7.4 Changelog

7.4.12

Tools

Add CodeQL suppressions (#25973)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update .NET SDK to 8.0.413 </summary> <ul> <li>Add LinuxHost Network configuration to PowerShell Packages pipeline (#26003)</li> <li>Update container images to use mcr.microsoft.com for Linux and Azure Linux (#25987)</li> <li>Update SDK to 8.0.413 (#25993)</li> <li>Make logical template name consistent between pipelines (#25992)</li> <li>Remove AsyncSDL from Pipelines Toggle Official/NonOfficial Runs (#25965)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Update third-party library versions to 8.0.19 for ObjectPool, Windows Compatibility, and System.Drawing.Common (#26001)

7.4.11 - 2025-06-17

Engine Updates and Fixes

Move .NET method invocation logging to after the needed type conversion is done for method arguments (#25568)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update .NET SDK to 8.0.411 </summary> <ul> <li>Correct Capitalization Referencing Templates (#25672)</li> <li>Manually update SqlClient in TestService</li> <li>Update cgmanifest</li> <li>Update package references</li> <li>Update .NET SDK to latest version</li> <li>Change linux packaging tests to ubuntu latest (#25640)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Update Third Party Notices (#25524, #25659)

7.4.10

Engine Updates and Fixes

Fallback to AppLocker after WldpCanExecuteFile (#25229)

Code Cleanup

<details> <ul> <li> Remove obsolete template from Windows Packaging CI (#25405)</li> <li> Cleanup old release pipelines (#25404)</li> </ul> </details>

Tools

Do not run labels workflow in the internal repository (#25411)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update .NET SDK to 8.0.408 </summary> <ul> <li> Update branch for release (#25518)</li> <li> Move MSIXBundle to Packages and Release to GitHub (#25516)</li> <li> Add CodeQL suppressions for PowerShell intended behavior (#25376)</li> <li> Enhance path filters action to set outputs for all changes when not a PR (#25378)</li> <li> Fix Merge Errors from #25401 and Internal 33077 (#25478)</li> <li> Fix MSIX artifact upload, vPack template, changelog hashes, git tag command (#25476)</li> <li> Fix Conditional Parameter to Skip NuGet Publish (#25475)</li> <li> Use new variables template for vPack (#25474)</li> <li> Add Windows Store Signing to MSIX bundle (#25472)</li> <li> Update test result processing to use NUnitXml format and enhance logging for better clarity (#25471)</li> <li> Fix the expected path of .NET after using UseDotnet 2 task to install (#25470)</li> <li> Update Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet to 1.1.0 (#25469)</li> <li> Combine GitHub and Nuget Release Stage (#25473)</li> <li> Make GitHub Workflows work in the internal mirror (#25409)</li> <li> Add default .NET install path for SDK validation (#25339)</li> <li> Update APIScan to use new symbols server (#25400)</li> <li> Use GitHubReleaseTask (#25401)</li> <li> Migrate MacOS Signing to OneBranch (#25412)</li> <li> Remove call to NuGet (#25410)</li> <li> Restore a script needed for build from the old release pipeline cleanup (#25201) (#25408)</li> <li> Switch to ubuntu-latest for CI (#25406)</li> <li> Update GitHub Actions to work in private GitHub repository (#25403)</li> <li> Simplify PR Template (#25407)</li> <li> Disable SBOM generation on set variables job in release build (#25341)</li> <li> Update package pipeline windows image version (#25192)</li> </ul> </details>

7.4.9

Notes

This release is internal only. It is not available for download.

Tools

Check GH token availability for Get-Changelog (#25156)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update .NET SDK to 8.0.407 </summary> <ul> <li>Update branch for release (#25101)</li> <li>Only build Linux for packaging changes (#25161)</li> <li>Skip additional packages when generating component manifest (#25160)</li> <li>Remove Az module installs and AzureRM uninstalls in pipeline (#25157)</li> <li>Add GitHub Actions workflow to verify PR labels (#25158)</li> <li>Update security extensions (#25099)</li> <li>Make Component Manifest Updater use neutral target in addition to RID target (#25100)</li> </ul> </details>

7.4.8

Notes

This release is internal only. It is not available for download.

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update .NET SDK to 8.0.406 </summary> <ul> <li>Update branch for release (#25085) (#24884)</li> <li>Add UseDotnet task for installing dotnet (#25080)</li> <li>Add Justin Chung as PowerShell team member in <code>releaseTools.psm1</code> (#25074)</li> <li>Fix V-Pack download package name (#25078)</li> <li>Fix MSIX stage in release pipeline (#25079)</li> <li>Give the pipeline runs meaningful names (#25081)</li> <li>Make sure the vPack pipeline does not produce an empty package (#25082)</li> <li>Update CODEOWNERS (#25083)</li> <li>Add setup dotnet action to the build composite action (#25084)</li> <li>Remove AzDO credscan as it is now in GitHub (#25077)</li> <li>Use workload identity service connection to download makeappx tool from storage account (#25075)</li> <li>Update .NET SDK (#24993)</li> <li>Fix GitHub Action filter overmatching (#24957)</li> <li>Fix release branch filters (#24960)</li> <li>Convert powershell/PowerShell-CI-macos to GitHub Actions (#24955)</li> <li>Convert powershell/PowerShell-CI-linux to GitHub Actions (#24945)</li> <li>Convert powershell/PowerShell-Windows-CI to GitHub Actions (#24932)</li> <li>PMC parse state correctly from update command's response (#24860)</li> <li>Add EV2 support for publishing PowerShell packages to PMC (#24857)</li> </ul> </details>

7.4.7

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update .NET SDK to 8.0.405 </summary> <ul> <li>Update branch for release - Transitive - true - minor (#24546)</li> <li>Fix backport mistake in #24429 (#24545)</li> <li>Fix seed max value for Container Linux CI (#24510) (#24543)</li> <li>Add a way to use only NuGet feed sources (#24528) (#24542)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet to 1.0.6 (#24419)</li> <li>Update path due to pool change (Internal 33083)</li> <li>Update pool for "Publish BuildInfo" job (Internal 33082)</li> <li>Add missing backports and new fixes (Internal 33077)</li> <li>Port copy blob changes (Internal 33055)</li> <li>Update firewall to monitor (Internal 33048)</li> <li>Fix typo in release-MakeBlobPublic.yml (Internal 33046)</li> <li>Update change log for 7.4.6 (Internal 33040)</li> <li>Update changelog for v7.4.6 release (Internal 32983)</li> <li>Fix backport issues with release pipeline (#24835)</li> <li>Remove duplicated parameter (#24832)</li> <li>Make the <code>AssemblyVersion</code> not change for servicing releases 7.4.7 and onward (#24821)</li> <li>Add *.props and sort path filters for windows CI (#24822) (#24823)</li> <li>Take the newest windows signature nuget packages (#24818)</li> <li>Use work load identity service connection to download makeappx tool from storage account (#24817) (#24820)</li> <li>Update path filters for Windows CI (#24809) (#24819)</li> <li>Fixed release pipeline errors and switched to KS3 (#24751) (#24816)</li> <li>Update branch for release - Transitive - true - minor (#24806)</li> <li>Add ability to capture MSBuild Binary logs when restore fails (#24128) (#24799)</li> <li>Download package from package build for generating vpack (#24481) (#24801)</li> <li>Add a parameter that skips verify packages step (#24763) (#24803)</li> <li>Fix Changelog content grab during GitHub Release (#24788) (#24804)</li> <li>Add tool package download in publish nuget stage (#24790) (#24805)</li> <li>Add CodeQL scanning to APIScan build (#24303) (#24800)</li> <li>Deploy Box Update (#24632) (#24802)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Update notices file (#24810)

7.4.6 - 2024-10-22

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to 8.0.403 </summary> <ul> <li>Copy to static site instead of making blob public (#24269) (#24473)</li> <li>Add ability to capture MSBuild Binary logs when restore fails (#24128)</li> <li>Keep the roff file when gzipping it. (#24450)</li> <li>Update <code>PowerShell-Coordinated_Packages-Official.yml</code> (#24449)</li> <li>Update and add new NuGet package sources for different environments. (#24440)</li> <li>Add PMC mapping for Debian 12 (bookworm) (#24413)</li> <li>Fixes to Azure Public feed usage (#24429)</li> <li>Delete <code>assets/AppImageThirdPartyNotices.txt</code> (#24256)</li> <li>Delete <code>demos</code> directory (#24258)</li> <li>Add specific path for issues in tsaconfig (#24244)</li> <li>Checkin generated manpage (#24423)</li> <li>Add updated libicu dependency for Debian packages (#24301)</li> <li>Add mapping to azurelinux repo (#24290)</li> <li>Update vpack pipeline (#24281)</li> <li>Add <code>BaseUrl</code> to <code>buildinfo</code> JSON file (#24376)</li> <li>Delete the msix blob if it's already there (#24353)</li> <li>Make some release tests run in a hosted pools (#24270)</li> <li>Create new pipeline for compliance (#24252)</li> <li>Use Managed Identity for <code>APIScan</code> authentication (#24243)</li> <li>Check <code>Create and Submit</code> in vPack build by default (#24181)</li> <li>Capture environment better (#24148)</li> <li>Refactor Nuget package source creation to use <code>New-NugetPackageSource</code> function (#24104)</li> <li>Make Microsoft feeds the default (#24426)</li> <li>Bump to .NET 8.0.403 and update dependencies (#24405)</li> </ul> </details>

7.4.5 - 2024-08-20

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Fix WebCmdlets when -Body is specified but ContentType is not (#24145)

Tests

Rewrite the mac syslog tests to make them less flaky (#24152)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET SDK to 8.0.400 </summary> <ul> <li>Add feature flags for removing network isolation (Internal 32126)</li> <li>Update <code>ThirdPartyNotices.txt</code> for v7.4.5 (#24160)</li> <li>Update <code>cgmanifest.json</code> for v7.4.5 (#24159)</li> <li>Update .NET SDK to 8.0.400 (#24151)</li> <li>Cleanup unused csproj (#24146)</li> <li>Remember installation options and used them to initialize options for the next installation (#24143)</li> <li>Fix failures in GitHub action <code>markdown-link-check</code> (#24142)</li> <li>Use correct signing certificates for RPM and DEBs (#21522)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Update docs sample nuget.config (#24147)
Fix up broken links in Markdown files (#24144)

7.4.4 - 2024-07-18

Engine Updates and Fixes

Resolve paths correctly when importing files or files referenced in the module manifest (Internal 31780)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET to 8.0.303 </summary> <ul> <li>Enumerate over all signed zip packages in macos signing</li> <li>Update TPN for the v7.4.4 release (Internal 31793)</li> <li>Add update cgmanifest (Internal 31789)</li> <li>Add macos signing for package files (#24015) (#24059)</li> <li>Update .NET SDK to 8.0.303 (#24038)</li> </ul> </details>

7.4.3 - 2024-06-18

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Fix the error when using Start-Process -Credential without the admin privilege (#21393) (Thanks @jborean93!)
Fix Test-Path -IsValid to check for invalid path and filename characters (#21358)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Fix generating OutputType when running in Constrained Language Mode (#21605)
Expand ~ to $home on Windows with tab completion (#21529)
Make sure both stdout and stderr can be redirected from a native executable (#20997)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Update to .NET 8.0.6 We thank the following contributors! @ForNeVeR! </summary> <ul> <li>Fixes for change to new Engineering System.</li> <li>Fix argument passing in <code>GlobalToolShim</code> (#21333) (Thanks @ForNeVeR!)</li> <li>Create <code>powershell.config.json</code> for <code>PowerShell.Windows.x64</code> global tool (#23941)</li> <li>Remove markdown link check on release branches (#23937)</li> <li>Update to .NET 8.0.6 (#23936)</li> <li>Fix error in the vPack release, debug script that blocked release (#23904)</li> <li>Add branch counter variables for daily package builds (#21523)</li> <li>Updates to package and release pipelines (#23800)</li> <li>Fix exe signing with third party signing for WiX engine (#23878)</li> <li>Use PSScriptRoot to find path to Wix module (#21611)</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>Update installation on Wix module (#23808)</li> <li>Use feed with Microsoft Wix toolset (#21651)</li> <li>Create the Windows.x64 global tool with shim for signing (#21559)</li> <li>Generate MSI for <code>win-arm64</code> installer (#20516)</li> <li>update wix package install (#21537)</li> <li>Add a PAT for fetching PMC cli (#21503)</li> <li>Official PowerShell Package pipeline (#21504)</li> </ul> </details>

7.4.2 - 2024-04-11

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Revert "Adjust PUT method behavior to POST one for default content type in WebCmdlets" (#21049)
Fix regression with Get-Content when -Tail 0 and -Wait are both used (#20734) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Fix Get-Error serialization of array values (#21085) (Thanks @jborean93!)
Fix a regression in Format-Table when header label is empty (#21156)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Revert the PR #17856 (Do not preserve temporary results when no need to do so) (#21368)
Make sure the assembly/library resolvers are registered at early stage (#21361)
Handle the case that Runspace.DefaultRunspace is null when logging for WDAC Audit (#21344)
Fix PowerShell class to support deriving from an abstract class with abstract properties (#21331)
Fix the regression when doing type inference for $_ (#21223) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump to .NET 8.0.4 </summary> <ul> <li>Revert analyzer package back to stable</li> <li>Update SDK, deps and <code>cgmanifest</code> for <code>7.4.2</code></li> <li>Revert changes to <code>packaging.psm1</code></li> <li>Update <code>PSResourceGet</code> version from <code>1.0.2</code> to <code>1.0.4.1</code> (#21439)</li> <li>Verify environment variable for OneBranch before we try to copy (#21441)</li> <li>Remove <code>surrogateFile</code> setting of <code>APIScan</code> (#21238)</li> <li>Add <code>dotenv</code> install as latest version does not work with current Ruby version (#21239)</li> <li>Multiple fixes in official build pipeline (#21408)</li> <li>Add back 2 transitive dependency packages (#21415)</li> <li>Update <code>PSReadLine</code> to <code>v2.3.5</code> for the next <code>v7.4.x</code> servicing release (#21414)</li> <li>PowerShell co-ordinated build OneBranch pipeline (#21364)</li> </ul> </details>

7.4.1 - 2024-01-11

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Fix Group-Object output using interpolated strings (#20745) (Thanks @mawosoft!)
Fix Start-Process -PassThru to make sure the ExitCode property is accessible for the returned Process object (#20749) (#20866) (Thanks @CodeCyclone!)
Fix rendering of DisplayRoot for network PSDrive (#20793) (#20863)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Ensure filename is not null when logging WDAC ETW events (#20910) (Thanks @jborean93!)
Fix four regressions introduced by WDAC audit logging feature (#20913)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET 8 to version 8.0.101

</summary> <ul> <li>Update .NET SDK and dependencies for v7.4.1 (Internal 29142)</li> <li>Update cgmanifest for v7.4.1 (#20874)</li> <li>Update package dependencies for v7.4.1 (#20871)</li> <li>Set the <code>rollForwardOnNoCandidateFx</code> in <code>runtimeconfig.json</code> to roll forward only on minor and patch versions (#20689) (#20865)</li> <li>Remove RHEL7 publishing to packages.microsoft.com as it's no longer supported (#20849) (#20864)</li> <li>Fix the tab completion tests (#20867)</li> </ul> </details>

7.4.0 - 2023-11-16

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Added a missing ConfigureAwait(false) call to webcmdlets so they don't block (#20622)
Fix Group-Object so output uses current culture (#20623)
Block getting help from network locations in restricted remoting sessions (#20615)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Bump .NET 8 to 8.0.0 RTM build </summary> <ul> <li>Add internal .NET SDK URL parameter to release pipeline (Internal 28474)</li> <li>Update the CGManifest file for v7.4.0 release (Internal 28457)</li> <li>Fix repository root for the nuget.config (Internal 28456)</li> <li>Add internal nuget feed to compliance build (Internal 28449)</li> <li>Copy azure blob with PowerShell global tool to private blob and move to CDN during release (Internal 28438)</li> <li>Fix release build by making the internal SDK parameter optional (#20658) (Internal 28440)</li> <li>Make internal .NET SDK URL as a parameter for release builld (#20655) (Internal 28428)</li> <li>Update <code>PSResourceGet</code> version for <code>1.0.1</code> release (#20652) (Internal 28427)</li> <li>Bump .NET 8 to 8.0.0 RTM build (Internal 28360)</li> <li>Remove Auth header content from ErrorRecord (Internal 28409)</li> <li>Fix setting of variable to consume internal SDK source (Internal 28354)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure to v3.0.0 (Internal 28352)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.Native</code> to <code>v7.4.0</code> (#20617) (#20624)</li> </ul> </details>

7.4.0-rc.1 - 2023-10-24

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Fix Test-Connection due to .NET 8 changes (#20369) (#20531)
Add telemetry to check for specific tags when importing a module (#20371) (#20540)
Fix Copy-Item progress to only show completed when all files are copied (#20517) (#20544)
Fix unixmode to handle setuid and sticky when file is not an executable (#20366) (#20537)
Fix UNC path completion regression (#20419) (#20541)
Fix implicit remoting proxy cmdlets to act on common parameters (#20367) (#20530)
Fix Get-Service non-terminating error message to include category (#20276) (#20529)
Fixing regression in DSC (#20268) (#20528)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! </summary> <ul> <li>Update ThirdPartyNotices.txt file (Internal 28110)</li> <li>Update CGManifest for release</li> <li>Fix package version for .NET nuget packages (#20551) (#20552)</li> <li>Only registry App Path for release package (#20478) (#20549)</li> <li>Bump PSReadLine from 2.2.6 to 2.3.4 (#20305) (#20533)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure (#20511) (#20512) (#20433) (#20434) (#20534) (#20535) (#20545) (#20547)</li> <li>Bump to .NET 8 RC2 (#20510) (#20543)</li> <li>Add SBOM for release pipeline (#20519) (#20548)</li> <li>Bump version of <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet</code> to <code>v1.0.0</code> (#20485) (#20538)</li> <li>Bump xunit.runner.visualstudio from 2.5.1 to 2.5.3 (#20486) (#20542)</li> <li>Bump JsonSchema.Net from 5.2.5 to 5.2.6 (#20421) (#20532)</li> <li>Fix alpine tar package name and do not crossgen alpine fxdependent package (#20459) (#20536)</li> <li>Increase timeout when publishing packages to <code>packages.microsoft.com</code> (#20470) (#20539)</li> <li>Block any preview vPack release (#20243) (#20526)</li> <li>Add surrogate file for compliance scanning (#20423)</li> </ul> </details>

7.4.0-preview.6 - 2023-09-28

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Set approved experimental features to stable for 7.4 release (#20362)
Revert changes to continue using BinaryFormatter for Out-GridView (#20360)
Remove the comment trigger from feedback provider (#20346)

Tests

Continued improvement to tests for release automation (#20259)
Skip the test on x86 as InstallDate is not visible on Wow64 (#20255)
Harden some problematic release tests (#20254)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Move to .NET 8.0.100-rc.1.23463.5 </summary> <ul> <li>Update the regex for package name validation (Internal 27783, 27795)</li> <li>Update ThirdPartyNotices.txt (Internal 27772)</li> <li>Remove the <code>ref</code> folder before running compliance (#20375)</li> <li>Updates RIDs used to generate component Inventory (#20372)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp</code> from 4.7.0 to 4.8.0-2.final (#20368)</li> <li>Fix the release build by moving to the official .NET 8-rc.1 release build version (#20365)</li> <li>Update the experimental feature JSON files (#20363)</li> <li>Bump <code>XunitXml.TestLogger</code> from 3.1.11 to 3.1.17 (#20364)</li> <li>Update <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet</code> to 0.9.0-rc1 (#20361)</li> <li>Update .NET SDK to version 8.0.100-rc.1.23455.8 (#20358)</li> <li>Use <code>fxdependent-win-desktop</code> runtime for compliance runs (#20359)</li> <li>Add mapping for mariner arm64 stable (#20348)</li> <li>Bump <code>xunit.runner.visualstudio</code> from <code>2.5.0</code> to <code>2.5.1</code> (#20357)</li> <li>Bump <code>JsonSchema.Net</code> from 5.2.1 to 5.2.5 (#20356)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk</code> from 17.7.1 to 17.7.2 (#20355)</li> <li>Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.32.0 to 0.33.0 (#20354)</li> <li>Bump JsonSchema.Net from 5.1.3 to 5.2.1 (#20353)</li> <li>Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 (#20352)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk</code> from 17.7.0 to 17.7.1 (#20351)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp</code> from 4.7.0-2.final to 4.7.0 (#20350)</li> <li>Release build: Change the names of the PATs (#20349)</li> <li>Put the calls to <code>Set-AzDoProjectInfo</code> and Set-AzDoAuthToken` in the right order (#20347)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure (continued) (#20262)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure</code> to 3.0.0-preview.2 (#20261)</li> <li>Enable <code>vPack</code> provenance data (#20260)</li> <li>Start using new packages.microsoft.com cli (#20258)</li> <li>Add mariner arm64 to PMC release (#20257)</li> <li>Fix typo <code>donet</code> to <code>dotnet</code> in build scripts and pipelines (#20256)</li> </ul> </details>

7.4.0-preview.5 - 2023-08-21

Breaking Changes

Change how relative paths in Resolve-Path are handled when using the RelativeBasePath parameter (#19755) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Fix dynamic parameter completion (#19510) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Use OrdinalIgnoreCase to lookup script breakpoints (#20046) (Thanks @fflaten!)
Guard against null or blank path components when adding to module path (#19922) (Thanks @stevenebutler!)
Fix deadlock when piping to shell associated file extension (#19940)
Fix completion regression for filesystem paths with custom PSDrive names (#19921) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Add completion for variables assigned by the Data statement (#19831) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix a null reference crash in completion code (#19916) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Fix Out-GridView by implementing Clone() method to replace old use of binary format serialization (#20050)
Support Unix domain socket in WebCmdlets (#19343) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Wait-Process: add -Any and -PassThru parameters (#19423) (Thanks @dwtaber!)
Added the switch parameter -CaseInsensitive to Select-Object and Get-Unique cmdlets (#19683) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
Restore-Computer and Stop-Computer should fail with error when not running via sudo on Unix (#19824)
Add Help proxy function for non-Windows platforms (#19972)
Remove input text from the error message resulted by SecureString and PSCredential conversion failure (#19977) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
Add Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet to the telemetry module list (#19926)

Code Cleanup

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @eltociear, @Molkree, @MartinGC94 </summary> <ul> <li>Fix use of <code>ThrowIf</code> where the arguments were reversed (#20052)</li> <li>Fix typo in <code>Logging.Tests.ps1</code> (#20048) (Thanks @eltociear!)</li> <li>Apply the <code>InlineAsTypeCheck</code> in the engine code - 2nd pass (#19694) (Thanks @Molkree!)</li> <li>Apply the <code>InlineAsTypeCheck</code> rule in the engine code - 1st pass (#19692) (Thanks @Molkree!)</li> <li>Remove unused string completion code (#19879) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)</li> </ul> </details>

Tools

Give the assignPRs workflow write permissions (#20021)

Tests

Additional test hardening for tests which fail in release pass. (#20093)
Don't use a completion which has a space in it (#20064)
Fixes for release tests (#20028)
Remove spelling CI in favor of GitHub Action (#19973)
Hide expected error for negative test on windows for script extension (#19929)
Add more debugging to try to determine why these test fail in release build. (#19829)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<ul> <li>Update ThirdPartyNotices for 7.4.0-preview.5</li> <li>Update <code>PSResourceGet</code> to <code>0.5.24-beta24</code> (#20118)</li> <li>Fix build after the change to remove win-arm32 (#20102)</li> <li>Add comment about pinned packages (#20096)</li> <li>Bump to .NET 8 Preview 7 (#20092)</li> <li>Remove <code>Win-Arm32</code> from release build. (#20095)</li> <li>Add alpine framework dependent package (#19995)</li> <li>Bump JsonSchema.Net from 4.1.8 to 5.1.3 (#20089)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 17.6.3 to 17.7.0 (#20088)</li> <li>Move build to .NET 8 preview 6 (#19991)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure</code> from <code>2.0.0</code> to <code>3.0.0-preview.1</code> (#20081)</li> <li>Bump <code>Markdig.Signed</code> from <code>0.31.0</code> to <code>0.32.0</code> (#20076)</li> <li>Auto assign PR Maintainer (#20020)</li> <li>Delete rule that was supposed to round-robin assign a maintainer (#20019)</li> <li>Update the cgmanifest (#20012)</li> <li>Update the cgmanifest (#20008)</li> <li>Bump JsonSchema.Net from 4.1.7 to 4.1.8 (#20006)</li> <li>Bump JsonSchema.Net from 4.1.6 to 4.1.7 (#20000)</li> <li>Add mariner arm64 package build to release build (#19946)</li> <li>Check for pre-release packages when it's a stable release (#19939)</li> <li>Make PR creation tool use <code>--web</code> because it is more reliable (#19944)</li> <li>Update to the latest NOTICES file (#19971)</li> <li>Update variable used to bypass the blocking check for multiple NuGet feeds for release pipeline (#19963)</li> <li>Update variable used to bypass the blocking check for multiple NuGet feeds (#19967)</li> <li>Update README.md and metadata.json for release v7.2.13 and v7.3.6 (#19964)</li> <li>Don't publish notice on failure because it prevent retry (#19955)</li> <li>Change variable used to bypass nuget security scanning (#19954)</li> <li>Update the cgmanifest (#19924)</li> <li>Publish rpm package for rhel9 (#19750)</li> <li>Bump XunitXml.TestLogger from 3.0.78 to 3.1.11 (#19900)</li> <li>Bump JsonSchema.Net from 4.1.5 to 4.1.6 (#19885)</li> <li>Bump xunit from 2.4.2 to 2.5.0 (#19902)</li> <li>Remove <code>HostArchitecture</code> dynamic parameter for <code>osxpkg</code> (#19917)</li> <li>FabricBot: Onboarding to GitOps.ResourceManagement because of FabricBot decommissioning (#19905)</li> <li>Change variable used to bypass nuget security scanning (#19907)</li> <li>Checkout history for markdown lint check (#19908)</li> <li>Switch to GitHub Action for linting markdown (#19899)</li> <li>Bump xunit.runner.visualstudio from 2.4.5 to 2.5.0 (#19901)</li> <li>Add runtime and packaging type info for mariner2 arm64 (#19450)</li> <li>Update to the latest NOTICES file (#19856)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Update README.md and metadata.json for 7.4.0-preview.4 release (#19872)
Fix grammatical issue in ADOPTERS.md (#20037) (Thanks @nikohoffren!)
Replace docs.microsoft.com URLs in code with FWLinks (#19996)
Change docs.microsoft.com to learn.microsoft.com (#19994)
Update man page to match current help for pwsh (#19993)
Merge 7.3.5, 7.3.6, 7.2.12 and 7.2.13 changelogs (#19968)
Fix ///-comments that violate the docs schema (#19957)
Update the link for getting started in README.md (#19932)
Migrate user docs to the PowerShell-Docs repository (#19871)

7.4.0-preview.4 - 2023-06-29

Breaking Changes

Test-Json: Use JsonSchema.Net (System.Text.Json) instead of NJsonSchema (Newtonsoft.Json) (#18141) (Thanks @gregsdennis!)
Test-Connection: Increase output detail when performing a TCP test (#11452) (Thanks @jackdcasey!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Fix native executables not redirecting to file (#19842)
Add a new experimental feature to control native argument passing style on Windows (#18706)
Fix TabExpansion2 variable leak when completing variables (#18763) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Enable completion of variables across ScriptBlock scopes (#19819) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix completion of the foreach statement variable (#19814) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix variable type inference precedence (#18691) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix member completion for PowerShell Enum class (#19740) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix parsing for array literals in index expressions in method calls (#19224) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix incorrect string to type conversion (#19560) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix slow execution when many breakpoints are used (#14953) (Thanks @nohwnd!)
Add a public API for getting locations of PSModulePath elements (#19422)
Add WDAC Audit logging (#19641)
Improve path completion (#19489) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix an indexing out of bound error in CompleteInput for empty script input (#19501) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Improve variable completion performance (#19595) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Allow partial culture matching in Update-Help (#18037) (Thanks @dkaszews!)
Fix the check when reading input in NativeCommandProcessor (#19614)
Add support of respecting $PSStyle.OutputRendering on the remote host (#19601)
Support byte stream piping between native commands and file redirection (#17857)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Disallow negative values for Get-Content cmdlet parameters -Head and -Tail (#19715) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Make Update-Help throw proper error when current culture is not associated with a language (#19765) (Thanks @josea!)
Do not require activity when creating a completed progress record (#18474) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
WebCmdlets: Add alias for -TimeoutSec to -ConnectionTimeoutSeconds and add -OperationTimeoutSeconds (#19558) (Thanks @stevenebutler!)
Avoid checking screen scraping on non-Windows platforms before launching native app (#19812)
Add reference to PSResourceGet (#19597)
Add FileNameStar to MultipartFileContent in WebCmdlets (#19467) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Add ParameterSetName for the -Detailed parameter of Test-Connection (#19727)
Remove the property disabling optimization (#19701)
Filter completion for enum parameter against ValidateRange attributes (#17750) (Thanks @fflaten!)
Small cleanup Invoke-RestMethod (#19490) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Fix wildcard globbing in root of device paths (#19442) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Add specific error message that creating Junctions requires absolute path (#19409)
Fix array type parsing in generic types (#19205) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Improve the verbose message of WebCmdlets to show correct HTTP version (#19616) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Fix HTTP status from 409 to 429 for WebCmdlets to get retry interval from Retry-After header. (#19622) (Thanks @mkht!)
Remove minor versions from PSCompatibleVersions (#18635) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Update JsonSchema.Net version to 4.1.0 (#19610) (Thanks @gregsdennis!)
Allow combining of -Skip and -SkipLast parameters in Select-Object cmdlet. (#18849) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
Fix constructing PSModulePath if a sub-path has trailing separator (#13147)
Add Get-SecureRandom cmdlet (#19587)
Fix New-Item to re-create Junction when -Force is specified (#18311) (Thanks @GigaScratch!)
Improve Hashtable key completion for type constrained variable assignments, nested Hashtables and more (#17660) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Set-Clipboard -AsOSC52 for remote usage (#18222) (Thanks @dkaszews!)
Refactor MUIFileSearcher.AddFiles in the help related code (#18825) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Set SetLastError to true for symbolic and hard link native APIs (#19566)
Fix Get-AuthenticodeSignature -Content to not roundtrip the bytes to a Unicode string and then back to bytes (#18774) (Thanks @jborean93!)
WebCmdlets: Rename -TimeoutSec to -ConnectionTimeoutSeconds (with alias) and add -OperationTimeoutSeconds (#19558) (Thanks @stevenebutler!)

Code Cleanup

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @eltociear, @ArmaanMcleod, @turbedi, @CarloToso, @Molkree, @xtqqczze </summary> <ul> <li>Fix typo in <code>NativeCommandProcessor.cs</code> (#19846) (Thanks @eltociear!)</li> <li>Rename file from <code>PingPathCommand.cs</code> to <code>TestPathCommand.cs</code> (#19782) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)</li> <li>Make use of the new <code>Random.Shared</code> property (#18417) (Thanks @turbedi!)</li> <li>six files (#19695) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Apply IDE0019: <code>InlineAsTypeCheck</code> in Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands (#19688)(#19690)(#19687)(#19689) (Thanks @Molkree!)</li> <li>Remove <code>PSv2CompletionCompleter</code> as part of the PowerShell v2 code cleanup (#18337) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Enable more nullable annotations in WebCmdlets (#19359) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> </ul> </details>

Tools

Add Git mailmap for Andy Jordan (#19469)
Add backport function to release tools (#19568)

Tests

Improve reliability of the Ctrl+c tests for WebCmdlets (#19532) (Thanks @stevenebutler!)
Fix logic for Import-CliXml test (#19805)
Add some debugging to the transcript test for SilentlyContinue (#19770)
Re-enable Get-ComputerInfo pending tests (#19746)
Update syslog parser to handle modern formats. (#19737)
Pass -UserScope as required by RunUpdateHelpTests (#13400) (Thanks @yecril71pl!)
Change how isPreview is determined for default cmdlets tests (#19650)
Skip file signature tests on 2012R2 where PKI cmdlet do not work (#19643)
Change logic for testing missing or extra cmdlets. (#19635)
Fix incorrect test cases in ExecutionPolicy.Tests.ps1 (#19485) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Fixing structure typo in test setup (#17458) (Thanks @powercode!)
Fix test failures on Windows for time zone and remoting (#19466)
Harden 'All approved Cmdlets present' test (#19530)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> Updated to .NET 8 Preview 4 We thank the following contributors! @krishnayalavarthi </summary> <ul> <li>Update to the latest NOTICES file (#19537)(#19820)(#19784)(#19720)(#19644)(#19620)(#19605)(#19546)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 17.5.0 to 17.6.3 (#19867)(#19762)(#19733)(#19668)(#19613)</li> <li>Update the cgmanifest (#19847)(#19800)(#19792)(#19776)(#19763)(#19697)(#19631)</li> <li>Bump StyleCop.Analyzers from 1.2.0-beta.406 to 1.2.0-beta.507 (#19837)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 4.6.0-1.final to 4.7.0-2.final (#19838)(#19667)</li> <li>Update to .NET 8 Preview 4 (#19696)</li> <li>Update experimental-feature JSON files (#19828)</li> <li>Bump JsonSchema.Net from 4.1.1 to 4.1.5 (#19790)(#19768)(#19788)</li> <li>Update group to assign PRs in <code>fabricbot.json</code> (#19759)</li> <li>Add retry on failure for all upload tasks in Azure Pipelines (#19761)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.MarkdownRender from 7.2.0 to 7.2.1 (#19751)(#19752)</li> <li>Delete symbols on Linux as well (#19735)</li> <li>Update <code>windows.json</code> packaging BOM (#19728)</li> <li>Disable SBOM signing for CI and add extra files for packaging tests (#19729)</li> <li>Update experimental-feature JSON files (#19698(#19588))</li> <li>Add ProductCode in registry for MSI install (#19590)</li> <li>Runas format changed (#15434) (Thanks @krishnayalavarthi!)</li> <li>For Preview releases, add <code>pwsh-preview.exe</code> alias to MSIX package (#19602)</li> <li>Add prompt to fix conflict during backport (#19583)</li> <li>Add comment in wix detailing use of <code>UseMU</code> (#19371)</li> <li>Verify that packages have license data (#19543)</li> <li>Add an explicit manual stage for changelog update (#19551)</li> <li>Update the team member list in <code>releaseTools.psm1</code> (#19544)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Update metadata.json and README.md for upcoming releases (#19863)(#19542)
Update message to use the actual parameter name (#19851)
Update CONTRIBUTING.md to include Code of Conduct enforcement (#19810)
Update working-group-definitions.md (#19809)(#19561)
Update working-group.md to add section about reporting working group members (#19758)
Correct capitalization in readme (#19666) (Thanks @Aishat452!)
Updated the public dashboard link (#19634)
Fix a typo in serialization.cs (#19598) (Thanks @eltociear!)

7.4.0-preview.3 - 2023-04-20

Breaking Changes

Remove code related to #requires -pssnapin (#19320)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Change the arrow used in feedback suggestion to a more common Unicode character (#19534)
Support trigger registration in feedback provider (#19525)
Update the ICommandPredictor interface to reduce boilerplate code from predictor implementation (#19414)
Fix a crash in the type inference code (#19400) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)

Performance

Speed up Resolve-Path relative path resolution (#19171) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Infer external application output as strings (#19193) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix a race condition in Add-Type (#19471)
Detect insecure https-to-http redirect only if both URIs are absolute (#19468) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Support Ctrl+c when connection hangs while reading data in WebCmdlets (#19330) (Thanks @stevenebutler!)
Enable type conversion of AutomationNull to $null for assignment (#19415)
Add the parameter -Environment to Start-Process (#19374)
Add the parameter -RelativeBasePath to Resolve-Path (#19358) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Exclude redundant parameter aliases from completion results (#19382) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Allow using a folder path in WebCmdlets' -OutFile parameter (#19007) (Thanks @CarloToso!)

Code Cleanup

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @eltociear, @CarloToso </summary> <ul> <li>Fix typo in <code>typeDataXmlLoader.cs</code> (#19319) (Thanks @eltociear!)</li> <li>Fix typo in <code>Compiler.cs</code> (#19491) (Thanks @eltociear!)</li> <li>Inline the <code>GetResponseObject</code> method (#19380) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Simplify <code>ContentHelper</code> methods (#19367) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Initialize regex lazily in <code>BasicHtmlWebResponseObject</code> (#19361) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Fix codefactor issue in if-statement (part 5) (#19286) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Add nullable annotations in <code>WebRequestSession.cs</code> (#19291) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> </ul> </details>

Tests

Harden the default command test (#19416)
Skip VT100 tests on Windows Server 2012R2 as console does not support it (#19413)
Improve package management acceptance tests by not going to the gallery (#19412)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @dkattan </summary> <ul> <li>Fixing MSI checkbox (#19325)</li> <li>Update the experimental feature JSON files (#19297)</li> <li>Update the cgmanifest (#19459, #19465)</li> <li>Update .NET SDK version to <code>8.0.100-preview.3.23178.7</code> (#19381)</li> <li>Force updating the transitive dependency on <code>Microsoft.CSharp</code> (#19514)</li> <li>Update <code>DotnetRuntimeMetadata.json</code> to consume the .NET 8.0.0-preview.3 release (#19529)</li> <li>Move PSGallery sync to a pool (#19523)</li> <li>Fix the regex used for package name check in vPack build (#19511)</li> <li>Make the vPack PAT library more obvious (#19505)</li> <li>Change <code>Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp</code> back to 4.5.0 (#19464) (Thanks @dkattan!)</li> <li>Update to the latest NOTICES file (#19332)</li> <li>Add <code>PoolNames</code> variable group to compliance pipeline (#19408)</li> <li>Fix stage dependencies and typo in release build (#19353)</li> <li>Fix issues in release build and release pipeline (#19338)</li> </ul> </details>

7.4.0-preview.2 - 2023-03-14

Breaking Changes

Update some PowerShell APIs to throw ArgumentException instead of ArgumentNullException when the argument is an empty string (#19215) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Add the parameter -ProgressAction to the common parameters (#18887)

Engine Updates and Fixes

Fix PlainText output to correctly remove the Reset VT sequence without number (#19283)
Fix ConciseView to handle custom ParserError error records (#19239)
Fix VtSubstring helper method to correctly check characters copied (#19240)
Update the FeedbackProvider interface to return structured data (#19133)
Make the exception error in PowerShell able to associate with the right history entry (#19095)
Fix for JEA session leaking functions (#19024)
Add WDAC events and system lockdown notification (#18893)
Fix support for nanoserver due to lack of AMSI (#18882)

Performance

Use interpolated strings (#19002)(#19003)(#18977)(#18980)(#18996)(#18979)(#18997)(#18978)(#18983)(#18992)(#18993)(#18985)(#18988) (Thanks @CarloToso!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Fix completion for PSCustomObject variable properties (#18682) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Improve type inference for Get-Random (#18972) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Make -Encoding parameter able to take ANSI encoding in PowerShell (#19298) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Telemetry improvements for tracking experimental feature opt out (#18762)
Support HTTP persistent connections in Web Cmdlets (#19249) (Thanks @stevenebutler!)
Fix using XML -Body in webcmdlets without an encoding (#19281) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Add the Statement property to $MyInvocation (#19027) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
Fix Start-Process -Wait with -Credential (#19096) (Thanks @jborean93!)
Adjust PUT method behavior to POST one for default content type in WebCmdlets (#19152) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Improve verbose message in web cmdlets when content length is unknown (#19252) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Preserve WebSession.MaximumRedirection from changes (#19190) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Take into account ContentType from Headers in WebCmdlets (#19227) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Use C# 11 UTF-8 string literals (#19243) (Thanks @turbedi!)
Add property assignment completion for enums (#19178) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix class member completion for classes with base types (#19179) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Add -Path and -LiteralPath parameters to Test-Json cmdlet (#19042) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
Allow to preserve the original HTTP method by adding -PreserveHttpMethodOnRedirect to Web cmdlets (#18894) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Webcmdlets display an error on HTTPS to http redirect (#18595) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Build the relative URI for links from the response in Invoke-WebRequest (#19092) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Fix redirection for -CustomMethod POST in WebCmdlets (#19111) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Dispose previous response in Webcmdlets (#19117) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Improve Invoke-WebRequest XML and JSON errors format (#18837) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Fix error formatting to remove the unneeded leading newline for concise view (#19080)
Add -NoHeader parameter to ConvertTo-Csv and Export-Csv cmdlets (#19108) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
Fix Start-Process -Credential -Wait to work on Windows (#19082)
Add ValidateNotNullOrEmpty to OutFile and InFile parameters of WebCmdlets (#19044) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Correct spelling of "custom" in event (#19059) (Thanks @spaette!)
Ignore expected error for file systems not supporting alternate streams (#19065)
Adding missing guard for telemetry opt out to avoid NullReferenceException when importing modules (#18949) (Thanks @powercode!)
Fix progress calculation divide by zero in Copy-Item (#19038)
Add progress to Copy-Item (#18735)
WebCmdlets parse XML declaration to get encoding value, if present. (#18748) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
HttpKnownHeaderNames update headers list (#18947) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Fix bug with managing redirection and KeepAuthorization in Web cmdlets (#18902) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Fix Get-Error to work with strict mode (#18895)
Add AllowInsecureRedirect switch to Web cmdlets (#18546) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Invoke-RestMethod -FollowRelLink fix links containing commas (#18829) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Prioritize the default parameter set when completing positional arguments (#18755) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Add -CommandWithArgs parameter to pwsh (#18726)
Enable creating composite subsystem implementation in modules (#18888)
Fix Format-Table -RepeatHeader for property derived tables (#18870)
Add StatusCode to HttpResponseException (#18842) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Fix type inference for all scope variables (#18758) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Add completion for Using keywords (#16514) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)

Code Cleanup

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @CarloToso, @iSazonov, @xtqqczze, @turbedi, @syntax-tm, @eltociear, @ArmaanMcleod </summary> <ul> <li>Small cleanup in the WebCmdlet code (#19299) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Remove unused GUID detection code from console host (#18871) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Fix <code>CodeFactor</code> issues in the code base - part 4 (#19270) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Fix codefactor if part 3 (#19269) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Fix codefactor if part 2 (#19267) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Fix codefactor if part 1 (#19266) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Remove comment and simplify condition in WebCmdlets (#19251) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Small style changes (#19241) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Use <code>ArgumentException.ThrowIfNullOrEmpty</code> as appropriate [part 1] (#19215) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Use <code>using</code> variable to reduce the nested level (#19229) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Use <code>ArgumentException.ThrowIfNullOrEmpty()</code> in more places (#19213) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Replace <code>BitConverter.ToString</code> with <code>Convert.ToHexString</code> where appropriate (#19216) (Thanks @turbedi!)</li> <li>Replace <code>Requires.NotNullOrEmpty(string)</code> with <code>ArgumentException.ThrowIfNullOrEmpty</code> (#19197) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Use <code>ArgumentOutOfRangeException.ThrowIfNegativeOrZero</code> when applicable (#19201) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Use <code>CallerArgumentExpression</code> on <code>Requires.NotNull</code> (#19200) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Revert a few change to not use 'ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull' (#19151)</li> <li>Corrected some minor spelling mistakes (#19176) (Thanks @syntax-tm!)</li> <li>Fix a typo in <code>InitialSessionState.cs</code> (#19177) (Thanks @eltociear!)</li> <li>Fix a typo in <code>pwsh</code> help content (#19153)</li> <li>Revert comment changes in <code>WebRequestPSCmdlet.Common.cs</code> (#19136) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Small cleanup webcmdlets (#19128) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Merge partials in <code>WebRequestPSCmdlet.Common.cs</code> (#19126) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Cleanup WebCmdlets comments (#19124) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Added minor readability and refactoring fixes to <code>Process.cs</code> (#19123) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)</li> <li>Small changes in Webcmdlets (#19109) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Rework <code>SetRequestContent</code> in WebCmdlets (#18964) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Small cleanup WebCmdlets (#19030) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Update additional interpolated string changes (#19029)</li> <li>Revert some of the interpolated string changes (#19018)</li> <li>Cleanup <code>StreamHelper.cs</code>, <code>WebRequestPSCmdlet.Common.cs</code> and <code>InvokeRestMethodCommand.Common.cs</code> (#18950) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Small cleanup common code of webcmdlets (#18946) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Simplification of <code>GetHttpMethod</code> and <code>HttpMethod</code> in WebCmdlets (#18846) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Fix typo in <code>ModuleCmdletBase.cs</code> (#18933) (Thanks @eltociear!)</li> <li>Fix regression in <code>RemoveNulls</code> (#18881) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Replace all <code>NotNull</code> with <code>ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull</code> (#18820) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Cleanup <code>InvokeRestMethodCommand.Common.cs</code> (#18861) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> </ul> </details>

Tools

Add a Mariner install script (#19294)
Add tool to trigger license information gathering for NuGet modules (#18827)

Tests

Update and enable the test for the type of $input (#18968) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Increase the timeout for creating the WebListener (#19268)
Increase the timeout when waiting for the event log (#19264)
Add Windows ARM64 CI (#19040)
Change test so output does not include newline (#19026)
Allow system lock down test debug hook to work with new WLDP API (#18962)
Add tests for Allowinsecureredirect parameter in Web cmdlets (#18939) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Enable get-help pattern tests on Unix (#18855) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Create test to check if WebCmdlets decompress brotli-encoded data (#18905) (Thanks @CarloToso!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @bergmeister, @xtqqczze </summary> <ul> <li>Restructure the package build to simplify signing and packaging stages (#19321)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp</code> from <code>4.4.0</code> to <code>4.6.0-2.23152.6</code> (#19306)(#19233)</li> <li>Test fixes for stabilizing tests (#19068)</li> <li>Bump <code>Newtonsoft.Json</code> from <code>13.0.2</code> to <code>13.0.3</code> (#19290)(#19289)</li> <li>Fix mariner sudo detection (#19304)</li> <li>Add stage for symbols job in Release build (#18937)</li> <li>Bump .NET to Preview 2 version (#19305)</li> <li>Move workflows that create PRs to private repo (#19276)</li> <li>Use reference assemblies generated by dotnet (#19302)</li> <li>Update the cgmanifest (#18814)(#19165)(#19296)</li> <li>Always regenerate files WXS fragment (#19196)</li> <li>MSI installer: Add checkbox and MSI property DISABLE_TELEMETRY to optionally disable telemetry. (#10725) (Thanks @bergmeister!)</li> <li>Add <code>-Force</code> to <code>Move-Item</code> to fix the GitHub workflow (#19262)</li> <li>Update and remove outdated docs to fix the URL link checks (#19261)</li> <li>Bump <code>Markdig.Signed</code> from <code>0.30.4</code> to <code>0.31.0</code> (#19232)</li> <li>Add pattern to replace for reference API generation (#19214)</li> <li>Split test artifact build into windows and non-windows (#19199)</li> <li>Set <code>LangVersion</code> compiler option to <code>11.0</code> (#18877) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Update to .NET 8 preview 1 build (#19194)</li> <li>Simplify Windows Packaging CI Trigger YAML (#19160)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk</code> from <code>17.4.0</code> to <code>17.5.0</code> (#18823)(#19191)</li> <li>Add URL for all distributions (#19159)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.Extensions.ObjectPool</code> from <code>7.0.1</code> to <code>7.0.3</code> (#18925)(#19155)</li> <li>Add verification of R2R at packaging (#19129)</li> <li>Allow cross compiling windows (#19119)</li> <li>Update CodeQL build agent (#19113)</li> <li>Bump <code>XunitXml.TestLogger</code> from <code>3.0.70</code> to <code>3.0.78</code> (#19066)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Analyzers</code> from <code>3.3.3</code> to <code>3.3.4</code> (#18975)</li> <li>Bump <code>BenchmarkDotNet</code> to <code>0.13.3</code> (#18878) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.Native</code> from <code>7.4.0-preview.1</code> to <code>7.4.0-preview.2</code> (#18910)</li> <li>Add checks for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 in the MSI installer (#18904)</li> <li>Update build to include <code>WinForms</code> / <code>WPF</code> in all Windows builds (#18859)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Update to the latest NOTICES file (#19169)(#19309)(#19086)(#19077)
Update supported distros in readme (#18667) (Thanks @techguy16!)
Remove the 'Code Coverage Status' badge (#19265)
Pull in changelogs for v7.2.10 and v7.3.3 releases (#19219)
Update tools metadata and README (#18831)(#19204)(#19014)
Update a broken link in the README.md (#19187)
Fix typos in comments (#19064) (Thanks @spaette!)
Add 7.2 and 7.3 changelogs (#19025)
typos (#19058) (Thanks @spaette!)
Fix typo in dotnet-tools/README.md (#19021) (Thanks @spaette!)
Fix up all comments to be in the proper order with proper spacing (#18619)
Changelog for v7.4.0-preview.1 release (#18835)

7.4.0-preview.1 - 2022-12-20

Engine Updates and Fixes

Add Instrumentation to AmsiUtil and make the init variable readonly (#18727)
Fix typo in OutOfProcTransportManager.cs (#18766) (Thanks @eltociear!)
Allow non-default encodings to be used in user's script/code (#18605)
Add Dim and DimOff to $PSStyle (#18653)
Change exec from alias to function to handle arbitrary arguments (#18567)
The command prefix should also be in the error color for NormalView (#18555)
Skip cloud files marked as "not on disk" during command discovery (#18152)
Replace UTF8Encoding(false) with Encoding.Default (#18356) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Fix Switch-Process to set termios appropriate for child process (#18467)
On Unix, only explicitly terminate the native process if not in background (#18215)
Treat [NullString]::Value as the string type when resolving methods (#18080)
Improve pseudo binding for dynamic parameters (#18030) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Make experimental feature PSAnsiRenderingFileInfo stable (#18042)
Update to use version 2.21.0 of Application Insights. (#17903)
Do not preserve temporary results when no need to do so (#17856)

Performance

Remove some static constants from Utils.Separators (#18154) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Avoid using regular expression when unnecessary in ScriptWriter (#18348)
Use source generator for PSVersionInfo to improve startup time (#15603) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Skip evaluating suggestions at startup (#18232)
Avoid using Regex when not necessary (#18210)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Update to use ComputeCore.dll for PowerShell Direct (#18194)
Replace ArgumentNullException(nameof()) with ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull() (#18792)(#18784) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Remove TabExpansion from remote session configuration (#18795) (Internal 23331)
WebCmdlets get Retry-After from headers if status code is 429 (#18717) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Implement SupportsShouldProcess in Stop-Transcript (#18731) (Thanks @JohnLBevan!)
Fix New-Item -ItemType Hardlink to resolve target to absolute path and not allow link to itself (#18634)
Add output types to Format commands (#18746) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix the process CommandLine on Linux (#18710) (Thanks @jborean93!)
Fix SuspiciousContentChecker.Match to detect a predefined string when the text starts with it (#18693)
Switch $PSNativeCommandUseErrorActionPreference to $true when feature is enabled (#18695)
Fix Start-Job to check the existence of working directory using the PowerShell way (#18675)
Webcmdlets add 308 to redirect codes and small cleanup (#18536) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Ensure HelpInfo.Category is consistently a string (#18254)
Remove gcloud from the legacy list because it's resolved to a .ps1 script (#18575)
Add gcloud and sqlcmd to list to use legacy argument passing (#18559)
Fix native access violation (#18545) (#18547) (Thanks @chrullrich!)
Fix issue when completing the first command in a script with an empty array expression (#18355) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Improve type inference of hashtable keys (#17907) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix Switch-Process to copy the current env to the new process (#18452)
Fix Switch-Process error to include the command that is not found (#18443)
Update Out-Printer to remove all decorating ANSI escape sequences from PowerShell formatting (#18425)
Web cmdlets set default charset encoding to UTF8 (#18219) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
Fix incorrect cmdlet name in the script used by Restart-Computer (#18374) (Thanks @urizen-source!)
Add the function cd~ (#18308) (Thanks @GigaScratch!)
Fix type inference error for empty return statements (#18351) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix the exception reporting in ConvertFrom-StringData (#18336) (Thanks @GigaScratch!)
Implement IDisposable in NamedPipeClient (#18341) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Replace command-error suggestion with new implementation based on subsystem plugin (#18252)
Remove the ProcessorArchitecture portion from the full name as it's obsolete (#18320)
Make the fuzzy searching flexible by passing in the fuzzy matcher (#18270)
Add -FuzzyMinimumDistance parameter to Get-Command (#18261)
Improve startup time by triggering initialization of additional types on background thread (#18195)
Fix decompression in web cmdlets (#17955) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Add CustomTableHeaderLabel formatting to differentiate table header labels that are not property names (#17346)
Remove the extra new line form List formatting (#18185)
Minor update to the FileInfo table formatting on Unix to make it more concise (#18183)
Fix Parent property on processes with complex name (#17545) (Thanks @jborean93!)
Make PowerShell class not affiliate with Runspace when declaring the NoRunspaceAffinity attribute (#18138)
Complete the progress bar rendering in Invoke-WebRequest when downloading is complete or cancelled (#18130)
Display download progress in human readable format for Invoke-WebRequest (#14611) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
Update WriteConsole to not use stackalloc for buffer with too large size (#18084)
Filter out compiler generated types for Add-Type -PassThru (#18095)
Fixing CA2014 warnings and removing the warning suppression (#17982) (Thanks @creative-cloud!)
Make experimental feature PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing stable (#18044)
Make experimental feature PSAMSIMethodInvocationLogging stable (#18041)
Handle PSObject argument specially in method invocation logging (#18060)
Fix typos in EventResource.resx (#18063) (Thanks @eltociear!)
Make experimental feature PSRemotingSSHTransportErrorHandling stable (#18046)
Make experimental feature PSExec stable (#18045)
Make experimental feature PSCleanBlock stable (#18043)
Fix error formatting to use color defined in $PSStyle.Formatting (#17987)
Remove unneeded use of chmod 777 (#17974)
Support mapping foreground/background ConsoleColor values to VT escape sequences (#17938)
Make pwsh server modes implicitly not show banner (#17921)
Add output type attributes for Get-WinEvent (#17948) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Remove 1 second minimum delay in Invoke-WebRequest for small files, and prevent file-download-error suppression. (#17896) (Thanks @AAATechGuy!)
Add completion for values in comparisons when comparing Enums (#17654) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix positional argument completion (#17796) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Fix member completion in attribute argument (#17902) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Throw when too many parameter sets are defined (#17881) (Thanks @fflaten!)
Limit searching of charset attribute in meta tag for HTML to first 1024 characters in webcmdlets (#17813)
Fix Update-Help failing silently with implicit non-US culture. (#17780) (Thanks @dkaszews!)
Add the ValidateNotNullOrWhiteSpace attribute (#17191) (Thanks @wmentha!)
Improve enumeration of inferred types in pipeline (#17799) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)

Code Cleanup

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! @MartinGC94, @CarloToso, @iSazonov, @xtqqczze, @turbedi, @trossr32, @eltociear, @AtariDreams, @jborean93 </summary> <ul> <li>Add TSAUpload for APIScan (#18446)</li> <li>Use Pattern matching in <code>ast.cs</code> (#18794) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)</li> <li>Cleanup <code>webrequestpscmdlet.common.cs</code> (#18596) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Unify <code>CreateFile</code> <code>pinvoke</code> in SMA (#18751) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Cleanup <code>webresponseobject.common</code> (#18785) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li><code>InvokeRestMethodCommand.Common</code> cleanup and merge partials (#18736) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Replace <code>GetDirectories</code> in <code>CimDscParser</code> (#14319) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>WebResponseObject.Common merge partials atomic commits (#18703) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Enable pending test for <code>Start-Process</code> (#18724) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Remove one CreateFileW (#18732) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Replace <code>DllImport</code> with <code>LibraryImport</code> for WNetAddConnection2 (#18721) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Use File.OpenHandle() instead CreateFileW pinvoke (#18722) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Replace DllImport with LibraryImport for WNetGetConnection (#18690) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Replace <code>DllImport</code> with <code>LibraryImport</code> - 1 (#18603) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Replace DllImport with LibraryImport in SMA 3 (#18564) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Replace <code>DllImport</code> with <code>LibraryImport</code> in SMA - 7 (#18594) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Use static <code>DateTime.UnixEpoch</code> and <code>RandomNumberGenerator.Fill()</code> (#18621) (Thanks @turbedi!)</li> <li>Rewrite Get-FileHash to use static HashData methods (#18471) (Thanks @turbedi!)</li> <li>Replace DllImport with LibraryImport in SMA 8 (#18599) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Replace DllImport with LibraryImport in SMA 4 (#18579) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Remove NativeCultureResolver as dead code (#18582) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Replace DllImport with LibraryImport in SMA 6 (#18581) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Replace DllImport with LibraryImport in SMA 2 (#18543) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Use standard SBCS detection (#18593) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Remove unused pinvokes in RemoteSessionNamedPipe (#18583) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Replace DllImport with LibraryImport in SMA 5 (#18580) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Remove SafeRegistryHandle (#18597) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Remove <code>ArchitectureSensitiveAttribute</code> from the code base (#18598) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Build COM adapter only on Windows (#18590)</li> <li>Include timer instantiation for legacy telemetry in conditional compiler statements in Get-Help (#18475) (Thanks @trossr32!)</li> <li>Convert <code>DllImport</code> to <code>LibraryImport</code> for recycle bin, clipboard, and computerinfo cmdlets (#18526)</li> <li>Replace DllImport with LibraryImport in SMA 1 (#18520) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Replace DllImport with LibraryImport in engine (#18496)</li> <li>Fix typo in InitialSessionState.cs (#18435) (Thanks @eltociear!)</li> <li>Remove remaining unused strings from resx files (#18448)</li> <li>Use new LINQ Order() methods instead of OrderBy(static x => x) (#18395) (Thanks @turbedi!)</li> <li>Make use of StringSplitOptions.TrimEntries when possible (#18412) (Thanks @turbedi!)</li> <li>Replace some <code>string.Join(string)</code> calls with <code>string.Join(char)</code> (#18411) (Thanks @turbedi!)</li> <li>Remove unused strings from FileSystem and Registry providers (#18403)</li> <li>Use generic <code>GetValues<T></code>, <code>GetNames<T></code> enum methods (#18391) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Remove unused resource strings from <code>SessionStateStrings</code> (#18394)</li> <li>Remove unused resource strings in <code>System.Management.Automation</code> (#18388)</li> <li>Use <code>Enum.HasFlags</code> part 1 (#18386) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Remove unused strings from parser (#18383)</li> <li>Remove unused strings from Utility module (#18370)</li> <li>Remove unused console strings (#18369)</li> <li>Remove unused strings from <code>ConsoleInfoErrorStrings.resx</code> (#18367)</li> <li>Code cleanup in <code>ContentHelper.Common.cs</code> (#18288) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Remove <code>FusionAssemblyIdentity</code> and <code>GlobalAssemblyCache</code> as they are not used (#18334) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Remove some static initializations in <code>StringManipulationHelper</code> (#18243) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Use <code>MemoryExtensions.IndexOfAny</code> in <code>PSv2CompletionCompleter</code> (#18245) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Use <code>MemoryExtensions.IndexOfAny</code> in <code>WildcardPattern</code> (#18242) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Small cleanup of the stub code (#18301) (Thanks @CarloToso!)</li> <li>Fix typo in <code>RemoteRunspacePoolInternal.cs</code> (#18263) (Thanks @eltociear!)</li> <li>Some more code cleanup related to the use of <code>PSVersionInfo</code> (#18231)</li> <li>Use <code>MemoryExtensions.IndexOfAny</code> in <code>SessionStateInternal</code> (#18244) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Use overload APIs that take <code>char</code> instead of <code>string</code> when it's possible (#18179) (Thanks @iSazonov!)</li> <li>Replace <code>UTF8Encoding(false)</code> with <code>Encoding.Default</code> (#18144) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)</li> <li>Remove unused variables (#18058) (Thanks @AtariDreams!)</li> <li>Fix typo in PowerShell.Core.Instrumentation.man (#17963) (Thanks @eltociear!)</li> <li>Migrate <code>WinTrust</code> functions to a common location (#17598) (Thanks @jborean93!)</li> </ul> </details>

Tools

Add a function to get the PR Back-port report (#18299)
Add a workaround in automatic rebase workflow to continue on error (#18176)
Update list of PowerShell team members in release tools (#17909)
Don't block if we fail to create the comment (#17869)

Tests

Add testexe.exe -echocmdline to output raw command-line received by the process on Windows (#18591)
Mark charset test as pending (#18511)
Skip output rendering tests on Windows Server 2012 R2 (#18382)
Increase timeout to make subsystem tests more reliable (#18380)
Add missing -Tag 'CI' to describe blocks. (#18316)
Use short path instead of multiple quotes in Get-Item test relying on node (#18250)
Replace the CIM class used for -Amended parameter test (#17884) (Thanks @sethvs!)
Stop ongoing progress-bar in Write-Progress test (#17880) (Thanks @fflaten!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

<details> <summary> We thank the following contributors! </summary> <ul> <li>Fix reference assembly generation logic for <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility</code> (#18818)</li> <li>Update the cgmanifest (#18676)(#18521)(#18415)(#18408)(#18197)(#18111)(#18051)(#17913)(#17867)(#17934)(#18088)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.Native</code> to the latest preview version <code>v7.4.0-preview.1</code> (#18805)</li> <li>Remove unnecessary reference to <code>System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe</code> (#18806)</li> <li>Update the release tag in <code>metadata.json</code> for next preview (#18799)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#18750)</li> <li>Bump .NET SDK to version <code>7.0.101</code> (#18786)</li> <li>Bump <code>cirrus-actions/rebase</code> from 1.7 to 1.8 (#18788)</li> <li>Bump <code>decode-uri-component</code> from 0.2.0 to 0.2.2 (#18712)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 4.4.0-4.final to 4.4.0 (#18562)</li> <li>Bump Newtonsoft.Json from 13.0.1 to 13.0.2 (#18657)</li> <li>Apply expected file permissions to Linux files after Authenticode signing (#18643)</li> <li>Remove extra quotes after agent moves to pwsh 7.3 (#18577)</li> <li>Don't install based on build-id for RPM (#18560)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 17.3.2 to 17.4.0 (#18487)</li> <li>Bump <code>minimatch</code> from 3.0.4 to 3.1.2 (#18514)</li> <li>Avoid depending on the pre-generated experimental feature list in private and CI builds (#18484)</li> <li>Update <code>release-MsixBundle.yml</code> to add retries (#18465)</li> <li>Bump System.Data.SqlClient from 4.8.4 to 4.8.5 in /src/Microsoft.PowerShell.SDK (#18515)</li> <li>Bump to use internal .NET 7 GA build (#18508)</li> <li>Insert the pre-release nuget feed before building test artifacts (#18507)</li> <li>Add test for framework dependent package in release pipeline (#18506) (Internal 23139)</li> <li>Update to azCopy 10 (#18509)</li> <li>Fix issues with uploading changelog to GitHub release draft (#18504)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#18442)</li> <li>Add authenticode signing for assemblies on linux builds (#18440)</li> <li>Do not remove <code>penimc_cor3.dll</code> from build (#18438)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.Native</code> from 7.3.0-rc.1 to 7.3.0 (#18405)</li> <li>Allow two-digit revisions in <code>vPack</code> package validation pattern (#18392)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers</code> (#18363)</li> <li>Bump to .NET 7 RC2 official version (#18328)</li> <li>Bump to .NET 7 to version <code>7.0.100-rc.2.22477.20</code> (#18286)</li> <li>Replace win7 runtime with win8 and remove APISets (#18304)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#18312)</li> <li>Recurse the file listing. (#18277)</li> <li>Create tasks to collect and publish hashes for build files. (#18276)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#18262)</li> <li>Remove ETW trace collection and uploading for CLR CAP (#18253)</li> <li>Do not cleanup <code>pwsh.deps.json</code> for framework dependent packages (#18226)</li> <li>Add branch counter to APIScan build (#18214)</li> <li>Remove unnecessary native dependencies from the package (#18213)</li> <li>Remove XML files for min-size package (#18189)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#18216)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.PowerShell.Native</code> from <code>7.3.0-preview.1</code> to <code>7.3.0-rc.1</code> (#18217)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#18201)</li> <li>Move ApiScan to compliance build (#18191)</li> <li>Fix the verbose message when using <code>dotnet-install.sh</code> (#18184)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 17.3.1 to 17.3.2 (#18163)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#18164)</li> <li>Make the link to minimal package blob public during release (#18158)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers</code> (#18147)</li> <li>Update MSI exit message (#18137)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 4.4.0-1.final to 4.4.0-2.final (#18132)</li> <li>Re-enable building with Ready-to-Run (#18105)</li> <li>Update <code>DotnetRuntimeMetadata.json</code> for .NET 7 RC1 build (#18091)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers</code> (#18096)</li> <li>Add schema for cgmanifest.json (#18036)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp</code> from 4.3.0-3.final to 4.3.0 (#18012)</li> <li>Add XML reference documents to NuPkg files for SDK (#17997)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 17.3.0 to 17.3.1 (#18000)</li> <li>Bump <code>Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers</code> (#17988)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#17983)</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#17945)</li> <li>Make sure <code>Security.types.ps1xml</code> gets signed in release build (#17916)</li> <li>Make Register Microsoft Update timeout (#17910)</li> <li>Merge changes from v7.0.12 v7.2.6 and v7.3.0-preview.7</li> <li>Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 17.2.0 to 17.3.0 (#17871)</li> </ul> </details>

Documentation and Help Content

Update readme and metadata for releases (#18780)(#18493)(#18393)(#18332)(#18128)(#17870)
Remove 'please' and 'Core' from README.md per MS style guide (#18578) (Thanks @Rick-Anderson!)
Change unsupported XML documentation tag (#18608)
Change public API mention of monad to PowerShell (#18491)
Update security reporting policy to recommend security portal for more streamlined reporting (#18437)
Changelog for v7.3.0 (#18505) (Internal 23161)
Replace msh in public API comment based documentation with PowerShell equivalent (#18483)
Add missing XML doc elements for methods in RunspaceFactory (#18450)
Changelog for v7.3.0-rc.1 (#18400)
Update changelogs for v7.2.7 and v7.0.13 (#18342)
Update the changelog for v7.3.0-preview.8 (#18136)
Add the ConfigurationFile option to the PowerShell help content (#18093)
Update help content about the PowerShell flag -NonInteractive (#17952)