7.2 Changelog

7.2.23 - 2024-08-20

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET to 6.0.425 </summary> <ul> <li>Add feature flags for removing network isolation</li> <li>Bump PackageManagement to 1.4.8.1 (#24162)</li> <li>Bump .NET to 6.0.425 (#24161)</li> <li>Skip build steps that do not have exe packages (#23945) (#24156)</li> <li>Use correct signing certificates for RPM and DEBs (#21522) (#24154)</li> <li>Fix exe signing with third party signing for WiX engine (#23878) (#24155)</li> <li>Fix error in the vPack release, debug script that blocked release (#23904)</li> <li>Add vPack release (#23898)</li> <li>Fix nuget publish download path</li> <li>Use correct signing certificates for RPM and DEBs (#21522)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Update docs sample nuget.config (#24109) (#24157)

7.2.22 - 2024-07-18

Engine Updates and Fixes

Resolve paths correctly when importing files or files referenced in the module manifest (Internal 31777 31788)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET to 6.0.424 </summary> <ul> <li>Enumerate over all signed zip packages</li> <li>Update TPN for release v7.2.22 (Internal 31807)</li> <li>Update CG Manifest for 7.2.22 (Internal 31804)</li> <li>Add macos signing for package files (#24015) (#24058)</li> <li>Update .NET version to 6.0.424 (#24033)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.21 - 2024-06-18

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Release 7.2.20 broadly (was previously just released to the .NET SDK containers.)Release 7.2.20 broadly </summary> <ul> <li>Fixes for change to new Engineering System.</li> <li>Create <code>powershell.config.json</code> for <code>PowerShell.Windows.x64</code> global tool (#23941) (#23942)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.20 - 2024-06-06

Limited release for dotnet SDK container images.

<summary> Update .NET 6 to 6.0.31 and how global tool is generated </summary> <ul> <li>Fixes for change to new Engineering System.</li> <li>Create <code>powershell.config.json</code> for <code>PowerShell.Windows.x64</code> global tool (#23941) (#23942)</li> <li>Update change log for v7.2.20</li> <li>Update installation on Wix module (#23808)</li> <li>Updates to package and release pipelines (#23800)</li> <li>Use feed with Microsoft Wix toolset (#21651)</li> <li>update wix package install (#21537)</li> <li>Use PSScriptRoot to find path to Wix module (#21611)</li> <li>Create the Windows.x64 global tool with shim for signing (#21559)</li> <li>Add branch counter variables for daily package builds (#21523)</li> <li>Official PowerShell Package pipeline (#21504)</li> <li>Add a PAT for fetching PMC cli (#21503)</li> <li>[StepSecurity] Apply security best practices (#21480)</li> <li>Fix build failure due to missing reference in <code>GlobalToolShim.cs</code> (#21388)</li> <li>Fix argument passing in <code>GlobalToolShim</code> (#21333)</li> <li>Update .NET 6 to 6.0.31 (Internal 31302)</li> <li>Re-apply the OneBranch changes to packaging.psm1"</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.19 - 2024-04-11

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump to .NET 6.0.29 </summary> <ul> <li>Allow artifacts produced by partially successful builds to be consumed by release pipeline</li> <li>Update SDK, dependencies and <code>cgmanifest</code> for <code>7.2.19</code></li> <li>Revert changes to <code>packaging.psm1</code></li> <li>Verify environment variable for OneBranch before we try to copy (#21441)</li> <li>Multiple fixes in official build pipeline (#21408)</li> <li>Add <code>dotenv</code> install as latest version does not work with current Ruby version (#21239)</li> <li>PowerShell co-ordinated build OneBranch pipeline (#21364)</li> <li>Remove <code>surrogateFile</code> setting of <code>APIScan</code> (#21238)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.18 - 2024-01-11

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET to 6.0.418 </summary> <ul> <li>Update <code>ThirdPartyNotices.txt</code> for v7.2.18 (Internal 29173)</li> <li>Update <code>cgmanifest.json</code> for v7.2.18 release (Internal 29161)</li> <li>Update .NET SDK to 6.0.418 (Internal 29141)</li> <li>Back port 3 build changes to <code>apiscan.yml</code> (#21036)</li> <li>Set the <code>ollForwardOnNoCandidateFx</code> in <code>runtimeconfig.json</code> to roll forward only on minor and patch versions (#20689)</li> <li>Remove the <code>ref</code> folder before running compliance (#20373)</li> <li>Fix the tab completion tests (#20867)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.17 - 2023-11-16

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Redact Auth header content from ErrorRecord (Internal 28411)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump to .NET to version 6.0.417 </summary> <ul> <li>Bump to .NET 6.0.417 (Internal 28486)</li> <li>Copy azure blob with PowerShell global tool to private blob and move to CDN during release (Internal 28450)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.16 - 2023-10-26

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update .NET 6 to version 6.0.416 </summary> <ul> <li>Fix release pipeline yaml</li> <li>Fix issues with merging backports in packaging (Internal 28158)</li> <li>Update .NET 6 and TPN (Internal 28149)</li> <li>Add runtime and packaging type info for mariner2 arm64 (#19450) (#20564)</li> <li>Add mariner arm64 to PMC release (#20176) (#20567)</li> <li>Remove <code>HostArchitecture</code> dynamic parameter for <code>osxpkg</code> (#19917) (#20565)</li> <li>Use <code>fxdependent-win-desktop</code> runtime for compliance runs (#20326) (#20568)</li> <li>Add SBOM for release pipeline (#20519) (#20570)</li> <li>Increase timeout when publishing packages to <code>pacakages.microsoft.com</code> (#20470) (#20569)</li> <li>Add mariner arm64 package build to release build (#19946) (#20566)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.15 - 2023-10-10

Security Fixes

Block getting help from network locations in restricted remoting sessions (Internal 27699)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Build infrastructure maintenance </summary> <ul> <li>Release build: Change the names of the PATs (#20315)</li> <li>Switch to GitHub Action for linting markdown (#20309)</li> <li>Put the calls to <code>Set-AzDoProjectInfo</code> and Set-AzDoAuthToken` in the right order (#20312)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.14 - 2023-09-18

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK version to 6.0.414 </summary> <ul> <li>Update to use .NET SDK 6.0.414 (Internal 27575)</li> <li>Enable <code>vPack</code> provenance data (#20242)</li> <li>Start using new packages.microsoft.com CLI (#20241)</li> <li>Remove spelling CI in favor of GitHub Action (#20239)</li> <li>Make PR creation tool use <code>--web</code> because it is more reliable (#20238)</li> <li>Update variable used to bypass the blocking check for multiple NuGet feeds (#20237)</li> <li>Don't publish notice on failure because it prevents retry (#20236)</li> <li>Publish rpm package for rhel9 (#20234)</li> <li>Add <code>ProductCode</code> in registry for MSI install (#20233)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Update man page to match current help for pwsh (#20240)
Update the link for getting started in README.md (#20235)

7.2.13 - 2023-07-13

Tests

Increase the timeout to make subsystem tests more reliable (#19937)
Increase the timeout when waiting for the event log (#19936)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK version to 6.0.412 </summary> <ul> <li>Update Notice file (#19956)</li> <li>Update cgmanifest (#19938)</li> <li>Bump to 6.0.412 SDK (#19933)</li> <li>Update variable used to bypass the blocking check for multiple NuGet feeds (#19935)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.12 - 2023-06-27

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET version to 6.0.411 </summary> <ul> <li>Disable SBOM signing for CI and add extra files for packaging tests (#19729)</li> <li>Update ThirdPartyNotices (Internal 26349)</li> <li>Update the cgmanifest</li> <li>Add PoolNames variable group to compliance pipeline (#19408)</li> <li>Add tool to trigger license information gathering for NuGet modules (#18827)</li> <li>Update to .NET 6.0.410 (#19798)</li> <li>Always regenerate files wxs fragment (#19803)</li> <li>Add prompt to fix conflict during backport (#19583)</li> <li>Add backport function to release tools (#19568)</li> <li>Do not remove <code>penimc_cor3.dll</code> from build (#18438)</li> <li>Remove unnecessary native dependencies from the package (#18213)</li> <li>Delete symbols on Linux as well (#19735)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.MarkdownRender</code> (#19751)</li> <li>Backport compliance changes (#19719)</li> <li>Delete charset regular expression test (#19585)</li> <li>Fix issue with merge of 19068 (#19586)</li> <li>Update the team member list in <code>releaseTools.psm1</code> (#19574)</li> <li>Verify that packages have license data (#19543) (#19575)</li> <li>Update experimental-feature.json (#19581)</li> <li>Fix the regular expression used for package name check in <code>vPack</code> build (#19573)</li> <li>Make the vPack PAT library more obvious (#19572)</li> <li>Add an explicit manual stage for changelog update (#19551) (#19567)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.11 - 2023-04-12

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET version to 6.0.16 </summary> <ul> <li>Update ThirdPartyNotices.txt</li> <li>Update cgmanifest.json</li> <li>Fix the template that creates nuget package</li> <li>Update the wix file</li> <li>Update .NET SDK to 6.0.408</li> <li>Fix the build script and signing template</li> <li>Fix stage dependencies and typo in release build (#19353)</li> <li>Fix issues in release build and release pipeline (#19338)</li> <li>Restructure the package build to simplify signing and packaging stages (#19321)</li> <li>Skip VT100 tests on Windows Server 2012R2 as console does not support it (#19413)</li> <li>Improve package management acceptance tests by not going to the gallery (#19412)</li> <li>Test fixes for stabilizing tests (#19068)</li> <li>Add stage for symbols job in Release build (#18937)</li> <li>Use reference assemblies generated by dotnet (#19302)</li> <li>Add URL for all distributions (#19159)</li> <li>Update release pipeline to use Approvals and automate some manual tasks (#17837)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.10 - 2023-02-23

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET version to 6.0.14 </summary> <ul> <li>Fixed package names verification to support multi-digit versions (#17220)</li> <li>Add pipeline secrets (from #17837) (Internal 24413)</li> <li>Update to azCopy 10 (#18509)</li> <li>Update third party notices for v7.2.10 (Internal 24346)</li> <li>Update cgmanifest for v7.2.10 (Internal 24333)</li> <li>Pull latest patches for 7.2.10 dependencies (Internal 24325)</li> <li>Update SDK to 6.0.406 for v7.2.10 (Internal 24324)</li> <li>Add test for framework dependent package in release pipeline (#18506) (#19114)</li> <li>Mark 7.2.x releases as latest LTS but not latest stable (#19069)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.9 - 2023-01-24

Engine Updates and Fixes

Fix for JEA session leaking functions (Internal 23821 & 23819)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Correct incorrect cmdlet name in script (#18919)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET version to 6.0.13 </summary> <ul> <li>Create test artifacts for windows arm64 (#18932)</li> <li>Update dependencies for .NET release (Internal 23816)</li> <li>Don't install based on build-id for RPM (#18921)</li> <li>Apply expected file permissions to linux files after authenticode signing (#18922)</li> <li>Add authenticode signing for assemblies on linux builds (#18920)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.8 - 2022-12-13

Engine Updates and Fixes

Remove TabExpansion for PSv2 from remote session configuration (Internal 23294)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.403 </summary> <ul> <li>Update CGManifest and ThirdPartyNotices</li> <li>Update Microsoft.CSharp from 4.3.0 to 4.7.0</li> <li>Update to latest SDK (#18610)</li> <li>Allow two-digit revisions in vPack package validation pattern (#18569)</li> <li>Update outdated dependencies (#18576)</li> <li>Work around args parsing issue (#18606)</li> <li>Bump System.Data.SqlClient from 4.8.4 to 4.8.5 (#18515)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.7 - 2022-10-20

Engine Updates and Fixes

On Unix, explicitly terminate the native process during cleanup only if it's not running in background (#18280)
Stop sending telemetry about ApplicationType (#18168)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Remove the 1-second minimum delay in Invoke-WebRequest for downloading small files, and prevent file-download-error suppression (#18170)
Enable searching for assemblies in GAC_Arm64 on Windows (#18169)
Fix error formatting to use color defined in $PSStyle.Formatting (#18287)

Tests

Use Ubuntu 20.04 for SSH remoting test (#18289)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET to version 6.0.402 (#18188)(#18290) </summary> <ul> <li>Update cgmanifest (#18319)</li> <li>Fix <code>build.psm1</code> to find the required .NET SDK version when a higher version is installed (#17299) (#18282)</li> <li>Update MSI exit message (#18173)</li> <li>Remove XML files for min-size package (#18274)</li> <li>Update list of PS team members in release tools (#18171)</li> <li>Make the link to minimal package blob public during release (#18174)</li> <li>Add XML reference documents to NuPkg files for SDK (#18172)</li> <li>Update to use version 2.21.0 of Application Insights (#18271)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.6 - 2022-08-11

Engine Updates and Fixes

Fix ForEach-Object -Parallel when passing in script block variable (#16564)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Make Out-String and Out-File keep string input unchanged (#17455)
Update regular expression used to remove ANSI escape sequences to be more specific to decoration and hyperlinks (#16811)
Fix legacy ErrorView types to use $host.PrivateData colors (#17705)
Fix Export-PSSession to not throw error when a rooted path is specified for -OutputModule (#17671)

Tests

Disable RPM SBOM test. (#17532)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.8 (Internal 22065) We thank the following contributors! @tamasvajk </summary> <ul> <li>Update Wix manifest</li> <li>Add AppX capabilities in MSIX manifest so that PS7 can call the AppX APIs (#17416)</li> <li>Use <code>Quality</code> only with <code>Channel</code> in <code>dotnet-install</code> (#17847)</li> <li>Fix <code>build.psm1</code> to not specify both version and quality for <code>dotnet-install</code> (#17589) (Thanks @tamasvajk!)</li> <li>Install .NET 3.1 as it is required by the vPack task</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.5 - 2022-06-21

Engine Updates and Fixes

Fix native library loading for osx-arm64 (#17495) (Thanks @awakecoding!)

Tests

Make Assembly Load Native test work on a FX Dependent Linux Install (#17496)
Enable more tests to be run in a container. (#17294)
Switch to using GitHub Action to verify Markdown links for PRs (#17281)
Try to stabilize a few tests that fail intermittently (#17426)
TLS test fix back-port (#17424)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.301 (Internal 21218) </summary> <ul> <li>Update Wix file (Internal 21242)</li> <li>Conditionally add output argument</li> <li>Rename mariner package to cm (#17506)</li> <li>Backport test fixes for 7.2 (#17494)</li> <li>Update dotnet-runtime version (#17472)</li> <li>Update to use <code>windows-latest</code> as the build agent image (#17418)</li> <li>Publish preview versions of mariner to preview repository (#17464)</li> <li>Move <code>cgmanifest</code> generation to daily (#17258)</li> <li>Fix mariner mappings (#17413)</li> <li>Make sure we execute tests on LTS package for older LTS releases (#17430)</li> <li>Add a finalize template which causes jobs with issues to fail (#17428)</li> <li>Make mariner packages Framework dependent (#17425)</li> <li>Base work for adding mariner amd64 package (#17417)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.4 - 2022-05-17

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.203 </summary> <ul> <li>Add mapping for Ubuntu22.04 Jammy (#17317)</li> <li>Update to use <code>mcr.microsoft.com</code> (#17272)</li> <li>Update third party notices</li> <li>Update global.json and wix</li> <li>Put Secure supply chain analysis at correct place (#17273)</li> <li>Fix web cmdlets so that an empty <code>Get</code> does not include a <code>content-length</code> header (#16587)</li> <li>Update package fallback list for Ubuntu (from those updated for Ubuntu <code>22.04</code>) (<code>deb</code>) (#17217)</li> <li>Add <code>sha256</code> digests to RPM packages (#17215)</li> <li>Allow multiple installations of dotnet. (#17216)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.3 - 2022-04-26

Engine Updates and Fixes

Fix for partial PowerShell module search paths, that can be resolved to CWD locations (Internal 20126)
Do not include node names when sending telemetry. (#16981) to v7.2.3 (Internal 20188)

Tests

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

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.202 </summary> <ul> <li>Making NameObscurerTelemetryInitializer internal - v7.2.3 (Internal 20239)</li> <li>Updated files.wxs for 7.2.3 (Internal 20211)</li> <li>Updated ThirdPartyNotices for 7.2.3 (Internal 20199)</li> <li>Work around issue with notice generation</li> <li>Replace <code>.</code> in notices container name</li> <li>Updated cgmanifest.json by findMissingNotices.ps1 in v7.2.3 (Internal 20190)</li> <li>v7.2.3 - Updated packages using dotnet-outdated global tool (Internal 20170)</li> <li>Updated to .NET 6.0.4 / SDK 6.0.202 (Internal 20128)</li> <li>Update dotnet-install script download link (Internal 19951)</li> <li>Create checksum file for global tools (#17056) (Internal 19935)</li> <li>Make sure global tool packages are published in stable build (Internal 19625)</li> <li>Fix release pipeline (Internal 19617)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.2 - 2022-03-16

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.201 </summary> <ul> <li>Update WiX file (Internal 19460)</li> <li>Update .NET SDK version to 6.0.201 (Internal 19457)</li> <li>Update experimental feature JSON files (#16838)</li> <li>Ensure Alpine and ARM SKUs have <code>powershell.config.json</code> file with experimental features enabled (#16823)</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>Remove WiX install (#16834)</li> <li>Opt-in to build security monitoring (#16911)</li> <li>Add SBOM manifest for release packages (#16641, #16711)</li> <li>Add Linux package dependencies for packaging (#16807)</li> <li>Switch to our custom images for build and release (#16801, #16580)</li> <li>Remove all references to <code>cmake</code> for the builds in this repository (#16578)</li> <li>Register NuGet source when generating <code>CGManifest</code> (#16570)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.1 - 2021-12-14

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Remove declaration of experimental features in Utility module manifest as they are stable (#16460)
Bring back pwsh.exe for framework dependent packages to support Start-Job (#16535)
Change default for $PSStyle.OutputRendering to Ansi (Internal 18394)
Update HelpInfoUri for 7.2 release (#16456)
Fix typo for "privacy" in MSI installer (#16407)

Tests

Set clean state before testing UseMU in the MSI (#16543)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <ul> <li>Add explicit job name for approval tasks in Snap stage (#16579)</li> <li>Fixing the build by removing duplicate TSAUpload entries (Internal 18399)</li> <li>Port CGManifest fixes (Internal 18402)</li> <li>Update CGManifest (Internal 18403)</li> <li>Updated package dependencies for 7.2.1 (Internal 18388)</li> <li>Use different containers for different branches (#16434)</li> <li>Use notice task to generate license assuming CGManifest contains all components (#16340)</li> <li>Create compliance build (#16286)</li> <li>Update release instructions with link to new build (#16419)</li> <li>Add diagnostics used to take corrective action when releasing buildInfoJson (#16404)</li> <li>vPack release should use buildInfoJson new to 7.2 (#16402)</li> <li>Add checkout to build json stage to get <code>ci.psm1</code> (#16399)</li> <li>Update the usage of metadata.json for getting LTS information (#16381)</li> <li>Move mapping file into product repository and add Debian 11 (#16316)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.0 - 2021-11-08

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Handle exception when trying to resolve a possible link path (#16310)

Tests

Fix global tool and SDK tests in release pipeline (#16342)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @kondratyev-nv </summary> <ul> <li>Add an approval for releasing build-info json (#16351)</li> <li>Release build info json when it is preview (#16335)</li> <li>Update <code>metadata.json</code> for v7.2.0 release</li> <li>Update to the latest notices file and update <code>cgmanifest.json</code> (#16339)(#16325)</li> <li>Fix issues in release build by updating usage of <code>powershell.exe</code> with <code>pwsh.exe</code> (#16332)</li> <li>Update feed and analyzer dependency (#16327)</li> <li>Update to .NET 6 GA build <code>6.0.100-rtm.21527.11</code> (#16309)</li> <li>Add a major-minor build info JSON file (#16301)</li> <li>Fix Windows build ZIP packaging (#16299) (Thanks @kondratyev-nv!)</li> <li>Clean up <code>crossgen</code> related build scripts also generate native symbols for <code>R2R</code> images (#16297)</li> <li>Fix issues reported by code signing verification tool (#16291)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.0-rc.1 - 2021-10-21

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Disallow COM calls for AppLocker system lockdown (#16268)
Configure Microsoft.ApplicationInsights to not send cloud role name (#16246)
Disallow Add-Type in NoLanguage mode on a locked down machine (#16245)
Make property names for color VT100 sequences consistent with documentation (#16212)
Make moving a directory into itself with Move-Item an error (#16198)
Change FileSystemInfo.Target from a CodeProperty to an AliasProperty that points to FileSystemInfo.LinkTarget (#16165)

Tests

Removed deprecated docker-based tests for PowerShell release packages (#16224)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.100-rc.2 </summary> <ul> <li>Update .NET 6 to version 6.0.100-rc.2.21505.57 (#16249)</li> <li>Fix RPM packaging (Internal 17704)</li> <li>Update <code>ThirdPartyNotices.txt</code> (#16283)</li> <li>Update pipeline yaml file to use <code>ubuntu-latest</code> image (#16279)</li> <li>Add script to generate <code>cgmanifest.json</code> (#16278)</li> <li>Update version of <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.Native</code> and <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.MarkdownRender</code> packages (#16277)</li> <li>Add <code>cgmanifest.json</code> for generating correct third party notice file (#16266)</li> <li>Only upload stable <code>buildinfo</code> for stable releases (#16251)</li> <li>Don't upload <code>.dep</code> or <code>.tar.gz</code> for RPM because there are none (#16230)</li> <li>Ensure RPM license is recognized (#16189)</li> <li>Add condition to only generate release files in local dev build only (#16259)</li> <li>Ensure <code>psoptions.json</code> and <code>manifest.spdx.json</code> files always exist in packages (#16258)</li> <li>Fix CI script and split out ARM runs (#16252)</li> <li>Update vPack task version to 12 (#16250)</li> <li>Sign third party executables (#16229)</li> <li>Add Software Bill of Materials to the main packages (#16202)</li> <li>Upgrade <code>set-value</code> package for Markdown test (#16196)</li> <li>Fix Microsoft update spelling issue (#16178)</li> <li>Move vPack build to 1ES Pool (#16169)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.0-preview.10 - 2021-09-28

Engine Updates and Fixes

Remove duplicate remote server mediator code (#16027)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Use PlainText when writing to a host that doesn't support VT (#16092)
Remove support for AppExecLinks to retrieve target (#16044)
Move GetOuputString() and GetFormatStyleString() to PSHostUserInterface as public API (#16075)
Add isOutputRedirected parameter to GetFormatStyleString() method (#14397)
Fix ConvertTo-SecureString with key regression due to .NET breaking change (#16068)
Fix regression in Move-Item to only fallback to CopyAndDelete in specific cases (#16029)
Set $? correctly for command expression with redirection (#16046)
Use CurrentCulture when handling conversions to DateTime in Add-History (#16005) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Fix NullReferenceException in Format-Wide (#15990) (Thanks @DarylGraves!)

Code Cleanup

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @xtqqczze! </summary> <ul> <li>Improve <code>CommandInvocationIntrinsics</code> API documentation and style (#14369)</li> <li>Use <code>bool?.GetValueOrDefault()</code> in <code>FormatWideCommand</code> (#15988) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> </ul> </details>

Tools

Fix typo in build.psm1 (#16038) (Thanks @eltociear!)
Add .stylecop to filetypexml and format it (#16025)
Enable sending Teams notification when workflow fails (#15982)

Tests

Enable two previously disabled Get-Process tests (#15845) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Details </summary> <ul> <li>Add SHA256 hashes to release (#16147)</li> <li>Update <code>Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp</code> version (#16138)</li> <li>Change path for Component Governance for build to the path we actually use to build (#16137)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers</code> (#16070) (#16045) (#16036) (#16021) (#15985)</li> <li>Update .NET to <code>6.0.100-rc.1.21458.32</code> (#16066)</li> <li>Update minimum required OS version for macOS (#16088)</li> <li>Ensure locale is set correctly on Ubuntu 20.04 in CI (#16067) (#16073)</li> <li>Update .NET SDK version from <code>6.0.100-preview.6.21355.2</code> to <code>6.0.100-rc.1.21455.2</code> (#16041) (#16028) (#15648)</li> <li>Fix the GitHub Action for updating .NET daily builds (#16042)</li> <li>Move from PkgES hosted agents to 1ES hosted agents (#16023)</li> <li>Update Ubuntu images to use Ubuntu 20.04 (#15906)</li> <li>Fix the macOS build by updating the pool image name (#16010)</li> <li>Use Alpine 3.12 for building PowerShell for Alpine Linux (#16008)</li> <li>Ignore error from <code>Find-Package</code> (#15999)</li> <li>Find packages separately for each source in <code>UpdateDotnetRuntime.ps1</code> script (#15998)</li> <li>Update metadata to start using .NET 6 RC1 builds (#15981)</li> </ul> </details>

7.2.0-preview.9 - 2021-08-23

Breaking Changes

Change the default value of $PSStyle.OutputRendering to OutputRendering.Host and remove OutputRendering.Automatic (#15882)
Fix CA1052 for public API to make classes static when they only have static methods (#15775) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Update pwsh.exe -File to only accept .ps1 script files on Windows (#15859)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Update .NET adapter to handle interface static members properly (#15908)
Catch and handle unauthorized access exception when removing AppLocker test files (#15881)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Add -PassThru parameter to Set-Clipboard (#13713) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!)
Add -Encoding parameter for Tee-Object (#12135) (Thanks @Peter-Schneider!)
Update ConvertTo-Csv and Export-Csv to handle IDictionary objects (#11029) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Update the parameters -Exception and -ErrorRecord for Write-Error to be position 0 (#13813) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!)
Don't use ArgumentList when creating COM object with New-Object as it's not applicable to the COM parameter set (#15915)
Fix $PSStyle list output to correctly show TableHeader (#15928)
Remove the PSImplicitRemotingBatching experimental feature (#15863)
Fix issue with Get-Process -Module failing to stop when it's piped to Select-Object (#15682) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
Make the experimental features PSUnixFileStat, PSCultureInvariantReplaceOperator, PSNotApplyErrorActionToStderr, PSAnsiRendering, PSAnsiProgressFeatureName stable (#15864)
Enhance Remove-Item to work with OneDrive (#15571) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Make global tool entrypoint class static (#15880)
Update ServerRemoteHost version to be same as PSVersion (#15809)
Make the initialization of HttpKnownHeaderNames thread safe (#15519) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
ConvertTo-Csv: Quote fields with quotes and newlines when using -UseQuotes AsNeeded (#15765) (Thanks @lselden!)
Forwarding progress stream changes from Foreach-Object -Parallel runspaces (#14271) (Thanks @powercode!)
Add validation to $PSStyle to reject printable text when setting a property that only expects ANSI escape sequence (#15825)

Code Cleanup

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @xtqqczze </summary> <ul> <li>Avoid unneeded array allocation in module code (#14329) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable and fix analysis rules <code>CA1052</code>, <code>CA1067</code>, and <code>IDE0049</code> (#15840) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Avoid unnecessary allocation in formatting code (#15832) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Specify the analyzed API surface for all code quality rules (#15778) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> </ul> </details>

Tools

Enable /rebase to automatically rebase a PR (#15808)
Update .editorconfig to not replace tabs with spaces in .tsv files (#15815) (Thanks @SethFalco!)
Update PowerShell team members in the changelog generation script (#15817)

Tests

Add more tests to validate the current command error handling behaviors (#15919)
Make Measure-Object property test independent of the file system (#15879)
Add more information when a syslog parsing error occurs (#15857)
Harden logic when looking for syslog entries to be sure that we select based on the process ID (#15841)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @xtqqczze </summary> <ul> <li>Disable implicit namespace imports for test projects (#15895)</li> <li>Update language version to 10 and fix related issues (#15886)</li> <li>Update <code>CodeQL</code> workflow to use Ubuntu 18.04 (#15868)</li> <li>Bump the version of various packages (#15944, #15934, #15935, #15891, #15812, #15822) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Update README and metadata files for release v7.2.0-preview.8 (#15819)
Update changelogs for 7.0.7 and 7.1.4 (#15921)
Fix spelling in XML docs (#15939) (Thanks @slowy07!)
Update PowerShell Committee members (#15837)

7.2.0-preview.8 - 2021-07-22

Engine Updates and Fixes

Add a Windows mode to $PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing that allows some commands to use legacy argument passing (#15408)
Use nameof to get parameter names when creating ArgumentNullException (#15604) (Thanks @gukoff!)
Test if a command is 'Out-Default' more thoroughly for transcribing scenarios (#15653)
Add Microsoft.PowerShell.Crescendo to telemetry allow list (#15372)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Use $PSStyle.Formatting.FormatAccent for Format-List and $PSStyle.Formatting.TableHeader for Format-Table output (#14406)
Highlight using error color the exception Message and underline in PositionMessage for Get-Error (#15786)
Implement a completion for View parameter of format cmdlets (#14513) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Add support to colorize FileInfo filenames (#14403)
Don't serialize to JSON ETS properties for DateTime and string types (#15665)
Fix HyperVSocketEndPoint.ServiceId setter (#15704) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Add DetailedView to $ErrorView (#15609)

Code Cleanup

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @iSazonov, @xtqqczze </summary> <ul> <li>Remove <code>consolehost.proto</code> file (#15741) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Implement <code>IDisposable</code> for <code>ConvertToJsonCommand</code> (#15787) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>IDisposable</code> implementation for <code>CommandPathSearch</code> (#15793) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Delete IDE dispose analyzer rules (#15798) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Seal private classes (#15725) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable IDE0029: <code>UseCoalesceExpression</code> (#15770) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable IDE0070: <code>UseSystemHashCode</code> (#15715) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable IDE0030: <code>UseCoalesceExpressionForNullable</code> (#14289) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix CA1846 and CA1845 for using <code>AsSpan</code> instead of <code>Substring</code> (#15738)</li> <li>Use <code>List<T>.RemoveAll</code> to avoid creating temporary list (#15686) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable IDE0044: <code>MakeFieldReadonly</code> (#13880) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Disable IDE0130 (#15728) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Make classes sealed (#15675) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable CA1043: Use integral or string argument for indexers (#14467) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable CA1812 (#15674) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Replace <code>Single</code> with <code>First</code> when we know the element count is 1 (#15676) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Skip analyzers for <code>Microsoft.Management.UI.Internal</code> (#15677) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix CA2243: Attribute string literals should parse correctly (#15622) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable CA1401 (#15621) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix CA1309: Use ordinal <code>StringComparison</code> in Certificate Provider (#14352) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix CA1839: Use <code>Environment.ProcessPath</code> (#15650) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Add new analyzer rules (#15620) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> </ul> </details>

Tools

Add SkipRoslynAnalyzers parameter to Start-PSBuild (#15640) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Create issue template for issues updating PowerShell through Windows update. (#15700)
Add DocumentationAnalyzers to build (#14336) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Convert GitHub issue templates to modern forms (#15645)

Tests

Add more tests for ConvertFrom-Json (#15706) (Thanks @strawgate!)
Update glob-parent and hosted-git-info test dependencies (#15643)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update .NET to version <code>v6.0.0-preview.6</code> </summary> <ul> <li>Add new package name for <code>osx-arm64</code> (#15813)</li> <li>Prefer version when available for dotnet-install (#15810)</li> <li>Make warning about MU being required dynamic (#15776)</li> <li>Add <code>Start-PSBootstrap</code> before running tests (#15804)</li> <li>Update to .NET 6 Preview 6 and use <code>crossgen2</code> (#15763)</li> <li>Enable ARM64 packaging for macOS (#15768)</li> <li>Make Microsoft Update opt-out/in check boxes work (#15784)</li> <li>Add Microsoft Update opt out to MSI install (#15727)</li> <li>Bump <code>NJsonSchema</code> from <code>10.4.4</code> to <code>10.4.5</code> (#15769)</li> <li>Fix computation of SHA512 checksum (#15736)</li> <li>Update the script to use quality parameter for <code>dotnet-install</code> (#15731)</li> <li>Generate SHA512 checksum file for all packages (#15678)</li> <li>Enable signing daily release build with lifetime certificate (#15642)</li> <li>Update metadata and README for 7.2.0-preview.7 (#15593)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Fix broken RFC links (#15807)
Add to bug report template getting details from Get-Error (#15737)
Update issue templates to link to new docs (#15711)
Add @jborean93 to Remoting Working Group (#15683)

7.2.0-preview.7 - 2021-06-17

Breaking Changes

Remove PSDesiredStateConfiguration v2.0.5 module and published it to the PowerShell Gallery (#15536)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Fix splatting being treated as positional parameter in completions (#14623) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Prevent PowerShell from crashing when a telemetry mutex can't be created (#15574) (Thanks @gukoff!)
Ignore all exceptions when disposing an instance of a subsystem implementation (#15511)
Wait for SSH exit when closing remote connection (#14635) (Thanks @dinhngtu!)

Performance

Retrieve ProductVersion using informational version attribute in AmsiUtils.Init() (#15527) (Thanks @Fs00!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Fix retrieving dynamic parameters from provider even if globbed path returns no results (#15525)
Revert "Enhance Remove-Item to work with OneDrive (#15260)" due to long path issue (#15546)

Code Cleanup

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @octos4murai, @iSazonov, @Fs00 </summary> <ul> <li>Correct parameter name passed to exception in <code>PSCommand</code> constructor (#15580) (Thanks @octos4murai!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.ICommandRuntime</code> (#15566) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Clean up code regarding <code>AppDomain.CreateDomain</code> and <code>AppDomain.Unload</code> (#15554)</li> <li>Replace <code>ProcessModule.FileName</code> with <code>Environment.ProcessPath</code> and remove <code>PSUtils.GetMainModule</code> (#15012) (Thanks @Fs00!)</li> </ul> </details>

Tests

Fix Start-Benchmarking to put TargetPSVersion and TargetFramework in separate parameter sets (#15508)
Add win-x86 test package to the build (#15517)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @schuelermine </summary> <ul> <li>Update README.md and metadata.json for version 7.2.0-preview.6 (#15464)</li> <li>Make sure GA revision increases from RC and Preview releases (#15558)</li> <li>Remove <code>SupportsShouldProcess</code> from <code>Start-PSBootstrap</code> in build.psm1 (#15491) (Thanks @schuelermine!)</li> <li>Update <code>DotnetMetadataRuntime.json</code> next channel to take daily build from .NET preview 5 (#15518)</li> <li>Fix <code>deps.json</code> update in the release pipeline (#15486)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Add new members to Engine and Cmdlet Working Groups document (#15560)
Update the mdspell command to exclude the folder that should be ignored (#15576)
Replace 'User Voice' with 'Feedback Hub' in README.md (#15557)
Update Virtual User Group chat links (#15505) (Thanks @Jaykul!)
Fix typo in FileSystemProvider.cs (#15445) (Thanks @eltociear!)
Add PipelineStoppedException notes to PowerShell API (#15324)
Updated governance on Working Groups (WGs) (#14603)
Correct and improve XML documentation comments on PSCommand (#15568) (Thanks @octos4murai!)

7.2.0-preview.6 - 2021-05-27

Experimental Features

[Breaking Change] Update prediction interface to provide additional feedback to a predictor plugin (#15421)

Performance

Avoid collecting logs in buffer if a pipeline execution event is not going to be logged (#15350)
Avoid allocation in LanguagePrimitives.UpdateTypeConvertFromTypeTable (#15168) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Replace Directory.GetDirectories with Directory.EnumerateDirectories to avoid array allocations (#15167) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Use List.ConvertAll instead of LINQ (#15140) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Use AllocConsole before initializing CLR to ensure codepage is correct for WinRM remoting (PowerShell/PowerShell-Native#70) (Thanks @jborean93!)
Add completions for #requires statements (#14596) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Add completions for comment-based help keywords (#15337) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Move cross platform DSC code to a PowerShell engine subsystem (#15127)
Fix Minimal progress view to handle activity that is longer than console width (#15264)
Handle exception if ConsoleHost tries to set cursor out of bounds because screen buffer changed (#15380)
Fix NullReferenceException in DSC ClearCache() (#15373)
Update ControlSequenceLength to handle colon as a virtual terminal parameter separator (#14942)
Update the summary comment for StopTranscriptCmdlet.cs (#15349) (Thanks @dbaileyut!)
Remove the unusable alias d for the -Directory parameter from Get-ChildItem (#15171) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
Fix tab completion for un-localized about topics (#15265) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Remove the unneeded SSH stdio handle workaround (#15308)
Add LoadAssemblyFromNativeMemory API to load assemblies from memory in a native PowerShell host (#14652) (Thanks @awakecoding!)
Re-implement Remove-Item OneDrive support (#15260) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Kill native processes in pipeline when pipeline is disposed on Unix (#15287)
Default to MTA on Windows platforms where STA is not supported (#15106)

Code Cleanup

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @xtqqczze, @powercode, @bcwood </summary> <ul> <li>Enable <code>nullable</code> in some classes (#14185, #14177, #14159, #14191, #14162, #14150, #14156, #14161, #14155, #14163, #14181, #14157, #14151) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Annotate <code>ThrowTerminatingError</code> with <code>DoesNotReturn</code> attribute (#15352) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Use <code>GetValueOrDefault()</code> for nullable <code>PSLanguageMode</code> (#13849) (Thanks @bcwood!)</li> <li>Enable <code>SA1008</code>: Opening parenthesis should be spaced correctly (#14242) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> </ul> </details>

Tools

Add winget release script (#15050)

Tests

Enable cross-runtime benchmarking to compare different .NET runtimes (#15387) (Thanks @adamsitnik!)
Add the performance benchmark project for PowerShell performance testing (#15242)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update .NET to version <code>v6.0.0-preview.4</code> </summary> <ul> <li>Suppress prompting when uploading the <code>msixbundle</code> package to blob (#15227)</li> <li>Update to .NET preview 4 SDK (#15452)</li> <li>Update <code>AppxManifest.xml</code> with newer OS version to allow PowerShell installed from Windows Store to make system-level changes (#15375)</li> <li>Ensure the build works when <code>PSDesiredStateConfiguration</code> module is pulled in from PSGallery (#15355)</li> <li>Make sure daily release tag does not change when retrying failures (#15286)</li> <li>Improve messages and behavior when there's a problem in finding zip files (#15284)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Add documentation comments section to coding guidelines (#14316) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

7.2.0-preview.5 - 2021-04-14

Breaking Changes

Make PowerShell Linux deb and RPM packages universal (#15109)
Enforce AppLocker Deny configuration before Execution Policy Bypass configuration (#15035)
Disallow mixed dash and slash in command-line parameter prefix (#15142) (Thanks @davidBar-On!)

Experimental Features

PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing: Use ArgumentList for native executable invocation (breaking change) (#14692)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Add IArgumentCompleterFactory for parameterized ArgumentCompleters (#12605) (Thanks @powercode!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Fix SSH remoting connection never finishing with misconfigured endpoint (#15175)
Respect TERM and NO_COLOR environment variables for $PSStyle rendering (#14969)
Use ProgressView.Classic when Virtual Terminal is not supported (#15048)
Fix Get-Counter issue with -Computer parameter (#15166) (Thanks @krishnayalavarthi!)
Fix redundant iteration while splitting lines (#14851) (Thanks @hez2010!)
Enhance Remove-Item -Recurse to work with OneDrive (#14902) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Change minimum depth to 0 for ConvertTo-Json (#14830) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
Allow Set-Clipboard to accept empty string (#14579)
Turn on and off DECCKM to modify keyboard mode for Unix native commands to work correctly (#14943)
Fall back to CopyAndDelete() when MoveTo() fails due to an IOException (#15077)

Code Cleanup

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @xtqqczze, @iSazonov, @ZhiZe-ZG </summary> <ul> <li>Update .NET to <code>6.0.0-preview.3</code> (#15221)</li> <li>Add space before comma to hosting test to fix error reported by <code>SA1001</code> (#15224)</li> <li>Add <code>SecureStringHelper.FromPlainTextString</code> helper method for efficient secure string creation (#14124) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Use static lambda keyword (#15154) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Remove unnecessary <code>Array</code> -> <code>List</code> -> <code>Array</code> conversion in <code>ProcessBaseCommand.AllProcesses</code> (#15052) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Standardize grammar comments in Parser.cs (#15114) (Thanks @ZhiZe-ZG!)</li> <li>Enable <code>SA1001</code>: Commas should be spaced correctly (#14171) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Refactor <code>MultipleServiceCommandBase.AllServices</code> (#15053) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> </ul> </details>

Tools

Use Unix line endings for shell scripts (#15180) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Tests

Add the missing tag in Host Utilities tests (#14983)
Update copy-props version in package.json (#15124)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @JustinGrote </summary> <ul> <li>Fix <code>yarn-lock</code> for <code>copy-props</code> (#15225)</li> <li>Make package validation regular expression accept universal Linux packages (#15226)</li> <li>Bump NJsonSchema from 10.4.0 to 10.4.1 (#15190)</li> <li>Make MSI and EXE signing always copy to fix daily build (#15191)</li> <li>Sign internals of EXE package so that it works correctly when signed (#15132)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 16.9.1 to 16.9.4 (#15141)</li> <li>Update daily release tag format to work with new Microsoft Update work (#15164)</li> <li>Feature: Add Ubuntu 20.04 Support to install-powershell.sh (#15095) (Thanks @JustinGrote!)</li> <li>Treat rebuild branches like release branches (#15099)</li> <li>Update WiX to 3.11.2 (#15097)</li> <li>Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.11 to 10.4.0 (#15092)</li> <li>Allow patching of preview releases (#15074)</li> <li>Bump Newtonsoft.Json from 12.0.3 to 13.0.1 (#15084, #15085)</li> <li>Update the <code>minSize</code> build package filter to be explicit (#15055)</li> <li>Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.10 to 10.3.11 (#14965)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Merge 7.2.0-preview.4 changes to master (#15056)
Update README and metadata.json (#15046)
Fix broken links for dotnet CLI (#14937)

7.2.0-preview.4 - 2021-03-16

Breaking Changes

Fix Get-Date -UFormat %G and %g behavior (#14555) (Thanks @brianary!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Update engine script signature validation to match Get-AuthenticodeSignature logic (#14849)
Avoid array allocations from GetDirectories and GetFiles (#14327) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Add UseOSCIndicator setting to enable progress indicator in terminal (#14927)
Re-enable VT mode on Windows after running command in ConsoleHost (#14413)
Fix Move-Item for FileSystemProvider to use copy-delete instead of move for DFS paths (#14913)
Fix PromptForCredential() to add targetName as domain (#14504)
Update Concise ErrorView to not show line information for errors from script module functions (#14912)
Remove the 32,767 character limit on the environment block for Start-Process (#14111) (Thanks @hbuckle!)
Don't write possible secrets to verbose stream for web cmdlets (#14788)

Tools

Update dependabot configuration to V2 format (#14882)
Add tooling issue slots in PR template (#14697)

Tests

Move misplaced test file to tests directory (#14908) (Thanks @MarianoAlipi!)
Refactor MSI CI (#14753)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update .NET to version <code>6.0.100-preview.2.21155.3</code> </summary> <ul> <li>Update .NET to version <code>6.0.100-preview.2.21155.3</code> (#15007)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.Native</code> to <code>7.2.0-preview.1</code> (#15030)</li> <li>Create MSIX Bundle package in release pipeline (#14982)</li> <li>Build self-contained minimal size package for Guest Config team (#14976)</li> <li>Bump XunitXml.TestLogger from 3.0.62 to 3.0.66 (#14993) (Thanks @dependabot[bot]!)</li> <li>Enable building PowerShell for Apple M1 runtime (#14923)</li> <li>Fix the variable name in the condition for miscellaneous analysis CI (#14975)</li> <li>Fix the variable usage in CI yaml (#14974)</li> <li>Disable running Markdown link verification in release build CI (#14971)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 3.9.0-3.final to 3.9.0 (#14934) (Thanks @dependabot[bot]!)</li> <li>Declare which variable group is used for checking the blob in the release build (#14970)</li> <li>Update metadata and script to enable consuming .NET daily builds (#14940)</li> <li>Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.9 to 10.3.10 (#14933) (Thanks @dependabot[bot]!)</li> <li>Use template that disables component governance for CI (#14938)</li> <li>Add suppress for nuget multi-feed warning (#14893)</li> <li>Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.8 to 10.3.9 (#14926) (Thanks @dependabot[bot]!)</li> <li>Add exe wrapper to release (#14881)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.16.0 to 2.17.0 (#14847)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 16.8.3 to 16.9.1 (#14895) (Thanks @dependabot[bot]!)</li> <li>Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.7 to 10.3.8 (#14896) (Thanks @dependabot[bot]!)</li> <li>Disable codesign validation where the file type is not supported (#14885)</li> <li>Fixing broken Experimental Feature list in <code>powershell.config.json</code> (#14858)</li> <li>Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.6 to 10.3.7 (#14855)</li> <li>Add exe wrapper for Microsoft Update scenarios (#14737)</li> <li>Install wget on <code>CentOS</code> 7 docker image (#14857)</li> <li>Fix install-dotnet download (#14856)</li> <li>Fix Bootstrap step in Windows daily test runs (#14820)</li> <li>Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.5 to 10.3.6 (#14818)</li> <li>Bump <code>NJsonSchema</code> from <code>10.3.4</code> to <code>10.3.5</code> (#14807)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Update README.md and metadata.json for upcoming releases (#14755)
Merge 7.1.3 and 7.0.6 changelog to master (#15009)
Update README and metadata.json for releases (#14997)
Update ChangeLog for v7.1.2 release (#14783)
Update ChangeLog for v7.0.5 release (#14782) (Internal 14479)

7.2.0-preview.3 - 2021-02-11

Breaking Changes

Fix Get-Date -UFormat %u behavior to comply with ISO 8601 (#14549) (Thanks @brianary!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Together with PSDesiredStateConfiguration v3 module allows Get-DscResource, Invoke-DscResource and DSC configuration compilation on all platforms, supported by PowerShell (using class-based DSC resources).

Performance

Avoid array allocations from Directory.GetDirectories and Directory.GetFiles. (#14326) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Avoid string.ToLowerInvariant() from GetEnvironmentVariableAsBool() to avoid loading libicu at startup (#14323) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Get PowerShell version in PSVersionInfo using assembly attribute instead of FileVersionInfo (#14332) (Thanks @Fs00!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Suppress Write-Progress in ConsoleHost if output is redirected and fix tests (#14716)
Experimental feature PSAnsiProgress: Add minimal progress bar using ANSI rendering (#14414)
Fix web cmdlets to properly construct URI from body when using -NoProxy (#14673)
Update the ICommandPredictor to provide more feedback and also make feedback easier to be correlated (#14649)
Reset color after writing Verbose, Debug, and Warning messages (#14698)
Fix using variable for nested ForEach-Object -Parallel calls (#14548)
When formatting, if collection is modified, don't fail the entire pipeline (#14438)
Improve completion of parameters for attributes (#14525) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Write proper error messages for Get-Command ' ' (#13564) (Thanks @jakekerr!)
Fix typo in the resource string ProxyURINotSupplied (#14526) (Thanks @romero126!)
Add support to $PSStyle for strikethrough and hyperlinks (#14461)
Fix $PSStyle blink codes (#14447) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Code Cleanup

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @xtqqczze, @powercode </summary> <ul> <li>Fix coding style issues: RCS1215, IDE0090, SA1504, SA1119, RCS1139, IDE0032 (#14356, #14341, #14241, #14204, #14442, #14443) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable coding style checks: CA2249, CA1052, IDE0076, IDE0077, SA1205, SA1003, SA1314, SA1216, SA1217, SA1213 (#14395, #14483, #14494, #14495, #14441, #14476, #14470, #14471, #14472) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable nullable in PowerShell codebase (#14160, #14172, #14088, #14154, #14166, #14184, #14178) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Use <code>string.Split(char)</code> instead of <code>string.Split(string)</code> (#14465) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Use <code>string.Contains(char)</code> overload (#14368) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Refactor complex <code>if</code> statements (#14398) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> </ul> </details>

Tools

Update script to use .NET 6 build resources (#14705)
Fix the daily GitHub Action (#14711) (Thanks @imba-tjd!)
GitHub Actions: fix deprecated ::set-env (#14629) (Thanks @imba-tjd!)
Update Markdown test tools (#14325) (Thanks @RDIL!)
Upgrade StyleCopAnalyzers to v1.2.0-beta.312 (#14354) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Tests

Remove packaging from daily Windows build (#14749)
Update link to the Manning book (#14750)
A separate Windows packaging CI (#14670)
Update ini component version in test package.json (#14454)
Disable libmi dependent tests for macOS. (#14446)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <ul> <li>Fix the NuGet feed name and URL for .NET 6</li> <li>Fix third party signing for files in sub-folders (#14751)</li> <li>Make build script variable an <code>ArrayList</code> to enable <code>Add()</code> method (#14748)</li> <li>Remove old .NET SDKs to make <code>dotnet restore</code> work with the latest SDK in CI pipeline (#14746)</li> <li>Remove outdated Linux dependencies (#14688)</li> <li>Bump .NET SDK version to 6.0.0-preview.1 (#14719)</li> <li>Bump <code>NJsonSchema</code> to 10.3.4 (#14714)</li> <li>Update daily GitHub action to allow manual trigger (#14718)</li> <li>Bump <code>XunitXml.TestLogger</code> to 3.0.62 (#14702)</li> <li>Make universal deb package based on the deb package specification (#14681)</li> <li>Add manual release automation steps and improve changelog script (#14445)</li> <li>Fix release build to upload global tool packages to artifacts (#14620)</li> <li>Port changes from the PowerShell v7.0.4 release (#14637)</li> <li>Port changes from the PowerShell v7.1.1 release (#14621)</li> <li>Updated README and <code>metadata.json</code> (#14401, #14606, #14612)</li> <li>Do not push nupkg artifacts to MyGet (#14613)</li> <li>Use one feed in each <code>nuget.config</code> in official builds (#14363)</li> <li>Fix path signed RPMs are uploaded from in release build (#14424)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Update distribution support request template to point to .NET 5.0 support document (#14578)
Remove security GitHub issue template (#14453)
Add intent for using the Discussions feature in repository (#14399)
Fix Universal Dashboard to refer to PowerShell Universal (#14437)
Update document link because of HTTP 301 redirect (#14431) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

7.2.0-preview.2 - 2020-12-15

Breaking Changes

Improve detection of mutable value types (#12495) (Thanks @vexx32!)
Ensure -PipelineVariable is set for all output from script cmdlets (#12766) (Thanks @vexx32!)

Experimental Features

PSAnsiRendering: Enable ANSI formatting via $PSStyle and support suppressing ANSI output (#13758)

Performance

Optimize IEnumerable variant of replace operator (#14221) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Refactor multiply operation for better performance in two Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility methods (#14148) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Use Environment.TickCount64 instead of Datetime.Now as the random seed for AppLocker test file content (#14283) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Avoid unnecessary array allocations when searching in GAC (#14291) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Use OrdinalIgnoreCase in CommandLineParser (#14303) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Use StringComparison.Ordinal instead of StringComparison.CurrentCulture (#14298) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Avoid creating instances of the generated delegate helper class in -replace implementation (#14128)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Write better error message if config file is broken (#13496) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Make AppLocker Enforce mode take precedence over UMCI Audit mode (#14353)
Add -SkipLimitCheck switch to Import-PowerShellDataFile (#13672)
Restrict New-Object in NoLanguage mode under lock down (#14140) (Thanks @krishnayalavarthi!)
The -Stream parameter now works with directories (#13941) (Thanks @kyanha!)
Avoid an exception if file system does not support reparse points (#13634) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Enable CA1012: Abstract types should not have public constructors (#13940) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Enable SA1212: Property accessors should follow order (#14051) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Code Cleanup

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @xtqqczze, @matthewjdegarmo, @powercode, @Gimly </summary> <ul> <li>Enable <code>SA1007</code>: Operator keyword should be followed by space (#14130) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Expand <code>where</code> alias to <code>Where-Object</code> in <code>Reset-PWSHSystemPath.ps1</code> (#14113) (Thanks @matthewjdegarmo!)</li> <li>Fix whitespace issues (#14092) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Add <code>StyleCop.Analyzers</code> package (#13963) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>IDE0041</code>: <code>UseIsNullCheck</code> (#14041) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>IDE0082</code>: <code>ConvertTypeOfToNameOf</code> (#14042) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Remove unnecessary usings part 4 (#14023) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>PriorityAttribute</code> name (#14094) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.IBoxableInstruction</code> (#14165) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.Provider.IDynamicPropertyProvider</code> (#14167) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.Language.IScriptExtent</code> (#14179) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.Language.ICustomAstVisitor2</code> (#14192) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.LanguagePrimitives.IConversionData</code> (#14187) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Automation.Remoting.Client.IWSManNativeApiFacade</code> (#14186) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.Language.ISupportsAssignment</code> (#14180) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.ICommandRuntime2</code> (#14183) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.IOutputProcessingState</code> (#14175) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.IJobDebugger</code> (#14174) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.IInstructionProvider</code> (#14173) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.IHasSessionStateEntryVisibility</code> (#14169) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.Tracing.IEtwEventCorrelator</code> (#14168) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Fix syntax error in Windows packaging script (#14377)</li> <li>Remove redundant local assignment in <code>AclCommands</code> (#14358) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.Language.IAstPostVisitHandler</code> (#14164) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.IModuleAssemblyInitializer</code> (#14158) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Use <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.MarkdownRender</code> package from <code>nuget.org</code> (#14090)</li> <li>Replace <code>GetFiles</code> in <code>TestModuleManifestCommand</code> (#14317) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.Provider.IContentWriter</code> (#14152) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Simplify getting Encoding in <code>TranscriptionOption.FlushContentToDisk</code> (#13910) (Thanks @Gimly!)</li> <li>Mark applicable structs as <code>readonly</code> and use <code>in</code>-modifier (#13919) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.IArgumentCompleter</code> (#14182) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable <code>CA1822</code>: Mark <code>private</code> members as <code>static</code> (#13897) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>IDE0090</code>: Simplify <code>new</code> expression part 6 (#14338) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Avoid array allocations from <code>GetDirectories</code>/<code>GetFiles</code>. (#14328) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Avoid array allocations from <code>GetDirectories</code>/<code>GetFiles</code>. (#14330) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>RCS1188</code>: Remove redundant auto-property initialization part 2 (#14262) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.Host.IHostSupportsInteractiveSession</code> (#14170) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Enable nullable: <code>System.Management.Automation.Provider.IPropertyCmdletProvider</code> (#14176) (Thanks @powercode!)</li> <li>Fix <code>IDE0090</code>: Simplify new expression part 5 (#14301) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>IDE0075</code>: <code>SimplifyConditionalExpression</code> (#14078) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Remove unnecessary usings part 9 (#14288) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix StyleCop and MarkdownLint CI failures (#14297) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>SA1000</code>: Keywords should be spaced correctly (#13973) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>RCS1188</code>: Remove redundant auto-property initialization part 1 (#14261) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Mark <code>private</code> members as <code>static</code> part 10 (#14235) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Mark <code>private</code> members as <code>static</code> part 9 (#14234) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>SA1642</code> for <code>Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimCmdlets</code> (#14239) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Use <code>AsSpan</code>/<code>AsMemory</code> slice constructor (#14265) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>IDE0090</code>: Simplify <code>new</code> expression part 4.6 (#14260) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>IDE0090</code>: Simplify <code>new</code> expression part 4.5 (#14259) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>IDE0090</code>: Simplify <code>new</code> expression part 4.3 (#14257) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>IDE0090</code>: Simplify <code>new</code> expression part 4.2 (#14256) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>IDE0090</code>: Simplify <code>new</code> expression part 2 (#14200) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>SA1643</code>: Destructor summary documentation should begin with standard text (#14236) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>IDE0090</code>: Simplify new expression part 4.4 (#14258) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Use xml documentation child blocks correctly (#14249) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>IDE0090</code>: Simplify <code>new</code> expression part 4.1 (#14255) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Use consistent spacing in xml documentation tags (#14231) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>IDE0074</code>: Use coalesce compound assignment (#13396) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Remove unnecessary finalizers (#14248) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Mark local variable as <code>const</code> (#13217) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>IDE0032</code>: <code>UseAutoProperty</code> part 2 (#14244) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>IDE0032</code>: <code>UseAutoProperty</code> part 1 (#14243) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Mark <code>private</code> members as <code>static</code> part 8 (#14233) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>CA1822</code>: Mark members as <code>static</code> part 6 (#14229) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>CA1822</code>: Mark members as <code>static</code> part 5 (#14228) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>CA1822</code>: Mark members as <code>static</code> part 4 (#14227) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>CA1822</code>: Mark members as <code>static</code> part 3 (#14226) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>CA1822</code>: Mark members as <code>static</code> part 2 (#14225) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>CA1822</code>: Mark members as <code>static</code> part 1 (#14224) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Use <code>see</code> keyword in documentation (#14220) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>CA2211</code>: Non-constant fields should not be visible (#14073) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>CA1816</code>: <code>Dispose</code> methods should call <code>SuppressFinalize</code> (#14074) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Remove incorrectly implemented finalizer (#14246) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>CA1822</code>: Mark members as <code>static</code> part 7 (#14230) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>SA1122</code>: Use <code>string.Empty</code> for empty strings (#14218) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix various xml documentation issues (#14223) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Remove unnecessary <code>using</code>s part 8 (#14072) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>SA1006</code>: Preprocessor keywords should not be preceded by space (#14052) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>SA1642</code> for <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility</code> (#14142) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>CA2216</code>: Disposable types should declare finalizer (#14089) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Wrap and name <code>LoadBinaryModule</code> arguments (#14193) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Wrap and name <code>GetListOfFilesFromData</code> arguments (#14194) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>SA1002</code>: Semicolons should be spaced correctly (#14197) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>IDE0090</code>: Simplify <code>new</code> expression part 3 (#14201) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>SA1106</code>: Code should not contain empty statements (#13964) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Code performance fixes follow-up (#14207) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Remove uninformative comments (#14199) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix <code>IDE0090</code>: Simplify <code>new</code> expression part 1 (#14027) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>SA1517</code>: Code should not contain blank lines at start of file (#14131) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>SA1131</code>: Use readable conditions (#14132) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>SA1507</code>: Code should not contain multiple blank lines in a row (#14136) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>SA1516</code> Elements should be separated by blank line (#14137) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>IDE0031</code>: Null check can be simplified (#13548) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>CA1065</code>: Do not raise exceptions in unexpected locations (#14117) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable <code>CA1000</code>: Do not declare <code>static</code> members on generic types (#14097) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> </ul> </details>

Tools

Fixing formatting in Reset-PWSHSystemPath.ps1 (#13689) (Thanks @dgoldman-msft!)

Tests

Reinstate Test-Connection tests (#13324)
Update Markdown test packages with security fixes (#14145)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <ul> <li>Fix a typo in the <code>Get-ChangeLog</code> function (#14129)</li> <li>Update <code>README</code> and <code>metadata.json</code> for <code>7.2.0-preview.1</code> release (#14104)</li> <li>Bump <code>NJsonSchema</code> from <code>10.2.2</code> to <code>10.3.1</code> (#14040)</li> <li>Move windows package signing to use ESRP (#14060)</li> <li>Use one feed in each <code>nuget.config</code> in official builds (#14363)</li> <li>Fix path signed RPMs are uploaded from in release build (#14424)</li> <li>Add <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.MarkdownRender</code> to the package reference list (#14386)</li> <li>Fix issue with unsigned build (#14367)</li> <li>Move macOS and nuget to ESRP signing (#14324)</li> <li>Fix nuget packaging to scrub <code>NullableAttribute</code> (#14344)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk</code> from 16.8.0 to 16.8.3 (#14310)</li> <li>Bump <code>Markdig.Signed</code> from 0.22.0 to 0.22.1 (#14305)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.ApplicationInsights</code> from 2.15.0 to 2.16.0 (#14031)</li> <li>Move Linux to ESRP signing (#14210)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Fix example nuget.config (#14349)
Fix a broken link in Code Guidelines doc (#14314) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

7.2.0-preview.1 - 2020-11-17

Engine Updates and Fixes

Change the default fallback encoding for GetEncoding in Start-Transcript to be UTF8 without a BOM (#13732) (Thanks @Gimly!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Update pwsh -? output to match docs (#13748)
Fix NullReferenceException in Test-Json (#12942) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Make Dispose in TranscriptionOption idempotent (#13839) (Thanks @krishnayalavarthi!)
Add additional Microsoft PowerShell modules to the tracked modules list (#12183)
Relax further SSL verification checks for WSMan on non-Windows hosts with verification available (#13786) (Thanks @jborean93!)
Add the OutputTypeAttribute to Get-ExperimentalFeature (#13738) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!)
Fix blocking wait when starting file associated with a Windows application (#13750)
Emit warning if ConvertTo-Json exceeds -Depth value (#13692)

Code Cleanup

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @xtqqczze, @mkswd, @ThomasNieto, @PatLeong, @paul-cheung, @georgettica </summary> <ul> <li>Fix RCS1049: Simplify boolean comparison (#13994) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable IDE0062: Make local function static (#14044) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable CA2207: Initialize value type static fields inline (#14068) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable CA1837: Use <code>ProcessId</code> and <code>CurrentManagedThreadId</code> from <code>System.Environment</code> (#14063) (Thanks @xtqqczze and @PatLeong!)</li> <li>Remove unnecessary using directives (#14014, #14017, #14021, #14050, #14065, #14066, #13863, #13860, #13861, #13814) (Thanks @xtqqczze and @ThomasNieto!)</li> <li>Remove unnecessary usage of LINQ <code>Count</code> method (#13545) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix SA1518: The code must not contain extra blank lines at the end of the file (#13574) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable CA1829: Use the <code>Length</code> or <code>Count</code> property instead of <code>Count()</code> (#13925) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable CA1827: Do not use <code>Count()</code> or <code>LongCount()</code> when <code>Any()</code> can be used (#13923) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable or fix nullable usage in a few files (#13793, #13805, #13808, #14018, #13804) (Thanks @mkswd and @georgettica!)</li> <li>Enable IDE0040: Add accessibility modifiers (#13962, #13874) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Make applicable private Guid fields readonly (#14000) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix CA1003: Use generic event handler instances (#13937) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Simplify delegate creation (#13578) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix RCS1033: Remove redundant boolean literal (#13454) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix RCS1221: Use pattern matching instead of combination of <code>as</code> operator and null check (#13333) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Use <code>is not</code> syntax (#13338) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Replace magic number with constant in PDH (#13536) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix accessor order (#13538) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable IDE0054: Use compound assignment (#13546) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix RCS1098: Constant values should be on right side of comparisons (#13833) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable CA1068: <code>CancellationToken</code> parameters must come last (#13867) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable CA10XX rules with suggestion severity (#13870, #13928, #13924) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable IDE0064: Make Struct fields writable (#13945) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Run <code>dotnet-format</code> to improve formatting of source code (#13503) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable CA1825: Avoid zero-length array allocations (#13961) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Add IDE analyzer rule IDs to comments (#13960) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable CA1830: Prefer strongly-typed <code>Append</code> and <code>Insert</code> method overloads on <code>StringBuilder</code> (#13926) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enforce code style in build (#13957) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable CA1836: Prefer <code>IsEmpty</code> over <code>Count</code> when available (#13877) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable CA1834: Consider using <code>StringBuilder.Append(char)</code> when applicable (#13878) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix IDE0044: Make field readonly (#13884, #13885, #13888, #13892, #13889, #13886, #13890, #13891, #13887, #13893, #13969, #13967, #13968, #13970, #13971, #13966, #14012) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable IDE0048: Add required parentheses (#13896) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable IDE1005: Invoke delegate with conditional access (#13911) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable IDE0036: Enable the check on the order of modifiers (#13958, #13881) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Use span-based <code>String.Concat</code> instead of <code>String.Substring</code> (#13500) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable CA1050: Declare types in namespace (#13872) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Fix minor keyword typo in C# code comment (#13811) (Thanks @paul-cheung!)</li> </ul> </details>

Tools

Enable CodeQL Security scanning (#13894)
Add global AnalyzerConfig with default configuration (#13835) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @mkswd, @xtqqczze </summary> <ul> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk</code> to <code>16.8.0</code> (#14020)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp</code> to <code>3.8.0</code> (#14075)</li> <li>Remove workarounds for .NET 5 RTM builds (#14038)</li> <li>Migrate 3rd party signing to ESRP (#14010)</li> <li>Fixes to release pipeline for GA release (#14034)</li> <li>Don't do a shallow checkout (#13992)</li> <li>Add validation and dependencies for Ubuntu 20.04 distribution to packaging script (#13993)</li> <li>Add .NET install workaround for RTM (#13991)</li> <li>Move to ESRP signing for Windows files (#13988)</li> <li>Update <code>PSReadLine</code> version to <code>2.1.0</code> (#13975)</li> <li>Bump .NET to version <code>5.0.100-rtm.20526.5</code> (#13920)</li> <li>Update script to use .NET RTM feeds (#13927)</li> <li>Add checkout step to release build templates (#13840)</li> <li>Turn on <code>/features:strict</code> for all projects (#13383) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Bump <code>NJsonSchema</code> to <code>10.2.2</code> (#13722, #13751)</li> <li>Add flag to make Linux script publish to production repository (#13714)</li> <li>Bump <code>Markdig.Signed</code> to <code>0.22.0</code> (#13741)</li> <li>Use new release script for Linux packages (#13705)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Fix links to LTS versions for Windows (#14070)
Fix crontab formatting in example doc (#13712) (Thanks @dgoldman-msft!)