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PowerShell v7.1.0-preview.2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-04-23 // about 4 years ago

  • 7.1.0-preview.2 - 2020-04-23

    💥 Breaking Changes

    • 🏁 On Windows, Start-Process creates a process environment with
      all the environment variables from current session,
      0️⃣ using -UseNewEnvironment creates a new default process environment (#10830) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • Do not wrap return result to PSObject when converting ScriptBlock to delegate (#10619)

    ⚡️ Engine Updates and Fixes

    • 👍 Allow case insensitive paths for determining PSModulePath (#12192)
    • ➕ Add PowerShell version 7.0 to compatible version list (#12184)
    • Discover assemblies loaded by Assembly.Load(byte[]) and Assembly.LoadFile (#12203)

    ⚡️ General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

    • 🛠 Fix WinCompat module loading to treat PowerShell 7 modules with higher priority (#12269)
    • Implement ForEach-Object -Parallel runspace reuse (#12122)
    • 🛠 Fix Get-Service to not modify collection while enumerating it (#11851) (Thanks @NextTurn!)
    • Clean up the IPC named pipe on PowerShell exit (#12187)
    • 🛠 Fix <img /> detection regex in web cmdlets (#12099) (Thanks @vexx32!)
    • 👍 Allow shorter signed hex literals with appropriate type suffixes (#11844) (Thanks @vexx32!)
    • ⚡️ Update UseNewEnvironment parameter behavior of Start-Process cmdlet on Windows (#10830) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • ➕ Add -Shuffle switch to Get-Random command (#11093) (Thanks @eugenesmlv!)
    • 🏁 Make GetWindowsPowerShellModulePath compatible with multiple PS installations (#12280)
    • 🛠 Fix Start-Job to work on systems that don't have Windows PowerShell registered as default shell (#12296)
    • Specifying an alias and -Syntax to Get-Command returns the aliased commands syntax (#10784) (Thanks @ChrisLGardner!)
    • 👉 Make CSV cmdlets work when using -AsNeeded and there is an incomplete row (#12281) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    • 👀 In local invocations, do not require -PowerShellVersion 5.1 for Get-FormatData in order to see all format data. (#11270) (Thanks @mklement0!)
    • ➕ Added Support For Big Endian UTF-32 (#11947) (Thanks @NoMoreFood!)
    • 🛠 Fix possible race that leaks PowerShell object dispose in ForEach-Object -Parallel (#12227)
    • ➕ Add -FromUnixTime to Get-Date to allow Unix time input (#12179) (Thanks @jackdcasey!)
    • 🔄 Change default progress foreground and background colors to provide improved contrast (#11455) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
    • 🛠 Fix foreach -parallel when current drive is not available (#12197)
    • Do not wrap return result to PSObject when converting ScriptBlock to delegate (#10619)
    • ✅ Don't write DNS resolution errors on Test-Connection -Quiet (#12204) (Thanks @vexx32!)
    • 👷 Use dedicated threads to read the redirected output and error streams from the child process for out-of-proc jobs (#11713)

    Code Cleanup

    We thank the following contributors!

    @ShaydeNofziger, @RDIL

    • 🛠 Fix erroneous comment in tokenizer.cs (#12206) (Thanks @ShaydeNofziger!)
    • 🛠 Fix terms checker issues (#12189)
    • ⚡️ Update copyright notice to latest guidance (#12190)
    • CodeFactor cleanup (#12251) (Thanks @RDIL!)

    Tools

    • ⚡️ Update .NET dependency update script to include test csproj files (#12372)
    • 🚀 Scripts to update to .NET prerelease version (#12284)

    ✅ Tests

    • 🚀 Pin major Pester version to 4 to prevent breaking changes caused by upcoming release of v5 (#12262) (Thanks @bergmeister!)

    🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements

    We thank the following contributors!

    @rkitover, @bergmeister

    • ➕ Add the nuget.config from root to the temporary build folder (#12394)
    • ⬆️ Bump System.IO.Packaging (#12365)
    • ⬆️ Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.18.3 to 0.20.0 (#12379)
    • 🚀 Bump to .NET 5 Preview 3 pre-release (#12353)
    • ⬆️ Bump PowerShellGet from 2.2.3 to 2.2.4 (#12342)
    • 🐧 Linux: Initial support for Gentoo installations. (#11429) (Thanks @rkitover!)
    • ⬆️ Upgrade to .NET 5 Preview 2 (#12250) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
    • 🛠 Fix the Sync PSGalleryModules to Artifacts build (#12277)
    • ⬆️ Bump PSReadLine from 2.0.0 to 2.0.1 (#12243)
    • ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema from 10.1.11 to 10.1.12 (#12230)
    • ⚡️ Update change log generation script to support collapsible sections (#12214)

    📚 Documentation and Help Content

    • ➕ Add documentation for WebResponseObject and BasicHtmlWebResponseObject properties (#11876) (Thanks @kevinoid!)
    • ➕ Add Windows 10 IoT Core reference in Adopters.md (#12266) (Thanks @parameshbabu!)
    • 📇 Update README.md and metadata.json for 7.1.0-preview.1 (#12211)

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