PowerShell Gallery Search is Not Working

[BradKnowles]

Prerequisites

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Steps to reproduce

I try to search for packages at https://www.powershellgallery.com/ and I get an error directing me to this repo which doesn't mention anything about search being unavailable.

Expected behavior

Results returned for a search string.

Actual behavior

The PowerShell Gallery is currently experiencing intermittent issues with search. Please see https://aka.ms/PSGalleryStatus for more details

Error details

Environment data

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.5.4
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.5.4
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.26100
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Version

7.5.4

Visuals

@alerickson @anamnavi Any information on why search is not working? There are multiple other issues on the repo saying the same thing.

[WABruijntjes]

Same issue on 7th op April 2026. No status change in the status page since 7th of March 2026.

[fagrela-gcmlp]

Any updates here?
Or here?
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShellGallery/blob/master/psgallery_status.md#november-12th-2025-intermittent-issues-with-incorrect-search-results-returned

@SydneyhSmith @SteveL-MSFT @andyleejordan