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PowerShell v7.0.0-preview.6 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-11-21 // over 4 years ago

  • v7.0.0-preview.6 - 11/21/2019

    Note: The CentOS 8 deb package is experimental for this release. A Docker image and deb package will be available, but the deb package will not be released to packages.microsoft.com. For more information please see: #11147

    💥 Breaking Changes

    • ⚡️ Update Test-Connection to work more like the one in Windows PowerShell (#10697) (Thanks @vexx32!)
    • Preserve $? for ParenExpression, SubExpression and ArrayExpression (#11040)
    • 👷 Set working directory to current directory in Start-Job (#10920) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

    ⚡️ Engine Updates and Fixes

    • 👍 Allow pwsh to inherit $env:PSModulePath and enable powershell.exe to start correctly (#11057)

    Experimental Features

    • Provide Unix stat information in filesystem output (#11042)
    • 👌 Support null-conditional operators ?. and ?[] in PowerShell language (#10960)
    • 👌 Support using non-compatible Windows PowerShell modules in PowerShell Core (#10973)

    🐎 Performance

    • 📜 Avoid using closure in Parser.SaveError (#11006)
    • 👌 Improve the caching when creating new Regex instances (#10657) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 👌 Improve processing of the PowerShell built-in type data from types.ps1xml, typesV3.ps1xml and GetEvent.types.ps1xml (#10898)
    • ⚡️ Update PSConfiguration.ReadValueFromFile to make it faster and more memory efficient (#10839)

    ⚡️ General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

    • ➕ Add limit check in Get-WinEvent (#10648) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 🛠 Fix command runtime so StopUpstreamCommandsException doesn't get populated in -ErrorVariable (#10840)
    • Set the output encoding to [Console]::OutputEncoding for native commands (#10824)
    • 👌 Support multi-line code blocks in examples (#10776) (Thanks @Greg-Smulko!)
    • ➕ Add Culture parameter to Select-String cmdlet (#10943) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 🛠 Fix Start-Job working directory path with trailing backslash (#11041)
    • 0️⃣ ConvertFrom-Json: Unwrap collections by default (#10861) (Thanks @danstur!)
    • 👉 Use case-sensitive Hashtable for Group-Object cmdlet with -CaseSensitive and -AsHashtable switches (#11030) (Thanks @vexx32!)
    • 👻 Handle exception if enumerating files fails when rebuilding path to have correct casing (#11014)
    • 🛠 Fix ConciseView to show Activity instead of myCommand (#11007)
    • 👍 Allow web cmdlets to ignore HTTP error statuses (#10466) (Thanks @vdamewood!)
    • 🛠 Fix piping of more than one CommandInfo to Get-Command (#10929)
    • ➕ Add back Get-Counter cmdlet for Windows (#10933)
    • 👉 Make ConvertTo-Json treat [AutomationNull]::Value and [NullString]::Value as $null (#10957)
    • ✂ Remove brackets from ipv6 address for SSH remoting (#10968)
    • 🛠 Fix crash if command sent to pwsh is just whitespace (#10977)
    • ➕ Added cross-platform Get-Clipboard and Set-Clipboard (#10340)
    • 🛠 Fix setting original path of filesystem object to not have extra trailing slash (#10959)
    • 👌 Support $null for ConvertTo-Json (#10947)
    • ➕ Add back Out-Printer command on Windows (#10906)
    • 🛠 Fix Start-Job -WorkingDirectory with whitespace (#10951)
    • 0️⃣ Return default value when getting null for a setting in PSConfiguration.cs (#10963) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 👻 Handle IO exception as non-terminating (#10950)
    • ➕ Add GraphicalHost assembly to enable Out-GridView, Show-Command, and Get-Help -ShowWindow (#10899)
    • 🚑 Take ComputerName via pipeline in Get-HotFix (#10852) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
    • 🛠 Fix tab completion for parameters so that it shows common parameters as available (#10850)
    • 🛠 Fix GetCorrectCasedPath() to first check if any system file entries is returned before calling First() (#10930)
    • 👷 Set working directory to current directory in Start-Job (#10920) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 🔄 Change TabExpansion2 to not require -CursorColumn and treat as $InputScript.Length (#10849)
    • 🖐 Handle case where Host may not return Rows or Columns of screen (#10938)
    • 🛠 Fix use of accent colors for hosts that don't support them (#10937)
    • ➕ Add back Update-List command (#10922)
    • ⚡️ Update FWLink Id for Clear-RecycleBin (#10925)
    • During tab completion, skip file if can't read file attributes (#10910)
    • ➕ Add back Clear-RecycleBin for Windows (#10909)
    • ➕ Add $env:__SuppressAnsiEscapeSequences to control whether to have VT escape sequence in output (#10814)

    Code Cleanup

    • 💅 Cleanup style issues in Compiler.cs (#10368) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • ✂ Remove the unused type converter for CommaDelimitedStringCollection (#11000) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 💅 Cleanup style in InitialSessionState.cs (#10865) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • Code clean up for PSSession class (#11001)
    • ✂ Remove the not-working 'run Update-Help from Get-Help when Get-Help runs for the first time' feature (#10974)
    • 🛠 Fix style issues (#10998) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • Cleanup: use the built-in type alias (#10882) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • ✂ Remove the unused setting key ConsolePrompting and avoid unnecessary string creation when querying ExecutionPolicy setting (#10985)
    • ⚡️ Disable update notification check for daily builds (#10903) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
    • Reinstate debugging API lost in #10338 (#10808)

    Tools

    • ➕ Add default setting for the SDKToUse property so that it builds in VS (#11085)
    • Install-Powershell.ps1: Add parameter to use MSI installation (#10921) (Thanks @MJECloud!)
    • ➕ Add basic examples for install-powershell.ps1 (#10914) (Thanks @kilasuit!)

    ✅ Tests

    • 🛠 Fix stringdata test to correctly validate keys of hashtables (#10810)
    • ✅ Unload test modules (#11061) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • ✅ Increase time between retries of testing URL (#11015)
    • ⚡️ Update tests to accurately describe test actions. (#10928) (Thanks @romero126!)

    🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements

    • 📇 Updating links in README.md and metadata.json for Preview.5 (#10854)
    • ✅ Select the files for compliance tests which are owned by PowerShell (#10837)
    • 👍 Allow win7x86 msix package to build. (Internal 10515)
    • 👍 Allow semantic versions to be passed to NormalizeVersion function (#11087)
    • ⬆️ Bump .NET core framework to 3.1-preview.3 (#11079)
    • ⬆️ Bump PSReadLine from 2.0.0-beta5 to 2.0.0-beta6 in /src/Modules (#11078)
    • ⬆️ Bump Newtonsoft.Json from 12.0.2 to 12.0.3 (#11037) (#11038)
    • ➕ Add Debian 10, 11 and CentOS 8 packages (#11028)
    • 🚀 Upload Build-Info Json file with the ReleaseDate field (#10986)
    • ⬆️ Bump .NET core framework to 3.1-preview.2 (#10993)
    • 🏗 Enable build of x86 MSIX package (#10934)
    • ⚡️ Update the dotnet SDK install script URL in build.psm1 (#10927)
    • ⬆️ Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.17.1 to 0.18.0 (#10887)
    • ⬆️ Bump ThreadJob from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 (#10886)
    • ⚡️ Update AppX Manifest and Packaging module to conform to MS Store requirements (#10878)

    📚 Documentation and Help Content

    • ⚡️ Update CONTRIBUTING.md (#11096) (Thanks @mklement0!)
    • 🛠 Fix installation doc links in README.md (#11083)
    • ➕ Adds examples to install-powershell.ps1 script (#11024) (Thanks @kilasuit!)
    • 🛠 Fix to Select-String emphasis and Import-DscResource in CHANGELOG.md (#10890)
    • ✂ Remove the stale link from powershell-beginners-guide.md (#10926)

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