On Friday evening a mail from Microsoft Azure came in: “Retirement notice: Migrate from Azure Blueprints by 31 January 2027”. It came through my own Service Health alert on my demo subscription, which surprised me: as far as I remembered, I never got round to using Blueprints.

Third roundup of the year, covering August and September, plus what October brought so far: three patch waves and the first 7.7 release candidate. The previous one ran up to the end of July. Pester had a busy summer too, with two feature releases in five weeks — more on that below.

A short public service announcement: PowerShell 7.4 (LTS) and PowerShell 7.5 both reach end of support on November 10, 2026. That’s less than two weeks from now, and as far as I can find there’s no PowerShell team blog post reminding anyone. So here’s one.

Not everyone can make it to PowerShell Conference Europe in person, and June is a long way off for the rest of the year. That’s what the PSConfEU MiniCon is for: a free, online, one-day edition. This year’s MiniCon is next week, on Tuesday, October 13.

Pester 6.2.0 was released on September 9 — the third feature release in the Pester 6 line in just over two months. The headline is setup files that apply per folder, but a few of the smaller changes might matter more to you day to day, including one that reverses a 6.0 breaking change.

The recordings of PSConfEU 2026 are online, and that includes both of my sessions: an advanced Pester workshop together with Jakub Jareš, and a session on building better PowerShell code with GitHub’s Spec Kit.