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PowerShell v7.0.0-preview.4 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-09-19 // over 4 years ago

  • v7.0.0-preview.4 - 09/19/2019

    ⚡️ Engine Updates and Fixes

    • ➕ Add support to ActionPreference.Break to break into debugger when Debug, Error, Information, Progress, Verbose or Warning messages are generated (#8205) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
    • Enable starting control panel add-ins within PowerShell Core without specifying .CPL extension. (#9828)

    🐎 Performance

    • 🐎 Make ForEach-Object faster for its commonly used scenarios (#10454) and fix ForEach-Object -Parallel performance problem with many runspaces (#10455)

    Experimental Features

    • ⚡️ Update PSDesiredStateConfiguration module version to 2.0.3 and bring new tests; enable compilation to MOF on non-Windows and use of Invoke-DSCResource without LCM (#10516)
    • ➕ Add APIs for breakpoint management in runspaces and enable attach to process without BreakAll for PowerShell Editor Services (#10338) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
    • 👌 Support ternary operator in PowerShell language (#10367)

    ⚡️ General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

    • ➕ Add PowerShell Core group policy definitions (#10468)
    • ⚡️ Update console host to support XTPUSHSGR/XTPOPSGR VT control sequences that are used in composability scenarios. (#10208)
    • ➕ Add WorkingDirectory parameter to Start-Job (#10324) (Thanks @davinci26!)
    • ✂ Remove the event handler that was causing breakpoint changes to be erroneously replicated to the host runspace debugger (#10503) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
    • 👷 Replace api-ms-win-core-job-12-1-0.dll with Kernell32.dll in Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NativeMethods P/Invoke API(#10417) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 🛠 Fix wrong output for New-Service in variable assignment and -OutVariable (#10444) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
    • 🛠 Fix global tool issues around exit code, command line parameters and path with spaces (#10461)
    • 🛠 Fix recursion into OneDrive - change FindFirstFileEx() to use SafeFindHandle type (#10405)
    • 🏁 Skip auto-loading PSReadLine on Windows if the NVDA screen reader is active (#10385)
    • Increase built-with-PowerShell module versions to 7.0.0.0 (#10356)
    • ➕ Add throwing an error in Add-Type if a type with the same name already exists (#9609) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

    Code Cleanup

    • 🚚 Convert ActionPreference.Suspend enumeration value into a non-supported, reserved state, and remove restriction on using ActionPreference.Ignore in preference variables (#10317) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
    • Replace ArrayList with List<T> to get more readable and reliable code without changing functionality (#10333) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 💅 Make code style fixes to TestConnectionCommand (#10439) (Thanks @vexx32!)
    • 🚚 Cleanup AutomationEngine and remove extra SetSessionStateDrive method call (#10416) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 0️⃣ Rename default ParameterSetName back to Delimiter for ConvertTo-Csv and ConvertFrom-Csv (#10425)

    Tools

    • ⚡️ Update install-powershell.ps1 to check for already installed daily build (#10489)

    ✅ Tests

    • ➕ Add experimental check to ForEach-Object -Parallel tests (#10354) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
    • ⚡️ Update tests for Alpine validation (#10428)

    🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements

    • ⬆️ Bump PowerShellGet version from 2.2 to 2.2.1 (#10382)
    • ⬆️ Bump PackageManagement version from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4 (#10383)
    • 📇 Update README.md and metadata.json for 7.0.0-preview.4 (Internal 10011)
    • ⬆️ Upgrade .Net Core 3.0 version from Preview 9 to RC1 (#10552) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
    • 🛠 Fix ExperimentalFeature list generation (Internal 9996)
    • ⬆️ Bump PSReadLine version from 2.0.0-beta4 to 2.0.0-beta5 (#10536)
    • 🛠 Fix release build script to set release tag
    • ⚡️ Update version of Microsoft.PowerShell.Native to 7.0.0-preview.2 (#10519)
    • ⬆️ Upgrade to Netcoreapp3.0 preview9 (#10484) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
    • 🏗 Make sure the daily coordinated build, knows it is a daily build (#10464)
    • 🚀 Update the combined package build to release the daily builds (#10449)
    • ✂ Remove appveyor reference (#10445) (Thanks @RDIL!)
    • ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema version from 10.0.22 to 10.0.23 (#10421)
    • ✂ Remove the deletion of linux-x64 build folder because some dependencies for Alpine need it (#10407)

    📚 Documentation and Help Content

    • 🚀 Update README.md and metadata for v6.1.6 and v6.2.3 releases (#10523)
    • 🛠 Fix a typo in README.md (#10465) (Thanks @vedhasp!)
    • ➕ Add a reference to PSKoans module to Learning Resources documentation (#10369) (Thanks @vexx32!)
    • 📇 Update README.md and metadata.json for 7.0.0-preview.3 (#10393)

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