PowerShell Universal - 5.6.2 Release Notes Features Bug Fixes Admin Console Fixed locking issue with admin console Fixes to the admin console code editor Fixed permission issues with resources in the admin console Minor fixes to several pages Agent Fixed crashing issue with agent service APIs F…

Anyone else getting out of memory errors running scripts after going to 5.6.2? I was on 5.6.0. Rolling back to 5.6.0 for now.

Cant say I have had any issues as far as scripts go, updated and all my jobs are still running fine. What’s your setup? I’m running on windows as a service with SQL.

I think it might be a .net security update. Rolled back to 5.6.0 and still seeing it. Going to try to uninstall latest and see if it corrects itself. Windows Service (msi install), local db. Dev instance. Need to check production (not much on it right now since working things out on dev. 2025-…

We had a few scripts that got ‘Exception of type ‘System.OutOfMemoryException’ was thrown.’ when we upgraded to 5.6 In our case it was always happening in scripts that used ‘New-PSDrive’. I fixed it by piping that command to ‘Out-Null’. I found this in the event log that got me pointed towards th…

Looks like it is only happening with PowerShell 5.1, PowerShell 7+ is fine. We can work around it, and it does look like it started happening when I went to 5.6 vs 5.6.2 looking back at the job logs.

Wanted to add I’m seeing it to on 5.6.2, powershell 5.1, sql 2022, BUT only when returning a hashtable object from a script (even a basic one). If I return anything else it seems okay. Possibly weird json serialization problem? Example scriptexample.ps1 return @{ foo = 'bar' } job log Exception…

That would make sense since I am definitely returning collections in those scripts. And others without them are working fine.

Also might explain why I’m not seeing it since I only use PSCore

I can reproduce this with 5.1. OutOfMemory Exception with Windows PowerShell 5.1 Jobs opened 01:01PM - 15 Aug 25 UTC (UTC) [image] adamdriscoll Are…

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deroppi August 12, 2025, 9:52am 8

same here

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