PowerShell v7.1.0-preview.6 release notes (2020-08-17)

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PowerShell v7.1.0-preview.6 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-08-17 // about 5 years ago

7.1.0-preview.6 - 2020-08-17
💥 Breaking Changes
- 📇 Rename -FromUnixTime to -UnixTimeSeconds on Get-Date to allow Unix time input (#13084) (Thanks @aetos382!)
- 👉 Make $ErrorActionPreference not affect stderr output of native commands (#13361)
- 👍 Allow explicitly specified named parameter to supersede the same one from hashtable splatting (#13162)
⚡️ Engine Updates and Fixes
- 🔨 Refactor command line parser to do early parsing (#11482) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- ➕ Add support for some .NET intrinsic type converters (#12580) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- Refresh and enable the ComInterop code in PowerShell (#13304)
Experimental Features
- ➕ Add -Runspace parameter to all *-PSBreakpoint cmdlets (#10492) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
⚡️ General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes
- 🛠 Fix error message from new symbolic link missing target (#13085) (Thanks @yecril71pl!)
- 👉 Make the parameter args non-nullable in the public ConsoleHost APIs (#13429)
- ➕ Add missing dispose for CancellationTokenSource (#13420) (Thanks @Youssef1313!)
- ➕ Add the parameter -Paged to Get-Help to support paging (#13374)
- 🛠 Fix Get-Help not properly displaying if parameter supports wildcards (#13353) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!)
- ⚡️ Update pwsh help for -InputFormat parameter (#13355) (Thanks @sethvs!)
- Declare MIT license for files copied from Roslyn (#13305) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 👌 Improve BigInteger casting behaviors (#12629) (Thanks @vexx32!)
- 🛠 Fix Get-Acl -LiteralPath "HKLM:Software\Classes\*" behavior (#13107) (Thanks @Shriram0908!)
- ➕ Add DefaultVisit method to the visitor interface and class (#13258)
- 🛠 Fix conflicting shorthand switch -s (STA) for pwsh (#13262) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 🔄 Change Read-Host -MaskInput to use existing SecureString path, but return as plain text (#13256)
- ✂ Remove ComEnumerator as COM objects using IEnumerator is now supported in .NET 5.0 (#13259)
- 👉 Use temporary personal path at Runspace startup when the 'HOME' environment variable is not defined (#13239)
- 🛠 Fix Invoke-Command to detect recursive call of the same history entry (#13197)
- 🔄 Change pwsh executable -inputformat switch prefix -in to -inp to fix conflict with -interactive (#13205) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 🔒 Handle WSL filesystem path when analyze security zone of a file (#13120)
- 👉 Make other switches mandatory in Split-Path (#13150) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
- 🆕 New Fluent Design icon for PowerShell 7 (#13100) (Thanks @sarthakmalik!)
- 🛠 Fix Move-Item to support cross-mount moves on Unix (#13044)
Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@xtqqczze, @yecril71pl, @ThomasNieto, @dgoldman-msft
- 👉 Use null check with pattern-matching instead of object.ReferenceEquals (#13065) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 🛠 Fix comparison of value type object to null (#13285) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 👉 Use is operator instead of as operator (#13287) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 🔄 Change SwitchParameter fields to properties (#13291) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 🔄 Change "operable" to "executable" (#13281) (Thanks @yecril71pl!)
- ✂ Remove AssemblyInfo property from list views (#13331) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!)
- 🚚 Use is not syntax where appropriate and remove unnecessary parentheses (#13323) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ✂ Remove unreachable code in CustomShellCommands.cs (#13316) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ➕ Add copyright header to .editorconfig and update files (#13306) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 🛠 Fix typo in Out-File.cs and Out-Printer.cs (#13298) (Thanks @dgoldman-msft!)
- 🛠 Fix SA1026CodeMustNotContainSpaceAfterNewKeywordInImplicitlyTypedArrayAllocation (#13249) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ✂ Remove usage of do statement to create an infinite loop (#13137) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 👉 Use int instead of uint in places where it's more appropriate (#13141) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 👉 Use int instead of long to avoid Interlocked.Read (#13069) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Tools
- 🛠 Fix dotnet install errors (#13387)
- 🏁 Increase the timeout of Windows daily build to 90 minutes (#13354)
- ⚡️ Update the dependabot configuration to version 2 (#13230) (Thanks @RDIL!)
- 🛠 Fix Test-XUnitTestResults function (#13270) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- ⚡️ Update .devcontainer to use nightly docker SDK images (#13128)
✅ Tests
- ✅ Mark Test-Connection -TraceRoute tests as pending (#13310)
🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!

@xtqqczze, @iSazonov, @77, @WorrenB
- 🚀 Update README.md and metadata.json for next release (#13059)
- 🚀 Create release pipeline as a yaml pipeline (#13394)
- ⚡️ Update infrastructure to consume private builds from .NET (#13427)
- 🛠 Fix breaks in packages daily build due to macOS signing changes (#13421)
- 🍎 Sign individual files for macOS PKG (#13392)
- 👷 Disable code sign validation on jobs that do not sign (#13389)
- ⬆️ Bump PSReadLine from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 (#13240)
- 📚 Update build documentation for Visual Studio 2019 dependency (#13336) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 3.6.0 to 3.7.0 (#13360)
- ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 16.6.1 to 16.7.0 (#13364)
- ⬆️ Bump xunit.runner.visualstudio from 2.4.2 to 2.4.3 (#13343)
- 👉 Use Authenticode certificate for MSIX signing (#13330)
- ➕ Add default help content to the assets folder (#13257)
- ⚡️ Update .NET SDK version from 5.0.100-preview.7.20366.2 to 5.0.100-preview.7.20366.15 (#13200)
- Set C# language version to preview/9.0 (#13090) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 🏗 Use pwsh for build and test of package in CI build (#13223)
- ✂ Remove rcedit dependency, move daily ico dependency to props file (#13123)
- ⬆️ Bump NJsonSchema from 10.1.23 to 10.1.24 (#13214)
- ⚡️ Update .NET SDK version from 5.0.100-preview.7.20364.3 to 5.0.100-preview.7.20366.2 (#13192)
- ➕ Add support for installing arm64 MSIX package. (#13043) (Thanks @77!)
- 🛠 Fix Azure file copy issues in release build (#13182)
- ⚡️ Update .NET SDK version from 5.0.100-preview.7.20358.6 to 5.0.100-preview.7.20364.3 (#13155)
- 🛠 Fix Azure file copy break in Azure DevOps (#13173)
- ⬆️ Bump Xunit.SkippableFact from 1.4.8 to 1.4.13 (#13143)
- ➕ Add new chibi svg version of the avatar (#13160) (Thanks @WorrenB!)
- 🔨 Refactor MSI code to make it easier to add a WiX exe installer (#13139)
- 🏗 Disable ReadyToRun for debug build (#13144) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- ➕ Add new chibi version of the avatar (#13140)
- ⚡️ Update .NET SDK version from 5.0.100-preview.7.20356.2 to 5.0.100-preview.7.20358.6 (#13134) (Thanks @github-actions[bot]!)
- ⚡️ Update .NET SDK version from 5.0.100-preview.6.20318.15 to 5.0.100-preview.7.20356.2 (#13125) (Thanks @github-actions[bot]!)
📚 Documentation and Help Content
- 🛠 Fix/clarify instructions for running Start-PSPester tests (#13373)
- 👌 Improve inline documentation for VerbInfo (#13265) (Thanks @yecril71pl!)
- 👌 Improve the wording of inline comments in the help system (#13274) (Thanks @yecril71pl!)
- 📄 Correct grammar in README.md and other docs (#13269) (Thanks @tasnimzotder!)
- ➕ Add "GitHub Actions Python builds" to ADOPTERS.md (#13228) (Thanks @brcrista!)
- ⚡️ Update change logs for 6.2.x and 7.0.x (#13194)
- 🚀 Update README.md and metadata.json for the v7.0.3 release (#13187)
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