6.0 Changelog

6.0.0 - 2018-01-10

Breaking changes

• Remove sc alias which conflicts with sc.exe (#5827)
• Separate group policy settings and enable policy controlled logging in PowerShell Core (#5791)

Engine updates and fixes

• Handle DLLImport failure of libpsrpclient in PowerShell Remoting on Unix platforms (#5622)

Test

• Replace lee.io Tests with WebListener (#5709) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Update the docker based release package tests due to the removal of Pester module and other issues (#5692)
• Replace Remaining HttpBin.org Tests with WebListener (#5665) (Thanks @markekraus!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update x86 and x64 MSI packages to not overwrite each other (#5812) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Update Restore-PSPester to include the fix for nested describe errors (#5771)
• Automate the generation of release change log draft (#5712)

Documentation and Help Content

• Updated help Uri to point to latest help content for Microsoft.PowerShell.Core module (#5820)
• Update the installation doc for Raspberry-Pi about supported devices (#5773)
• Fix a typo and a Markdown linting error in the Pull Request Template (#5807) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Update submodule documentation for pester removal (#5786) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Change Github to GitHub in CONTRIBUTING.md (#5697) (Thanks @stuntguy3000!)
• Fix incorrect release date on the changelog (#5698) (Thanks @SwarfegaGit!)
• Add instructions to deploy win-arm build on Windows IoT (#5682)

6.0.0-rc.2 - 2017-12-14

Breaking changes

• Skip null-element check for collections with a value-type element type (#5432)
• Make AllSigned execution policy require modules under $PSHome to be signed (#5511)

Engine updates and fixes

• Update PowerShell to use 2.0.4 dotnet core runtime. (#5677)
• Remove references to the old executable powershell or powershell.exe (#5408)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Remove unnecessary check for Paths.count > 0, in the *-FileCatalog CmdLets (#5596)
• Use explicit libpsl-native binary name for dllimport. (#5580)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Fix Get-EnvironmentInformation to properly check for CoreCLR (#5592) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Make Travis CI use libcurl+openssl+gssapi (#5629) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Disambiguate icon for daily builds on Windows (#5467) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix Import-CliXml tests which still use powershell instead of pwsh and make sure it fails if it regresses (#5521) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Update port number used for WebCmdlets tests which broke due to a change in AppVeyor (#5520) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Clean up use of Runspaceconfiguration from comments and xUnit test code (#5569) (Thanks @Bhaal22!)
• Replace HttpListener Response Tests with WebListener (#5540, #5605) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix the path to powershell_xxx.inc in Start-Build (#5538) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove Pester as a module include with the PowerShell Packages. You should be able to add it by running Install-Module Pester. (#5623, #5631)
• Refactor New-UnixPackaging into functions to make the large function more readable. (#5625)
• Make the experience better when Start-PSPester doesn't find Pester (#5673)
• Update packaging and release build scripts to produce zip packages for win-arm and win-arm64 (#5664)
• Enable Install-Debian to work with VSTS Hosted Linux Preview (#5659)
• Add linux-arm tarball package to release build (#5652, #5660)
• Enable building for win-arm and win-arm64 (#5524)
• Make macOS package require 10.12 or newer (#5649, #5654)
• Update signing subjects to something meaningful (#5650)
• Make New-UnixPackage more readable (#5625)
• Update PowerShellGet tests to validate the new install location of AllUsers scope. (#5633)
• Increase reliability of flaky test that fails intermittently in CI (#5641)
• Exclude markdown files from Pester folder from the Markdown meta test (#5636)
• Run tests for Windows installer only on Windows (#5619)
• Suppress the expected errors from Select-Xml tests (#5591)
• Add retry logic to prerequisite URL and output URL on failure so you can more easily troubleshoot (#5601, #5570)
• Make sure submodule are initialized when running Mac release build (#5496)
• Remove duplicate files in Windows packages in a folder called signed (#5527)
• Add PowerShell VSCode style settings (#5529) (Thanks @bergmeister)
• Add Travis CI matrix for improved job tagging (#5547)
• Remove community docker files from official docker image validation (#5508)

Documentation and Help Content

• XML documentation fix for CompletionResult (#5550) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Change synopsis of install-powershell.ps1 to reflect that it works cross-platform (#5465) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Add more helpful message for AmbiguousParameterSet exception (#5537) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Update the contribution guideline to note that updating the changelog is required. (#5586)
• Updated doc to build arm/arm64 versions of psrp.windows and PowerShell.Core.Instrumentation.dll libraries (#5668)
• Update Contribution guidelines with work in progress guidance (#5655)
• Update code coverage tests to get GitCommitId using the ProductVersion from Assembly (#5651)
• Remove requirement to updating changelog update in PR (#5644, #5586)
• Minor refactoring of the release build scripts (#5632)
• Update PowerShell executable name in using-vscode.md (#5593)
• Fix xUnit test for PS (#4780)
• Update install link and instructions for R-Pi (#5495)

Compliance Work

Compliance work is required for Microsoft to continue to sign and release packages from the project as official Microsoft packages.

• Remove PerformWSManPluginReportCompletion, which was not used, from pwrshplugin.dll (#5498) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Remove exclusion for unresponsive condition and add context exception for remaining instances (#5595)
• Replace strlen with strnlen in native code (#5510)

6.0.0-rc - 2017-11-16

Breaking changes

• Fix -Verbose to not override $ErrorActionPreference. (#5113)
• Fix Get-Item -LiteralPath a*b to return error if a*b doesn't actually exist. (#5197)
• Remove AllScope from most default aliases to reduce overhead on creating new scopes. (#5268)
• Change $OutputEncoding default to be UTF8 without BOM rather than ASCII. (#5369)
• Add error on legacy credential over non-HTTPS for Web Cmdlets. (#5402) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix single value JSON null in Invoke-RestMethod. (#5338) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Add PSTypeName Support for Import-Csv and ConvertFrom-Csv. (#5389) (Thanks @markekraus!)

Engine updates and fixes

• Add char range overload to the .. operator, so 'a'..'z' returns characters from 'a' to 'z'. (#5026) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• Remove CommandFactory because it serves no real purpose. (#5266)
• Change to not insert line breaks at console window width to output (except for tables). (#5193)
• Use Ast for context in parameter binding and fix to glob the native command argument only when it's not quoted. (#5188)
• Fix dynamic class assembly name. (#5292)
• Update PowerShell to use 2.0.4-servicing dotnet core runtime. (#5295)
• Fix ExecutionContext.LoadAssembly to load with name when file cannot be found. (#5161)
• Speed up the check for suspicious content in script texts. (#5302)
• Use native os_log APIs on macOS for PowerShell Core logging. (#5310)
• Redirect ETW logging to Syslog on Linux. (#5144)
• Improve how we pass the array literal to native commands. (#5301)
• Make SemanticVersion compatible with SemVer 2.0. (#5037) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Revert refactoring changes that broke remoting to Windows PowerShell 5.1. (#5321)
• Port some fixes in Job for an issue that causes PowerShell to not respond. (#5258)
• Multiple improvements by CodeRush static analysis. (#5132) (Thanks @Himura2la!)
• Fix the Runspace cleanup issue that causes PowerShell to not respond on exit. (#5356)
• Update PowerShell to depend on new version of psrp and libmi nuget packages on Unix platforms. (#5469)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Add -AsHashtable to ConvertFrom-Json to return a Hashtable instead. (#5043) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix Import-module to not report a loaded module was not found. (#5238)
• Fix performance issues in Add-Type. (#5243) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix PSUserAgent generation for Web Cmdlets on Windows 7. (#5256) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Remove DCOM support from *-Computer cmdlets. (#5277)
• Add multiple link header support to Web Cmdlets. (#5265) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Use wider columns for process id and user. (#5303)
• Add Remove-Alias Command. (#5143) (Thanks @PowershellNinja!)
• Update installpsh-suse.sh to work with the tar.gz package. (#5309)
• Add Jobject serialization support to ConvertTo-Json. (#5141)
• Display full help with 'help' function. (#5195) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• Fix help function to not pipe to more if objects are returned instead of help text. (#5395)
• Fix Unblock-File to not write an error if the file is already unblocked. (#5362) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Clean up FullCLR code from Web Cmdlets. (#5376) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Exclude cmdlets that are not supported on Unix platforms. (#5083)
• Make Import-Csv support CR, LF and CRLF as line delimiters. (#5363) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix spelling in Web Cmdlet errors. (#5427) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Add SslProtocol support to Web Cmdlets. (#5329) (Thanks @markekraus!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Use RCEdit to embed icon and version information into pwsh.exe. (#5178)
• Update Docker file for Nano Server 1709 release. (#5252)
• Change VSCode build task to use pwsh. (#5255)
• Refactor building and packaging scripts for signing in release build workflow. (#5300)
• Always build with -CrossGen in CI to verify a fix in CrossGen tool. (#5315)
• Separate Install-PowerShellRemoting.ps1 from psrp.windows nuget package. (#5330)
• Include symbols folder an embedded zip when packaging symbols. (#5333)
• Add Uniform Type Identifier conforming with Apple standards using a reverse DNS style prefix. (#5323)
• Update Wix toolset download link to newer version 3.11 (#5339) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Re-enable macOS launcher after fixing an issue that blocked macOS package generation. (#5291) (Thanks @thezim!)
• Set expected binaries and variable name for folder for symbols build. (#5357)
• Rename and update PowerShell ETW manifest to remove the Windows PowerShell dependency. (#5360)
• Add ability to produce tar.gz package for Raspbian. (#5387)
• Update Find-Dotnet to find dotnet with the compatible SDK. (#5341) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• Add signing manifest and script to update it with production values. (#5397)
• Add install-powershell.ps1 to install PowerShell Core on windows. (#5383)
• Make -Name a dynamic parameter in Start-PSPackage. (#5415)
• Support [package] tag in PR CI and fix nightly build on macOS. (#5410)
• Enhance install-powershell.ps1 to work on Linux and macOS. (#5411)
• Move the RCEdit step to the build phase rather than the packaging phase. (#5404)
• Allow packaging from a zip package to allow for signing. (#5418)
• Add automation to validate PowerShell Core packages using Docker containers. (#5401)
• Fix the brew update issue in bootstrap script. (#5400)
• Enable install-powershell.ps1 to update the current running PowerShell Core. (#5429)
• Add standard set of VSCode workspace setting files. (#5457) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• Add support for installing PowerShell Core on Amazon Linux via install-powershell.sh. (#5461) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
• Get PowerShellGet and PackageManagement from the PowerShell Gallery. (#5452)
• Fix Start-PSBuild on WSL if repository was already built on Windows. (#5346) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix build in VSCode and use an improved version of tasks.json from @rkeithhill. (#5453)
• Add scripts for signing packages in the release build workflow. (#5463)

Documentation and Help Content

• Fix the codebase to use the consistent copyright string. (#5210)
• Add documentation about how to create libpsl and psrp.windows nuget packages. (#5278)
• Add help strings in PowerShell banner. (#5275) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Change all links in README.md to absolute as they are being used in other places outside of GitHub. (#5354)
• Update instructions to build on VSCode based on pwsh. (#5368)
• Update FAQ.md about how to use PowerShell Core nuget packages. (#5366)
• Correct the Fedora documentation (#5384) (Thanks @offthewoll!)
• Add instructions about how to create the PowerShell.Core.Instrumentation nuget package. (#5396)
• Updated PowerShell to use the latest help package. (#5454)

Compliance Work

Compliance work is required for Microsoft to continue to sign and release packages from the project as official Microsoft packages.

• Replace the word hang with something more appropriate and add rules about other terms. (#5213, #5297, #5358)
• Use simplified names for compliance folders (#5388)
• Add compliance label description (#5355)
• Set requestedExecutionLevel to asInvoker for pwsh.exe on Windows. (#5285)
• Add HighEntropyVA to building pwsh. (#5455)

6.0.0-beta.9 - 2017-10-24

Breaking changes

• Fix ValueFromRemainingArguments to have consistent behavior between script and C# cmdlets. (#2038) (Thanks @dlwyatt)
• Remove parameters -importsystemmodules and -psconsoleFile from powershell.exe. (#4995)
• Removed code to show a GUI prompt for credentials as PowerShell Core prompts in console. (#4995)
• Remove -ComputerName from Get/Set/Remove-Service. (#5094)
• Rename the executable name from powershell to pwsh. (#5101)
• Remove RunspaceConfiguration support. (#4942)
• Remove -ComputerName support since .NET Core Process.GetProcesses(computer) returns local processes. (#4960)
• Make -NoTypeInformation the default on Export-Csv and ConvertTo-Csv. (#5164) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Unify cmdlets with parameter -Encoding to be of type System.Text.Encoding. (#5080)

Engine updates and fixes

• Fix PowerShell to update the PATH environment variable only if PATH exists. (#5021)
• Enable support of folders and files with colon in name on Unix. (#4959)
• Fix detection of whether -LiteralPath was used to suppress wildcard expansion for navigation cmdlets. (#5038)
• Enable using filesystem from a UNC location. (#4998)
• Escape trailing backslash when dealing with native command arguments. (#4965)
• Change location of ModuleAnalysisCache so it isn't shared with Windows PowerShell. (#5133)
• Put command discovery before scripts for Unix. (#5116)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Correct comma position in SecureStringCommands.resx. (#5033) (Thanks @markekraus)
• User Agent of Web Cmdlets now reports the OS platform (#4937) (Thanks @LDSpits)
• Add the positional parameter attribute to -InputObject for Set-Service. (#5017) (Thanks @travisty-)
• Add ValidateNotNullOrEmpty attribute to -UFormat for Get-Date. (#5055) (Thanks @DdWr)
• Add -NoNewLine switch for Out-String. (#5056) (Thanks @raghav710)
• Improve progress messages written by Web Cmdlets. (#5078) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add verb descriptions and alias prefixes for Get-Verb. (#4746) (Thanks @Tadas)
• Fix Get-Content -Raw to not miss the last line feed character. (#5076)
• Add authentication parameters to Web Cmdlets. (#5052) (Thanks @markekraus)
  • Add -Authentication that provides three options: Basic, OAuth, and Bearer.
  • Add -Token to get the bearer token for OAuth and Bearer options.
  • Add -AllowUnencryptedAuthentication to bypass authentication that is provided for any transport scheme other than HTTPS.
• Fix MatchInfoContext clone implementation (#5121) (Thanks @dee-see)
• Exclude PSHostProcess cmdlets from Unix platforms. (#5105)
• Fix Add-Member to fetch resource string correctly. (#5114)
• Enable Import-Module to be case insensitive. (#5097)
• Add exports for syslog APIs in libpsl-native. (#5149)
• Fix Get-ChildItem to not ignore -Depth parameter when using with -Include or -Exclude. (#4985) (Thanks @Windos)
• Added properties UserName, Description, DelayedAutoStart, BinaryPathName and StartupType to the ServiceController objects returned by Get-Service. (#4907) (Thanks @joandrsn)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Treat .rtf files as binary so EOL don't get changed. (#5020)
• Improve the output of tools/installpsh-osx.sh and update Travis-CI to use Ruby 2.3.3. (#5065)
• Improve Start-PSBootstrap to locate dotnet SDK before installing it. (#5059) (Thanks @PetSerAl)
• Fix the prerequisite check of the MSI package. (#5070)
• Support creating tar.gz package for Linux and macOS. (#5085)
• Add release builds that produce symbols for compliance scans. (#5086)
• Update existing Docker files for the Linux package changes. (#5102)
• Add compiler switches and replace dangerous function with safer ones. (#5089)
• Add macOS launcher. (#5138) (Thanks @thezim)
• Replace httpbin.org/response-headers Tests with WebListener. (#5058) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Update appimage.sh to reflect the new name pwsh. (#5172)
• Update the man help file used in packaging. (#5173)
• Update to use pwsh in macOS launcher. (#5174) (Thanks @thezim)
• Add code to send web hook for Travis-CI daily build. (#5183)
• Add global.json to pick correct SDK version. (#5118) (Thanks @rkeithhill)
• Update packaging to only package PowerShell binaries when packaging symbols. (#5145)
• Update Docker files and related due to the name change. (#5156)

Code Cleanup

• Clean up Json cmdlets. (#5001) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Remove code guarded by RELATIONSHIP_SUPPORTED and SUPPORTS_IMULTIVALUEPROPERTYCMDLETPROVIDER, which has never been used. (#5066)
• Remove PSMI code that has never been used. (#5075)
• Remove unreachable code for Stop-Job. (#5091) (Thanks @travisty-)
• Removed font and codepage handling code that is only applicable to Windows PowerShell. (#4995)

Test

• Fix a race condition between WebListener and Web Cmdlets tests. (#5035) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add warning to Start-PSPester if Pester module is not found (#5069) (Thanks @DdWr)
• Add tests for DSC configuration compilation on Windows. (#5011)
• Test fixes and code coverage automation fixes. (#5046)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update Pi demo instructions about installing libunwind8. (#4974)
• Add links on best practice guidelines in coding guideline. (#4983) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Reformat command line help for powershell -help (#4989) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Change logo in readme to current black icon. (#5030)
• Fix RPM package name in README.md. (#5044)
• Update docs/building/linux.md to reflect the current status of powershell build. (#5068) (Thanks @dee-see)
• Add black version of .icns file for macOS. (#5073) (Thanks @thezim)
• Update Arch Linux installation instructions. (#5048) (Thanks @kylesferrazza)
• Add submodule reminder to testing-guidelines.md. (#5061) (Thanks @DdWr)
• Update instructions in docs/building/internals.md for building from source. (#5072) (Thanks @kylesferrazza)
• Add UserVoice link to Issue Template. (#5100) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add Get-WebListenerUrl Based Examples to WebListener README.md. (#4981) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add document about how to create cmdlet with dotnet CLI. (#5117) (Thanks @rkeithhill)
• Update the help text for PowerShell executable with the new name pwsh. (#5182)
• Add new forward links for PowerShell 6.0.0 help content. (#4978)
• Fix VSCode launch.json to point to pwsh. (#5189)
• Add example of how to create .NET Core cmdlet with Visual Studio. (#5096)

6.0.0-beta.8 - 2017-10-05

Breaking changes

• Changed New-Service to return error when given unsupported -StartupType and fixed Set-Service icon failing test. (#4802)
• Allow * to be used in registry path for Remove-Item. (#4866)
• Remove unsupported -ShowWindow switch from Get-Help. (#4903)
• Fix incorrect position of a parameter which resulted in the args passed as input instead of as args for InvokeScript(). (#4963)

Engine updates and fixes

• Make calls to void CodeMethod work. (#4850) (Thanks @powercode)
• Get PSVersion and GitCommitId from the ProductVersion attribute of assembly (#4863) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Fix powershell -version and built-in help for powershell.exe to align with other native tools. (#4958 & #4931) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Load assemblies with Assembly.LoadFrom before Assembly.Load when the file path is given. (#4196)
• Add a generic file watcher function in HelpersCommon.psm1. (#4775)
• Update old links and fix broken links in docs/host-powershell/README.md. (#4877)
• Fix when importing remote modules using version filters (and added tests). (#4900)
• Enable transcription of native commands on non-Windows platforms. (#4871)
• Add a new line to CommandNotFoundException error string. (#4934 & #4991)
• Fix bug where PowerShell would exit with an error within an SSH remoting connection on Linux. (#4993)
• Fix issues with expression redirected to file. (#4847)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Added Remove-Service to Management module. (#4858) (Thanks @joandrsn)
• Added functionality to set credentials on Set-Service command. (#4844) (Thanks @joandrsn)
• Fix Select-String to exclude directories (as opposed to individual files) discovered from -Path. (#4829) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Get-Date now supports more argument completion scenarios by adding ArgumentCompletionsAttribute. (#4835) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Exclude -ComObject parameter of New-Object on unsupported (currently non-Windows) platforms. (#4922) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Updated default ModuleVersion in New-ModuleManifest to 0.0.1 to align with SemVer. (#4842) (Thanks @LDSpits)
• Add Multipart support to web cmdlets. (#4782) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add -ResponseHeadersVariable to Invoke-RestMethod to enable the capture of response headers. (#4888) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Initialize web cmdlets headers dictionary only once. (#4853) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Change web cmdlets UserAgent from WindowsPowerShell to PowerShell. (#4914) (Thanks @markekraus)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Make the build output the WiX compilation log if it failed. (#4831) (Thanks @bergmeister)
• Use a simple file based check in the MSI for the VC++ 2015 redistributables. (#4745) (Thanks @bergmeister)
• New icon for PowerShell Core. (#4848)
• Build Powershell Core using the generic RID linux-x64. (#4841)
• Create generic Linux-x64 packages that are portable to all supported RPM Linux distros (and more similar for Debian based distros). (#4902 & #4994)
• Suppress the output of building test tools in Compress-TestContent. (#4957)
• Remove unnecessary error messages from output. (#4954)
• Update Travis CI script so that PRs can fail due to Pester tests. (#4830)
• Move release build definition into PowerShell. (#4884)
• Fix credential scan issues. (#4927 & #4935)
• Enable security flags in native compiler. (#4933)
• Add VS 2017 solution file for powershell-win-core. (#4748)

Code Cleanup

• Remove remainder of Utility.Activities (Workflow code). (#4880)
• Remove Microsoft.PowerShell.CoreCLR.AssemblyLoadContext.dll. (#4868)
• Enable auto EOL on Git repo side, fix some character encoding issues. (#4912)
• Updated EOL for all files to be LF in the repository. (#4943 & #4956)
• Removed leading whitespace. (#4991)

DSC Language

• Update version of PSDesiredStateConfiguration in project files to fix complication of MOF files with the Configuration keyword. (#4979)

Test

• Replace httpbin.org tests with WebListener. (Thanks @markekraus)
  • headers (#4799)
  • user-agent (#4798)
  • redirect (#4852)
  • encoding (#4869)
  • delay (#4905)
  • gzip & enable deflate (#4948)
  • related changes and fixes (#4920)
• Port tests for constrained language mode. (#4816)
• Enable Select-String test from a network path. (#4921) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Reformat Measure-Object test. (#4972) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Mitigate intermittent failures in access denied tests. (#4788)
• Fix tests that incorrectly use ShouldBeErrorId. (#4793)
• Fix a test issue that causes tests to be skipped in Travis CI run (#4891)
• Skip web cmdlet certificate authentication tests on CentOS and Mac. (#4822)
• Validate product resource strings against resx files. (#4811 & #4861)
• Add source files for coverage run. (#4925)
• Add the UTC offset correctly in tests for CDXML cmdlets. (#4867)
• Be sure to change PSDefaultParameterValue in the global scope. (#4977 & #4892)
• Reduce output of Pester for CI. (#4855)
• Add tests for
  • Get-Content (#4723) (Thanks @sarithsutha)
  • Remoting and Jobs (#4928)
  • Get-Help (#4895)
  • Get-Command -ShowCommandInfo (#4906)
  • Get-Content -Tail (#4790)
  • Get-Module over remoting (#4787)
  • Start/Stop/Suspend/Resume/Restart-Service cmdlets (#4774)
  • WSMan Config provider tests (#4756)
  • CDXML CIM DateTime test (#4796)

Documentation and Graphics

• Sort .spelling (Thanks @markekraus)
• Improve the guideline for performance consideration. (#4824)
• Add setup steps for MacOS to use PSRP over SSH. (#4872)
• Instructions to demo PowerShell Core on Raspbian. (#4882)
• Added instructions to get permission to use PowerShell image assets. (#4938)
• Added demo for using Windows PowerShell modules. (#4886)

6.0.0-beta.7 - 2017-09-13

Breaking change

• Fix Get-Content -Delimiter to not include the delimiter in the array elements returned (#3706) (Thanks @mklement0)
• Rename $IsOSX to $IsMacOS (#4757)

Engine updates and fixes

• Use stricter rules when unwrapping a PSObject that wraps a COM object (#4614)
• Remove appended Windows PowerShell PSModulePath on Windows. (#4656)
• Ensure GetNetworkCredential() returns null if PSCredential has null or empty user name (#4697)
• Push locals of automatic variables to 'DottedScopes' when dotting script cmdlets (#4709)
• Fix using module when module has non-terminating errors handled with SilentlyContinue (#4711) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Enable use of 'Singleline,Multiline' option in split operator (#4721) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Fix error message in ValidateSetAttribute.ValidateElement() (#4722) (Thanks @iSazonov)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Add Meta, Charset, and Transitional parameters to ConvertTo-HTML (#4184) (Thanks @ergo3114)
• Prevent Test-ModuleManifest from loading unnecessary modules (#4541)
• Remove AlternateStream code and -Stream from provider cmdlets on non-Windows (#4567)
• Add explicit ContentType detection to Invoke-RestMethod (#4692)
• Fix an error on Enter-PSSession exit (#4693)
• Add -WhatIf switch to Start-Process cmdlet (#4735) (Thanks @sarithsutha)
• Remove double spaces in .cs, .ps1, and .resx files (#4741 & #4743) (Thanks @korygill)
• Replace 'Windows PowerShell' with 'PowerShell' in resx files (#4758) (Thanks @iSazonov)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Refactor MSBuild project files to get PowerShell version from git tag (#4182) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Create a single package for each Windows supported architecture (x86 and amd64) (#4540)
• Set the default windows RID to win7-<arch> (#4701)
• Enable cross-compiling for Raspberry-PI arm32 (#4742)
• Fix macOS brew reinstall command (#4627) (Thanks @TheNewStellW)
• Improvements to the Travis-CI script (#4689, #4731, #4807)
• Update OpenSUSE docker image to 42.2 (#4737)
• Confirm Start-PSPackage produces a package (#4795)

Code Cleanup

• Remove Workflow code (#4777)
• Clean up CORECLR preprocessor directives in TraceSource (#4684)

Test

• Add test WebListener module and tests for Web Cmdlet Certificate Authentication (#4622) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Move WebCmdlets HTTPS tests to WebListener (#4733) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Replace httpbin.org/get tests With WebListener (#4738) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Use -PassThru on Pester tests to reliably catch failures (#4644)
• Display the same number of tests regardless of platform (#4728)
• Improve comparison of code coverage values for a file (#4764)
• Silence PSSessionConfiguration test warning messages in the log (#4794)
• Add tests for
  • Get-Service (#4773)
  • Set-Service and New-Service (#4785)
  • Trace-Command (#4288)
  • StaticParameter (#4779)
  • Test-Wsman (#4771)
  • New-Object -ComObject (#4776)
  • ProxyCommand APIs (#4791)
• Disable tests
  • 'VC++ Redistributable'(#4673 & #4729)
  • "Test 01. Standard Property test - all properties (<property>)" due to missing CsPhysicallyInstalledMemory (#4763)
  • New-Service failing test (#4806)

Documentation

• Update WritingPesterTests.md to recommend ShouldBeErrorId (#4637)
• Clarify the Pull Request process, roles, and responsibilities (#4710)
• Add absolute URLs in the issue template and pull request template (#4718) (Thanks @chucklu)
• Add new approved Build and Deploy verbs (#4725)
• Update using-vscode.md to use the new exe path (#4736)
• Update coding guidelines to make it more concrete and useful in a review process (#4754)

6.0.0-beta.6 - 2017-08-24

Breaking change

• Make invalid argument error messages for -File and -Command consistent and make exit codes consistent with Unix standards (#4573)

Engine updates and fixes

• Make resource loading to work with PowerShell SxS installation (#4139)
• Add missing assemblies to TPA list to make Pwrshplughin.dll work (#4502)
• Make sure running powershell starts instance of the current version of PowerShell. (#4481)
• Make sure we only use Unicode output by default on Nano and IoT systems (#4074)
• Enable powershell -WindowStyle to work on Windows. (#4573)
• Enable enumeration of COM collections. (#4553)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Fix Web CmdLets -SkipHeaderValidation to work with non-standard User-Agent headers. (#4479 & #4512) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add Certificate authentication support for Web CmdLets. (#4646) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add support for content headers to Web CmdLets. (#4494 & #4640) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add support for converting enums to string (#4318) (Thanks @KirkMunro)
• Ignore casing when binding PSReadline KeyHandler functions (#4300) (Thanks @oising)
• Fix Unblock-File for the case of a read-only file. (#4395) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Use supported API to set Central Access Policy ID (CAPID) in SACL. (#4496)
• Make Start-Trace support paths that require escaping in the underlying APIs (#3863)
• Removing #if CORECLR enabled, Enable-PSRemoting and Disable-PSRemoting (#2671)
• Enable WSManCredSSP cmdlets and add tests. (#4336)
• Use .NET Core's implementation for ShellExecute. (#4523)
• Fix SSH Remoting handling of KeyFileParameter when the path must be quoted. (#4529)
• Make Web CmdLets use HTML meta charset attribute value, if present (#4338)
• Move to .NET Core 2.0 final (#4603)

Build/test and code cleanup

• Add Amazon Linux Docker image and enable related tests. (#4393) (Thanks @DarwinJS)
• Make MSI verify pre-requisites are installed. (#4602) (Thank @bergmeister)
• Fixed formatting issues in build files. (#4630) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Make sure install-powershell.sh installs latest powershell on macOS, even if an old version is cached in brew. (#4509) (Thanks @richardszalay for reporting.)
• Fixes install scripts issue for macOS. (#4631) (Thanks @DarwinJS)
• Many stability improvements to our nightly code coverage automation. (#4313 & #4550)
• Remove hash validation from nanoserver-insider Docker file, due to frequent changes. (#4498)
• Update to make Travis-CI daily build badge more reliable. (#4522)
• Remove unused build files, build code, and product code. (#4532, #4580, #4590, #4589, #4588, #4587, #4586, #4583, #4582, #4581)
• Add additional acceptance tests for PowerShellGet. (#4531)
• Only publish a NuGet of the full PowerShell core package on daily builds and not merge. (#4517)
• Update nanoserver-insider Docker file due to breaking changes in the base image. (#4555)
• Cleanup engine tests (#4551)
• Fix intermittent failures in filesystem tests (#4566)
• Add tests for
  • New-WinEvent. (#4384)
  • tab completion. (#4560)
  • various types. (#4503)
  • CDXML CmdLets. (#4537)
• Only allow packaging of powershell, if it was built from a repo at the root of the file system named powershell. (#4569 & #4600)
• Update Format-Hex test cases to use -TestCase instead of foreach loops. (#3800)
• Added functionality to get code coverage for a single file locally. (#4556)

Documentation

• Added Ilya (@iSazonov) as a Maintainer. (#4365)
• Grammar fix to the Pull Request Guide. (#4322)
• Add homebrew for macOS to install documentation. (#3838)
• Added a CodeOwner file. (#4565 & #4597)

Cleanup #if CORECLR code

PowerShell 6.0 will be exclusively built on top of CoreCLR, so we are removing a large amount of code that's built only for FullCLR. To read more about this, check out this blog post.

6.0.0-beta.5 - 2017-08-02

Breaking changes

• Remove the *-Counter cmdlets in Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics due to the use of unsupported APIs until a better solution is found. (#4303)
• Remove the Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts due to the use of unsupported APIs until a better solution is found. (#4302)

Engine updates and fixes

• Fix the issue where PowerShell Core wasn't working on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2/2012 (non-R2). (#4463)
• ValidateSetAttribute enhancement: support set values to be dynamically generated from a custom ValidateSetValueGenerator. (#3784) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Disable breaking into debugger on Ctrl+Break when running non-interactively. (#4283) (Thanks to @mwrock!)
• Give error instead of crashing if WSMan client library is not available. (#4387)
• Allow passing $true/$false as a parameter to scripts using powershell.exe -File. (#4178)
• Enable DataRow/DataRowView adapters in PowerShell Core to fix an issue with DataTable usage. (#4258)
• Fix an issue where PowerShell class static methods were being shared across Runspaces/SessionStates. (#4209)
• Fix array expression to not return null or throw error. (#4296)
• Fixes a CIM deserialization bug where corrupted CIM classes were instantiating non-CIM types. (#4234)
• Improve error message when HelpMessage property of ParameterAttribute is set to empty string. (#4334)
• Make ShellExecuteEx run in a STA thread. (#4362)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Add -SkipHeaderValidation switch to Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod to support adding headers without validating the header value. (#4085)
• Add support for Invoke-Item -Path <folder>. (#4262)
• Fix ConvertTo-Html output when using a single column header. (#4276)
• Fix output of Length for FileInfo when using Format-List. (#4437)
• Fix an issue in implicit remoting where restricted sessions couldn't use Get-FormatData �PowerShellVersion. (#4222)
• Fix an issue where Register-PSSessionConfiguration fails if SessionConfig folder doesn't exist. (#4271)

Installer updates

• Create script to install latest PowerShell from Microsoft package repositories (or Homebrew) on non-Windows platforms. (#3608) (Thanks to @DarwinJS!)
• Enable MSI upgrades rather than a side-by-side install. (#4259)
• Add a checkbox to open PowerShell after the Windows MSI installer has finished. (#4203) (Thanks to @bergmeister!)
• Add Amazon Linux compatibility to install-powershell.sh. (#4360) (Thanks to @DarwinJS!)
• Add ability to package PowerShell Core as a NuGet package. (#4363)

Build/test and code cleanup

• Add build check for MFC for Visual C++ during Windows builds. This fixes a long-standing (and very frustrating!) issue with missing build dependencies! (#4185) (Thanks to @KirkMunro!)
• Move building Windows PSRP binary out of Start-PSBuild. Now Start-PSBuild doesn't build PSRP binary on windows. Instead, we consume the PSRP binary from a NuGet package. (#4335)
• Add tests for built-in type accelerators. (#4230) (Thanks to @dchristian3188!)
• Increase code coverage of Get-ChildItem on file system. (#4342) (Thanks to @jeffbi!)
• Increase test coverage for Rename-Item and Move-Item. (#4329) (Thanks to @jeffbi!)
• Add test coverage for Registry provider. (#4354) (Thanks to @jeffbi!)
• Fix warnings and errors thrown by PSScriptAnalyzer. (#4261) (Thanks to @bergmeister!)
• Fix regressions that cause implicit remoting tests to fail. (#4326)
• Disable legacy UTC and SQM Windows telemetry by enclosing the code in '#if LEGACYTELEMETRY'. (#4190)

Cleanup #if CORECLR code

PowerShell 6.0 will be exclusively built on top of CoreCLR, so we are removing a large amount of code that's built only for FullCLR. To read more about this, check out this blog post.

6.0.0-beta.4 - 2017-07-12

Windows PowerShell backwards compatibility

In the beta.4 release, we've introduced a change to add the Windows PowerShell PSModulePath to the default PSModulePath in PowerShell Core on Windows. (#4132)

Along with the introduction of .NET Standard 2.0 in 6.0.0-beta.1 and a GAC probing fix in 6.0.0-beta.3, this change will enable a large number of your existing Windows PowerShell modules/scripts to "just work" inside of PowerShell Core on Windows. (Note: We have also fixed the CDXML modules on Windows that were regressed in 6.0.0-beta.2 as part of #4144).

So that we can further enable this backwards compatibility, we ask that you tell us more about what modules or scripts do and don't work in Issue #4062. This feedback will also help us determine if PSModulePath should include the Windows PowerShell values by default in the long run.

For more information on this, we invite you to read this blog post explaining PowerShell Core and .NET Standard in more detail.

Engine updates and fixes

• Add Windows PowerShell PSModulePath by default on Windows. (#4132)
• Move PowerShell to 2.0.0-preview3-25426-01 and using the .NET CLI version 2.0.0-preview2-006502. (#4144)
• Performance improvement in PSReadline by minimizing writing ANSI escape sequences. (#4110)
• Implement Unicode escape parsing so that users can use Unicode characters as arguments, strings or variable names. (#3958) (Thanks to @rkeithhill!)
• Script names or full paths can have commas. (#4136) (Thanks to @TimCurwick!)
• Added semver as a type accelerator for System.Management.Automation.SemanticVersion. (#4142) (Thanks to @oising!)
• Close eventLogSession and EventLogReader to unlock an ETL log. (#4034) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Move-Item cmdlet honors -Include, -Exclude, and -Filter parameters. (#3878)
• Add a parameter to Get-ChildItem called -FollowSymlink that traverses symlinks on demand, with checks for link loops. (#4020)
• Change New-ModuleManifest encoding to UTF8NoBOM on non-Windows platforms. (#3940)
• Get-AuthenticodeSignature cmdlets can now get file signature timestamp. (#4061)
• Add tab completion for Export-Counter -FileFormat parameter. (#3856)
• Fixed Import-Module on non-Windows platforms so that users can import modules with NestedModules and RootModules. (#4010)
• Close FileStream opened by Get-FileHash. (#4175) (Thanks to @rkeithhill!)

Remoting

• Fixed PowerShell not responding when the SSH client abruptly terminates. (#4123)

Documentation

• Added recommended settings for VS Code. (#4054) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)

6.0.0-beta.3 - 2017-06-20

Breaking changes

• Remove the BuildVersion property from $PSVersionTable. This property was strongly tied to the Windows build version. Instead, we recommend that you use GitCommitId to retrieve the exact build version of PowerShell Core. (#3877) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Change positional parameter for powershell.exe from -Command to -File. This fixes the usage of #! (aka as a shebang) in PowerShell scripts that are being executed from non-PowerShell shells on non-Windows platforms. This also means that you can now do things like powershell foo.ps1 or powershell fooScript without specifying -File. However, this change now requires that you explicitly specify -c or -Command when trying to do things like powershell.exe Get-Command. (#4019)
• Remove ClrVersion property from $PSVersionTable. (This property is largely irrelevant for .NET Core, and was only preserved in .NET Core for specific legacy purposes that are inapplicable to PowerShell.) (#4027)

Engine updates and fixes

• Add support to probe and load assemblies from GAC on Windows platform. This means that you can now load Windows PowerShell modules with assembly dependencies which reside in the GAC. If you're interested in running your traditional Windows PowerShell scripts and cmdlets using the power of .NET Standard 2.0, try adding your Windows PowerShell module directories to your PowerShell Core $PSModulePath. (E.g. $env:PSModulePath += ';C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules') Even if the module isn't owned by the PowerShell Team, please tell us what works and what doesn't by leaving a comment in issue #4062! (#3981)
• Enhance type inference in tab completion based on runtime variable values. (#2744) (Thanks to @powercode!) This enables tab completion in situations like:

$p = Get-Process
$p | Foreach-Object Prio<tab>

• Add GitCommitId to PowerShell Core banner. Now you don't have to run $PSVersionTable as soon as you start PowerShell to get the version! (#3916) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix a bug in tab completion to make native.exe --<tab> call into native completer. (#3633) (Thanks to @powercode!)
• Fix PowerShell Core to allow use of long paths that are more than 260 characters. (#3960)
• Fix ConsoleHost to honour NoEcho on Unix platforms. (#3801)
• Fix transcription to not stop when a Runspace is closed during the transcription. (#3896)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Enable Send-MailMessage in PowerShell Core. (#3869)
• Fix Get-Help to support case insensitive pattern matching on Unix platforms. (#3852)
• Fix tab completion on Get-Help for about_* topics. (#4014)
• Fix PSReadline to work in Windows Server Core container image. (#3937)
• Fix Import-Module to honour ScriptsToProcess when -Version is specified. (#3897)
• Strip authorization header on redirects with web cmdlets. (#3885)
• Start-Sleep: add the alias ms to the parameter -Milliseconds. (#4039) (Thanks to @Tadas!)

Developer experience

• Make hosting PowerShell Core in your own .NET applications much easier by refactoring PowerShell Core to use the default CoreCLR loader. (#3903)
• Update Add-Type to support CSharpVersion7. (#3933) (Thanks to @iSazonov)

6.0.0-beta.2 - 2017-06-01

Support backgrounding of pipelines with ampersand (&) (#3360)

• Putting & at the end of a pipeline will cause the pipeline to be run as a PowerShell job.
• When a pipeline is backgrounded, a job object is returned.
• Once the pipeline is running as a job, all of the standard *-Job cmdlets can be used to manage the job.
• Variables (ignoring process-specific variables) used in the pipeline are automatically copied to the job so Copy-Item $foo $bar & just works.
• The job is also run in the current directory instead of the user's home directory.
• For more information about PowerShell jobs, see about_Jobs.

Engine updates and fixes

• Crossgen more of the .NET Core assemblies to improve PowerShell Core startup time. (#3787)
• Enable comparison between a SemanticVersion instance and a Version instance that is constructed only with Major and Minor version values. This will fix some cases where PowerShell Core was failing to import older Windows PowerShell modules. (#3793) (Thanks to @mklement0!)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Support Link header pagination in web cmdlets (#3828)
  • For Invoke-WebRequest, when the response includes a Link header we create a RelationLink property as a Dictionary representing the URLs and rel attributes and ensure the URLs are absolute to make it easier for the developer to use.
  • For Invoke-RestMethod, when the response includes a Link header we expose a -FollowRelLink switch to automatically follow next rel links until they no longer exist or once we hit the optional -MaximumFollowRelLink parameter value.
• Update Get-ChildItem to be more in line with the way that the *nix ls -R and the Windows DIR /S native commands handle symbolic links to directories during a recursive search. Now, Get-ChildItem returns the symbolic links it encountered during the search, but it won't search the directories those links target. (#3780)
• Fix Get-ChildItem to continue enumeration after throwing an error in the middle of a set of items. This fixes some issues where inaccessible directories or files would halt execution of Get-ChildItem. (#3806)
• Fix ConvertFrom-Json to deserialize an array of strings from the pipeline that together construct a complete JSON string. This fixes some cases where newlines would break JSON parsing. (#3823)
• Enable Get-TimeZone for macOS/Linux. (#3735)
• Change to not expose unsupported aliases and cmdlets on macOS/Linux. (#3595) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix Invoke-Item to accept a file path that includes spaces on macOS/Linux. (#3850)
• Fix an issue where PSReadline was not rendering multi-line prompts correctly on macOS/Linux. (#3867)
• Fix an issue where PSReadline was not working on Nano Server. (#3815)

6.0.0-beta.1 - 2017-05-08

Move to .NET Core 2.0 (.NET Standard 2.0 support)

PowerShell Core has moved to using .NET Core 2.0 so that we can leverage all the benefits of .NET Standard 2.0. (#3556) To learn more about .NET Standard 2.0, there's some great starter content on Youtube and on the .NET blog. We'll also have more content soon in our repository documentation (which will eventually make its way to official documentation). In a nutshell, .NET Standard 2.0 allows us to have universal, portable modules between Windows PowerShell (which uses the full .NET Framework) and PowerShell Core (which uses .NET Core). Many modules and cmdlets that didn't work in the past may now work on .NET Core, so import your favorite modules and tell us what does and doesn't work in our GitHub Issues!

Telemetry

• For the first beta of PowerShell Core 6.0, telemetry has been to the console host to report two values (#3620):
  • the OS platform ($PSVersionTable.OSDescription)
  • the exact version of PowerShell ($PSVersionTable.GitCommitId)

If you want to opt-out of this telemetry, simply delete $PSHome\DELETE_ME_TO_DISABLE_CONSOLEHOST_TELEMETRY. Even before the first run of Powershell, deleting this file will bypass all telemetry. In the future, we plan on also enabling a configuration value for whatever is approved as part of RFC0015. We also plan on exposing this telemetry data (as well as whatever insights we leverage from the telemetry) in our community dashboard.

If you have any questions or comments about our telemetry, please file an issue.

Engine updates and fixes

• Add support for native command globbing on Unix platforms. (#3643)
  • This means you can now use wildcards with native binaries/commands (e.g. ls *.txt).
• Fix PowerShell Core to find help content from $PSHome instead of the Windows PowerShell base directory. (#3528)
  • This should fix issues where about_* topics couldn't be found on Unix platforms.
• Add the OS entry to $PSVersionTable. (#3654)
• Arrange the display of $PSVersionTable entries in the following way: (#3562) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
  • PSVersion
  • PSEdition
  • alphabetical order for rest entries based on the keys
• Make PowerShell Core more resilient when being used with an account that doesn't have some key environment variables. (#3437)
• Update PowerShell Core to accept the -i switch to indicate an interactive shell. (#3558)
  • This will help when using PowerShell as a default shell on Unix platforms.
• Relax the PowerShell SemanticVersion constructors to not require 'minor' and 'patch' portions of a semantic version name. (#3696)
• Improve performance to security checks when group policies are in effect for ExecutionPolicy. (#2588) (Thanks to @powercode)
• Fix code in PowerShell to use IntPtr(-1) for INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE instead of IntPtr.Zero. (#3544) (Thanks to @0xfeeddeadbeef)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Change the default encoding and OEM encoding used in PowerShell Core to be compatible with Windows PowerShell. (#3467) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix a bug in Import-Module to avoid incorrect cyclic dependency detection. (#3594)
• Fix New-ModuleManifest to correctly check if a URI string is well formed. (#3631)

Filesystem-specific updates and fixes

• Use operating system calls to determine whether two paths refer to the same file in file system operations. (#3441)
  • This will fix issues where case-sensitive file paths were being treated as case-insensitive on Unix platforms.
• Fix New-Item to allow creating symbolic links to file/directory targets and even a non-existent target. (#3509)
• Change the behavior of Remove-Item on a symbolic link to only removing the link itself. (#3637)
• Use better error message when New-Item fails to create a symbolic link because the specified link path points to an existing item. (#3703)
• Change Get-ChildItem to list the content of a link to a directory on Unix platforms. (#3697)
• Fix Rename-Item to allow Unix globbing patterns in paths. (#3661)

Interactive fixes

• Add Hashtable tab completion for -Property of Select-Object. (#3625) (Thanks to @powercode)
• Fix tab completion with @{<tab> to avoid crash in PSReadline. (#3626) (Thanks to @powercode)
• Use <id> - <name> as ToolTip and ListItemText when tab completing process ID. (#3664) (Thanks to @powercode)

Remoting fixes

• Update PowerShell SSH remoting to handle multi-line error messages from OpenSSH client. (#3612)
• Add -Port parameter to New-PSSession to create PowerShell SSH remote sessions on non-standard (non-22) ports. (#3499) (Thanks to @Lee303)

API Updates

• Add the public property ValidRootDrives to ValidateDriveAttribute to make it easy to discover the attribute state via ParameterMetadata or PSVariable objects. (#3510) (Thanks to @indented-automation!)
• Improve error messages for ValidateCountAttribute. (#3656) (Thanks to @iSazonov)
• Update ValidatePatternAttribute, ValidateSetAttribute and ValidateScriptAttribute to allow users to more easily specify customized error messages. (#2728) (Thanks to @powercode)

6.0.0-alpha.18 - 2017-04-05

Progress Bar

We made a number of fixes to the progress bar rendering and the ProgressRecord object that improved cmdlet performance and fixed some rendering bugs on non-Windows platforms.

• Fix a bug that caused the progress bar to drift on Unix platforms. (#3289)
• Improve the performance of writing progress records. (#2822) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix the progress bar rendering on Unix platforms. (#3362) (#3453)
• Reuse ProgressRecord in Web Cmdlets to reduce the GC overhead. (#3411) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)

Cmdlet updates

• Use ShellExecute with Start-Process, Invoke-Item, and Get-Help -Online so that those cmdlets use standard shell associations to open a file/URI. This means you Get-Help -Online will always use your default browser, and Start-Process/Invoke-Item can open any file or path with a handler. (Note: there are still some problems with STA threads.) (#3281, partially fixes #2969)
• Add -Extension and -LeafBase switches to Split-Path so that you can split paths between the filename extension and the rest of the filename. (#2721) (Thanks to @powercode!)
• Implement Format-Hex in C# along with some behavioral changes to multiple parameters and the pipeline. (#3320) (Thanks to @MiaRomero!)
• Add -NoProxy to web cmdlets so that they ignore the system-wide proxy setting. (#3447) (Thanks to @TheFlyingCorpse!)
• Fix Out-Default -Transcript to properly revert out of the TranscribeOnly state, so that further output can be displayed on Console. (#3436) (Thanks to @PetSerAl!)
• Fix Get-Help to not return multiple instances of the same help file. (#3410)

Interactive fixes

• Enable argument auto-completion for -ExcludeProperty and -ExpandProperty of Select-Object. (#3443) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix a tab completion bug that prevented Import-Module -n<tab> from working. (#1345)

Cross-platform fixes

• Ignore the -ExecutionPolicy switch when running PowerShell on non-Windows platforms because script signing is not currently supported. (#3481)
• Standardize the casing of the PSModulePath environment variable. (#3255)

JEA fixes

• Fix the JEA transcription to include the endpoint configuration name in the transcript header. (#2890)
• Fix Get-Help in a JEA session. (#2988)

6.0.0-alpha.17 - 2017-03-08

• Update PSRP client libraries for Linux and Mac.
  • We now support customer configurations for Office 365 interaction, as well as NTLM authentication for WSMan based remoting from Linux (more information here). (#3271)
• We now support remote step-in debugging for Invoke-Command -ComputerName. (#3015)
• Use prettier formatter with ConvertTo-Json output. (#2787) (Thanks to @kittholland!)
• Port *-CmsMessage and Get-PfxCertificate cmdlets to Powershell Core. (#3224)
• powershell -version now returns version information for PowerShell Core. (#3115)
• Add the -TimeOut parameter to Test-Connection. (#2492)
• Add ShouldProcess support to New-FileCatalog and Test-FileCatalog (fixes -WhatIf and -Confirm). (#3074) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix Test-ModuleManifest to normalize paths correctly before validating.
  • This fixes some problems when using Publish-Module on non-Windows platforms. (#3097)
• Remove the AliasProperty "Count" defined for System.Array.
  • This removes the extraneous Count property on some ConvertFrom-Json output. (#3231) (Thanks to @PetSerAl!)
• Port Import-PowerShellDatafile from PowerShell script to C#. (#2750) (Thanks to @powercode!)
• Add -CustomMethod parameter to web cmdlets to allow for non-standard method verbs. (#3142) (Thanks to @Lee303!)
• Fix web cmdlets to include the HTTP response in the exception when the response status code is not success. (#3201)
• Expose a process' parent process by adding the CodeProperty "Parent" to System.Diagnostics.Process. (#2850) (Thanks to @powercode!)
• Fix crash when converting a recursive array to a bool. (#3208) (Thanks to @PetSerAl!)
• Fix casting single element array to a generic collection. (#3170)
• Allow profile directory creation failures for Service Account scenarios. (#3244)
• Allow Windows' reserved device names (e.g. CON, PRN, AUX, etc.) to be used on non-Windows platforms. (#3252)
• Remove duplicate type definitions when reusing an InitialSessionState object to create another Runspace. (#3141)
• Fix PSModuleInfo.CaptureLocals to not do ValidateAttribute check when capturing existing variables from the caller's scope. (#3149)
• Fix a race bug in WSMan command plug-in instance close operation. (#3203)
• Fix a problem where newly mounted volumes aren't available to modules that have already been loaded. (#3034)
• Remove year from PowerShell copyright banner at start-up. (#3204) (Thanks to @kwiknick!)
• Fixed spelling for the property name BiosSerialNumber for Get-ComputerInfo. (#3167) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)

6.0.0-alpha.16 - 2017-02-15

• Add WindowsUBR property to Get-ComputerInfo result
• Cache padding strings to speed up formatting a little
• Add alias Path to the -FilePath parameter of Out-File
• Fix the -InFile parameter of Invoke-WebRequest
• Add the default help content to powershell core
• Speed up Add-Type by crossgen'ing its dependency assemblies
• Convert Get-FileHash from script to C# implementation
• Fix lock contention when compiling the code to run in interpreter
• Avoid going through WinRM remoting stack when using Get-ComputerInfo locally
• Fix native parameter auto-completion for tokens that begin with a single "Dash"
• Fix parser error reporting for incomplete input to allow defining class in interactive host
• Add the RoleCapabilityFiles keyword for JEA support on Windows

6.0.0-alpha.15 - 2017-01-18

• Use parentheses around file length for offline files
• Fix issues with the Windows console mode (terminal emulation) and native executables
• Fix error recovery with using module
• Report PlatformNotSupported on IoT for Get/Import/Export-Counter
• Add -Group parameter to Get-Verb
• Use MB instead of KB for memory columns of Get-Process
• Add new escape character for ESC: `e
• Fix a small parsing issue with a here string
• Improve tab completion of types that use type accelerators
• Invoke-RestMethod improvements for non-XML non-JSON input
• PSRP remoting now works on CentOS without addition setup

6.0.0-alpha.14 - 2016-12-14

• Moved to .NET Core 1.1
• Add Windows performance counter cmdlets to PowerShell Core
• Fix try/catch to choose the more specific exception handler
• Fix issue reloading modules that define PowerShell classes
• Add ValidateNotNullOrEmpty to approximately 15 parameters
• New-TemporaryFile and New-Guid rewritten in C#
• Enable client side PSRP on non-Windows platforms
• Split-Path now works with UNC roots
• Implicitly convert value assigned to XML property to string
• Updates to Invoke-Command parameters when using SSH remoting transport
• Fix Invoke-WebRequest with non-text responses on non-Windows platforms
• Write-Progress performance improvement from alpha13 reverted because it introduced crash with a race condition

6.0.0-alpha.13 - 2016-11-22

• Fix NullReferenceException in binder after turning on constrained language mode
• Enable Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod to not validate the HTTPS certificate of the server if required.
• Enable binder debug logging in PowerShell Core
• Add parameters -Top and -Bottom to Sort-Object for Top/Bottom N sort
• Enable Update-Help and Save-Help on Unix platforms
• Update the formatter for System.Diagnostics.Process to not show the Handles column
• Improve Write-Progress performance by adding timer to update a progress pane every 100 ms
• Enable correct table width calculations with ANSI escape sequences on Unix
• Fix background jobs for Unix and Windows
• Add Get-Uptime to Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
• Make Out-Null as fast as > $null
• Add DockerFile for 'Windows Server Core' and 'Nano Server'
• Fix WebRequest failure to handle missing ContentType in response header
• Make Write-Host fast by delay initializing some properties in InformationRecord
• Ensure PowerShell Core adds an initial / rooted drive on Unix platforms
• Enable streaming behavior for native command execution in pipeline, so that ping | grep doesn't block
• Make Write-Information accept objects from pipeline
• Fixes deprecated syscall issue on macOS 10.12
• Fix code errors found by the static analysis using PVS-Studio
• Add support to W3C Extended Log File Format in Import-Csv
• Guard against ReflectionTypeLoadException in type name auto-completion
• Update build scripts to support win7-x86 runtime
• Move PackageManagement code/test to oneget.org

6.0.0-alpha.12 - 2016-11-03

• Fix Get-ChildItem -Recurse -ErrorAction Ignore to ignore additional errors
• Don't block pipeline when running Windows EXE's
• Fix for PowerShell SSH remoting with recent Win32-OpenSSH change.
• Select-Object with -ExcludeProperty now implies -Property * if -Property is not specified.
• Adding ValidateNotNullOrEmpty to -Name parameter of Get-Alias
• Enable Implicit remoting commands in PowerShell Core
• Fix GetParentProcess() to replace an expensive WMI query with Win32 API calls
• Fix Set-Content failure to create a file in PSDrive under certain conditions.
• Adding ValidateNotNullOrEmpty to -Name parameter of Get-Service
• Adding support <Suppress> in Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable
• Adding WindowsVersion to Get-ComputerInfo
• Remove the unnecessary use of lock in PseudoParameterBinder to avoid deadlock
• Refactor Get-WinEvent to use StringBuilder for XPath query construction
• Clean up and fix error handling of libpsl-native
• Exclude Registry and Certificate providers from UNIX PS
• Update PowerShell Core to consume .Net Core preview1-24530-04

6.0.0-alpha.11 - 2016-10-17

• Add '-Title' to 'Get-Credential' and unify the prompt experience
• Update dependency list for PowerShell Core on Linux and OS X
• Fix 'powershell -Command -' to not stop responding and to not ignore the last command
• Fix binary operator tab completion
• Enable 'ConvertTo-Html' in PowerShell Core
• Remove most Maximum* capacity variables
• Fix 'Get-ChildItem -Hidden' to work on system hidden files on Windows
• Fix 'JsonConfigFileAccessor' to handle corrupted 'PowerShellProperties.json' and defer creating the user setting directory until a write request comes
• Fix variable assignment to not overwrite read-only variables
• Fix 'Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable' to work with named fields in UserData of event logs
• Fix 'Get-Help -Online' in PowerShell Core on Windows
• Spelling/grammar fixes

6.0.0-alpha.10 - 2016-09-15

• Fix passing escaped double quoted spaces to native executables
• Add DockerFiles to build each Linux distribution
• ~/.config/PowerShell capitalization bug fixed
• Fix crash on Windows 7
• Fix remote debugging on Windows client
• Fix multi-line input with redirected stdin
• Add PowerShell to /etc/shells on installation
• Fix Install-Module version comparison bug
• Spelling fixes

6.0.0-alpha.9 - 2016-08-15

• Better man page
• Added third-party and proprietary licenses
• Added license to MSI

6.0.0-alpha.8 - 2016-08-11

• PowerShell packages pre-compiled with crossgen
• Get-Help content added
• Get-Help null reference exception fixed
• Ubuntu 16.04 support added
• Unsupported cmdlets removed from Unix modules
• PSReadline long prompt bug fixed
• PSReadline custom key binding bug on Linux fixed
• Default terminal colors now respected
• Semantic Version support added
• $env: fixed for case-sensitive variables
• Added JSON config files to hold some settings
• cd with no arguments now behaves as cd ~
• ConvertFrom-Json fixed for multiple lines
• Windows branding removed
• .NET CoreCLR Runtime patched to version 1.0.4
• Write-Host with unknown hostname bug fixed
• powershell man-page added to package
• Get-PSDrive ported to report free space
• Desired State Configuration MOF compilation ported to Linux
• Windows 2012 R2 / Windows 8.1 remoting enabled

6.0.0-alpha.7 - 2016-07-26

• Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod ported to PowerShell Core
• Set PSReadline default edit mode to Emacs on Linux
• IsCore variable renamed to IsCoreCLR
• Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts and other Windows-only assemblies excluded on Linux
• PowerShellGet fully ported to Linux
• PackageManagement NuGet provider ported
• Write-Progress ported to Linux
• Get-Process -IncludeUserName ported
• Enumerating symlinks to folders fixed
• Bugs around administrator permissions fixed on Linux
• ConvertFrom-Json multi-line bug fixed
• Execution policies fixed on Windows
• TimeZone cmdlets added back; excluded from Linux
• FileCatalog cmdlets added back for Windows
• Get-ComputerInfo cmdlet added back for Windows

0.6.0 - 2016-07-08

• Targets .NET Core 1.0 release
• PowerShellGet enabled
• [system.manage<tab>] completion issues fixed
• AssemblyLoadContext intercepts dependencies correctly
• Type catalog issues fixed
• Invoke-Item enabled for Linux and OS X
• Windows ConsoleHost reverted to native interfaces
• Portable ConsoleHost redirection issues fixed
• Bugs with pseudo (and no) TTY's fixed
• Source Depot synced to baseline changeset 717473
• SecureString stub replaced with .NET Core package

0.5.0 - 2016-06-16

• Paths given to cmdlets are now slash-agnostic (both / and \ work as directory separator)
• Lack of cmdlet support for paths with literal \ is a known issue
• .NET Core packages downgraded to build rc2-24027 (Nano's build)
• XDG Base Directory Specification is now respected and used by default
• Linux and OS X profile path is now ~/.config/powershell/profile.ps1
• Linux and OS X history save path is now ~/.local/share/powershell/PSReadLine/ConsoleHost_history.txt
• Linux and OS X user module path is now ~/.local/share/powershell/Modules
• The ~/.powershell folder is deprecated and should be deleted
• Scripts can be called within PowerShell without the .ps1 extension
• Trace-Command and associated source cmdlets are now available
• Ctrl-C now breaks running cmdlets correctly
• Source Depot changesets up to 715912 have been merged
• Set-PSBreakPoint debugging works on Linux, but not on Windows
• MSI and APPX packages for Windows are now available
• Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts is available on Windows
• Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive is available on Windows
• Linux xUnit tests are running again
• Many more Pester tests are running

0.4.0 - 2016-05-17

• PSReadline is ported and included by default
• Original Windows ConsoleHost is ported and replaced CoreConsoleHost
• .NET Core packages set to the RC2 release at build 24103
• OS X 10.11 added to Continuous Integration matrix
• Third-party C# cmdlets can be built with .NET CLI
• Improved symlink support on Linux
• Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.Native replaced with package
• Many more Pester tests

0.3.0 - 2016-04-11

• Supports Windows, Nano, OS X, Ubuntu 14.04, and CentOS 7.1
• .NET Core packages are build rc3-24011
• Native Linux commands are not shadowed by aliases
• Get-Help -Online works
• more function respects the Linux $PAGER; defaults to less
• IsWindows, IsLinux, IsOSX, IsCore built-in PowerShell variables added
• Microsoft.PowerShell.Platform removed for the above
• Cross-platform core host is now CoreConsoleHost
• Host now catches exceptions in --command scripts
• Host's shell ID changed to Microsoft.PowerShellCore
• Modules that use C# assemblies can be loaded
• New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink supports arbitrary targets
• PSReadline implementation supports multi-line input
• Ctrl-R provides incremental reverse history search
• $Host.UI.RawUI now supported
• Ctrl-K and Ctrl-Y for kill and yank implemented
• Ctrl-L to clear screen now works
• Documentation was completely overhauled
• Many more Pester and xUnit tests added

0.2.0 - 2016-03-08

• Supports Windows, OS X, Ubuntu 14.04, and CentOS 7.1
• .NET Core packages are build 23907
• System.Console PSReadline is fully functional
• Tests pass on OS X
• Microsoft.PowerShell.Platform module is available
• New-Item supports symbolic and hard links
• Add-Type now works
• PowerShell code merged with upstream rs1_srv_ps

0.1.0 - 2016-02-23

• Supports Windows, OS X, and Ubuntu 14.04