Release Candidate versions of PowerShell modules to interact with Secrets

There’s been preview versions of these modules that I’ve been following; but that ended today. The first Release Candidate is up on PowerShell Gallery listed with version 0.9.0.0.

Earlier today, posted on the Microsoft PowerShell Team’s “Dev”Blog, was an article about the release candidates for SecretManagement and SecretStore are available on the PowerShell Gallery.

Vaults currently supported include:

KeePass
LastPass
Hashicorp Vault
KeyChain
CredMan

Vaults are just extensions built for a specific system. So if your secret manager didn’t make the 0.9.0 release candidate, you can build it your self or contact your vendor.

The blog post says, this release is a “go live” release and it mentions that under the “General Availability (GA)” section. But then, why is the major version 0? And why are you calling it a Release Candidate then? Hmmmmmm. Hmmmmmm.

Ref Links

Secret Management and SecretStore Release Canidates (MS PowerShell Team Blog) – https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/secretmanagement-and-secretstore-release-candidates/

GitHub repo for SecretManagement module – https://github.com/powershell/SecretManagement