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PowerShell v6.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-01-10 // over 6 years ago

  • 💥 Breaking changes

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

    ⚡️ Engine updates and fixes

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

    ✅ Test

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

    🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements

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

    📚 Documentation and Help Content

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