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PowerShell v6.2.0-preview.2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-11-15 // over 5 years ago

  • 💥 Breaking Changes

    • Honor -OutputFormat if specified in non-interactive, redirected, encoded command used with pwsh (#8115)
    • Load assembly from module base path before trying to load from the GAC (#8073)
    • ✂ Remove tilde from Linux preview packages (#8244)
    • 🚚 Move processing of -WorkingDirectory before processing of profiles (#8079)

    Known Issues

    • PowerShell WSMan remoting does not work on Debian 9 due to missing symbolic links. For more information and a workaround see issue #7598

    ⚡️ Engine Updates and Fixes

    • Enable case-insensitive tab completion for files and folders on case-sensitive filesystem (#8128)
    • 🐎 Experimental feature: Implicit remoting batching performance improvements (#8038)
    • ➕ Add a path for checking ZoneInformation without throwing an exception (#8025) (Thanks @powercode!)
    • 🛠 Fix CVE-2018-8256, issues with expanding ZIP files with relative paths (#8252)
    • 🛠 Fix CVE-2018-8415, issue logging when the scriptblock has a null character (#8253)
    • 👉 Make PSVersionInfo.PSVersion and PSVersionInfo.PSEdition public (#8054) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
    • Enable distinct ModuleAnalysisCache files for each installation of pwsh (#8174)
    • 🏁 Consolidation of all Windows PowerShell work ported to PowerShell Core (#8257)
    • 🛠 Fix incorrect name check when auto-loading required modules (#8218)
    • ➕ Adding verbose output for experimental implicit remoting batching feature (#8166)
    • ➕ Add Type Inference for $_ / $PSItem in catch{ } blocks (#8020) (Thanks @vexx32!)
    • 🛠 Fix static method invocation type inference (#8018) (Thanks @SeeminglyScience!)

    ⚡️ General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

    • ⬇️ Reduce allocations in Get-Content cmdlet (#8103) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • Enable Set-Location -LiteralPath to work with folders named - and + (#8089)
    • Enable Add-Content to share read access with other tools while writing content (#8091)
    • ➕ Add new Offset and Count parameters to Format-Hex and refactor the cmdlet (#7877) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • ➕ Add -Name, -NoUserOverrides and -ListAvailable parameters to Get-Culture cmdlet (#7702) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 👍 Allow dynamic parameter to be returned even if path does not match any provider (#7957)
    • 💅 Style fixes in Format-Hex (#8083) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 🛠 Fix logic to rely on PowerShell major and minor version instead of build number to determine whether to output formatdata (#8063)
    • 🛠 Fix Rename-Item -Path with wildcard char (#7398) (Thanks @kwkam!)
    • When using Start-Transcript and file exists, empty file rather than deleting (#8131) (Thanks @paalbra!)
    • Error message enhancement for Clear-Content cmdlet when targeting a directory (#8134) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
    • 👉 Make Select-String faster by not doing extra work (#7673) (Thanks @powercode!)
    • ✂ Remove ShouldProcess from Format-Hex (#8178)

    Code Cleanup

    • ✂ Remove clone of command-line arguments array (#7910) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 0️⃣ Use DefaultPathSeparator char instead of DefaultPathSeparatorString (#8082) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • Replace StringComparision.CurrentCulture with StringComparision.Ordinal (#8068) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 🛠 Fix typo in -icontains description from incase sensitive to case insensitive (#7840) (Thanks @StingyJack!)
    • 🔨 Refactor module version/GUID comparison logic (#7125)

    Tools

    • ⚡️ Update installpsh-amazonlinux.sh for container specific issues (#7907) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
    • ⚡️ Update the codeowners file (#8017)

    ✅ Tests

    • 📦 Filter the TestPackage artifact upload by name to avoid other ZIP files being uploaded (#8116)
    • ➕ Adding fxdependent PowerShell package tests (#7830)
    • 🛠 Fix Windows Feature tests running in Azure DevOps (#8220)
    • ✅ Create $PROFILE if it does not exist for -WorkingDirectory processing test (#8152)
    • ➕ Add test coverage for additional Get-Module parameters (#8137) (Thanks @KevinMarquette!)
    • 🛠 Fix conflict with Get-AdlStoreChildItem from az module in tab completion tests (#8167)
    • 🛠 Fix static secret in code (#8186)

    🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements

    • ⬆️ Bump xunit.runner.visualstudio from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 (#8139)
    • ⬆️ Bump xunit from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 (#8140)
    • ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.8.0 to 2.8.1 (#8104)
    • ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema from 9.11.1 to 9.12.1 (#8183, #8248)
    • 🛠 Fix Start-PSBuild -Output (#7504) (Thanks @kwkam!)
    • ➕ Adding YML for Linux builds (#8168)
    • 📦 Publish test package at AGENT_WORKFOLDER if TEMP is not available (#8108)
    • 🛠 Fix psmodulerestore path when built in Visual Studio Code (#8075)
    • 👉 Use approved verb instead of Generate-CrossGenAssembly (#8151) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
    • ➕ Add path filters to CI YAML (#8222)
    • ⚡️ Update SignType in signing.xml (#8223)
    • 🚀 Update metadata for 6.0.5 and 6.1.1 releases (#8259)
    • 🏗 Port changes to allow Azure DevOps NuGet feeds for Mac build (Internal 5818)
    • ⚡️ Update version for dependencies (Internal 5822)
    • ➕ Add code to use private NuGet feeds when running in internal CI system (#8187)
    • ➕ Add title to Open Here window for MSI installer (#8164)
    • ✂ Remove build and documentation references to git submodules (#8177) (Thanks @andschwa!)
    • ➕ Add function to create a new nuget.config file (#8170)
    • 🚀 Update macOS release build to create the nuget.config (#8185)
    • ↪ Workaround for accessing Azure Artifacts (#8188)
    • 🛠 Fix script path for PowerShellPackageVsts.ps1 (#8189)
    • Microsoft.PowerShell.Native now has MUSL binaries for Alpine.

    📚 Documentation and Help Content

    • 🛠 Fix grammar in README.md (#8059) (Thanks @daviddreher2!)
    • ⚡️ Update powershell-beginners-guide.md to add alias for Clear-Host (#7912) (Thanks @aavdberg!)
    • ➕ Add Microsoft Docs link to FAQ (#8133) (Thanks @vongrippen!)
    • ➕ Added updated photo of Visual Studio Code due to new version of Code (#8084) (Thanks @lassehastrup!)
    • ⚡️ Update license.rtf to only have major version (#8127)
    • ⚡️ Updated Pester Syntax in Writing Tests Guide (#8039) (Thanks @markwragg!)
    • ✂ Remove duplicate parts from license file (#8143) (Thanks @azkarmoulana!)
    • 🛠 Fix spellings in CHANGELOG.md (#8062)
    • ⚡️ Update license RTF to 6.2 (#8065)
    • 🌲 Combine notes about ITuple changes in Change Log (#8077) (Thanks @Jocapear!)
    • ✏️ Correct typos in powershell-beginners-guide.md (#8088) (Thanks @nycjan!)
    • ➕ Added Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches as recommended reading (#8067) (Thanks @tobvil!)
    • ⚡️ Update README.md for v6.1.1 (#8255)
    • 🛠 Fix some typos (#8206) (Thanks @jeis2497052!)
    • Promote HTTPS (#8160) (Thanks @RDIL!)
    • Simple grammatical correction in README.md file (#7978) (Thanks @iGotenz!)
    • 📚 Update URLs to use HTTPS instead of HTTP in the documentation (#8165) (Thanks @RDIL!)
    • ✂ Remove #7633 from v6.2.0-preview.1 CHANGELOG.md updates. (#8101) (Thanks @stknohg!)