about_PSReadLine_Release_Notes

2025-09-02

Short description

This is a summary of changes to the PSReadLine module. For a full list of changes, see the PSReadLine ChangeLog.

Current preview: v2.4.4-beta4
Current stable release: v2.3.6

Long description

PSReadLine release history

There have been many updates to PSReadLine since the version that ships in Windows PowerShell 5.1.

v2.3.6 shipped in PowerShell 7.4.7 and 7.5.0
v2.3.5 shipped in PowerShell 7.4.2 and 7.5.0-preview.3
v2.3.4 shipped in PowerShell 7.4.0-rc.1
v2.2.6 shipped in PowerShell 7.3.0
v2.1.0 shipped in PowerShell 7.2.5
v2.0.4 shipped in PowerShell 7.0.11
v2.0.0 ships in Windows PowerShell 5.1

2.4.4-beta4 - 2025-08-28

Added screen reader support to PSReadLine - The new render implementation redrawing the terminal buffer to avoid unnecessary and confusing output for screen readers.

v2.4.3-beta3 - 2025-07-23

You can get the v2.4.3-beta3 version of the PSReadLine module from PowerShell Gallery.

This release includes the following changes:

Allow accepting the current input automatically from within an OnIdle event handler
Add VS Code tasks and debug config
Add bound check for the cursor top value to InvokePrompt
Fix typo in SamplePSReadLineProfile.ps1
Fix line ending and cache some reflection operations
Improve test reliability by making sure the PSReadLine one-time initialization is done

v2.4.2-beta2 - 2025-04-16

You can get the v2.4.2-beta2 version of the PSReadLine module from PowerShell Gallery.

This release includes the following changes:

Add a private field to indicate if PSReadLine is initialized and ready
Use CFS for installing module and deploy box for module publish

v2.4.1-beta1 - 2025-02-28

Avoid querying for cursor position when it's not necessary
Handle buffer changes made by an event handler
Update SelectCommandArgument to properly handle POSIX style options for CLI commands

v2.4.0-beta0 - 2024-03-01

Fix copying text to system clipboard on Linux using xclip
Tab completion uses the correct directory separator for the platform
PowerShell version 5.1 is now the minimum supported version
Get the Windows keyboard layout from the parent terminal process
Fix a few VI key handlers to correctly close the edit group
Read the history file in the streaming way to handle large files efficiently

v2.3.6 - 2024-10-03

This is a servicing release for the build pipeline. There are no changes to PSReadLine in this release.

v2.3.5 - 2024-04-02

This is a servicing release that fixes two issues:

Exclude test components from SBOM generation to avoid false positive security vulnerability report.
Include the fix to a regression found in the v2.3.4 of PSReadLine.

v2.3.4 - 2023-10-02

In addition to several bug fixes, this release includes the following enhancements:

Scrollable ListView for Predictive IntelliSense
- Autoadjusts the size based on the size of the terminal window
- Can contain up to 50 prediction results
- Dynamic list header that shows the number of results and the current prediction source
- Show tooltips in the prediction list view
Improved sensitive history scrubbing to allow retrieving token from az, gcloud, and kubectl
Improve the default sensitive history scrubbing to allow safe property access
Added support for upcasing, downcasing, and capitalizing words
Make tab completion show results whose ListItemText are different by case only
Supports the text-object command <d,i,w> in the VI edit mode
Change default color for inline prediction to dim
Add a sample to README for transforming Unicode code point to Unicode char by Alt+x
Add the TerminateOrphanedConsoleApps option on Windows to kill orphaned console-attached process that may mess up reading from Console input
De-duplicate prediction results with the history results
Make tab completion show results whose ListItemText are different by case only
Add support for upcasing, downcasing, and capitalizing word
Handle multi-line description for parameter help content

v2.2.6 - 2022-06-27

In this release, the Predictive IntelliSense feature is enabled by default depending on the following conditions:

If Virtual Terminal (VT) is supported and PSReadLine running in PowerShell 7.2 or higher, PredictionSource is set to HistoryAndPlugin
If VT is supported and PSReadLine running in PowerShell prior to 7.2, PredictionSource is set to History
If VT isn't supported, PredictionSource is set to None

v2.2.5 - 2022-05-03

Official servicing release with minor bug fixes.

v2.2.3 - 2022-04-20

Respect cancellation in ReadOneOrMoreKeys()

v2.2.2 - 2022-02-22

PSReadLine added two new predictive IntelliSense features:
- Added the PredictionViewStyle parameter to allow for the selection of the new ListView.
- Connected PSReadLine to the CommandPrediction APIs introduced in PowerShell 7.2 to allow a user can import a predictor module that can render the suggestions from a custom source.
Updated to use the 1.0.0 version of Microsoft.PowerShell.Pager for dynamic help
Improved the scrubbing of sensitive history items
Make Ctrl+r and Ctrl+s in Vi edit mode work the same way as in Emacs edit mode
Make d0 to delete to the start of the current logical line in a multiline buffer in VI mode
Use d^ to delete from the first non-blank character of a logical line
VI Mode: Undo now leaves the cursor under the position at the start of the deletion
Make HistorySearchBackward and HistorySearchForward able to navigate the list view
Add the SelectCommandArgument bind-able function
Remove LineIsMultiline in favor of multi-line agnostic algorithms
Lots of bug fixes and smaller improvements

v2.1.0 - 2020-11-02

This release rolls up the following enhancements added since the 2.0.4 release:

Add Predictive IntelliSense suggestions from the command history
Many bug fixes and API enhancements

v2.0.4 - 2020-08-05

vi-mode: Make dd deletes the logical line instead of the entire buffer
vi-mode: Add dG to delete to the end of multiline buffer
vi-mode: dd now handles single line or multiline buffers consistently
vi-mode: Make D and d$ delete to the end of the current logical line
vi-mode - Make dj delete the current and next n logical lines
vi-mode: Use dk to delete the previous n logical lines and the current logical line in a multi-line buffer
vi-mode: Add dgg to delete from the beginning of the buffer to the current logical line
Rename PredictionColor to InlinePredictionColor
Allow MaximumHistoryCount to be set from user's profile
Add the parameter -PredictionSource to Set-PSReadLineOption, with the options None and History
Make the functions AcceptSuggestion and AcceptNextSuggestionWord bindable
Relax the sensitive words we filter by changing key to apikey to reduce false positives
Make ViForwardChar able to accept suggestions
Expose ViBackwardChar and ViForwardChar as bindable functions

v2.0.3 - 2020-07-22

Minor bug fixes

v2.0.2 - 2020-06-05

Run script in local scope to make PSReadLine works in PSES in ConstrainedLanguageMode
Other bug fixes

v2.0.1 - 2020-04-01

Add the -Chord parameter to Get-PSReadLineKeyHandler to allow searching for specific key bindings
Other minor bug fixes

v2.0.0 - 2020-02-11

Allow InsertPairedBraces to wrap selected text
Lots of bug fixes and smaller improvements
Filter sensitive history items and avoid writing them to the history file
Supporting line-wise yanks, including paste and undo
Make y0 yank up to the start of the logical line in VI mode
Add API to detect if the screen reader is active
Make PageUp/PageDown and CtrlPageUp/CtrlPageDown Windows-only
Add script block vi mode indicator option
Support vi mode G and gg movements in multi-line buffers
Supports _ and $ to move to the beginning and end of the logical line in vi mode
Add xtermjs keybindings
Support Ctrl+u in vi insert mode
Enable Ctrl+c on non-Windows
Interactive filtering during menu complete
Shift+Insert bound to Paste in Windows mode
Ctrl+t bound to SwapCharacters in Emacs mode
Ctrl+x,Ctrl+e bound to ViEditVisually in Emacs
HistoryNoDuplicates is now on by default

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