PowerShell v7.1.0-preview.7 release notes (2020-09-08)

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PowerShell v7.1.0-preview.7 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-09-08 // almost 5 years ago

7.1.0-preview.7 - 2020-09-08
💥 Breaking Changes
- 🛠 Fix $? to not be $false when native command writes to stderr (#13395)
⚡️ Engine Updates and Fixes
- 🎉 Initial work of the subsystem plugin model (for minimal powershell) (#13186)
- ⚡️ Optimize GetSystemLockdownPolicy for non-lockdown scenarios (#13438)
⚡️ General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes
- ⏪ Revert "Add the parameter -Paged to Get-Help to support paging (#13374)" (#13519)
- ➕ Add support for TLS 1.3 in Web cmdlets (#13409) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- ➕ Add null check for args in CommandLineParser (#13451) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 📜 Process reparse points for Microsoft Store applications (#13481) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- 🚚 Move PSNullConditionalOperators feature out of experimental (#13529)
- 🚚 Move PSNativePSPathResolution feature out of Experimental (#13522)
- 👉 Use field if property does not exist for ObRoot when using PowerShell Direct to container (#13375) (Thanks @hemisphera!)
- ⚠ Suppress UTF-7 obsolete warnings (#13484)
- Avoid multiple enumerations of an IEnumerable<Expression> instance in Compiler.cs (#13491)
- 🔄 Change Add-Type -OutputType to not support ConsoleApplication and WindowsApplication (#13440)
- ⚠ Create warnings when UTF-7 is specified as an encoding (#13430)
Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@xtqqczze, @tamasvajk
- ➕ Add single blank line after copyright header (#13486) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 👉 Use read-only auto-implemented properties (#13507) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 👉 Use boolean instead of bitwise operators on bool values (#13506) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 🛠 Fix erroneous assert (#13495) (Thanks @tamasvajk!)
- 🚚 Cleanup: remove duplicate words in comments (#13539) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Reformat StringUtil (#13509) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 👉 Use uint instead of long for PDH constants (#13502) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 🚚 Cleanup: Remove redundant empty lines (#13404) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ➕ Add StringUtil.Format overload to avoid unnecessary allocations (#13408) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- 🛠 Fix test hooks for CommandLineParameterParser (#13459)
- ✂ Remove redundant delegate creation (#13441) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Tools
- vscode: Add editorconfig to recommended extensions (#13537) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- ✂ Remove the out-dated ZapDisable related code from build.psm1 (#13350) (Thanks @jackerr3!)
✅ Tests
- ✅ Disable WMF download link validation test (#13479)
🏗 Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!

@yecril71pl
- ➕ Add Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk dependency (Internal 12589)
- ⚡️ Update .NET NuGet package version to 5.0.0-preview.8.20407.11 (Internal 12555)
- ⚡️ Update to .NET 5 preview 8 (#13530)
- 🚀 Change stage dependency for docker release stage in release pipeline (#13512)
- ⬆️ Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 16.7.0 to 16.7.1 (#13492)
- Create the folder before copying the global tools (#13476)
- 🚀 A few fixes to the release pipeline (#13473)
- ⬆️ Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.20.0 to 0.21.1 (#13463)
- ➕ Add a pre-check for git to build.psm1 (#13227) (Thanks @yecril71pl!)
📚 Documentation and Help Content
- 📇 Update README links and metadata.json for 7.1.0-preview.6 (#13437)
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