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Dominant language: C#
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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1,269 open issues indexed

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PowerShell/PowerShell#28028 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Licence metadata discrepancy: Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.Runtime.Win 3.0.0 carries Microsoft Software License Terms while its project, its Unix sibling and Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure are MIT Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#28027 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2026
My Pull Request: The Get-PowerShellLicense cmdlet Open

Issue-Enhancement Resolution-Declined

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#28014 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Running a script using `pwsh -File` splits multi-line output strings Open

Resolution-Answered

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#28013 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 14, 2026
have sandbox version Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage Resolution-Declined

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 1/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#28005 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Sugar keyword to getnewclosure Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#28004 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Get-Command -ListImported lists commands that weren't yet imported Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#28002 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Regression: MSI UAC prompt identifies the app as “Microsoft” instead of “PowerShell” Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27993 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
switch -regex recompiles the clause pattern on every successful match Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27975 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Test-Json returns wrong error when SchemaFile is not found Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27973 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Binary cmdlet binding fails to unwrap a scalar PSObject for StringCollection parameters Open

Needs-Triage WG-Engine WG-NeedsReview

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27969 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Add Switch as to remove commented out properties from the New-ModuleManifest Cmdlet Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage WG-Cmdlets WG-NeedsReview

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27967 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Set-Content/Add-Content intermittently fail: "Stream was not readable" (GetContentWriterArgumentError) after IOException retry leaves write-only stream Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27947 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Add Switch as to remove descriptive comments from the New-ModuleManifest Cmdlet Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage WG-Cmdlets WG-NeedsReview

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27946 · 7 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Sep 2, 2026
`powershell-lts` package is unavailable on new supported distributions (Debian 13 and RHEL 10) Open

Resolution-Answered

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27904 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 30, 2026
Set-Location fails when target is accessible through non-accessible intermediate directories on Windows Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27899 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2026
MSI INSTALLFOLDER breaks Microsoft Update detection: MU offers all serviced builds, including the installed version Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27898 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Wait-Process after Stop-Process to processes on another user often blanks processes fields Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27867 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Invoke-RestMethod -FollowRelLink strips the Authorization header on followed links in 7.6.5 Open

Issue-Question Review - Maintainer

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27861 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Feature request: detect when success output stream is captured in ConsoleHost Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27859 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Install package *-`win-fxdependent`*.zip contains pwsh.exe `only for the Windows x64` platform. Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27855 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Calling "Start-Process pwsh" within IDE mangles PATH. Windows x86 Powershell 7.6.4 Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27854 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026
AvoidReservedCharInCmdlet intermittently throws NullReferenceException from CommandInfo.ResolveParameter Open

Needs-Triage WG-Engine

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27842 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
`Framework-Dependent` pwsh.exe `Startup Time` more than `2x slower` then `Self-Contained` on Windows x64 platform Open

Needs-Triage Review - Maintainer

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27837 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Test-Json throws an error if schema check fails Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27812 · 9 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2026
AzSqlManagedInstance is missing in Az.Sql Module of PowerShell 7.6.4 Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27797 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 10, 2026
using module relative-path-to-psm1 not work when script is placed in folder named with PowerShell's wildcard. Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27796 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 10, 2026
MSI installer shows incorrect default INSTALLDIR (causes double \7\7 path) Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27794 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Platform-specific framework-dependent install package (*-`fxdependent`*) contains platform-specific dependencies `for ALL platforms, instead of only for the target platform` Open

Needs-Triage Review - Maintainer

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27793 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
ConvertFrom-Markdown corrupts pipe tables when currency dollar signs are interpreted as inline math Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27792 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 9, 2026
When a Web Repsonse returns charset=utf8 this throws the exception into the verbose stream Open

Issue-Bug

PowerShell/PowerShell#27788 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 9, 2026
Remove `r` command as `Invoke-History` Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage WG-Interactive-Console WG-NeedsReview

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27783 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 7, 2026
PowerShell-7.6.4-win-`fxdependent`.zip distribution doesn't contain `powershell.config.json` Open

Needs-Triage Review - Maintainer

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27776 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Should The PR Acceptance Criteria checklist be updated to require that commits are Signed & that the Email address provided is reachable? Open

Documentation Needed in this repo WG-NeedsReview WG-Security

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27775 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Missing semantic check for unsupported numeric literals in PS class attribute Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27772 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 6, 2026
I hope to support vertical tags. Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27768 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 5, 2026
PowerShell install directory left deleted after five failed Microsoft Update upgrade attempts (1303/1603) Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27759 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2026
PSNativeCommandUseErrorActionPreference appends NativeCommandExitException text to files targeted by 2> Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27753 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Native startup failure leaves stale $LASTEXITCODE and can mislead subsequent control flow Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27750 · 11 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Making script-style completion source easier to write and use Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage WG-Interactive-Console WG-NeedsReview

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27746 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
`build\Start-PSBuild`: Bad interaction between CLI and Visual Studio Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27745 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 28, 2026
MSI installer loops on "Shutting down applications" and shows duplicate dialog when Windows Terminal (with PowerShell 7 open) is closed during upgrade to 7.6.4 Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 46/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27744 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Allow single context parameter signature for argument completer Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage WG-Interactive-Console WG-NeedsReview

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27741 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
`Get-Module`: Cannot resolve path ending with a directory separator Open

Needs-Triage WG-Engine WG-NeedsReview

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27739 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 28, 2026
`Get-Module`: Cryptic return value when path resolves to multiple module files Open

Needs-Triage WG-Engine WG-NeedsReview

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27738 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 28, 2026
`Get-Module`: Inaccurate error message when a module isn't found Open

Needs-Triage WG-Engine WG-NeedsReview

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27737 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 28, 2026
MshLog.GetLogContext throws InvalidCastException (crashes host) when InvocationInfo.MyCommand is a RemoteCommandInfo with CommandType Application/ExternalScript Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27720 · Opened Jul 23, 2026
`> $null` redirection throws `ProviderNotFoundException` inside advanced functions in RestrictedRemoteServer remoting sessions Open

Issue-Bug KeepOpen

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27719 · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Cosmetic - Installer shows file references, not the files or values themselves Open

Needs-Triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27718 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 23, 2026
`Get-Module -ListAvailable -FullyQualifiedName` module resolution feels inconsistent Open

Issue-Bug WG-Engine WG-Reviewed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/PowerShell#27716 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2026

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