7.0 Changelog

7.0.13 - 2022-10-20

Engine Updates and Fixes

Stop sending telemetry about ApplicationType (#18265)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to 3.1.424 (#18272) </summary> <ul> <li>Update Wix file for new assemblies (Internal 22873)</li> <li>Update the <code>cgmanifest.json</code> for <code>v7.0.13</code> (#18318)</li> <li>Update <code>Newtonsoft.Json</code> version for 7.0.13 release (#18259)</li> <li>Fix <code>build.psm1</code> to not specify both version and quality for <code>dotnet-install</code> (#18267)</li> <li>Update list of PowerShell team members in release tools(#18266)</li> <li>Move <code>cgmanifest</code> generation to daily (#18268)</li> <li>Disable static analysis CI on 7.0 (#18269)</li> </ul> </details>

7.0.12 - 2022-08-11

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Fix Export-PSSession to not throw error when a rooted path is specified for -OutputModule (#17671)

Tests

Enable more tests to be run in a container. (#17294)
Switch to using GitHub action to verify markdown links for PRs (#17281)
Add win-x86 test package to the build (#15517)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET 3.1 SDK to <code>3.1.28</code> </summary> <ul> <li>Update wix file</li> <li>Add a finalize template which causes jobs with issues to fail (#17314)</li> <li>Make sure we execute tests on LTS package for older LTS releases (#17326)</li> <li>Update <code>AzureFileCopy</code> task and fix the syntax for specifying <code>pool</code> (#17013)</li> </ul> </details>

7.0.11 - 2022-05-13

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update .NET SDK to 3.1.419 </summary> <ul> <li>Add explicit job name for approval tasks in Snap stage (#16579)</li> <li>Update to use <code>mcr.microsoft.com</code> (#17272)</li> <li>Update <code>global.json</code> and wix</li> <li>Put Secure supply chain analysis at correct place (#17273)</li> <li>Partial back-port of: Update a few tests to make them more stable in CI (#16944) (Internal 20648)</li> <li>Replace <code>.</code> in notices container name (#17292)</li> <li>Add an approval for releasing build-info json (#16351)</li> <li>Release build info json when it is preview (#16335)</li> <li>Add a major-minor build info JSON file (#16301)</li> <li>Update release instructions with link to new build (#17256)</li> <li>Add condition to generate release file in local dev build only (#17255)</li> <li>Removed old not-used-anymore docker-based tests for PS release packages (#16224)</li> <li>Publish global tool package for stable releases (#15961)</li> <li>Update to use <code>windows-latest</code> as the build agent image (#16831)</li> <li>Don't upload <code>dep</code> or <code>tar.gz</code> for <code>RPM</code> build because there are none. (#17224)</li> <li>Update to <code>vPack</code> task version 12 (#17225)</li> <li>Make RPM license recognized (#17223)</li> <li>Ensure <code>psoptions.json</code> and <code>manifest.spdx.json</code> files always exist in packages (#17226)</li> </ul> </details>

7.0.10 - 2022-04-26

Engine Updates and Fixes

Fix for partial PowerShell module search paths, that can be resolved to CWD locations
Do not include node names when sending telemetry. (#16981) to v7.0.10 (Internal 20186,Internal 20261)

Tests

Re-enable PowerShellGet tests targeting PowerShell gallery (#17062)
Skip failing scriptblock tests (#17093)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update .NET SDK to 3.1.418 </summary> <ul> <li>Fixed package names verification to support multi-digit versions (Internal 20363)</li> <li>Fix build failure in `generate checksum file for packages` step - v7.0.10 (Internal 20275)</li> <li>Updated files.wxs for 7.0.10 (Internal 20208)</li> <li>Updated to .NET 3.1.24 / SDK 3.1.418 (Internal 20133)</li> <li>Disable broken macOS CI job, which is unused (Internal 20189)</li> <li>Update Ubuntu images to use Ubuntu 20.04 (#15906)</li> <li>Update dotnet-install script download link (Internal 19949)</li> <li>Create checksum file for global tools (Internal 19934)</li> <li>Make sure global tool packages are published in stable build (Internal 19623)</li> </ul> </details>

7.0.9 - 2022-03-16

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update .NET SDK to 3.1.417 </summary> <ul> <li>Fix the NuGet SDK package creation (Internal 19569)</li> <li>Fix NuGet package compliance issues (#13045)</li> <li>Fix issues in release build (#16332)</li> <li>Enable ARM64 packaging for macOS (#15768)</li> <li>Update feed and analyzer dependency (#16327)</li> <li>Only upload stable <code>buildinfo</code> for stable releases (#16251)</li> <li>Opt-in to build security monitoring (#16911)</li> <li>Update experimental feature json files (#16838) (Thanks @!)</li> <li>Ensure alpine and arm SKUs have the PowerShell configuration file with experimental features enabled (#16823)</li> <li>Remove WiX install (#16834)</li> <li>Add Linux package dependencies for packaging (#16807)</li> <li>Switch to our custom images for build and release (#16801)</li> <li>Remove all references to <code>cmake</code> for the builds in this repo (#16578)</li> <li>Register NuGet source when generating <code>CGManifest</code> (#16570)</li> <li>Update Images used for release (#16580)</li> <li>Add Software Bill of Materials to the main packages (#16202, #16641, #16711)</li> <li>Add GitHub Workflow to keep notices up to date (#16284)</li> <li>Update the <code>vmImage</code> and PowerShell root directory for macOS builds (#16611)</li> <li>Update macOS build image and root folder for build (#16609)</li> <li>Add checkout to build json stage to get <code>ci.psm1</code> (#16399)</li> <li>Move mapping file into product repo and add Debian 11 (#16316)</li> </ul> </details>

7.0.8 - 2021-10-14

Engine Updates and Fixes

Handle error from unauthorized access when removing AppLocker test files (#15881)
Handle error when the telemetry mutex cannot be created (#15574) (Thanks @gukoff!)
Configure ApplicationInsights to not send cloud role name (Internal 17099)
Disallow Add-Type in NoLanguage mode on a locked down machine (Internal 17521)

Tools

Add .stylecop to filetypexml and format it (#16025)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to 3.1.414 </summary> <ul> <li>Update the nuget.config file used for building NuGet packages (Internal 17547)</li> <li>Sign the .NET <code>createdump</code> executable (#16229)</li> <li>Upgrade <code>set-value</code> package for markdown test (#16196)</li> <li>Move vPack build to 1ES Pool (#16169)</li> <li>Update to .NET SDK 3.1.414 (Internal 17532)</li> <li>Fix the macOS build by updating the pool image name (#16010)</li> <li>Move from PkgES hosted agents to 1ES hosted agents (#16023)</li> <li>Use Alpine 3.12 for building PowerShell for Alpine Linux (#16008)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Fix example nuget.config (#14349)

7.0.7 - 2021-08-12

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to 3.1.412 </summary> <ul> <li>Remove cat file from <code>PSDesiredStateConfiguration</code> module (Internal 16722)</li> <li>Update .NET SDK to <code>3.1.412</code> (Internal 16717)</li> </ul> </details>

7.0.6 - 2021-03-11

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Fix web cmdlets to properly construct URI from body when using -NoProxy (#14673)
Fix PromptForCredential() to add targetName as domain (#14504)
Clean up the IPC named pipe on PowerShell exit (#12187)

Tests

Update markdown test packages with security fixes (#13730, #14145, #14454)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to version <code>3.1.407</code> </summary> <ul> <li>Bump .NET to version 3.1.407 (Internal 14783)</li> <li>Fix the miscellaneous analysis CI build (#14971, #14974, #14975)</li> <li>Declare which variable group is used for checking the blob in the release build (#14970)</li> <li>Use template that disables component governance for CI (#14938)</li> <li>Suppress the warning for having multiple nuget feeds (#14893)</li> <li>Disable codesign validation where the file type is not supported (#14885)</li> <li>Make universal Deb package based on deb package spec (#14681)</li> <li>Add manual release automation steps and improve changelog script (#14445)</li> <li>Fix a typo in the <code>Get-ChangeLog</code> function (#14129)</li> <li>Add validation and dependencies for <code>Ubuntu 20.04</code> distribution to packaging script (#13993)</li> <li>Add comment in release-BuildJson.yml for date formatting</li> <li>Install wget on centos-7 docker image</li> <li>Fix install-dotnet download (#14856)</li> <li>Fix release build to upload global tool packages to artifacts (#14620)</li> <li>Fixes to release pipeline for GA release (#14034)</li> <li>Add checkout step to release build templates (#13840)</li> <li>Add flag to make Linux script publish to production repo (#13714)</li> <li>Use new release script for Linux packages (#13705)</li> <li>Change stage dependency for docker release stage in release pipeline (#13512)</li> <li>Create the folder before copying the global tools (#13476)</li> <li>A few fixes to the release pipeline (#13473)</li> <li>Change the variable group name (Internal 12339)</li> <li>Create release pipeline as a yaml pipeline (#13394)</li> </ul> </details>

7.0.5 - 2021-02-11

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to version <code>3.1.406</code> </summary> <ul> <li>Fix third party signing for files in sub-folders (#14751)</li> <li>Bump .NET SDK to 3.1.12 (Internal 14462)</li> </ul> </details>

7.0.4 - 2021-01-19

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to version <code>3.1.405</code> </summary> <ul> <li>Remove MyGet feeds from test nuget.config (Internal 14147)</li> <li>Update WXS file for 7.0.4 (Internal 14122)</li> <li>Update .NET dependencies for 7.0.4 (Internal 14104)</li> <li>Fix 7.0.4 `Get-Module` test failure (Internal 13946)</li> <li>Fix directory creation failure (Internal 13904)</li> <li>Disable WMF link invocation test (#13479)</li> <li>Use PowerShell Core for build and test of package in CI build (#13223)</li> <li>Disable libmi dependent tests for macOS. (#14446)</li> <li>Use one feed in each nuget.config in official builds (#14363)</li> <li>Fix path signed RPMs are uploaded from in release build (#14424)</li> <li>Fix syntax error in Windows packaging script (#14377)</li> <li>Make AppLocker Enforce mode take precedence over UMCI Audit mode (#14353)</li> <li>Fix issue with unsigned build (#14367)</li> <li>Move macOS and NuGet to ESRP signing (#14324)</li> <li>Move Windows package signing to use ESRP (#14060)</li> <li>Move Linux to ESRP signing (#14210)</li> <li>Migrate 3rd party signing to ESRP (#14010)</li> <li>Don't do a shallow checkout (#13992)</li> <li>Move to ESRP signing for Windows files (#13988)</li> <li>Fix breaks in packages daily build due to macOS signing changes (#13421)</li> <li>Sign individual files in package (#13392)</li> <li>Use Authenticode certificate for MSIX signing (#13330)</li> <li>Sign the MSIX files for the store (#12582)</li> <li>Use temporary personal path at runspace startup when <code>$env:HOME</code> not defined (#13239)</li> <li>Fix MSIX packaging to determine if a preview release by inspecting the semantic version string (#11991)</li> <li>Add default help content to the assets folder (#13257)</li> </ul> </details>

7.0.3 - 2020-07-16

Tests

Remove dependency on DNS for Test-Connection tests on macOS (#12943)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <ul> <li>Fix Azure file copy issues in release build by fixing the path to upload directory content (#13182)</li> <li>Update .NET Core to 3.1.6 (Internal 12005)</li> <li>Fix Azure file copy break in AzDevOps by updating task version to latest (#13173)</li> </ul> </details>

7.0.2 - 2020-06-11

Engine Updates and Fixes

Ensure null-coalescing LHS is evaluated only once (#12667)
Restrict loading of amsi.dll to system32 folder (#12730)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Change Get-FileHash to close file handles before writing output (#12474) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Tools

Update the PowerShell team list to correct changelog generation (#12927)

Tests

Pin major Pester version to 4 to prevent breaking changes caused by upcoming release of v5 (#12262) (Thanks @bergmeister!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update to .NET Core 3.1.5 </summary> <ul> <li>Bump to .NET 3.1.5 and update dependencies (Internal 11699)</li> <li>Check if Azure Blob exists before overwriting (#12921)</li> <li>Upgrade <code>APIScan</code> version (#12876)</li> <li>Fix break in package build by pinning <code>ffi</code> version to <code>1.12</code> (#12889)</li> <li>Update the build to sign any unsigned files as 3rd party Dlls (#12581)</li> </ul> </details>

7.0.1 - 2020-05-14

Engine Updates and Fixes

Discover assemblies loaded by Assembly.Load(byte[]) and Assembly.LoadFile (#12203)
Allow case insensitive paths for determining PSModulePath (#12192)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Add null check for Windows PowerShell install path (#12296)
Fix Null Reference error in CSV commands (#12281) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Fix WinCompat module loading to treat Core edition modules higher priority (#12269)
Fix `` detection regex in web cmdlets (#12099) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Miscellaneous minor updates to WinCompat (#11980)
Fix ConciseView where error message is wider than window width and doesn't have whitespace (#11880, #11746)
Make Test-Connection always use the default synchronization context for sending ping requests (#11517)

Tests

Fix CIM tab complete test failure (#12636)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Move to .NET Core 3.1.202 SDK and update packages. </summary> <ul> <li>Use dotnet core 3.1.202 (Internal 11551)</li> <li>Bump PowerShellGet from 2.2.3 to 2.2.4 (#12342)</li> <li>Move to standard internal pool for building (#12119)</li> <li>Bump <code>NJsonSchema</code> from <code>10.1.5</code> to <code>10.1.7</code> (#12050)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Remove the version number of PowerShell from LICENSE (#12019)

7.0.0 - 2020-03-04

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Enable Ctrl+C to work for global tool (#11959)
Fix ConciseView to not show the line information within the error messages (#11952)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Publish PowerShell into the Windows engineering system package format (#11960)
Bump .NET core framework to 3.1.2 (#11963)
Ensure the man page gzip has the correct name for LTS release (#11956)
Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.13.0 to 2.13.1 (#11925)

7.0.0-rc.3 - 2020-02-21

Breaking Changes

Fix Invoke-Command missing error on session termination (#11586)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Update the map between console color to VT sequences (#11891)
Fix SSH remoting error on Windows platform (#11907)
Restore the PowerShellStreamType enum with an ObsoleteAttribute (#11836)
Handle cases where CustomEvent was not initially sent (#11807)
Fix how COM objects are enumerated (#11795)
Fix NativeDllHandler to not throw when file is not found (#11787)
Restore SetBreakpoints API (#11622)
Do not needlessly pass -l login_name or -p port to ssh (#11518) (Thanks @LucaFilipozzi!)
Fix for JEA user role in virtual account (#11668)
Do not resolve types from assemblies that are loaded in separate AssemblyLoadContext (#11088)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Sync current directory in WinCompat remote session (#11809)
Add WinCompat deny list support using a setting in powershell.config.json (#11726)
Fix unnecessary trimming of line resulting in incorrect index with ConciseView (#11670)

Code Cleanup

Change name of ClrVersion parameter back to revert change in capitalization (#11623)

Tools

Update changelog generation script (#11736) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Update to CredScan v2 (#11765)

Tests

Make sure to test whether we skip a test using consistent logic (#11892)
Skip directory creation at root test on macOS (#11878)
Update Get-PlatformInfo helper and tests for Debian 10, 11 and CentOS 8 (#11842)
Ensure correct pwsh is used for test runs (#11486) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Add LTSRelease value from metadata.json to release.json (#11897)
Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.12.1 to 2.13.0 (#11894)
Make LTS package always not a preview (#11895)
Bump System.Data.SqlClient from 4.8.0 to 4.8.1 (#11879)
Change LTSRelease value in metadata.json to true for RC.3 release (Internal 10960)
Update LTS logic to depend on metadata.json (#11877)
Set default value of LTSRelease to false (#11874)
Refactor packaging pipeline (#11852)
Make sure LTS packages have symbolic links for pwsh and pwsh-lts (#11843)
Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Native from 7.0.0-rc.2 to 7.0.0 (#11839)
Update the NuGet package generation to include cimcmdlet.dll and most of the built-in modules (#11832)
Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive from 1.2.4.0 to 1.2.5 (#11833)
Bump PSReadLine from 2.0.0-rc2 to 2.0.0 (#11831)
Add trace source and serialization primitives to the allowed assembly list (Internal 10911)
Update the NextReleaseTag to be v7.0.0-preview.7 (#11372)
Change packaging to produce LTS packages (#11772)
Build tar packages only when building on Ubuntu (#11766)
Bump NJsonSchema from 10.1.4 to 10.1.5 (#11730)
Fix symbolic link creation in packaging.psm1 (#11723)
Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.12.0 to 2.12.1 (#11708)
Bump NJsonSchema from 10.1.3 to 10.1.4 (#11620)
Move to latest Azure DevOps agent images (#11704)
Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.18.0 to 0.18.1 (#11641)

Documentation and Help Content

Add links to diffs on Github in changelog (#11652) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Fix markdown-link test failure (#11653) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

7.0.0-rc.2 - 2020-01-16

Breaking Changes

Use ISOWeek for week numbers in Get-Date accounting for leap years #11536 (Thanks @paalbra!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Revert the PRs that made DBNull.Value and NullString.Value treated as $null (#11584)
Support expanding ~ in $env:PATH when doing command discovery (#11552)
Skip null data in output data received handler to fix a NullReferenceException (#11448) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Add ssh parameter sets for the parameter -JobName in Invoke-Command (#11444)
Adding PowerShell Editor Services and PSScriptAnalyzer to tracked modules (#11514)
Fix condition when key exchange stops responding with SecureString for the OutOfProc transports (#11380, #11406)
Add setting to disable the implicit WinPS module loading (#11332)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Fix NullReferenceException in ConciseView (#11435) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Remove the default value of $true for the parameter -RequireLicenseAcceptance in New-ModuleManifest (#11512) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!)
Make Web Cmdlets skip processing the content headers with a null or empty value for backward compatibility (#11421) (Thanks @spongemike2!)
Don't format exceptions that are not ErrorRecord objects (#11415)
Mark InitialSessionState.ImportPSSnapIn as Obsolete (#11399)
Use PositionMessage for the line context information for ConciseView (#11398)
Add trailing line number to filename for ConciseView (#11391)
Update HelpInfoUri for all modules in PowerShell 7.0 (#11389)
Remove unnecessary newline in ConciseView (#11383)
Move Set-StrictMode to the outer script block for ErrorView (#11381)
Remove the declaration of Get-Error experimental feature from module manifest (#11369)
Update error message if Update-Help fails for the current UICulture (#11356)
Test-Connection: Fallback to hop IP Address on -Traceroute without -ResolveDestination (#11335) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Add null host name check in WSMan (#11288) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Add Type member to exceptions containing type of exception for Get-Error (#11076)
Write an error if argument is a directory in Get-FileHash cmdlet (#11114) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Update Get-Error to not modify the original $Error object (#11125)

Code Cleanup

Use .NET code to check for processor architecture instead of P/Invoke (#11046) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Tests

Test fixes for various platforms (#11579, #11541)
Various test fixes for debugger and remoting (#11528)
DSC test fixes for Alpine and Raspbian (#11508)
Normalize line endings before comparing string in tests (#11499)
Fix ssh remoting test to work on all platforms (#11500)
Build test artifacts for Alpine (#11483)
Make null member access tests as string to avoid parsing errors (#11385)
Fix test failing when UnixStat feature is disabled (#11370)
Update hosting tests to use the SDK version from the build property (#11368)
Add retry to Enter-PSHostProcess test (#11360)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Native from 7.0.0-rc.1 to 7.0.0.rc.2 (#11583)
Update .NET SDK version to 3.1.101 (#11582)
Bump PSReadLine from 2.0.0-rc1 to 2.0.0-rc2 (#11581)
Bump NJsonSchema from 10.0.28 to 10.1.3 (#11382, #11573)
Generate the correct reference assembly for Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost NuGet package (#11545)
Update building of MSIX for RC to use 100 range revision (#11526)
Fix symbolic links on Debian 10 packages (#11474)
Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive from 1.2.3.0 to 1.2.4.0 (#11502)
Add script to rebuild WIX component references (#11485)
Bump PackageManagement from 1.4.5 to 1.4.6 (#11427)
Bump PowerShellGet from 2.2.2 to 2.2.3 (#11426)
Bump ThreadJob from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3 (#11416)
Fix symbolic links to libs on Debian 10 (#11390)
Improve Ubuntu detection for Ubuntu derivatives like GalliumOS etc (#11155)

Documentation and Help Content

Fix broken link in debugging README.md (#11503)

7.0.0-rc.1 - 2019-12-16

Breaking Changes

Make update notification support LTS and default channels (#11132)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Improvements in breakpoint APIs for remote scenarios (#11312)
Fix PowerShell class definition leaking into another Runspace (#11273)
Fix a regression in formatting caused by the FirstOrDefault primitive added in 7.0.0-Preview1 (#11258)
Additional Microsoft Modules to track in PS7 Telemetry (#10751)
Make approved features non-experimental (#11303)
Update ConciseView to use TargetObject if applicable (#11075)
Fix NullReferenceException in CompletionCompleters public methods (#11274)
Fix apartment thread state check on non-Windows platforms (#11301)
Update setting PSModulePath to concatenate the process and machine environment variables (#11276)
Bump .NET Core to 3.1.0 (#11260)
Fix detection of $PSHOME in front of $env:PATH (#11141)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Fix for issue on Raspbian for setting date of file changes in UnixStat Experimental Feature (#11313)
Add -AsPlainText to ConvertFrom-SecureString (#11142)
Added WindowsPS version check for WinCompat (#11148)
Fix error-reporting in some WinCompat scenarios (#11259)
Add native binary resolver (#11032) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Update calculation of char width to respect CJK chars correctly (#11262)
Add Unblock-File for macOS (#11137)
Fix regression in Get-PSCallStack (#11210) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Avoid automatically loading the ScheduledJob module when using Job cmdlets (#11194)
Add OutputType to Get-Error cmdlet and preserve original TypeNames (#10856)
Fix null reference in SupportsVirtualTerminal property (#11105)

Code Cleanup

Change comment and element text to meet Microsoft standards (#11304)

Tests

Make unreliable DSC test pending (#11131)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Fix Nuget package signing for Coordinated Package build (#11316)
Update dependencies from PowerShell Gallery and NuGet (#11323)
Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.11.0 to 2.12.0 (#11305)
Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 3.3.1 to 3.4.0 (#11265)
Updates packages for Debian 10 and 11 (#11236)
Only enable experimental features prior to RC (#11162)
Update macOS minimum version (#11163)
Bump NJsonSchema from 10.0.27 to 10.0.28 (#11170)

Documentation and Help Content

Refactor change logs into one log per release (#11165)
Fix FWLinks for PowerShell 7 online help documents (#11071)

7.0.0-preview.6 - 2019-11-21

Breaking Changes

Update Test-Connection to work more like the one in Windows PowerShell (#10697) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Preserve $? for ParenExpression, SubExpression and ArrayExpression (#11040)
Set working directory to current directory in Start-Job (#10920) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Allow pwsh to inherit $env:PSModulePath and enable powershell.exe to start correctly (#11057)

Experimental Features

Provide Unix stat information in filesystem output (#11042)
Support null-conditional operators ?. and ?[] in PowerShell language (#10960)
Support using non-compatible Windows PowerShell modules in PowerShell Core (#10973)

Performance

Avoid using closure in Parser.SaveError (#11006)
Improve the caching when creating new Regex instances (#10657) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Improve processing of the PowerShell built-in type data from types.ps1xml, typesV3.ps1xml and GetEvent.types.ps1xml (#10898)
Update PSConfiguration.ReadValueFromFile to make it faster and more memory efficient (#10839)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Add limit check in Get-WinEvent (#10648) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Fix command runtime so StopUpstreamCommandsException doesn't get populated in -ErrorVariable (#10840)
Set the output encoding to [Console]::OutputEncoding for native commands (#10824)
Support multi-line code blocks in examples (#10776) (Thanks @Greg-Smulko!)
Add Culture parameter to Select-String cmdlet (#10943) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Fix Start-Job working directory path with trailing backslash (#11041)
ConvertFrom-Json: Unwrap collections by default (#10861) (Thanks @danstur!)
Use case-sensitive Hashtable for Group-Object cmdlet with -CaseSensitive and -AsHashtable switches (#11030) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Handle exception if enumerating files fails when rebuilding path to have correct casing (#11014)
Fix ConciseView to show Activity instead of myCommand (#11007)
Allow web cmdlets to ignore HTTP error statuses (#10466) (Thanks @vdamewood!)
Fix piping of more than one CommandInfo to Get-Command (#10929)
Add back Get-Counter cmdlet for Windows (#10933)
Make ConvertTo-Json treat [AutomationNull]::Value and [NullString]::Value as $null (#10957)
Remove brackets from ipv6 address for SSH remoting (#10968)
Fix crash if command sent to pwsh is just whitespace (#10977)
Added cross-platform Get-Clipboard and Set-Clipboard (#10340)
Fix setting original path of filesystem object to not have extra trailing slash (#10959)
Support $null for ConvertTo-Json (#10947)
Add back Out-Printer command on Windows (#10906)
Fix Start-Job -WorkingDirectory with whitespace (#10951)
Return default value when getting null for a setting in PSConfiguration.cs (#10963) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Handle IO exception as non-terminating (#10950)
Add GraphicalHost assembly to enable Out-GridView, Show-Command, and Get-Help -ShowWindow (#10899)
Take ComputerName via pipeline in Get-HotFix (#10852) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
Fix tab completion for parameters so that it shows common parameters as available (#10850)
Fix GetCorrectCasedPath() to first check if any system file entries is returned before calling First() (#10930)
Set working directory to current directory in Start-Job (#10920) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Change TabExpansion2 to not require -CursorColumn and treat as $InputScript.Length (#10849)
Handle case where Host may not return Rows or Columns of screen (#10938)
Fix use of accent colors for hosts that don't support them (#10937)
Add back Update-List command (#10922)
Update FWLink Id for Clear-RecycleBin (#10925)
During tab completion, skip file if can't read file attributes (#10910)
Add back Clear-RecycleBin for Windows (#10909)
Add $env:__SuppressAnsiEscapeSequences to control whether to have VT escape sequence in output (#10814)

Code Cleanup

Cleanup style issues in Compiler.cs (#10368) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Remove the unused type converter for CommaDelimitedStringCollection (#11000) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Cleanup style in InitialSessionState.cs (#10865) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Code clean up for PSSession class (#11001)
Remove the not-working 'run Update-Help from Get-Help when Get-Help runs for the first time' feature (#10974)
Fix style issues (#10998) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Cleanup: use the built-in type alias (#10882) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Remove the unused setting key ConsolePrompting and avoid unnecessary string creation when querying ExecutionPolicy setting (#10985)
Disable update notification check for daily builds (#10903) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
Reinstate debugging API lost in #10338 (#10808)

Tools

Add default setting for the SDKToUse property so that it builds in VS (#11085)
Install-Powershell.ps1: Add parameter to use MSI installation (#10921) (Thanks @MJECloud!)
Add basic examples for install-powershell.ps1 (#10914) (Thanks @kilasuit!)

Tests

Fix stringdata test to correctly validate keys of hashtables (#10810)
Unload test modules (#11061) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Increase time between retries of testing URL (#11015)
Update tests to accurately describe test actions. (#10928) (Thanks @romero126!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Updating links in README.md and metadata.json for Preview.5 (#10854)
Select the files for compliance tests which are owned by PowerShell (#10837)
Allow win7x86 msix package to build. (Internal 10515)
Allow semantic versions to be passed to NormalizeVersion function (#11087)
Bump .NET core framework to 3.1-preview.3 (#11079)
Bump PSReadLine from 2.0.0-beta5 to 2.0.0-beta6 in /src/Modules (#11078)
Bump Newtonsoft.Json from 12.0.2 to 12.0.3 (#11037) (#11038)
Add Debian 10, 11 and CentOS 8 packages (#11028)
Upload Build-Info Json file with the ReleaseDate field (#10986)
Bump .NET core framework to 3.1-preview.2 (#10993)
Enable build of x86 MSIX package (#10934)
Update the dotnet SDK install script URL in build.psm1 (#10927)
Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.17.1 to 0.18.0 (#10887)
Bump ThreadJob from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 (#10886)
Update AppX Manifest and Packaging module to conform to MS Store requirements (#10878)

Documentation and Help Content

Update CONTRIBUTING.md (#11096) (Thanks @mklement0!)
Fix installation doc links in README.md (#11083)
Adds examples to install-powershell.ps1 script (#11024) (Thanks @kilasuit!)
Fix to Select-String emphasis and Import-DscResource in CHANGELOG.md (#10890)
Remove the stale link from powershell-beginners-guide.md (#10926)

7.0.0-preview.5 - 2019-10-23

Breaking Changes

Make $PSCulture consistently reflect in-session culture changes (#10138) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Move to .NET Core 3.1 preview 1 (#10798)
Refactor reparse tag checks in file system provider (#10431) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Replace CR and new line with a 0x23CE character in script logging (#10616)
Fix a resource leak by unregistering the event handler from AppDomain.CurrentDomain.ProcessExit (#10626)

Experimental Features

Implement Get-Error cmdlet as Experimental Feature (#10727,#10800)
Add ConciseView for $ErrorView and update it to remove unnecessary text and not color entire line in red (#10641,#10724)
Support the pipeline chain operators && and || in PowerShell language (#9849,#10825,#10836)
Implement null coalescing (??) and null coalescing assignment (??=) operators (#10636)
Support notification on pwsh startup when a new release is available and update notification message (#10689,#10777)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Add emphasis to Select-String output (with -NoEmphasis parameter to opt-out) (#8963) (Thanks @derek-xia!)
Add back Get-HotFix cmdlet (#10740)
Make Add-Type usable in applications that host PowerShell (#10587)
Use more effective evaluation order in LanguagePrimitives.IsNullLike() (#10781) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Improve handling of mixed-collection piped input and piped streams of input in Format-Hex (#8674) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Use type conversion in SSHConnection hashtables when value doesn't match expected type (#10720) (Thanks @SeeminglyScience!)
Fix Get-Content -ReadCount 0 behavior when -TotalCount is set (#10749) (Thanks @eugenesmlv!)
Reword access denied error message in Get-WinEvent (#10639) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Enable tab completion for variable assignment that is enum or type constrained (#10646)
Remove unused SourceLength remoting property causing formatting issues (#10765)
Add -Delimiter parameter to ConvertFrom-StringData (#10665) (Thanks @steviecoaster!)
Add positional parameter for ScriptBlock when using Invoke-Command with SSH (#10721) (Thanks @machgo!)
Show line context information if multiple lines but no script name for ConciseView (#10746)
Add support for \\wsl$\ paths to file system provider (#10674)
Add the missing token text for TokenKind.QuestionMark in parser (#10706)
Set current working directory of each ForEach-Object -Parallel running script to the same location as the calling script. (#10672)
Replace api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-2.dll with Kernell32.dll for FindFirstStreamW and FindNextStreamW APIs (#10680) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Tweak help formatting script to be more StrictMode tolerant (#10563)
Add -SecurityDescriptorSDDL parameter to New-Service (#10483) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
Remove informational output, consolidate ping usage in Test-Connection (#10478) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Read special reparse points without accessing them (#10662) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Direct Clear-Host output to terminal (#10681) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Add back newline for grouping with Format-Table and -Property (#10653)
Remove [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty] from -InputObject on Get-Random to allow empty string (#10644)
Make suggestion system string distance algorithm case-insensitive (#10549) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Fix null reference exception in ForEach-Object -Parallel input processing (#10577)

Code Cleanup

Remove WorkflowJobSourceAdapter reference that is no longer used (#10326) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Cleanup COM interfaces in jump list code by fixing PreserveSig attributes (#9899) (Thanks @weltkante!)
Add a comment describing why -ia is not the alias for -InformationAction common parameter (#10703) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Rename InvokeCommandCmdlet.cs to InvokeExpressionCommand.cs (#10659) (Thanks @kilasuit!)
Add minor code cleanups related to update notifications (#10698)
Remove deprecated workflow logic from the remoting setup scripts (#10320) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Update help format to use proper case (#10678) (Thanks @tnieto88!)
Clean up CodeFactor style issues coming in commits for the last month (#10591) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Fix typo in description of PSTernaryOperator experimental feature (#10586) (Thanks @bergmeister!)

Performance

Add minor performance improvements for runspace initialization (#10569) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Tools

Make Install-PowerShellRemoting.ps1 handle empty string in PowerShellHome parameter (#10526) (Thanks @Orca88!)
Switch from /etc/lsb-release to /etc/os-release in install-powershell.sh (#10773) (Thanks @Himura2la!)
Check pwsh.exe and pwsh in daily version on Windows (#10738) (Thanks @centreboard!)
Remove unneeded tap in installpsh-osx.sh (#10752)

Tests

Temporary skip the flaky test TestAppDomainProcessExitEvenHandlerNotLeaking (#10827)
Make the event handler leaking test stable (#10790)
Sync capitalization in CI YAML (#10767) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Add test for the event handler leaking fix (#10768)
Add Get-ChildItem test (#10507) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Replace ambiguous language for tests from switch to parameter for accuracy (#10666) (Thanks @romero126!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Update package reference for PowerShell SDK to preview.5 (Internal 10295)
Update ThirdPartyNotices.txt (#10834)
Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Native to 7.0.0-preview.3 (#10826)
Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.10.0 to 2.11.0 (#10608)
Bump NJsonSchema from 10.0.24 to 10.0.27 (#10756)
Add MacPorts support to the build system (#10736) (Thanks @Lucius-Q-User!)
Bump PackageManagement from 1.4.4 to 1.4.5 (#10728)
Bump NJsonSchema from 10.0.23 to 10.0.24 (#10635)
Add environment variable to differentiate client/server telemetry in MSI (#10612)
Bump PSDesiredStateConfiguration from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 (#10603)
Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 3.2.1 to 3.3.1 (#10607)
Update to .Net Core 3.0 RTM (#10604) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
Update MSIX packaging so the version to Windows Store requirements (#10588)

Documentation and Help Content

Merge stable and servicing change logs (#10527)
Update used .NET version in build docs (#10775) (Thanks @Greg-Smulko!)
Replace links from MSDN to docs.microsoft.com in powershell-beginners-guide.md (#10778) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Fix broken DSC overview link (#10702)
Update Support_Question.md to link to Stack Overflow as another community resource (#10638) (Thanks @mklement0!)
Add processor architecture to distribution request template (#10661)
Add new PowerShell MoL book to learning PowerShell docs (#10602)

7.0.0-preview.4 - 2019-09-19

Engine Updates and Fixes

Add support to ActionPreference.Break to break into debugger when Debug, Error, Information, Progress, Verbose or Warning messages are generated (#8205) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Enable starting control panel add-ins within PowerShell Core without specifying .CPL extension. (#9828)

Performance

Make ForEach-Object faster for its commonly used scenarios (#10454) and fix ForEach-Object -Parallel performance problem with many runspaces (#10455)

Experimental Features

Update PSDesiredStateConfiguration module version to 2.0.3 and bring new tests; enable compilation to MOF on non-Windows and use of Invoke-DSCResource without LCM (#10516)
Add APIs for breakpoint management in runspaces and enable attach to process without BreakAll for PowerShell Editor Services (#10338) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Support ternary operator in PowerShell language (#10367)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Add PowerShell Core group policy definitions (#10468)
Update console host to support XTPUSHSGR/XTPOPSGR VT control sequences that are used in composability scenarios. (#10208)
Add WorkingDirectory parameter to Start-Job (#10324) (Thanks @davinci26!)
Remove the event handler that was causing breakpoint changes to be erroneously replicated to the host runspace debugger (#10503) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Replace api-ms-win-core-job-12-1-0.dll with Kernell32.dll in Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NativeMethods P/Invoke API(#10417) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Fix wrong output for New-Service in variable assignment and -OutVariable (#10444) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
Fix global tool issues around exit code, command line parameters and path with spaces (#10461)
Fix recursion into OneDrive - change FindFirstFileEx() to use SafeFindHandle type (#10405)
Skip auto-loading PSReadLine on Windows if the NVDA screen reader is active (#10385)
Increase built-with-PowerShell module versions to 7.0.0.0 (#10356)
Add throwing an error in Add-Type if a type with the same name already exists (#9609) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Code Cleanup

Convert ActionPreference.Suspend enumeration value into a non-supported, reserved state, and remove restriction on using ActionPreference.Ignore in preference variables (#10317) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Replace ArrayList with List<T> to get more readable and reliable code without changing functionality (#10333) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Make code style fixes to TestConnectionCommand (#10439) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Cleanup AutomationEngine and remove extra SetSessionStateDrive method call (#10416) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Rename default ParameterSetName back to Delimiter for ConvertTo-Csv and ConvertFrom-Csv (#10425)

Tools

Update install-powershell.ps1 to check for already installed daily build (#10489)

Tests

Add experimental check to ForEach-Object -Parallel tests (#10354) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Update tests for Alpine validation (#10428)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump PowerShellGet version from 2.2 to 2.2.1 (#10382)
Bump PackageManagement version from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4 (#10383)
Update README.md and metadata.json for 7.0.0-preview.4 (Internal 10011)
Upgrade .Net Core 3.0 version from Preview 9 to RC1 (#10552) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
Fix ExperimentalFeature list generation (Internal 9996)
Bump PSReadLine version from 2.0.0-beta4 to 2.0.0-beta5 (#10536)
Fix release build script to set release tag
Update version of Microsoft.PowerShell.Native to 7.0.0-preview.2 (#10519)
Upgrade to Netcoreapp3.0 preview9 (#10484) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
Make sure the daily coordinated build, knows it is a daily build (#10464)
Update the combined package build to release the daily builds (#10449)
Remove appveyor reference (#10445) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Bump NJsonSchema version from 10.0.22 to 10.0.23 (#10421)
Remove the deletion of linux-x64 build folder because some dependencies for Alpine need it (#10407)

Documentation and Help Content

Update README.md and metadata for v6.1.6 and v6.2.3 releases (#10523)
Fix a typo in README.md (#10465) (Thanks @vedhasp!)
Add a reference to PSKoans module to Learning Resources documentation (#10369) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Update README.md and metadata.json for 7.0.0-preview.3 (#10393)

7.0.0-preview.3 - 2019-08-20

Breaking Changes

Remove kill alias for Stop-Process cmdlet on Unix (#10098) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Support for starting PowerShell as a login shell (pwsh -Login / pwsh -l) support (#10050)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Additional Telemetry - implementation of RFC0036 (#10336)
Implement ForEach-Object -Parallel as an experimental feature (#10229)
Skip JumpList on NanoServer and IoT (#10164)
Make Get-DscResource work with class based resources (#10350)
Fix #requires -version for pwsh 7 to include 6.1 and 6.2 in PSCompatibleVersions (#9943) (Thanks @bgelens!)
Add dispose of _runspaceDebugCompleteEvent event object. (#10323)
Fix performance regression from disabling debugger in system lockdown mode (#10269)
Special case the posix locale in WildcardPattern (#10186)
Use Platform.IsWindowsDesktop instead of checking both NanoServer and IoT (#10205)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Enable Experimental Features by default on Preview builds (#10228)
Enable -sta and -mta switches for pwsh (-sta is required for GUIs) (#10061)
Make breakpoints display better over PowerShell remoting (#10339) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Add support for AppX reparse points (#10331)
Make module name matching for get-module -FullyQualifiedName case insensitive (#10329)
Expose PreRelease label in PSModuleInfo formatter (#10316)
Add -Raw switch to Select-String which allows returning only the string that was matched (#9901) (Thanks @Jawz84!)
Performance
Reduce allocations in MakePath() method (#10027) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Remove extra check that the system dll exists (#10244) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Avoid boxing when passing value type arguments to PSTraceSource.WriteLine (#10052) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Reduce allocations in Escape() and Unescape() (#10041) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Code Cleanup

Add the license header to nanoserver.tests.ps1 (#10171)
Mark -parallel and -throttlelimit reserved for foreach and switch statements (#10328) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Deprecate workflow debugging code (#10321) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Fix style issues in InternalCommands.cs (#10352) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Deprecate internal HelpCategory.Workflow enumeration (#10319) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Update Microsoft.PowerShell.CoreCLR.Eventing to resolve conflict with System.Diagnostics.EventLog (#10305)
Don't collect process start time as it's not being used on consolehost startup (#10294)
.NET Core 3.0 now aborts the thread for us. Remove the ThreadAbortException code (#10230) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Use nameof() in LocationGlobber and PathInfo (#10200) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Tools

Fix Hungarian prefix my (#9976) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Fix spelling error in issue template (#10256)
Quote arguments in .vscode/tasks.json in case of spaces (#10204) (Thanks @msftrncs!)

Tests

Remove markdownlint tests due to security issues (#10163)
Add tests for WildcardPattern.Escape() and Unescape() (#10090) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Cleanup Docker release testing (#10310) (Thanks @RDIL!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Update Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure version to 2.0.0-preview.2 (#10366)
Move to .NET Core 3.0 preview.8 (#10351) (#10227) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
Bump NJsonSchema from 10.0.21 to 10.0.22 (#10364)
Add Microsoft.PowerShell.CoreCLR.Eventing.dll to exception list for build fix (#10337)
Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 3.1.0 to 3.2.1 (#10273) (#10330)
Revert the temporary AzDevOps artifact workaround (#10260)
Fix macOS build break (#10207)

Documentation and Help Content

Update docs for 7.0.0-preview.2 release (#10160) (#10176)
PSSA also includes formatting (#10172)
Refactor security policy documentation so that they appear in the Security policy tab of GitHub (#9905) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
Add tooling section to PR template (#10144)
Update README.md and metadata.json for next releases (#10087)
Update DotNet Support links (#10145)
Update our language on our policy applying to security issues (#10304)
Update dead links from powershell.com (#10297)
Create Distribution_Request issue template (#10253)
Fix: Removed dependency file with Dependabot (#10212) (Thanks @RDIL!)

7.0.0-preview.2 - 2019-07-17

Breaking Changes

Cleanup workflow - remove PSProxyJob (#10083) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Disable Enter-PSHostProcess cmdlet when system in lock down mode (Internal 9168)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Consider DBNull.Value and NullString.Value the same as $null when comparing with $null and casting to bool (#9794) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Allow methods to be named after keywords (#9812) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Create JumpList in STA thread as some COM APIs are strictly STA only to avoid sporadic CLR crashes (#9928) (#10057) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
Skip JumpList on NanoServer and IoT (#10164)
Display COM method signature with argument names (#9858) (Thanks @nbkalex!)
Use the original precision (prior-dotnet-core-3) for double/float-to-string conversion (#9893)
Import-DscResource can now clobber built-in DSC resource names (#9879)
Add ability to pass InitialSessionState to the ConsoleShell.Start (#9802) (Thanks @asrosent!)
Have console host not enter command prompt mode when using Read-Host -Prompt (#9743)
Fix use of Start-Process http://bing.com (#9793)
Support negative numbers in -split operator (#8960) (Thanks @ece-jacob-scott!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Support DSC compilation on Linux. (#9834)
Add alias for Service StartType (#9940) (Thanks @NeoBeum!)
Add -SecurityDescriptorSddl parameter to Set-Service (#8626) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
Fix auto-download of files when enumerating files from a OneDrive folder (#9895)
Set request headers when request body is empty in Web Cmdlets (#10034) (Thanks @markekraus!)
Fix wrong comparison in CertificateProvider (#9987) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Sync docs changes into the embedded help for pwsh (#9952)
Display Duration when displaying HistoryInfo (#9751) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
Update console startup and help url for PowerShell docs (#9775)
Make UseAbbreviationExpansion and TempDrive official features (#9872)
Fix Get-ChildItem -Path with wildcard char (#9257) (Thanks @kwkam!)

Performance

Add another fast path to WildcardPattern.IsMatch for patterns that only have an asterisk in the end (#10054) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Move some of the creations of WildcardPattern in outer loop to avoid unnecessary allocation (#10053) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Make Foreach-Object 2 times faster by reducing unnecessary allocations and boxing (#10047)
Use a static cache for PSVersionInfo.PSVersion to avoid casting SemanticVersion to Version every time accessing that property (#10028)
Reduce allocations in NavigationCmdletProvider.NormalizePath() (#10038) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Add fast path for wildcard patterns that contains no wildcard characters (#10020)
Avoid Assembly.GetName() in ClrFacade.GetAssemblies(string) to reduce allocations of CultureInfo objects (#10024) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Avoid the int[] and int[,] allocation when tokenizing line comments and matching wildcard pattern (#10009)

Tools

Update change log generation tool to deal with private commits (#10096)
Update Start-PSBuild -Clean logic of git clean to ignore locked files from VS2019 (#10071) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
Indent fix in markdown-link.tests.ps1 (#10049) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Start-PSBuild -Clean does not remove all untracked files (#10022) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Add module to support Pester tests for automating debugger commands (stepInto, stepOut, etc.), along with basic tests (#9825) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Remove markdownlint tests due to security issues (#10163)

Code Cleanup

Cleanup CompiledScriptBlock.cs (#9735) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Cleanup workflow code (#9638) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Use AddOrUpdate() instead of Remove then Add to register runspace (#10007) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Suppress PossibleIncorrectUsageOfAssignmentOperator rule violation by adding extra parenthesis (#9460) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Use AddRange in GetModules() (#9975) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Code cleanup: use IndexOf(char) overload (#9722) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Move consts and methods to single CharExtensions class (#9992) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Cleanup: Use EndsWith(char) and StartsWith(char) (#9994) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Remove LCIDToLocaleName P/Invoke from GetComputerInfoCommand (#9716) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Cleanup Parser tests (#9792) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Remove EtwActivity empty constructor and make minor style fixes (#9958) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Fix style issues from last commits (#9937) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Remove dead code about IsTransparentProxy (#9966)
Fix minor typos in code comments (#9917) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Style fixes for CimAsyncOperations (#9945) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Fix minor CodeFactor style issues in ModuleCmdletBase (#9915) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Clean up the use of SetProfileRoot and StartProfile in ConsoleHost (#9931)
Fix minor style issues come from last commits (#9640) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Improve whitespace for Parser tests (#9806) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Use new string.ConCat() in Process.cs (#9720) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Code Cleanup: Tidy up scriptblock.cs (#9732) (Thanks @vexx32!)

Tests

Mark Set-Service tests with password as Pending (#10146)
Fix test password generation rule to meet Windows complexity requirements (#10143)
Add test for New-Item -Force (#9971) (Thanks @robdy!)
Fix gulp versions (#9916) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Indentation fixes in ci.psm1 (#9947) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Remove some Travis-CI references (#9919) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Improve release testing Docker images (#9942) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Use yarn to install global tools (#9904) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Attempt to work around the zip download issue in Azure DevOps Windows CI (#9911)
Update PowerShell SDK version for hosting tests (Internal 9185)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Update the target framework for reference assemblies to netcoreapp3.0 (#9747)
Pin version of netDumbster to 2.0.0.4 (#9748)
Fix daily CodeCoverageAndTest build by explicitly calling Start-PSBootStrap (#9724)
Split the fxdependent package on Windows into two packages (#10134)
Bump System.Data.SqlClient (#10109)
Bump System.Security.AccessControl (#10100)
Add performance tag to change log command (Internal)
Upgrade .Net Core 3 SDK from preview5 to preview6 and related out of band Nuget packages from 2.1 to 3.0-preview6 (#9888) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
Add to /etc/shells on macOS (#10066)
Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.17.0 to 0.17.1 (#10062)
Update copyright symbol for NuGet packages (#9936)
Download latest version (6.2.0) of PSDesiredStateConfiguration nuget package. (#9932)
Add automated RPM signing to release build (#10013)
Bump ThreadJob from 1.1.2 to 2.0.1 in /src/Modules (#10003)
Bump PowerShellGet from 2.1.4 to 2.2 in /src/Modules (#9933) (#10085)
Bump PackageManagement from 1.4 to 1.4.3 in /src/Modules (#9820) (#9918) (#10084)
Update to use TSAv2 (#9914)
Bump NJsonSchema from 9.14.1 to 10.0.21 (#9805) (#9843) (#9854) (#9862) (#9875) (#9885) (#9954) (#10017)
Bump System.Net.Http.WinHttpHandler from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 (#9786)
Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.9.1 to 2.10.0 (#9757)
Increase timeout of NuGet job to workaround build timeout (#9772)

Documentation and Help Content

Change log 6.1.4 (#9759)
Change log for release 6.2.1 (#9760)
Add quick steps for adding docs to cmdlets (#9978)
Update readme gitter badge (#9920) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Update README and metadata.json for 7.0.0-preview.1 release (#9767)

7.0.0-preview.1 - 2019-05-30

Breaking Changes

Disable the debugger when in system lock-down mode (#9645)
Fix Get-Module -FullyQualifiedName option to work with paths (#9101) (Thanks @pougetat!)
Fix -NoEnumerate behavior in Write-Output (#9069) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Make command searcher treat wildcard as literal if target exists for execution (#9202)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Port PowerShell to .NET Core 3.0 (#9597)
Make sure we always return an object in command searcher (#9623)
Support line continuance with pipe at the start of a line (#8938) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Add support for ValidateRangeKind to ParameterMetadata.GetProxyAttributeData (#9059) (Thanks @indented-automation!)
Allow passing just a dash as an argument to a file via pwsh (#9479)
Fix tab completion for functions (#9383)
Reduce string allocation in console output code (#6882) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Fixing test run crash by not passing script block to the callback (#9298)
Add Binary Parsing Support & Refactor TryGetNumberValue & ScanNumberHelper (#7993) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Add PowerShell remoting enable/disable cmdlet warning messages (#9203)
Add xsd for cdxml (#9177)
Improve formatting performance by having better primitives on PSObject (#8785) (Thanks @powercode!)
Improve type inference of array literals and foreach statement variables (#8100) (Thanks @SeeminglyScience!)
Fix for FormatTable remote deserialization regression (#9116)
Get MethodInfo from .NET public type with explicit parameter types (#9029) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Add retry logic to the operation that updates powershell.config.json (#8779) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Update the task-based async APIs added to PowerShell to return a Task object directly (#9079)
Add 5 InvokeAsync overloads and StopAsync to the PowerShell type (#8056) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Remove unused cached types (#9015)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Fix use of unicode ellipsis in XML for truncating error messages (#9589)
Improve error message in FileSystemProvider when removing a folder containing hidden or read only files (#9551) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Enable recursion into OneDrive by not treating placeholders as symlinks (#9509)
Change MatchType for EnumerationOptions to be Win32 making this consistent with Windows PowerShell (#9529)
Add Support for null Usernames in Web Cmdlet Basic Auth (#9536) (Thanks @markekraus!)
Fix null reference when Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility is loaded as a snapin in hosting scenarios (#9404)
Update width of DateTime to accommodate change in Japan DateTime format with new era starting 5/1/19 (#9503)
Fix Get-Runspace runspace object format Type column (#9438)
Return correct casing of filesystem path during normalization (#9250)
Move warning message to EndProcessing so it only shows up once (#9385)
Fix the platform check in CimDSCParser.cs (#9338)
New New-PSBreakpoint cmdlet & new -Breakpoint parameter for Debug-Runspace (#8923)
Fix help paging issues on macOS/Linux and with custom pager that takes arguments (#9033) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
Add QuoteFields parameter to ConvertTo-Csv and Export-Csv (#9132) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Fix progress for Get-ComputerInfo (#9236) (Thanks @powercode!)
Add ItemSeparator and AltItemSeparator properties in ProviderInfo (#8587) (Thanks @renehernandez!)
Add timestamp to pshost trace listener (#9230)
Implement Get-Random -Count without specifying an InputObject list (#9111) (Thanks @pougetat!)
Enable SecureString cmdlets for non-Windows (#9199)
Add Obsolete message to Send-MailMessage (#9178)
Fix Restart-Computer to work on localhost when WinRM is not present (#9160)
Make Start-Job throw terminating exception when -RunAs32 is specified in 64-bit pwsh (#9143)
Make Start-Job throw terminating error when PowerShell is being hosted (#9128)
Made -Subject parameter of Send-MailMessage command no longer mandatory. (#8961) (Thanks @ece-jacob-scott!)
Make New-ModuleManifest consistent with Update-ModuleManifest (#9104) (Thanks @pougetat!)
Add support for empty NoteProperty in Group-Object (#9109) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Remove Hardlink from Mode property in default file system format (#8789) (Thanks @powercode!)
Fixing issue with help progress with Get-Help not calling Completed (#8788) (Thanks @powercode!)
Allow Test-ModuleManifest to work when RootModule has no file extension (#8687) (Thanks @pougetat!)
Add UseQuotes parameter to Export-Csv and ConvertTo-Csv cmdlets (#8951) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Update version for PowerShell.Native and hosting tests (#8983)
Refactor shuffle in Get-Random to save a full iteration of the objects. (#8969) (Thanks @st0le!)
Suggest -Id pid for Get-Process pid (#8959) (Thanks @MohiTheFish!)

Code Cleanup

Attributes.cs - Style / Formatting Fixes (#9625) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Remove Workflow from PSSessionType (#9618) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Update use of "PowerShell Core" to just "PowerShell" (#9513)
Use IPGlobalProperties on all platforms for getting host name (#9530) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Remove IsSymLink() P/Invoke on Unix (#9534) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Cleanup unused P/Invokes on Unix (#9531) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Update use of Windows PowerShell to just PowerShell (#9508)
Cleanup: sort usings (#9490) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Cleanup Export-Command from AssemblyInfo (#9455) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Run CodeFormatter for System.Management.Automation (#9402) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Run CodeFormatter with BraceNewLine,UsingLocation,FormatDocument,NewLineAbove rules (#9393) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Run CodeFormatter for WSMan.Management (#9400) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Run CodeFormatter for WSMan.Runtime (#9401) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Run CodeFormatter for Security module (#9399) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Run CodeFormatter for MarkdownRender (#9398) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Run CodeFormatter for Eventing (#9394) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Use Environment.NewLine for new lines in ConsoleHost code (#9392) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Run CodeFormatter for Diagnostics module (#9378) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Run CodeFormatter for Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Management (#9377) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Run CodeFormatter for Utility module (#9376) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Style: Match file name casings of C# source files for Utility commands (#9329) (Thanks @ThreeFive-O!)
Update repo for Ubuntu 14.04 EOL (#9324)
Cleanup: sort usings (#9283) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Fix StyleCop Hungarian Notation (#9281) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Style: Update StyleCop rules (#8500)
Enhance the P/Invoke code for LookupAccountSid in Process.cs (#9197) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Fix coding style for NewModuleManifestCommand (#9134) (Thanks @pougetat!)
Remove unused method CredUIPromptForCredential from HostUtilities.cs (#9220) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Remove non-existent paths from .csproj files (#9214) (Thanks @ThreeFive-O!)
Typo in new parameter set (#9205)
Minor FileSystemProvider cleanup (#9182) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Cleanup style issues in CoreAdapter and MshObject (#9190) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Minor cleanups in Process.cs (#9195) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Refactor ReadConsole P/Invoke in ConsoleHost (#9165) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Clean up Get-Random cmdlet (#9133) (Thanks @pougetat!)
Fix to not pass StringBuilder by reference (out or ref) in P/Invoke (#9066) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Update AppVeyor comments in Implicit.Remoting.Tests.ps1 (#9020) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Remove AppImage from tools (#9100) (Thanks @Geweldig!)
Using supported syntax for restoring warnings - Visual Studio 2019 complains about enable. (#9107) (Thanks @powercode!)
Use Type.EmptyTypes and Array.Empty<T>() to replace our custom code of the same functionality (#9042) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Rename private methods in MshCommandRuntime.cs (#9074) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Cleanup & update ErrorRecord class code style (#9021) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Remove unused cached types from CachedReflectionInfo (#9019) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Fix CodeFactor brace style issues in FileSystemProvider (#8992) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Use List.AddRange to optimize -Split (#9001) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Remove Arch Linux Dockerfile (#8990) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Cleanup dllimport (#8847) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Tools

Convert custom attribute ValidatePathNotInSettings to function (#9406)
Create DependaBot config.yml (#9368)
Add more users to failures detection and fix alias for static analysis (#9292)
Make install-powershell.ps1 work on Windows Server 2012 R2 (#9271)
Enable PoshChan for getting and automatic retrieval of test failures for a PR (#9232)
Fix capitalization cases for PoshChan (#9188) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Update to new format for PoshChan settings and allow all users access to reminders (#9198)
Fix settings to use dashes instead of underscore (#9167)
Fix AzDevOps context names and add all PowerShell team members (#9164)
Add settings for PoshChan (#9162)
Adding CmdletsToExport and AliasesToExport to test module manifests. (#9108) (Thanks @powercode!)
Delete Docker manifest creation script (#9076) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Make install scripts more consistent over different operating systems (#9071) (Thanks @Geweldig!)
Comment cleanup in releaseTools.psm1 (#9064) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Fix duplicate recommendation of Azure DevOps extension for Visual Studio Code (#9032) (Thanks @ThreeFive-O!)
Code coverage artifacts (#8993)

Tests

Update version tests to use NextReleaseVersion from metadata.json (#9646)
Convert Windows CI to stages (#9607)
Multiple test fixes and improved logging for fragile tests (#9569)
Add unit and feature tests for Send-MailMessage (#9213) (Thanks @ThreeFive-O!)
Update to Pester 4.8.0 (#9510)
Ensure Wait-UntilTrue returns $true in Pester tests (#9458) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Adding tests for Remove-Module (#9276) (Thanks @pougetat!)
Allow CI to run on branches with this name pattern: feature* (#9415)
Mark tests in macOS CI which use AppleScript as pending/inconclusive (#9352)
Reduce time for stack overflow test (#9302)
Added more tests for Import-Alias by file regarding parsing difficult aliases strings (#9247) (Thanks @SytzeAndr!)
Move from npm to Yarn for markdown tests (#9312) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Only search for functions in Constrained Language help tests (#9301)
Fix skipping of tests in RemoteSession.Basic.Tests.ps1 (#9304)
Make sure non-Windows CI fails when a test fails (#9303)
Update tests to account for when $PSHOME is read only (#9279)
Add tests for command globbing (#9180)
Fix tab completion test to handle multiple matches (#8891)
Refactor macOS CI so that tests run in parallel (#9056)
Fix Enter-PSHostProcess tests flakiness (#9007)
Add source for Install-Package to install netDumbster (#9081)
Style fixes for Select-Xml tests (#9037) (Thanks @ThreeFive-O!)
Enable cross-platform Send-MailMessage tests for CI (#8859) (Thanks @ThreeFive-O!)
Added RequireSudoOnUnix tags to PowerShellGet tests and remove pending parameter (#8954) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Style fixes for ConvertTo-Xml tests (#9036) (Thanks @ThreeFive-O!)
Align name schemes for test files (#9034) (Thanks @ThreeFive-O!)
Pending NamedPipeConnectionInfo test (#9003) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Add test for -WhatIf for New-FileCatalog (#8966) (Thanks @mjanko5!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Fix the PowerShell version number in MSI packages (Internal 8547)
Add cleanup before building test package (Internal 8529)
Update version for SDK tests and Microsoft.PowerShell.Native package (Internal 8512)
Update the target framework for reference assemblies to netcoreapp3.0 (Internal 8510)
Fix syncing modules from PowerShell gallery by normalizing version numbers (Internal 8504)
Add tsaVersion property as TsaV1 for compliance build phase (#9176)
Add ability to cross compile (#9374)
Add AcessToken variable to jobs that perform signing (#9351)
Add CI for install-powershell.sh and Amazon Linux (#9314)
Add component detection to all jobs (#8964)
Add Preview assets for MSIX (#9375)
Add secret scanning to CI (#9249)
Build test packages for windows, linux-x64, linux-arm, linux-arm64 and macOS (#9476)
Bump gulp from 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 (#9441, #9544)
Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.15.7 to 0.17.0 (#8981, #9579)
Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 2.10.0 to 3.1.0 (#9277, 9653)
Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Native from 6.2.0-rc.1 to 6.2.0 (#9200)
Bump Microsoft.Windows.Compatibility from 2.0.1 to 2.1.1 (#9605)
Bump Newtonsoft.Json from 12.0.1 to 12.0.2 (#9431, #9434)
Bump NJsonSchema from 9.13.19 to 9.14.1 (#9044, #9136, #9166, #9172, #9184, #9196, #9265, #9349, #9388, #9421, #9429, #9478, #9523, #9616)
Bump PackageManagement from 1.3.1 to 1.4 (#9567, #9650)
Bump PowerShellGet from 2.0.4 to 2.1.4 in /src/Modules (#9110, #9145, #9600, #9691)
Bump PSReadLine from 2.0.0-beta3 to 2.0.0-beta4 (#9554)
Bump SelfSignedCertificate (#9055)
Bump System.Data.SqlClient from 4.6.0 to 4.6.1 (#9601)
Bump System.Net.Http.WinHttpHandler from 4.5.2 to 4.5.3 (#9333)
Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive from 1.2.2.0 to 1.2.3.0 (#9593)
Check to be sure that the test result file has actual results before uploading (#9253)
Clean up static analysis config (#9113) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Create codecoverage and test packages for non-Windows (#9373)
Create test package for macOS on release builds (#9344)
Disable Homebrew analytics in macOS Azure DevOps builds (#9130) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Enable building of MSIX package (#9289)
Enable building on Kali Linux (#9471)
Fix artifact Download issue in release build (#9095)
Fix build order in windows-daily build (#9275)
Fix dependencies of NuGet build to wait on DEB uploads to finish (#9118)
Fix MSI Upgrade failure for preview builds (#9013)
Fix publishing daily nupkg to MyGet (#9269)
Fix the failed test and update Publish-TestResults to make Azure DevOps fail the task when any tests failed (#9457)
Fix variable name in windows-daily.yml (#9274)
Fixed Dockerfile syntax highlighting (#8991) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Make CodeCoverage configuration build portable symbol files (#9346)
Make Linux CI parallel (#9209)
Move artifacts to artifact staging directory before uploading (#9273)
Performance improvements for release build (#9179)
Preserve user shortcuts pinned to TaskBar during MSI upgrade (#9305) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
Publish global tool packages to pwshtool blob and bug fixes (#9163)
Publish test package on release builds (#9063)
Publish windows daily build to MyGet (#9288)
Remove appveyor references from packaging tools (#9117) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Remove code from CI.psm1 to optionally run Feature tests (#9212) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Remove duplicate PoliCheck task and pin to specific version (#9297)
Run Start-PSBootStrap in Code Coverage build to install .NET SDK (#9690)
Switch from BMP to PNG for graphical MSI installer assets (#9606)
Translate Skipped the test results into something Azure DevOps does NOT understand (#9124)
Update Markdown test dependencies (#9075) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Update UML to represent SDK and Global tool builds (#8997)
Use IL assemblies for NuGet packages to reduce size (#9171)

Documentation and Help Content

Add checkbox to PR checklist for experimental feature use (#9619) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
Updating committee membership (#9577) (Thanks @HemantMahawar!)
Update CODEOWNERS file to reduce noise (#9547)
add download link to raspbian64 to readme (#9520)
Update Support_Question.md (#9218) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Fix version of PowerShellGet in changelog (#9335)
Update release process template to clarify that most tasks are coordinated by the release pipeline (#9238)
Fix several problems in WritingPesterTests guideline (#9078) (Thanks @ThreeFive-O!)
Update ChangeLog for 6.2.0 (#9245)
Update docs for v6.2.0 (#9229)
Update feature-request issue template to move instructions into comments. (#9187) (Thanks @mklement0!)
Update link to Contributing guide to new PowerShell-Doc repo (#9090) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Correct punctuation in README.md (#9045) (Thanks @yashrajbharti!)
Update Docker README.md (#9010) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Update release process issue template (#9051) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Documentation Cleanup (#8851) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Update docs for 6.2.0-rc.1 release (#9022)
Update release template (#8996)