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PowerShell v6.0.0-beta.8 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-10-05 // over 6 years ago

  • 💥 Breaking changes

    • 🔄 Changed New-Service to return error when given unsupported -StartupType and fixed Set-Service icon failing test. (#4802)
    • 👍 Allow * to be used in registry path for Remove-Item. (#4866)
    • ✂ Remove unsupported -ShowWindow switch from Get-Help. (#4903)
    • 🛠 Fix incorrect position of a parameter which resulted in the args passed as input instead of as args for InvokeScript(). (#4963)

    ⚡️ Engine updates and fixes

    • 👉 Make calls to void CodeMethod work. (#4850) (Thanks @powercode)
    • Get PSVersion and GitCommitId from the ProductVersion attribute of assembly (#4863) (Thanks @iSazonov)
    • 🛠 Fix powershell -version and built-in help for powershell.exe to align with other native tools. (#4958 & #4931) (Thanks @iSazonov)
    • Load assemblies with Assembly.LoadFrom before Assembly.Load when the file path is given. (#4196)
    • ➕ Add a generic file watcher function in HelpersCommon.psm1. (#4775)
    • ⚡️ Update old links and fix broken links in docs/host-powershell/README.md. (#4877)
    • 🛠 Fix when importing remote modules using version filters (and added tests). (#4900)
    • 🏁 Enable transcription of native commands on non-Windows platforms. (#4871)
    • ➕ Add a new line to CommandNotFoundException error string. (#4934 & #4991)
    • 🛠 Fix bug where PowerShell would exit with an error within an SSH remoting connection on Linux. (#4993)
    • 🛠 Fix issues with expression redirected to file. (#4847)

    ⚡️ General cmdlet updates and fixes

    • ➕ Added Remove-Service to Management module. (#4858) (Thanks @joandrsn)
    • ➕ Added functionality to set credentials on Set-Service command. (#4844) (Thanks @joandrsn)
    • 🛠 Fix Select-String to exclude directories (as opposed to individual files) discovered from -Path. (#4829) (Thanks @iSazonov)
    • 👍 Get-Date now supports more argument completion scenarios by adding ArgumentCompletionsAttribute. (#4835) (Thanks @iSazonov)
    • 🏁 Exclude -ComObject parameter of New-Object on unsupported (currently non-Windows) platforms. (#4922) (Thanks @iSazonov)
    • ⚡️ Updated default ModuleVersion in New-ModuleManifest to 0.0.1 to align with SemVer. (#4842) (Thanks @LDSpits)
    • ➕ Add Multipart support to web cmdlets. (#4782) (Thanks @markekraus)
    • ➕ Add -ResponseHeadersVariable to Invoke-RestMethod to enable the capture of response headers. (#4888) (Thanks @markekraus)
    • 🎉 Initialize web cmdlets headers dictionary only once. (#4853) (Thanks @markekraus)
    • 🔄 Change web cmdlets UserAgent from WindowsPowerShell to PowerShell. (#4914) (Thanks @markekraus)

    🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements

    • 🏗 Make the build output the WiX compilation log if it failed. (#4831) (Thanks @bergmeister)
    • 👉 Use a simple file based check in the MSI for the VC++ 2015 redistributables. (#4745) (Thanks @bergmeister)
    • 🆕 New icon for PowerShell Core. (#4848)
    • 🐧 Build Powershell Core using the generic RID linux-x64. (#4841)
    • 🐧 Create generic Linux-x64 packages that are portable to all supported RPM Linux distros (and more similar for Debian based distros). (#4902 & #4994)
    • 🏗 Suppress the output of building test tools in Compress-TestContent. (#4957)
    • ✂ Remove unnecessary error messages from output. (#4954)
    • ⚡️ Update Travis CI script so that PRs can fail due to Pester tests. (#4830)
    • 🚀 Move release build definition into PowerShell. (#4884)
    • 🛠 Fix credential scan issues. (#4927 & #4935)
    • 🔒 Enable security flags in native compiler. (#4933)
    • ➕ Add VS 2017 solution file for powershell-win-core. (#4748)

    Code Cleanup

    • ✂ Remove remainder of Utility.Activities (Workflow code). (#4880)
    • ✂ Remove Microsoft.PowerShell.CoreCLR.AssemblyLoadContext.dll. (#4868)
    • Enable auto EOL on Git repo side, fix some character encoding issues. (#4912)
    • ⚡️ Updated EOL for all files to be LF in the repository. (#4943 & #4956)
    • ✂ Removed leading whitespace. (#4991)

    DSC Language

    • ⚡️ Update version of PSDesiredStateConfiguration in project files to fix complication of MOF files with the Configuration keyword. (#4979)

    ✅ Test

    • ✅ Replace httpbin.org tests with WebListener. (Thanks @markekraus)
      • headers (#4799)
      • user-agent (#4798)
      • redirect (#4852)
      • encoding (#4869)
      • delay (#4905)
      • gzip & enable deflate (#4948)
      • related changes and fixes (#4920)
    • ✅ Port tests for constrained language mode. (#4816)
    • ✅ Enable Select-String test from a network path. (#4921) (Thanks @iSazonov)
    • ✅ Reformat Measure-Object test. (#4972) (Thanks @iSazonov)
    • ✅ Mitigate intermittent failures in access denied tests. (#4788)
    • 🛠 Fix tests that incorrectly use ShouldBeErrorId. (#4793)
    • 🛠 Fix a test issue that causes tests to be skipped in Travis CI run (#4891)
    • ✅ Skip web cmdlet certificate authentication tests on CentOS and Mac. (#4822)
    • Validate product resource strings against resx files. (#4811 & #4861)
    • ➕ Add source files for coverage run. (#4925)
    • ➕ Add the UTC offset correctly in tests for CDXML cmdlets. (#4867)
    • 0️⃣ Be sure to change PSDefaultParameterValue in the global scope. (#4977 & #4892)
    • ⬇️ Reduce output of Pester for CI. (#4855)
    • ➕ Add tests for
      • Get-Content (#4723) (Thanks @sarithsutha)
      • Remoting and Jobs (#4928)
      • Get-Help (#4895)
      • Get-Command -ShowCommandInfo (#4906)
      • Get-Content -Tail (#4790)
      • Get-Module over remoting (#4787)
      • Start/Stop/Suspend/Resume/Restart-Service cmdlets (#4774)
      • WSMan Config provider tests (#4756)
      • CDXML CIM DateTime test (#4796)

    📚 Documentation and Graphics

    • Sort .spelling (Thanks @markekraus)
    • 👌 Improve the guideline for performance consideration. (#4824)
    • ➕ Add setup steps for MacOS to use PSRP over SSH. (#4872)
    • Instructions to demo PowerShell Core on Raspbian. (#4882)
    • ➕ Added instructions to get permission to use PowerShell image assets. (#4938)
    • ➕ Added demo for using Windows PowerShell modules. (#4886)