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PowerShell v7.0.0-preview.3 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-08-20 // over 4 years ago

  • v7.0.0-preview.3 - 08/20/2019

    💥 Breaking Changes

    • ✂ Remove kill alias for Stop-Process cmdlet on Unix (#10098) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 👌 Support for starting PowerShell as a login shell (pwsh -Login / pwsh -l) support (#10050)

    ⚡️ Engine Updates and Fixes

    • ➕ Additional Telemetry - implementation of RFC0036 (#10336)
    • Implement ForEach-Object -Parallel as an experimental feature (#10229)
    • Skip JumpList on NanoServer and IoT (#10164)
    • 👉 Make Get-DscResource work with class based resources (#10350)
    • 🛠 Fix #requires -version for pwsh 7 to include 6.1 and 6.2 in PSCompatibleVersions (#9943) (Thanks @bgelens!)
    • ➕ Add dispose of _runspaceDebugCompleteEvent event object. (#10323)
    • 🛠 Fix performance regression from disabling debugger in system lockdown mode (#10269)
    • Special case the posix locale in WildcardPattern (#10186)
    • 🏁 Use Platform.IsWindowsDesktop instead of checking both NanoServer and IoT (#10205)

    ⚡️ General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

    🏗 Enable Experimental Features by default on Preview builds (#10228)

    Enable -sta and -mta switches for pwsh (-sta is required for GUIs) (#10061)

    👉 Make breakpoints display better over PowerShell remoting (#10339) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)

    ➕ Add support for AppX reparse points (#10331)

    👉 Make module name matching for get-module -FullyQualifiedName case insensitive (#10329)

    🚀 Expose PreRelease label in PSModuleInfo formatter (#10316)

    ➕ Add -Raw switch to Select-String which allows returning only the string that was matched (#9901) (Thanks @Jawz84!)

    • ### 🐎 Performance

    ⬇️ Reduce allocations in MakePath() method (#10027) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

    ✂ Remove extra check that the system dll exists (#10244) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

    Avoid boxing when passing value type arguments to PSTraceSource.WriteLine (#10052) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

    ⬇️ Reduce allocations in Escape() and Unescape() (#10041) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

    Code Cleanup

    • ➕ Add the license header to nanoserver.tests.ps1 (#10171)
    • Mark -parallel and -throttlelimit reserved for foreach and switch statements (#10328) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
    • 🗄 Deprecate workflow debugging code (#10321) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
    • 🛠 Fix style issues in InternalCommands.cs (#10352) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 🗄 Deprecate internal HelpCategory.Workflow enumeration (#10319) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
    • ⚡️ Update Microsoft.PowerShell.CoreCLR.Eventing to resolve conflict with System.Diagnostics.EventLog (#10305)
    • Don't collect process start time as it's not being used on consolehost startup (#10294)
    • 🚚 .NET Core 3.0 now aborts the thread for us. Remove the ThreadAbortException code (#10230) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 👉 Use nameof() in LocationGlobber and PathInfo (#10200) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

    Tools

    • 🛠 Fix Hungarian prefix my (#9976) (Thanks @RDIL!)
    • 🛠 Fix spelling error in issue template (#10256)
    • Quote arguments in .vscode/tasks.json in case of spaces (#10204) (Thanks @msftrncs!)

    ✅ Tests

    • ✂ Remove markdownlint tests due to security issues (#10163)
    • ➕ Add tests for WildcardPattern.Escape() and Unescape() (#10090) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 🚀 Cleanup Docker release testing (#10310) (Thanks @RDIL!)

    🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements

    • ⚡️ Update Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure version to 2.0.0-preview.2 (#10366)
    • 🚚 Move to .NET Core 3.0 preview.8 (#10351) (#10227) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
    • ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema from 10.0.21 to 10.0.22 (#10364)
    • ➕ Add Microsoft.PowerShell.CoreCLR.Eventing.dll to exception list for build fix (#10337)
    • ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 3.1.0 to 3.2.1 (#10273) (#10330)
    • ⏪ Revert the temporary AzDevOps artifact workaround (#10260)
    • 🛠 Fix macOS build break (#10207)

    📚 Documentation and Help Content

    • 🚀 Update docs for 7.0.0-preview.2 release (#10160) (#10176)
    • PSSA also includes formatting (#10172)
    • 📚 Refactor security policy documentation so that they appear in the Security policy tab of GitHub (#9905) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
    • ➕ Add tooling section to PR template (#10144)
    • 🚀 Update README.md and metadata.json for next releases (#10087)
    • ⚡️ Update DotNet Support links (#10145)
    • ⚡️ Update our language on our policy applying to security issues (#10304)
    • ⚡️ Update dead links from powershell.com (#10297)
    • Create Distribution_Request issue template (#10253)
    • 🛠 Fix: Removed dependency file with Dependabot (#10212) (Thanks @RDIL!)

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