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PowerShell v6.0.0-rc Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-11-16 // over 6 years ago

  • 💥 Breaking changes

    • 🛠 Fix -Verbose to not override $ErrorActionPreference. (#5113)
    • Fix Get-Item -LiteralPath a*b to return error if a*b doesn't actually exist. (#5197)
    • ✂ Remove AllScope from most default aliases to reduce overhead on creating new scopes. (#5268)
    • 🔄 Change $OutputEncoding default to be UTF8 without BOM rather than ASCII. (#5369)
    • ➕ Add error on legacy credential over non-HTTPS for Web Cmdlets. (#5402) (Thanks @markekraus!)
    • 🛠 Fix single value JSON null in Invoke-RestMethod. (#5338) (Thanks @markekraus!)
    • ➕ Add PSTypeName Support for Import-Csv and ConvertFrom-Csv. (#5389) (Thanks @markekraus!)

    ⚡️ Engine updates and fixes

    • ➕ Add char range overload to the .. operator, so 'a'..'z' returns characters from 'a' to 'z'. (#5026) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
    • ✂ Remove CommandFactory because it serves no real purpose. (#5266)
    • 🔄 Change to not insert line breaks at console window width to output (except for tables). (#5193)
    • 👉 Use Ast for context in parameter binding and fix to glob the native command argument only when it's not quoted. (#5188)
    • 🛠 Fix dynamic class assembly name. (#5292)
    • ⚡️ Update PowerShell to use 2.0.4-servicing dotnet core runtime. (#5295)
    • 🛠 Fix ExecutionContext.LoadAssembly to load with name when file cannot be found. (#5161)
    • Speed up the check for suspicious content in script texts. (#5302)
    • 🍎 Use native os_log APIs on macOS for PowerShell Core logging. (#5310)
    • 🐧 Redirect ETW logging to Syslog on Linux. (#5144)
    • 👌 Improve how we pass the array literal to native commands. (#5301)
    • 👉 Make SemanticVersion compatible with SemVer 2.0. (#5037) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 🔨 Revert refactoring changes that broke remoting to Windows PowerShell 5.1. (#5321)
    • 👷 Port some fixes in Job for an issue that causes PowerShell to not respond. (#5258)
    • Multiple improvements by CodeRush static analysis. (#5132) (Thanks @Himura2la!)
    • 🛠 Fix the Runspace cleanup issue that causes PowerShell to not respond on exit. (#5356)
    • ⚡️ Update PowerShell to depend on new version of psrp and libmi nuget packages on Unix platforms. (#5469)

    ⚡️ General cmdlet updates and fixes

    • ➕ Add -AsHashtable to ConvertFrom-Json to return a Hashtable instead. (#5043) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
    • 🛠 Fix Import-module to not report a loaded module was not found. (#5238)
    • 🛠 Fix performance issues in Add-Type. (#5243) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 🛠 Fix PSUserAgent generation for Web Cmdlets on Windows 7. (#5256) (Thanks @markekraus!)
    • ✂ Remove DCOM support from *-Computer cmdlets. (#5277)
    • ➕ Add multiple link header support to Web Cmdlets. (#5265) (Thanks @markekraus!)
    • 👉 Use wider columns for process id and user. (#5303)
    • ➕ Add Remove-Alias Command. (#5143) (Thanks @PowershellNinja!)
    • ⚡️ Update installpsh-suse.sh to work with the tar.gz package. (#5309)
    • ➕ Add Jobject serialization support to ConvertTo-Json. (#5141)
    • Display full help with 'help' function. (#5195) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
    • 🛠 Fix help function to not pipe to more if objects are returned instead of help text. (#5395)
    • 🛠 Fix Unblock-File to not write an error if the file is already unblocked. (#5362) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 🌐 Clean up FullCLR code from Web Cmdlets. (#5376) (Thanks @markekraus!)
    • 👍 Exclude cmdlets that are not supported on Unix platforms. (#5083)
    • 👉 Make Import-Csv support CR, LF and CRLF as line delimiters. (#5363) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 🛠 Fix spelling in Web Cmdlet errors. (#5427) (Thanks @markekraus!)
    • ➕ Add SslProtocol support to Web Cmdlets. (#5329) (Thanks @markekraus!)

    🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements

    • 👉 Use RCEdit to embed icon and version information into pwsh.exe. (#5178)
    • 🚀 Update Docker file for Nano Server 1709 release. (#5252)
    • 🔄 Change VSCode build task to use pwsh. (#5255)
    • 🚀 Refactor building and packaging scripts for signing in release build workflow. (#5300)
    • 🏗 Always build with -CrossGen in CI to verify a fix in CrossGen tool. (#5315)
    • 🏁 Separate Install-PowerShellRemoting.ps1 from psrp.windows nuget package. (#5330)
    • Include symbols folder an embedded zip when packaging symbols. (#5333)
    • ➕ Add Uniform Type Identifier conforming with Apple standards using a reverse DNS style prefix. (#5323)
    • ⚡️ Update Wix toolset download link to newer version 3.11 (#5339) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
    • 🍎 Re-enable macOS launcher after fixing an issue that blocked macOS package generation. (#5291) (Thanks @thezim!)
    • 🏗 Set expected binaries and variable name for folder for symbols build. (#5357)
    • ⚡️ Rename and update PowerShell ETW manifest to remove the Windows PowerShell dependency. (#5360)
    • ➕ Add ability to produce tar.gz package for Raspbian. (#5387)
    • ⚡️ Update Find-Dotnet to find dotnet with the compatible SDK. (#5341) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
    • ➕ Add signing manifest and script to update it with production values. (#5397)
    • ➕ Add install-powershell.ps1 to install PowerShell Core on windows. (#5383)
    • 📦 Make -Name a dynamic parameter in Start-PSPackage. (#5415)
    • 👌 Support [package] tag in PR CI and fix nightly build on macOS. (#5410)
    • ✨ Enhance install-powershell.ps1 to work on Linux and macOS. (#5411)
    • 🏗 Move the RCEdit step to the build phase rather than the packaging phase. (#5404)
    • 👍 Allow packaging from a zip package to allow for signing. (#5418)
    • ➕ Add automation to validate PowerShell Core packages using Docker containers. (#5401)
    • 🛠 Fix the brew update issue in bootstrap script. (#5400)
    • ⚡️ Enable install-powershell.ps1 to update the current running PowerShell Core. (#5429)
    • ➕ Add standard set of VSCode workspace setting files. (#5457) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
    • ➕ Add support for installing PowerShell Core on Amazon Linux via install-powershell.sh. (#5461) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
    • 📦 Get PowerShellGet and PackageManagement from the PowerShell Gallery. (#5452)
    • 🛠 Fix Start-PSBuild on WSL if repository was already built on Windows. (#5346) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
    • 🛠 Fix build in VSCode and use an improved version of tasks.json from @rkeithhill. (#5453)
    • ➕ Add scripts for signing packages in the release build workflow. (#5463)

    📚 Documentation and Help Content

    • 🛠 Fix the codebase to use the consistent copyright string. (#5210)
    • ➕ Add documentation about how to create libpsl and psrp.windows nuget packages. (#5278)
    • ➕ Add help strings in PowerShell banner. (#5275) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 🔄 Change all links in README.md to absolute as they are being used in other places outside of GitHub. (#5354)
    • ⚡️ Update instructions to build on VSCode based on pwsh. (#5368)
    • ⚡️ Update FAQ.md about how to use PowerShell Core nuget packages. (#5366)
    • 📚 Correct the Fedora documentation (#5384) (Thanks @offthewoll!)
    • ➕ Add instructions about how to create the PowerShell.Core.Instrumentation nuget package. (#5396)
    • ⚡️ Updated PowerShell to use the latest help package. (#5454)

    Compliance Work

    📄 Compliance 🚀 work is required for Microsoft to continue to sign and release packages from the project as official Microsoft packages.

    • Replace the word hang with something more appropriate and add rules about other terms. (#5213, #5297, #5358)
    • 👉 Use simplified names for compliance folders (#5388)
    • ➕ Add compliance label description (#5355)
    • 🏁 Set requestedExecutionLevel to asInvoker for pwsh.exe on Windows. (#5285)
    • ➕ Add HighEntropyVA to building pwsh. (#5455)