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title: What's New in PowerShell 7.6
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description: New features and changes released in PowerShell 7.6
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−ms.date: 12/17/2025
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+ms.date: 02/20/2026
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# What's New in PowerShell 7.6
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−PowerShell 7.6-preview.6 includes the following features, updates, and breaking changes. PowerShell
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−7.6 is built on .NET 10.0.0 GA release.
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+PowerShell 7.6-rc1 includes the following features, updates, and breaking changes. PowerShell
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+7.6 is built on .NET 10.0.
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For a complete list of changes, see the [CHANGELOG][log] in the GitHub repository.
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## Updated modules
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−PowerShell 7.6-preview.6 includes the following updated modules:
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+PowerShell 7.6-rc1 includes the following updated modules:
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−- **Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet** v1.2.0-preview5
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−- **PSReadLine** v2.4.4-beta4
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+- **Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet** v1.2.0-rc3
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+- **PSReadLine** v2.4.5
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- **Microsoft.PowerShell.ThreadJob** v2.2.0
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−- **ThreadJob** v2.1.0
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−The **ThreadJob** was renamed to **Microsoft.PowerShell.ThreadJob** module. There is no difference
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−in the functionality of the module. To ensure backward compatibility for scripts that use the old
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−name, the **ThreadJob** v2.1.0 module is a proxy module that points to the
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−**Microsoft.PowerShell.ThreadJob** v2.2.0.
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## Breaking Changes
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+- The **Microsoft.PowerShell.ThreadJob** replaces the **ThreadJob** module. The `Start-ThreadJob`
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+ cmdlet hasn't changed, so there shouldn't be an impact unless you have scripts that use the module
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+ qualified name. If you are using the module qualified name, update the name to
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+ `Microsoft.PowerShell.ThreadJob\Start-ThreadJob`.
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- Fix `WildcardPattern.Escape` to escape lone backticks correctly ([#25211][25211]) (Thanks
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@ArmaanMcleod!)
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- Convert `-ChildPath` parameter to `string[]` for `Join-Path` cmdlet ([#24677][24677]) (Thanks
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