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PowerShell v6.0.0-beta.5 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-08-02 // almost 7 years ago

  • πŸ’₯ Breaking changes

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

    ⚑️ Engine updates and fixes

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

    ⚑️ General cmdlet updates and fixes

    • βž• Add -SkipHeaderValidation switch to Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod to support adding headers without validating the header value. (#4085)
    • βž• Add support for Invoke-Item -Path <folder>. (#4262)
    • πŸ›  Fix ConvertTo-Html output when using a single column header. (#4276)
    • πŸ›  Fix output of Length for FileInfo when using Format-List. (#4437)
    • πŸ›  Fix an issue in implicit remoting where restricted sessions couldn't use Get-FormatData οΏ½PowerShellVersion. (#4222)
    • πŸ›  Fix an issue where Register-PSSessionConfiguration fails if SessionConfig folder doesn't exist. (#4271)

    ⚑️ Installer updates

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

    πŸ— Build/test and code cleanup

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

    Cleanup #if CORECLR code

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