Continuing with the ongoing tradition of holiday gifts to the PowerShell community, we are excited to announce the release of Windows Management Framework 5.0 RTM.
WMF 5.0 RTM brings new management technologies such as Just Enough Admin (JEA), PowerShell Classes, PackageManagement, PowerShellGet, etc. and improvement to existing technologies such as Desired State Configuration (DSC), PowerShell Script Debugging, Software Inventory Logging (SIL) etc. to downlevel systems.
WMF 5.0 RTM replaces WMF 5.0 Production Preview, and is the fully-supported version many of you have been waiting for. You can now deploy the latest features of PowerShell in your production environments.
WMF 5.0 RTM is now available for download via the Microsoft Download Center. You can read (and contribute to) more about these new functionalities and improvements in WMF 5.0 RTM release notes.
Currently, WMF 5.0 RTM is supported on Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows 2008 R2 SP1. You’ll need .NET Framework 4.5 installed to run WMF 5.0, which can also be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center, as needed.
We’re excited to provide this new iteration of WMF to you all, and we’re happy to hear any and all feedback that you may have via our new UserVoice site.
On behalf of everyone contributing to WMF 5.0, we hope you enjoy this RTM release.
- Windows PowerShell Team