PowerShell v7.1.0-preview.4 release notes (2020-06-25)

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PowerShell v7.1.0-preview.4 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-06-25 // about 5 years ago

7.1.0-preview.4 - 2020-06-25

Note : MSI installer packages have been removed due to #13035 till further investigation.

💥 Breaking Changes
- 👉 Make the switch parameter -Qualifier not positional for Split-Path (#12960) (Thanks @yecril71pl!)
- Resolve the working directory as literal path for Start-Process when it's not specified (#11946) (Thanks @NoMoreFood!)
- 🌐 Make -OutFile parameter in web cmdlets to work like -LiteralPath (#11701) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
⚡️ Engine Updates and Fixes
- Ensure null-coalescing LHS is evaluated only once (#12667)
- 🛠 Fix path handling bug in PSTask (#12554) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
- ✂ Remove extra line before formatting group (#12163) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 👉 Make module formatting not generate error with strict mode (#11943)
- ➕ Adding more ETW logs to WSMan plugin (#12798) (Thanks @krishnayalavarthi!)
- Restrict loading of amsi.dll to system32 folder (#12730)
⚡️ General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes
- 🛠 Fix NullReferenceException in CommandSearcher.GetNextCmdlet (#12659) (Thanks @powercode!)
- ✅ Prevent NullReferenceException in Unix computer cmdlets with test hooks active (#12651) (Thanks @vexx32!)
- 🛠 Fix issue in Select-Object where Hashtable members (e.g. Keys) cannot be used with -Property or -ExpandProperty (#11097) (Thanks @vexx32!)
- 🛠 Fix conflicting shorthand switch -w for pwsh (#12945)
- 📇 Rename the CimCmdlet resource file (#12955) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- ✂ Remove use of Test-Path in ConciseView (#12778)
- 0️⃣ Flag default switch statement condition clause as keyword (#10487) (Thanks @msftrncs!)
- ➕ Add parameter SchemaFile to Test-Json cmdlet (#11934) (Thanks @beatcracker!)
- Bring back Certificate provider parameters (#10622) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 🛠 Fix New-Item to create symbolic link to relative path target (#12797) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- ➕ Add CommandLine property to Process (#12288) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- ➕ Adds -MaskInput parameter to Read-Host (#10908) (Thanks @davinci26!)
- 🔄 Change CimCmdlets to use AliasAttribute (#12617) (Thanks @thlac!)
Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@xtqqczze, @sethvs, @romero126, @kvprasoon, @powercode
- 👉 Use nameof operator (#12716) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 🛠 Fix comments in Mshexpression.cs (#12711) (Thanks @sethvs!)
- 🚚 Formatting: remove duplicate semicolons (#12666) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Replace SortedList with Generic.SortedList<TKey,TValue> (#12954) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 👉 Use HashSet instead of Hashtable with null values (#12958) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ✅ Rename CopyItem.Tests.ps1 to Copy-Item.Tests.ps1 to match other tests (#10701) (Thanks @romero126!)
- 🛠 Fix RCS1114: Remove redundant delegate creation (#12917) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 🛠 Code redundancy fixes (#12916) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ⚡️ Update the PowerShell modules to use the new Help URI (#12686)
- Reorder modifiers according to preferred order (#12864) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Expand numberOfPowershellRefAssemblies list capacity (#12840) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ➕ Add readonly modifier to internal static members (#11777) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- cleanup: Use coalesce expression (#12829) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ➕ Add missing assessibility modifiers (#12820) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 👉 Use t_ naming convention for ThreadStatic members (#12826) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Formatting: Add empty line between declarations (#12824) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 0️⃣ Clarify defaultRefAssemblies list capacity in AddType.cs (#12520) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 🛠 Fixing "Double "period" (..) in message for System.InvalidOperationException" (#12758) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
- 👍 Rethrow to preserve stack details for better maintainability (#12723) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ✂ Delete license.rtf (#12738) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Nullable annotations for CommandSearcher (#12733) (Thanks @powercode!)
- 🚚 Redundancy: Remove 'partial' modifier from type with a single part (#12725) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ✂ Remove phrase 'All rights reserved' from Microsoft copyright statements (#12722) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- IDictionary -> IDictionary<string, FunctionInfo> for FunctionTable (#12658) (Thanks @powercode!)
Tools
- 🌲 Use correct isError parameter with Write-Log (#12989)
- 💅 Disable NonPrivateReadonlyFieldsMustBeginWithUpperCaseLetter rule in StyleCop (#12855) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ➕ Add @TylerLeonhardt to PowerShell team list to correct changelog generation (#12927)
- 🏁 Enable the upload of ETW traces to CLR CAP in Windows daily build (#12890)
- ⚡️ Prevent GitHub workflow for daily dotnet build updates from running in forks (#12763) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
- ➕ Add GitHub action for PR creation and Wix file generation logic (#12748)
✅ Tests
- ✂ Remove duplicate tests from Measure-Object.Tests.ps1 (#12683) (Thanks @sethvs!)
- 🛠 Fix tests to not write errors to console (#13010)
- ✅ Make sure tabcompletion tests run (#12981)
- ✂ Remove dependency on DNS for Test-Connection tests on macOS (#12943)
- 👕 Restore markdownlint tests (#12549) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ✅ Wrap tests in pester blocks (#12700) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!

@iSazonov, @kvprasoon, @Saancreed, @heaths, @xtqqczze
- ⚡️ Update Distribution_Request.md
- ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema from 10.1.15 to 10.1.16 (#12685)
- 📦 Disable uploading Symbols package (#12687)
- ⚡️ Update .NET SDK version from 5.0.100-preview.5.20279.10 to 5.0.100-preview.6.20318.15 (#13018)
- ✂ Remove component ref when re-generating the wix file (#13019)
- 👉 Make sure icons are added to MSI staging folder (#12983)
- 📇 Update DotnetRutimeMetadata.json to point to preview 6 (#12972)
- ⬆️ Bump PSReadLine from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 (#12909)
- ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema from 10.1.18 to 10.1.21 (#12944)
- Check if Azure Blob exists before overwriting (#12921)
- ✅ Enable skipped tests (#12894) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 🛠 Fix break in package build by pinning ffi version to 1.12 (#12889)
- ⬆️ Upgrade APIScan version (#12876)
- 🚀 Make contributors unique in Release notes (#12878) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
- ⚡️ Update Linux daily CI to run in a single agent & collect traces (#12866)
- ⚡️ Update .NET SDK version from 5.0.100-preview.5.20278.13 to 5.0.100-preview.5.20279.10 (#12844) (Thanks @github-actions[bot]!)
- Sign the MSIX files for the store (#12582)
- ⚡️ Update the CI builds (#12830)
- ⚡️ Update .NET SDK version from 5.0.100-preview.5.20272.6 to 5.0.100-preview.5.20278.13 (#12772) (Thanks @github-actions[bot]!)
- 👍 Allow use of build module on unknown Linux distros (#11146) (Thanks @Saancreed!)
- 🛠 Fix MSI upgrade and shortcut issues (#12792) (Thanks @heaths!)
- ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema from 10.1.17 to 10.1.18 (#12812)
- ⚡️ Update .NET SDK version from 5.0.100-preview.5.20269.29 to 5.0.100-preview.5.20272.6 (#12759) (Thanks @github-actions[bot]!)
- ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema from 10.1.16 to 10.1.17 (#12761)
- ⚡️ Update to dotnet SDK 5.0.0-preview.5.20268.9 (#12740)
- ✂ Remove assets\license.rtf (#12721) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0 (#12731)
📚 Documentation and Help Content
- 🚀 Update README and metadata files for next release (#12717)
- 🚀 Update README.md removing experimental status of Arm builds, but Win-Arm64 is still preview for Stable release. (#12707)
- ➕ Add link to Github compare in changelog (#12713) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ➕ Added missing changelog for v7.1.0-preview.2 (#12665)
- ⚡️ Update required Visual Studio version in build docs (#12628) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ⚡️ minor update to Distribution_Request.md (#12705) (Thanks @kilasuit!)
- ⚡️ Update docs.microsoft.com links (#12653) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 🚀 Update change log for 6.2.5 release (#12670)
- 🚀 Update README.md and metadata.json for next release (#12668)
- 🔀 Merge 7.0.1 change log (#12669)
- ✂ Remove markdown unused definitions (#12656) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ➕ Add HoloLens to list of PowerShell adopters (#12940) (Thanks @reynoldsbd!)
- 🚀 Update README.md and metadata.json for next releases (#12939)
- 🛠 Fix broken link in README.md (#12887) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Minor typo corrections in Distribution Request Issue Templates (#12744) (Thanks @corbob!)
- Correct 'review-for-comments' in Governance.md (#11035) (Thanks @MarvTheRobot!)
- 🛠 Fix markdown ordered lists (#12657) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 🛠 Fix broken docs.microsoft.com link (#12776) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Replace link to Slack with link to PowerShell Virtual User Group (#12786) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ⚡️ Update LICENSE.txt so that it's recognized as MIT (#12729)
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