PowerShell v7.0.0-preview.5 release notes (2019-10-23)

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PowerShell v7.0.0-preview.5 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-10-23 // over 4 years ago

v7.0.0-preview.5 - 10/23/2019

Note: If there is an issue installing macOS package on Catalina please refer to this issue #10874

💥 Breaking Changes
- 👉 Make $PSCulture consistently reflect in-session culture changes (#10138) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
⚡️ Engine Updates and Fixes
- 🚚 Move to .NET Core 3.1 preview 1 (#10798)
- 🔨 Refactor reparse tag checks in file system provider (#10431) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 🌲 Replace CR and new line with a 0x23CE character in script logging (#10616)
- 🛠 Fix a resource leak by unregistering the event handler from AppDomain.CurrentDomain.ProcessExit (#10626)
Experimental Features
- Implement Get-Error cmdlet as Experimental Feature (#10727,#10800)
- ➕ Add ConciseView for $ErrorView and update it to remove unnecessary text and not color entire line in red (#10641,#10724)
- 👌 Support the pipeline chain operators && and || in PowerShell language (#9849,#10825,#10836)
- Implement null coalescing (??) and null coalescing assignment (??=) operators (#10636)
- 👌 Support notification on pwsh startup when a new release is available and update notification message (#10689,#10777)
⚡️ General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes
- ➕ Add -NoEmphasize parameter to colorize Select-String output (#8963) (Thanks @derek-xia!)
- ➕ Add back Get-HotFix cmdlet (#10740)
- 👉 Make Add-Type usable in applications that host PowerShell (#10587)
- 👉 Use more effective evaluation order in LanguagePrimitives.IsNullLike() (#10781) (Thanks @vexx32!)
- 👌 Improve handling of mixed-collection piped input and piped streams of input in Format-Hex (#8674) (Thanks @vexx32!)
- 👀 Use type conversion in SSHConnection hashtables when value doesn't match expected type (#10720) (Thanks @SeeminglyScience!)
- 🛠 Fix Get-Content -ReadCount 0 behavior when -TotalCount is set (#10749) (Thanks @eugenesmlv!)
- Reword access denied error message in Get-WinEvent (#10639) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- Enable tab completion for variable assignment that is enum or type constrained (#10646)
- ✂ Remove unused SourceLength remoting property causing formatting issues (#10765)
- ➕ Add -Delimiter parameter to ConvertFrom-StringData (#10665) (Thanks @steviecoaster!)
- ➕ Add positional parameter for ScriptBlock when using Invoke-Command with SSH (#10721) (Thanks @machgo!)
- 👉 Show line context information if multiple lines but no script name for ConciseView (#10746)
- ➕ Add support for \\wsl$\ paths to file system provider (#10674)
- ➕ Add the missing token text for TokenKind.QuestionMark in parser (#10706)
- Set current working directory of each ForEach-Object -Parallel running script to the same location as the calling script. (#10672)
- Replace api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-2.dll with Kernell32.dll for FindFirstStreamW and FindNextStreamW APIs (#10680) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 👉 Tweak help formatting script to be more StrictMode tolerant (#10563)
- ➕ Add -SecurityDescriptorSDDL parameter to New-Service (#10483) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
- ✂ Remove informational output, consolidate ping usage in Test-Connection (#10478) (Thanks @vexx32!)
- 📜 Read special reparse points without accessing them (#10662) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- Direct Clear-Host output to terminal (#10681) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- ➕ Add back newline for grouping with Format-Table and -Property (#10653)
- ✂ Remove [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty] from -InputObject on Get-Random to allow empty string (#10644)
- 👉 Make suggestion system string distance algorithm case-insensitive (#10549) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 🛠 Fix null reference exception in ForEach-Object -Parallel input processing (#10577)
Code Cleanup
- ✂ Remove WorkflowJobSourceAdapter reference that is no longer used (#10326) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
- Cleanup COM interfaces in jump list code by fixing PreserveSig attributes (#9899) (Thanks @weltkante!)
- ➕ Add a comment describing why -ia is not the alias for -InformationAction common parameter (#10703) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
- 📇 Rename InvokeCommandCmdlet.cs to InvokeExpressionCommand.cs (#10659) (Thanks @kilasuit!)
- ➕ Add minor code cleanups related to update notifications (#10698)
- ✂ Remove deprecated workflow logic from the remoting setup scripts (#10320) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
- ⚡️ Update help format to use proper case (#10678) (Thanks @tnieto88!)
- 💅 Clean up CodeFactor style issues coming in commits for the last month (#10591) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 🛠 Fix typo in description of PSTernaryOperator experimental feature (#10586) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
🐎 Performance
- ➕ Add minor performance improvements for runspace initialization (#10569) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
Tools
- 👉 Make Install-PowerShellRemoting.ps1 handle empty string in PowerShellHome parameter (#10526) (Thanks @Orca88!)
- 🚀 Switch from /etc/lsb-release to /etc/os-release in install-powershell.sh (#10773) (Thanks @Himura2la!)
- 🏁 Check pwsh.exe and pwsh in daily version on Windows (#10738) (Thanks @centreboard!)
- ✂ Remove unneeded tap in installpsh-osx.sh (#10752)
✅ Tests
- ✅ Temporary skip the flaky test TestAppDomainProcessExitEvenHandlerNotLeaking (#10827)
- ✅ Make the event handler leaking test stable (#10790)
- 🔀 Sync capitalization in CI YAML (#10767) (Thanks @RDIL!)
- ➕ Add test for the event handler leaking fix (#10768)
- ➕ Add Get-ChildItem test (#10507) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- ✅ Replace ambiguous language for tests from switch to parameter for accuracy (#10666) (Thanks @romero126!)
🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements
- ⚡️ Update package reference for PowerShell SDK to preview.5 (Internal 10295)
- ⚡️ Update ThirdPartyNotices.txt (#10834)
- ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Native to 7.0.0-preview.3 (#10826)
- ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.10.0 to 2.11.0 (#10608)
- ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema from 10.0.24 to 10.0.27 (#10756)
- ➕ Add MacPorts support to the build system (#10736) (Thanks @Lucius-Q-User!)
- ⬆️ Bump PackageManagement from 1.4.4 to 1.4.5 (#10728)
- ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema from 10.0.23 to 10.0.24 (#10635)
- ➕ Add environment variable to differentiate client/server telemetry in MSI (#10612)
- ⬆️ Bump PSDesiredStateConfiguration from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 (#10603)
- ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 3.2.1 to 3.3.1 (#10607)
- ⚡️ Update to .Net Core 3.0 RTM (#10604) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
- ⚡️ Update MSIX packaging so the version to Windows Store requirements (#10588)
📚 Documentation and Help Content
- 🔀 Merge stable and servicing change logs (#10527)
- ⚡️ Update used .NET version in build docs (#10775) (Thanks @Greg-Smulko!)
- 📄 Replace links from MSDN to docs.microsoft.com in powershell-beginners-guide.md (#10778) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 🛠 Fix broken DSC overview link (#10702)
- ⚡️ Update Support_Question.md to link to Stack Overflow as another community resource (#10638) (Thanks @mklement0!)
- ➕ Add processor architecture to distribution request template (#10661)
- ➕ Add new PowerShell MoL book to learning PowerShell docs (#10602)
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