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PowerShell v7.0.0-rc.2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-01-16 // about 4 years ago

  • v7.0.0-rc.2 - 1/16/2020

    Note: There is a known issue with WinRM-based remoting on Debian 10 and 11 when using Basic authentication with HTTPS. We are currently investigating this problem and try to address it for PowerShell 7 GA.

    💥 Breaking Changes

    • 👉 Use ISOWeek for week numbers in Get-Date accounting for leap years (#11536) (Thanks @paalbra!)

    ⚡️ Engine Updates and Fixes

    • ⏪ Revert the PRs that made DBNull.Value and NullString.Value treated as $null (#11584)
    • 👌 Support expanding ~ in $env:PATH when doing command discovery (#11552)
    • Skip null data in output data received handler to fix a NullReferenceException (#11448) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • ➕ Add ssh parameter sets for the parameter -JobName in Invoke-Command (#11444)
    • ➕ Adding PowerShell Editor Services and PSScriptAnalyzer to tracked modules (#11514)
    • 🛠 Fix key exchange hang with SecureString for the OutOfProc transports (#11380, #11406)
    • ➕ Add setting to disable the implicit WinPS module loading (#11332)

    ⚡️ General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

    • 🛠 Fix NullReferenceException in ConciseView (#11435) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • ✂ Remove the default value of $true for the parameter -RequireLicenseAcceptance in New-ModuleManifest (#11512) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!)
    • 🌐 Make Web Cmdlets skip processing the content headers with a null or empty value for backward compatibility (#11421) (Thanks @spongemike2!)
    • Don't format exceptions that are not ErrorRecord objects (#11415)
    • Mark InitialSessionState.ImportPSSnapIn as Obsolete (#11399)
    • 👉 Use PositionMessage for the line context information for ConciseView (#11398)
    • ➕ Add trailing line number to filename for ConciseView (#11391)
    • ⚡️ Update HelpInfoUri for all modules in PowerShell 7.0 (#11389)
    • ✂ Remove unnecessary newline in ConciseView (#11383)
    • 🚚 Move Set-StrictMode to the outer script block for ErrorView (#11381)
    • ✂ Remove the declaration of Get-Error experimental feature from module manifest (#11369)
    • ⚡️ Update error message if Update-Help fails for the current UICulture (#11356)
    • ✅ Test-Connection: Fallback to hop IP Address on -Traceroute without -ResolveDestination (#11335) (Thanks @vexx32!)
    • ➕ Add null host name check in WSMan (#11288) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • ➕ Add Type member to exceptions containing type of exception for Get-Error (#11076)
    • Write an error if argument is a directory in Get-FileHash cmdlet (#11114) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • ⚡️ Update Get-Error to not modify the original $Error object (#11125)

    Code Cleanup

    • 👉 Use .NET code to check for processor architecture instead of P/Invoke (#11046) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

    ✅ Tests

    • ✅ Test fixes for various platforms (#11579, #11541)
    • ✅ Various test fixes for debugger and remoting (#11528)
    • ✅ DSC test fixes for Alpine and Raspbian (#11508)
    • ✅ Normalize line endings before comparing string in tests (#11499)
    • 🛠 Fix ssh remoting test to work on all platforms (#11500)
    • 🏗 Build test artifacts for Alpine (#11483)
    • ✅ Make null member access tests as string to avoid parsing errors (#11385)
    • 🛠 Fix test failing when UnixStat feature is disabled (#11370)
    • ⚡️ Update hosting tests to use the SDK version from the build property (#11368)
    • ➕ Add retry to Enter-PSHostProcess test (#11360)

    🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements

    • ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Native from 7.0.0-rc.1 to 7.0.0.rc.2 (#11583)
    • ⚡️ Update .NET SDK version to 3.1.101 (#11582)
    • ⬆️ Bump PSReadLine from 2.0.0-rc1 to 2.0.0-rc2 (#11581)
    • ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema from 10.0.28 to 10.1.3 (#11382, #11573)
    • 📦 Generate the correct reference assembly for Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost NuGet package (#11545)
    • ⚡️ Update building of MSIX for RC to use 100 range revision (#11526)
    • 🛠 Fix symbolic links on Debian 10 packages (#11474)
    • ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive from 1.2.3.0 to 1.2.4.0 (#11502)
    • ➕ Add script to rebuild WIX component references (#11485)
    • ⬆️ Bump PackageManagement from 1.4.5 to 1.4.6 (#11427)
    • ⬆️ Bump PowerShellGet from 2.2.2 to 2.2.3 (#11426)
    • ⬆️ Bump ThreadJob from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3 (#11416)
    • 🛠 Fix symbolic links to libs on Debian 10 (#11390)
    • 👌 Improve Ubuntu detection for Ubuntu derivatives like GalliumOS etc (#11155)

    📚 Documentation and Help Content

    • 🛠 Fix broken link in debugging README.md (#11503)

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