I've released version 1.36 of berrybrew, the Perlbrew for Windows. I've also reached out to see how I can become part of the Strawberry Perl team to get back on track with the release of new Strawberry Perls.

If you have any information on the release procedure for Strawberry, or know anyone on that team I might be able to contact to get things moving forward again, please let me know.

This release contains one significant new feature, the ability to use Powershell as the shell when opening or using a Perl. In the UI, when you "Open" your current Perl, or "use" any Perl you have installed, if the "Use Powershell" option is checked, instead of a cmd.exe shell, you'll be presented with a Powershell one (same applies for the command line berrybrew use $version). See image.

The other changes in this release enhance the unit testing infrastructure, and the tests themselves.

Other notable changes since my last blog post:

• The berrybrew associate command now has an alias of assoc for fewer keystrokes
• Better exception handling in several cases
• Documentation clarifications
• Removed the upgrade command. It's now recommended to use the Installer to manage upgrades
• Fix issue when using berrybrew to manage file associations where arguments passed to perl were being handled incorrectly
• Unit test infrastructure enhancements

As always, feedback, feature requests and especially bug notices are very welcome, whether here on Perlmonks or at my issue tracker.