📰What's new?

For a complete list of changes, see the PowerShell Universal release notes.

2026.3

Admin console redesign

The redesigned admin console offers a cleaner, more consistent experience with refreshed themes, streamlined navigation, updated tables and settings, breadcrumbs, a floating toolbar, and system-wide search.

Navigation is grouped into Build, Run, Observe, Manage, Source Control, and Secure, with related pages combined into tabbed hubs. You can pin and customize menu entries, open instance settings from the sidebar gear, and access user settings from the user menu. Available items depend on your permissions, license, and enabled features, and the sidebar adapts to mobile displays.

AI Agent Chats

AI agent chats add a resource-aware conversation to the admin console. Sessions show tool-call and file-change activity, and report input, output, and total token usage so you can understand how an agent handled a request.

MCP Tool Execution Controls

Set a per-minute request limit for MCP tool calls to protect the server from excessive traffic. You can also select the PowerShell environment and computer or computer group where an AI tool runs, giving administrators more control over execution placement.

Persistent Job and MCP Environments

Enable persistent runspaces for an environment to reuse job processes, with separate processes for each environment and credential. MCP tools honor their configured environment, so they can run in the same dedicated execution environment as your jobs.

Devolutions Agent Integration

Devolutions Agent can connect to PowerShell Universal over gRPC to run commands and scripts on remote machines. PowerShell Universal initializes the agent repository and copies scripts for a job, with an option to retain run scripts on the agent. This integration requires Devolutions Agent 2026.3.x or later.

Container Jobs

Run jobs in isolated containers through container execution environments. PowerShell Universal starts a Devolutions Agent container for each job, supports a configured image URL and tag with optional image pulling, records container startup and cleanup output with the job, and removes the container when the job finishes.

Workflow Branching

Use Flow Decision activities to route workflow steps based on true and false outcomes. The workflow designer supports branching alongside PowerShell script and AI prompt activities, making it easier to model conditional automation.

System-Wide Admin Console Search

Search the admin console for applications, cache entries, endpoints, identities, jobs, scripts, and workflows from one place. Search results respect the permissions of the signed-in user.

Folder-Level Script Permissions

Apply permissions directly to script folders from the script folder view. This makes it easier to manage access to related scripts as a group.

Pester Test Automation

Start Pester test runs with Invoke-PSUTest. Target a test file or folder, filter by tag or test name, wait for completion when needed, and optionally return parsed test suite results.