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PowerShell-RFC

RFC (Request for Comments) documents for community feedback on design changes and improvements to PowerShell ecosystem

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

RFC (Request for Comments) documents for community feedback on design changes and improvements to PowerShell ecosystem

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-11-18 14:15:51 UTC to 2026-01-03 02:31:40 UTC.

012342016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

4 sources
SteveL-MSFT·Mar 5, 2020
Given that PowerShell is Open Source, you can exactly see the telemetry code. Before we added the first bit of telemetry or when we needed to add more, we published RFCs for community feedback disclosing what we were collecting and why. https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/blob/master/5-F... and https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/blob/master/2-D.... We recognize that some users don't want to send any, which is why we made it simple to disable (completely!). However, opt-in telemetry also means we would receive very little making it not useful. Before any telemetry is added, we also go through an extensive privacy review to ensure no personally identifiable information is included (therefore all our telemetry is anonymous).
In PowerShell 7.0
rjmholt·Jan 21, 2020
Oh, this is my PR! Also worth taking a look at the RFC[0] and the original issue[1]. Just to address some questions in the comments: These operators had no equivalent in PowerShell previously, but they’d always been planned from the outset. If you look at the diffs in the parser, one of the things taken out is a comment where we parse `&&`/`||` saying something like “we should implement this for v3” (I can’t seem to get a link on my phone but don’t have a computer handy). In [1], mklement0 gives an excellent history of the request for these operators. I owe a blog post on this, so hopefully I can expand upon that. Also, the pwsh/PowerShell thing exists partially because of needing to exist side-by-side with Windows PowerShell and partially because it wasn’t always clear that PowerShell 7 would be the direction of PowerShell into the futur
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e. As a result, pwsh refers to PowerShell 6/7. PowerShell 6 was called PowerShell Core, but since PowerShell 7 has restored compatibility with a lot of Windows functionality, we’ve dropped the Core for PowerShell 7. And since PowerShell 5.1 and below are bound to Windows, they’re now qualified as Windows PowerShell. Finally, a lot of users call PowerShell `posh`, but that was already the name of a shell in the Linux ecosystem, and after an early lesson with clobbering native utilities with aliases on *nix, the PowerShell team wanted to be good citizens. Feel free to fire any questions at me too! [0]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/pull/192 [1]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/3241
In Pipeline and chain operators (|| and &&) now in pwsh

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