank you!

GitHub Id PRs merged Issues opened
NLZ 1
Jonathan-Quilter 1

2023-March

New content

Updated content

Quality project updates from the community

Top Community Contributors

GitHub stats

  • 60 PRs merged (13 from Community)
  • 44 issues opened (31 from Community)
  • 50 issues closed (36 Community issues closed)

The following people have contributed to PowerShell docs by submitting pull requests or filing issues. Thank you!

GitHub Id PRs merged Issues opened
skycommand 2
martincostello 1
iRon7 1 4
chrullrich 1
FlintyLemming 1
ehmiiz 1
vvavrychuk 1
bb-froggy 1
BenjamimCS 1
kirillkrylov 1
bergmeister 1
lizy14 1
CarloToso 5
MartinGC94 2
rgl 2

2023-February

New Content

Content updates

Quality project updates from the community

  • Added alias information to 4 cmdlet articles (Thanks @ehmiiz!)

Top Community Contributors

GitHub stats

  • 35 PRs merged (8 from Community)
  • 20 issues opened (14 from Community)
  • 17 issues closed (10 Community issues closed)

The following people have contributed to PowerShell docs by submitting pull requests or filing issues. Thank you!

GitHub Id PRs merged Issues opened
joshua-russell 4 1
1NF053C 1
doctordns 1
Hrxn 1
KyleMit 1
VertigoRay 1
ehmiiz 1
ArmaanMcleod 2
mklement0 2

2023-January

New Content

Content updates

Quality project updates from the community

  • Added alias information to 40 cmdlet articles (Thanks @ehmiiz!)
  • Added alias information to 52 cmdlet articles (Thanks @szabolevo!)

Top Community Contributors

GitHub stats

  • 71 PRs merged (21 from Community)
  • 53 issues opened (33 from Community)
  • 62 issues closed (40 Community issues closed)

The following people have contributed to PowerShell docs by submitting pull requests or filing issues. Thank you!

GitHub Id PRs merged Issues opened
ehmiiz 5 5
szabolevo 5 7
anderjef 2
turbedi 1
desk7 1
cobrabr 1
ZYinMD 1
tompazourek 1
kenyon 1
cjvandyk 1
JTBrinkmann 1
mklement0 4
CarloToso 3
KyleMit 2
iRon7 2