PowerShell v7.0.0-preview.2 release notes (2019-07-17)

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PowerShell v7.0.0-preview.2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-07-17 // over 4 years ago

v7.0.0-preview.2 - 07/17/2019

💥 Breaking Changes
- 🚚 Cleanup workflow - remove PSProxyJob (#10083) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 🔒 Disable Enter-PSHostProcess cmdlet when system in lock down mode (Internal 9168)
- Consider DBNull.Value and NullString.Value the same as $null when comparing with $null and casting to bool (#9794) (Thanks @vexx32!)
⚡️ Engine Updates and Fixes
- 👍 Allow methods to be named after keywords (#9812) (Thanks @vexx32!)
- Create JumpList in STA thread as some COM APIs are strictly STA only to avoid sporadic CLR crashes (#9928) (#10057) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
- Skip JumpList on NanoServer and IoT (#10164)
- Display COM method signature with argument names (#9858) (Thanks @nbkalex!)
- 👉 Use the original precision (prior-dotnet-core-3) for double/float-to-string conversion (#9893)
- Import-DscResource should allow to overwrite DSC built-in resources. (#9879)
- ➕ Add ability to pass InitialSessionState to the ConsoleShell.Start (#9802) (Thanks @asrosent!)
- Have console host not enter command prompt mode when using Read-Host -Prompt (#9743)
- 🛠 Fix use of Start-Process http://bing.com (#9793)
- 👌 Support negative numbers in -split operator (#8960) (Thanks @ece-jacob-scott!)
⚡️ General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes
- 👌 Support DSC compilation on Linux. (#9834)
- ➕ Add alias for Service StartType (#9940) (Thanks @NeoBeum!)
- ➕ Add -SecurityDescriptorSddl parameter to Set-Service (#8626) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
- 🛠 Fix auto-download of files when enumerating files from a OneDrive folder (#9895)
- 🌐 Set request headers when request body is empty in Web Cmdlets (#10034) (Thanks @markekraus!)
- 🛠 Fix wrong comparison in CertificateProvider (#9987) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 🔀 Sync docs changes into the embedded help for pwsh (#9952)
- Display Duration when displaying HistoryInfo (#9751) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
- ⚡️ Update console startup and help url for PowerShell docs (#9775)
- 👉 Make UseAbbreviationExpansion and TempDrive official features (#9872)
- 🛠 Fix Get-ChildItem -Path with wildcard char (#9257) (Thanks @kwkam!)
🐎 Performance
- ➕ Add another fast path to WildcardPattern.IsMatch for patterns that only have an asterisk in the end (#10054) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 🚚 Move some of the creations of WildcardPattern in outer loop to avoid unnecessary allocation (#10053) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 👉 Make Foreach-Object 2 times faster by reducing unnecessary allocations and boxing (#10047)
- 👉 Use a static cache for PSVersionInfo.PSVersion to avoid casting SemanticVersion to Version every time accessing that property (#10028)
- ⬇️ Reduce allocations in NavigationCmdletProvider.NormalizePath() (#10038) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- ➕ Add fast path for wildcard patterns that contains no wildcard characters (#10020)
- Avoid Assembly.GetName() in ClrFacade.GetAssemblies(string) to reduce allocations of CultureInfo objects (#10024) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- Avoid the int[] and int[,] allocation when tokenizing line comments and matching wildcard pattern (#10009)
Tools
- ⚡️ Update change log generation tool to deal with private commits (#10096)
- ⚡️ Update Start-PSBuild -Clean logic of git clean to ignore locked files from VS2019 (#10071) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
- ✅ Indent fix in markdown-link.tests.ps1 (#10049) (Thanks @RDIL!)
- 🚚 Start-PSBuild -Clean does not remove all untracked files (#10022) (Thanks @vexx32!)
- ➕ Add module to support Pester tests for automating debugger commands (stepInto, stepOut, etc.), along with basic tests (#9825) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
- ✂ Remove markdownlint tests due to security issues (#10163)
Code Cleanup
- Cleanup CompiledScriptBlock.cs (#9735) (Thanks @vexx32!)
- Cleanup workflow code (#9638) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- ⚡️ Use AddOrUpdate() instead of Remove then Add to register runspace (#10007) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- Suppress PossibleIncorrectUsageOfAssignmentOperator rule violation by adding extra parenthesis (#9460) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 👉 Use AddRange in GetModules() (#9975) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- Code cleanup: use IndexOf(char) overload (#9722) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 🚚 Move consts and methods to single CharExtensions class (#9992) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- Cleanup: Use EndsWith(char) and StartsWith(char) (#9994) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- ✂ Remove LCIDToLocaleName P/Invoke from GetComputerInfoCommand (#9716) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- ✅ Cleanup Parser tests (#9792) (Thanks @vexx32!)
- ✂ Remove EtwActivity empty constructor and make minor style fixes (#9958) (Thanks @RDIL!)
- 🛠 Fix style issues from last commits (#9937) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- ✂ Remove dead code about IsTransparentProxy (#9966)
- 🛠 Fix minor typos in code comments (#9917) (Thanks @RDIL!)
- 💅 Style fixes for CimAsyncOperations (#9945) (Thanks @RDIL!)
- 🛠 Fix minor CodeFactor style issues in ModuleCmdletBase (#9915) (Thanks @RDIL!)
- Clean up the use of SetProfileRoot and StartProfile in ConsoleHost (#9931)
- 🛠 Fix minor style issues come from last commits (#9640) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 👌 Improve whitespace for Parser tests (#9806) (Thanks @vexx32!)
- 👉 Use new string.ConCat() in Process.cs (#9720) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- Code Cleanup: Tidy up scriptblock.cs (#9732) (Thanks @vexx32!)
✅ Tests
- ✅ Mark Set-Service tests with password as Pending (#10146)
- 🛠 Fix test password generation rule to meet Windows complexity requirements (#10143)
- ➕ Add test for New-Item -Force (#9971) (Thanks @robdy!)
- 🛠 Fix gulp versions (#9916) (Thanks @RDIL!)
- 🛠 Indentation fixes in ci.psm1 (#9947) (Thanks @RDIL!)
- ✂ Remove some Travis-CI references (#9919) (Thanks @RDIL!)
- 👌 Improve release testing Docker images (#9942) (Thanks @RDIL!)
- 👉 Use yarn to install global tools (#9904) (Thanks @RDIL!)
- 🏁 Attempt to work around the zip download issue in Azure DevOps Windows CI (#9911)
- ⚡️ Update PowerShell SDK version for hosting tests (Internal 9185)
🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements
- ⚡️ Update the target framework for reference assemblies to netcoreapp3.0 (#9747)
- 📌 Pin version of netDumbster to 2.0.0.4 (#9748)
- 🛠 Fix daily CodeCoverageAndTest build by explicitly calling Start-PSBootStrap (#9724)
- 🏁 Split the fxdependent package on Windows into two packages (#10134)
- ⬆️ Bump System.Data.SqlClient (#10109)
- 🔒 Bump System.Security.AccessControl (#10100)
- ➕ Add performance tag to change log command (Internal)
- ⬆️ Upgrade .Net Core 3 SDK from preview5 to preview6 and related out of band Nuget packages from 2.1 to 3.0-preview6 (#9888) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
- ➕ Add to /etc/shells on macOS (#10066)
- ⬆️ Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.17.0 to 0.17.1 (#10062)
- ⚡️ Update copyright symbol for NuGet packages (#9936)
- 📦 Download latest version (6.2.0) of PSDesiredStateConfiguration nuget package. (#9932)
- ➕ Add automated RPM signing to release build (#10013)
- ⬆️ Bump ThreadJob from 1.1.2 to 2.0.1 in /src/Modules (#10003)
- ⬆️ Bump PowerShellGet from 2.1.4 to 2.2 in /src/Modules (#9933) (#10085)
- ⬆️ Bump PackageManagement from 1.4 to 1.4.3 in /src/Modules (#9820) (#9918) (#10084)
- ⚡️ Update to use TSAv2 (#9914)
- ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema from 9.14.1 to 10.0.21 (#9805) (#9843) (#9854) (#9862) (#9875) (#9885) (#9954) (#10017)
- ⬆️ Bump System.Net.Http.WinHttpHandler from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 (#9786)
- ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.9.1 to 2.10.0 (#9757)
- 🏗 Increase timeout of NuGet job to workaround build timeout (#9772)
📚 Documentation and Help Content
- 🔄 Change log 6.1.4 (#9759)
- 🚀 Change log for release 6.2.1 (#9760)
- ➕ Add quick steps for adding docs to cmdlets (#9978)
- ⚡️ Update readme gitter badge (#9920) (Thanks @RDIL!)
- 🚀 Update README and metadata.json for 7.0.0-preview.1 release (#9767)
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