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PowerShell v6.2.0-preview.3 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-12-10 // over 5 years ago

  • 💥 Breaking Changes

    • Get-ExperimentalFeature no longer has -ListAvailable switch (#8318)
    • Debug parameter now sets DebugPreference to Continue instead of Inquire (#8195) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)

    ⚡️ Engine Updates and Fixes

    • 👌 Improve PowerShell startup time by 24% (#8341) (#8396)
    • ✂ Remove extra newlines from formatting which resulted in unnecessary double newlines (#8247)
    • ➕ Add Enable-ExperimentalFeature and Disable-ExperimentalFeature cmdlets (#8318)
    • 🛠 Fix Export-ModuleMember bug for a ScriptBlock having no context (#8363)
    • 🛠 Fix race condition to access powershell.config.json (#8249) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • ➕ Add SkipCA and SkipCN check requirement to WinRM/OMI HTTPS connection (#8279)
    • ➕ Add fix for Start-Job initialization script which should not be executed as trusted in system lockdown (#8284)

    ⚡️ General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

    • ➕ Add Enable-ExperimentalFeature and Disable-ExperimentalFeature cmdlets (#8318)
    • ➕ Add cmdlet Join-String for creating text from pipeline input (#7660) (Thanks @powercode!)
    • 🔦 Expose all cmdlets from PSDiagnostics if logman.exe is available (#8366)
    • 🛠 Fix Get-Help for advanced functions with MAML help content (#8353)
    • Conditionally mark getter/setter implementations as virtual in generated classes (#8303) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
    • 🛠 Fix for PSDrive creation with a UNC path with a trailing backslash or forward slash when combined with -Persist (#8305) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
    • ✂ Remove Persist parameter from New-PSDrive on non-Windows platform (#8291) (Thanks @lukexjeremy!)
    • ✅ Test-Path: Return $false when given an empty or $null -Path/-LiteralPath value (#8080) (Thanks @vexx32!)
    • Token calculation fix for Get-Help executed on ScriptBlock for comment help. (#8238) (Thanks @hubuk!)
    • 👌 Support Get-PSHostProcessInfo and Enter-PSHostProcess on Unix platforms (#8232)

    Code Cleanup

    • ⚡️ Update resgen, typegen to use .Net Core 2.1 (#8369) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
    • 🔄 Change Newtonsoft deserializing bug comment to link to the new issue (#8377) (Thanks @louistio!)
    • Cleanup #if !CORECLR code (#8337) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • Cleanup UpdatableHelpSystem and enable XSD validation on MAML help content (#8335) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • ✂ Remove old customPSSnapInType parameter from PSSnapInInfo() (#8333) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • Cleanup #if CORECLR from some files (#8332) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • Cleanup AssemblyInfo (#8190) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 🛠 Fix GetLocationCommand output type parameter set and style issues (#8324) (Thanks @Meir017!)

    Tools

    • ✂ Remove dependabot attribution and generate changelog sections using CL-* labels (#8386)

    ✅ Tests

    • ⚡️ Update folder path for storing optimization profile and add test to validate loaded assemblies and libraries on startup (#8406)
    • 🛠 Fix an intermittent failure in macOS logging tests (#8385)
    • ⚡️ Created a csproj to pin test modules and updated build.psm1 accordingly (#8350)
    • ⚡️ Update help content for TabCompletion tests only if it does not exist (#8355)
    • ✅ Skip Enter-PSHostProcess tests on AppVeyor due to PSReadline issue (#8317)

    🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements

    • ✂ Remove AmazonLinux Dockerfile (#8271) (Thanks @kiazhi!)
    • 👉 Make install-powershell.sh auto-detect if it should use wget or curl (#8225) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
    • ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema from 9.12.2 to 9.13.1 (#8319) (#8328) (#8412) (#8371) (#8384)
    • ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Native from 6.2.0-preview.2 to 6.2.0-preview.3 (#8411)
    • ⚡️ Update the name of the artifact to be unique per artifact (#8405)
    • 🚀 Create unified release build for macOS and Linux packages (#8399)
    • ➕ Add Linux ARM64 build support (#8016) (Thanks @slide!)
    • ⚡️ Update the timeout of CI builds (#8398)
    • ⬆️ Bump PackageManagement from 1.2.2 to 1.2.4 in /src/Modules (#8320) (#8383)
    • ⬆️ Bump Newtonsoft.Json from 11.0.2 to 12.0.1 (#8348)
    • 🔀 Enable pipeline to sync PSGallery modules to AzArtifacts feed (#8316)
    • 🚀 Build Alpine tar.gz package in release builds (#8340)
    • 🏗 Publish test package to AppVeyor daily build (#8273)
    • ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 2.9.0 to 2.10.0 (#8294)
    • ⬆️ Bump PowerShellGet from 2.0.1 to 2.0.3 in /src/Modules (#8321)
    • 🏁 Enable Open Here context menu on Windows to work with root of a drive (#8287)
    • ⬆️ Bump System.Data.SqlClient from 4.5.1 to 4.6.0 (#8266)

    📚 Documentation and Help Content

    • 🔀 Merge changelogs from 6.1.1 and 6.0.5 into master (#8283)
    • ✂ Remove all reference to AppVeyor and Travis CI from docs (#8376)
    • 🔄 Change default issue template to use different categories (#8203)