[JENKINS-53502] PowerShell $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'

Some powershell commands or cmdlets display progress. I am using Invoke-WebRequest in scripted pipeline. Prepending $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue' to my script block allows Invoke-WebRequest to perform downloads and uploads at expected speeds. Without it I was getting ~100x worse performance.

 

I don't understand this in detail. Please consider managing this ProgressPreference in the durable task powershell step.

 

node('windows'){

  powershell """

    \$start = Get-Date

    Invoke-WebRequest -OutFile 'jenkins.war' -Uri 'http://mirrors.jenkins.io/war-stable/latest/jenkins.war'

    \$end = get-date

    (\$end - \$start).TotalSeconds

    """

  powershell """

    \$ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'

    \$start = Get-Date

    Invoke-WebRequest -OutFile 'jenkins.war' -Uri 'http://mirrors.jenkins.io/war-stable/latest/jenkins.war'

    \$end = get-date

    (\$end - \$start).TotalSeconds

    """

}

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Originally reported by tlynchpin, imported from: PowerShell $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'

• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): durable-task-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 1
  
• watchers: 1
  
• imported: 2025-12-09
  

Raw content of original issue

Some powershell commands or cmdlets display progress. I am using Invoke-WebRequest in scripted pipeline. Prepending $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue' to my script block allows Invoke-WebRequest to perform downloads and uploads at expected speeds. Without it I was getting ~100x worse performance.


 


I don't understand this in detail. Please consider managing this ProgressPreference in the durable task powershell step.


 



node('windows'){

  powershell """

    \$start = Get-Date

    Invoke-WebRequest -OutFile 'jenkins.war' -Uri 'http://mirrors.jenkins.io/war-stable/latest/jenkins.war'

    \$end = get-date

    (\$end - \$start).TotalSeconds

    """

  powershell """

    \$ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'

    \$start = Get-Date

    Invoke-WebRequest -OutFile 'jenkins.war' -Uri 'http://mirrors.jenkins.io/war-stable/latest/jenkins.war'

    \$end = get-date

    (\$end - \$start).TotalSeconds

    """

}

environment

```
jenkins 2.136

durable-task-step 2.19
```