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PowerShell v6.2.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-03-28 // about 5 years ago

  • v6.2.0 - 2019-03-28

    💥 Breaking Changes

    • 🛠 Fix -NoEnumerate behavior in Write-Output to be consistent with Windows PowerShell (#9069) (Thanks @vexx32!)

    ⚡️ Engine Updates and Fixes

    • ➕ Add PowerShell remoting enable/disable cmdlet warning messages (#9203)
    • 🛠 Fix for FormatTable remote deserialization regression (#9116)
    • ⚡️ Update the task-based async APIs added to PowerShell to return a Task object directly (#9079)
    • ➕ Add 5 InvokeAsync overloads and StopAsync to the PowerShell type (#8056) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)

    ⚡️ General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

    • 🏁 Enable SecureString cmdlets for non-Windows by storing the plain text (#9199)
    • ➕ Add Obsolete message to Send-MailMessage (#9178)
    • 🛠 Fix Restart-Computer to work on localhost when WinRM is not present (#9160)
    • 👷 Make Start-Job throw terminating error when PowerShell is being hosted (#9128)
    • ⚡️ Update version for PowerShell.Native and hosting tests (#8983)

    Tools

    • ➕ Adding CmdletsToExport and AliasesToExport to test module manifests. (#9108) (Thanks @powercode!)
    • 🚀 Comment cleanup in releaseTools.psm1 (#9064) (Thanks @RDIL!)

    ✅ Tests

    • 🛠 Fix Enter-PSHostProcess tests flakiness (#9007)
    • ➕ Add tests for command globbing (#9180)
    • ➕ Add source for Install-package to install netDumbster (#9081) (Thanks @Geweldig!)
    • 🛠 Fix tab completion test to handle multiple matches (#8891)
    • 🔨 Refactor macOS and Linux CI so that tests run in parallel (#9056, #9209)
    • ➕ Added RequireSudoOnUnix tags to PowerShellGet tests and remove -pending parameter (#8954) (Thanks @RDIL!)
    • ✅ Pending NamedPipeConnectionInfo test (#9003) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • ➕ Add test for -WhatIf for New-FileCatalog (#8966) (Thanks @mjanko5!)

    🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements

    • 🚀 Performance improvements for release build (#9179)
    • ➕ Add tsaVersion property as TsaV1 for compliance build phase (#9176)
    • 📦 Publish global tool packages to pwshtool blob and bug fixes (#9163)
    • Translate Skipped test results into something Azure DevOps does not understand (#9124)
    • 🍎 Disable Homebrew analytics in macOS VSTS builds (#9130) (Thanks @RDIL!)
    • ✂ Remove AppVeyor references from packaging tools (#9117) (Thanks @RDIL!)
    • 🛠 Fixed Dockerfile syntax highlighting (#8991) (Thanks @RDIL!)
    • 🛠 Fix dependencies of NuGet build to wait on DEB uploads to finish (#9118)
    • 🛠 Fix artifact download issue in release build (#9095)
    • 🚀 Publish test package on release builds (#9063)
    • ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Native from 6.2.0-rc.1 to 6.2.0 (#9200)
    • ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema from 9.13.19 to 9.13.27 (#9044, #9136, #9166, #9172, #9184 #9196)
    • ⬆️ Bump PowerShellGet from 2.0.4 to 2.1.2 in /src/Modules (#9110, #9145)
    • ⬆️ Bump SelfSignedCertificate in /test/tools/Modules (#9055)

    📚 Documentation and Help Content

    • 🚀 Update docs for 6.2.0-rc.1 release (#9022)

    🚀 SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts

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    • 🐧 powershell-6.2.0-linux-alpine-x64.tar.gz
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