v7.0.0-rc.3 Release of PowerShell

• Note: There is an issue when installing the powershell-lts packages side by side with the powershell packages. Please see: #11924

v7.0.0-rc.3 - 2020-02-21

Breaking Changes

• Fix Invoke-Command missing error on session termination (#11586)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Update the map between console color to VT sequences (#11891)
• Fix SSH remoting error on Windows platform (#11907)
• Restore the PowerShellStreamType enum with an ObsoleteAttribute (#11836)
• Handle cases where CustomEvent was not initially sent (#11807)
• Fix how COM objects are enumerated (#11795)
• Fix NativeDllHandler to not throw when file is not found (#11787)
• Restore SetBreakpoints API (#11622)
• Do not needlessly pass -l login_name or -p port to ssh (#11518) (Thanks @LucaFilipozzi!)
• Fix for JEA user role in virtual account (#11668)
• Do not resolve types from assemblies that are loaded in separate AssemblyLoadContext (#11088)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Sync current directory in WinCompat remote session (#11809)
• Add WinCompat deny list support using a setting in powershell.config.json (#11726)
• Fix unnecessary trimming of line resulting in incorrect index with ConciseView (#11670)

Code Cleanup

• Change name of ClrVersion parameter back to revert change in capitalization (#11623)

Tools

• Update changelog generation script (#11736) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Update to CredScan v2 (#11765)

Tests

• Make sure to test whether we skip a test using consistent logic (#11892)
• Skip directory creation at root test on macOS (#11878)
• Update Get-PlatformInfo helper and tests for Debian 10, 11 and CentOS 8 (#11842)
• Ensure correct pwsh is used for test runs (#11486) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Add LTSRelease value from metadata.json to release.json (#11897)
• Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.12.1 to 2.13.0 (#11894)
• Make LTS package always not a preview (#11895)
• Bump System.Data.SqlClient from 4.8.0 to 4.8.1 (#11879)
• Change LTSRelease value in metadata.json to true for RC.3 release (Internal 10960)
• Update LTS logic to depend on metadata.json (#11877)
• Set default value of LTSRelease to false (#11874)
• Refactor packaging pipeline (#11852)
• Make sure LTS packages have symbolic links for pwsh and pwsh-lts (#11843)
• Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Native from 7.0.0-rc.2 to 7.0.0 (#11839)
• Update the NuGet package generation to include cimcmdlet.dll and most of the built-in modules (#11832)
• Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive from 1.2.4.0 to 1.2.5 (#11833)
• Bump PSReadLine from 2.0.0-rc2 to 2.0.0 (#11831)
• Add trace source and serialization primitives to the allowed assembly list (Internal 10911)
• Update the NextReleaseTag to be v7.0.0-preview.7 (#11372)
• Change packaging to produce LTS packages (#11772)
• Build tar packages only when building on Ubuntu (#11766)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.1.4 to 10.1.5 (#11730)
• Fix symbolic link creation in packaging.psm1 (#11723)
• Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.12.0 to 2.12.1 (#11708)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.1.3 to 10.1.4 (#11620)
• Move to latest Azure DevOps agent images (#11704)
• Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.18.0 to 0.18.1 (#11641)

Documentation and Help Content

• Add links to diffs on Github in changelog (#11652) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix markdown-link test failure (#11653) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

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v6.2.4 Release of PowerShell

v6.2.4 - 01/27/2020

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Enable Start-Process to work on Windows 7 (#10417) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix global tool issues around exit code, command line parameters, and paths with spaces (#10461)
• Make Add-Type usable in applications that host PowerShell (#10587)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update to use TSAv2 (#9914)
• Update the dotnet SDK install script URL in build.psm1 (#10927)
• Update dependencies needed by Azure PowerShell and patch for Newtonsoft.Json (Internal 10798)
• Fix path for getting reference assemblies (Internal 10792)

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v7.0.0-rc.2 Release of PowerShell

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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v7.0.0-rc.1 Release of PowerShell Core

v7.0.0-rc.1 - 12/16/2019

Breaking Changes

• Make update notification support LTS and default channels (#11132)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Improvements in breakpoint APIs for remote scenarios (#11312)
• Fix PowerShell class definition leaking into another Runspace (#11273)
• Fix a regression in formatting caused by the FirstOrDefault primitive added in 7.0.0-Preview1 (#11258)
• Additional Microsoft Modules to track in PS7 Telemetry (#10751)
• Make approved features non-experimental (#11303)
• Update ConciseView to use TargetObject if applicable (#11075)
• Fix NullReferenceException in CompletionCompleters public methods (#11274)
• Fix apartment thread state check on non-Windows platforms (#11301)
• Update setting PSModulePath to concatenate the process and machine environment variables (#11276)
• Bump .NET Core to 3.1.0 (#11260)
• Fix detection of $PSHOME in front of $env:PATH (#11141)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Fix for issue on Raspbian for setting date of file changes in UnixStat Experimental Feature (#11313)
• Add -AsPlainText to ConvertFrom-SecureString (#11142)
• Added WindowsPS version check for WinCompat (#11148)
• Fix error-reporting in some WinCompat scenarios (#11259)
• Add native binary resolver (#11032) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Update calculation of char width to respect CJK chars correctly (#11262)
• Add Unblock-File for macOS (#11137)
• Fix regression in Get-PSCallStack (#11210) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove autoloading of the ScheduledJob module when using Job cmdlets (#11194)
• Add OutputType to Get-Error cmdlet and preserve original typenames (#10856)
• Fix null reference in SupportsVirtualTerminal property (#11105)

Code Cleanup

• Change comment and element text to meet Microsoft standards (#11304)

Tests

• Make unreliable DSC test pending (#11131)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Fix Nuget package signing for Coordinated Package build (#11316)
• Update dependencies from PowerShell Gallery and NuGet (#11323)
• Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.11.0 to 2.12.0 (#11305)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 3.3.1 to 3.4.0 (#11265)
• Updates packages for Debian 10 and 11 (#11236)
• Only enable experimental features prior to RC (#11162)
• Update macOS minimum version (#11163)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.0.27 to 10.0.28 (#11170)

Documentation and Help Content

• Refactor change logs into one log per release (#11165)
• Fix FWLinks for PowerShell 7 online help documents (#11071)

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v7.0.0-preview.6 Release of PowerShell Core

v7.0.0-preview.6 - 11/21/2019

Note: The CentOS 8 deb package is experimental for this release. A Docker image and deb package will be available, but the deb package will not be released to packages.microsoft.com. For more information please see: #11147

Breaking Changes

• Update Test-Connection to work more like the one in Windows PowerShell (#10697) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Preserve $? for ParenExpression, SubExpression and ArrayExpression (#11040)
• Set working directory to current directory in Start-Job (#10920) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Allow pwsh to inherit $env:PSModulePath and enable powershell.exe to start correctly (#11057)

Experimental Features

• Provide Unix stat information in filesystem output (#11042)
• Support null-conditional operators ?. and ?[] in PowerShell language (#10960)
• Support using non-compatible Windows PowerShell modules in PowerShell Core (#10973)

Performance

• Avoid using closure in Parser.SaveError (#11006)
• Improve the caching when creating new Regex instances (#10657) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Improve processing of the PowerShell built-in type data from types.ps1xml, typesV3.ps1xml and GetEvent.types.ps1xml (#10898)
• Update PSConfiguration.ReadValueFromFile to make it faster and more memory efficient (#10839)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Add limit check in Get-WinEvent (#10648) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix command runtime so StopUpstreamCommandsException doesn't get populated in -ErrorVariable (#10840)
• Set the output encoding to [Console]::OutputEncoding for native commands (#10824)
• Support multi-line code blocks in examples (#10776) (Thanks @Greg-Smulko!)
• Add Culture parameter to Select-String cmdlet (#10943) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix Start-Job working directory path with trailing backslash (#11041)
• ConvertFrom-Json: Unwrap collections by default (#10861) (Thanks @danstur!)
• Use case-sensitive Hashtable for Group-Object cmdlet with -CaseSensitive and -AsHashtable switches (#11030) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Handle exception if enumerating files fails when rebuilding path to have correct casing (#11014)
• Fix ConciseView to show Activity instead of myCommand (#11007)
• Allow web cmdlets to ignore HTTP error statuses (#10466) (Thanks @vdamewood!)
• Fix piping of more than one CommandInfo to Get-Command (#10929)
• Add back Get-Counter cmdlet for Windows (#10933)
• Make ConvertTo-Json treat [AutomationNull]::Value and [NullString]::Value as $null (#10957)
• Remove brackets from ipv6 address for SSH remoting (#10968)
• Fix crash if command sent to pwsh is just whitespace (#10977)
• Added cross-platform Get-Clipboard and Set-Clipboard (#10340)
• Fix setting original path of filesystem object to not have extra trailing slash (#10959)
• Support $null for ConvertTo-Json (#10947)
• Add back Out-Printer command on Windows (#10906)
• Fix Start-Job -WorkingDirectory with whitespace (#10951)
• Return default value when getting null for a setting in PSConfiguration.cs (#10963) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Handle IO exception as non-terminating (#10950)
• Add GraphicalHost assembly to enable Out-GridView, Show-Command, and Get-Help -ShowWindow (#10899)
• Take ComputerName via pipeline in Get-HotFix (#10852) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Fix tab completion for parameters so that it shows common parameters as available (#10850)
• Fix GetCorrectCasedPath() to first check if any system file entries is returned before calling First() (#10930)
• Set working directory to current directory in Start-Job (#10920) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Change TabExpansion2 to not require -CursorColumn and treat as $InputScript.Length (#10849)
• Handle case where Host may not return Rows or Columns of screen (#10938)
• Fix use of accent colors for hosts that don't support them (#10937)
• Add back Update-List command (#10922)
• Update FWLink Id for Clear-RecycleBin (#10925)
• During tab completion, skip file if can't read file attributes (#10910)
• Add back Clear-RecycleBin for Windows (#10909)
• Add $env:__SuppressAnsiEscapeSequences to control whether to have VT escape sequence in output (#10814)

Code Cleanup

• Cleanup style issues in Compiler.cs (#10368) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove the unused type converter for CommaDelimitedStringCollection (#11000) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Cleanup style in InitialSessionState.cs (#10865) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Code clean up for PSSession class (#11001)
• Remove the not-working 'run Update-Help from Get-Help when Get-Help runs for the first time' feature (#10974)
• Fix style issues (#10998) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Cleanup: use the built-in type alias (#10882) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove the unused setting key ConsolePrompting and avoid unnecessary string creation when querying ExecutionPolicy setting (#10985)
• Disable update notification check for daily builds (#10903) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Reinstate debugging API lost in #10338 (#10808)

Tools

• Add default setting for the SDKToUse property so that it builds in VS (#11085)
• Install-Powershell.ps1: Add parameter to use MSI installation (#10921) (Thanks @MJECloud!)
• Add basic examples for install-powershell.ps1 (#10914) (Thanks @kilasuit!)

Tests

• Fix stringdata test to correctly validate keys of hashtables (#10810)
• Unload test modules (#11061) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Increase time between retries of testing URL (#11015)
• Update tests to accurately describe test actions. (#10928) (Thanks @romero126!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Updating links in README.md and metadata.json for Preview.5 (#10854)
• Select the files for compliance tests which are owned by PowerShell (#10837)
• Allow win7x86 msix package to build. (Internal 10515)
• Allow semantic versions to be passed to NormalizeVersion function (#11087)
• Bump .NET core framework to 3.1-preview.3 (#11079)
• Bump PSReadLine from 2.0.0-beta5 to 2.0.0-beta6 in /src/Modules (#11078)
• Bump Newtonsoft.Json from 12.0.2 to 12.0.3 (#11037) (#11038)
• Add Debian 10, 11 and CentOS 8 packages (#11028)
• Upload Build-Info Json file with the ReleaseDate field (#10986)
• Bump .NET core framework to 3.1-preview.2 (#10993)
• Enable build of x86 MSIX package (#10934)
• Update the dotnet SDK install script URL in build.psm1 (#10927)
• Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.17.1 to 0.18.0 (#10887)
• Bump ThreadJob from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 (#10886)
• Update AppX Manifest and Packaging module to conform to MS Store requirements (#10878)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update CONTRIBUTING.md (#11096) (Thanks @mklement0!)
• Fix installation doc links in README.md (#11083)
• Adds examples to install-powershell.ps1 script (#11024) (Thanks @kilasuit!)
• Fix to Select-String emphasis and Import-DscResource in CHANGELOG.md (#10890)
• Remove the stale link from powershell-beginners-guide.md (#10926)

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v7.0.0-preview.5 Release of PowerShell Core

v7.0.0-preview.5 - 10/23/2019

Note: If there is an issue installing macOS package on Catalina please refer to this issue #10874

Breaking Changes

• Make $PSCulture consistently reflect in-session culture changes (#10138) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Move to .NET Core 3.1 preview 1 (#10798)
• Refactor reparse tag checks in file system provider (#10431) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Replace CR and new line with a 0x23CE character in script logging (#10616)
• Fix a resource leak by unregistering the event handler from AppDomain.CurrentDomain.ProcessExit (#10626)

Experimental Features

• Implement Get-Error cmdlet as Experimental Feature (#10727,#10800)
• Add ConciseView for $ErrorView and update it to remove unnecessary text and not color entire line in red (#10641,#10724)
• Support the pipeline chain operators && and || in PowerShell language (#9849,#10825,#10836)
• Implement null coalescing (??) and null coalescing assignment (??=) operators (#10636)
• Support notification on pwsh startup when a new release is available and update notification message (#10689,#10777)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Add -NoEmphasize parameter to colorize Select-String output (#8963) (Thanks @derek-xia!)
• Add back Get-HotFix cmdlet (#10740)
• Make Add-Type usable in applications that host PowerShell (#10587)
• Use more effective evaluation order in LanguagePrimitives.IsNullLike() (#10781) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Improve handling of mixed-collection piped input and piped streams of input in Format-Hex (#8674) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Use type conversion in SSHConnection hashtables when value doesn't match expected type (#10720) (Thanks @SeeminglyScience!)
• Fix Get-Content -ReadCount 0 behavior when -TotalCount is set (#10749) (Thanks @eugenesmlv!)
• Reword access denied error message in Get-WinEvent (#10639) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Enable tab completion for variable assignment that is enum or type constrained (#10646)
• Remove unused SourceLength remoting property causing formatting issues (#10765)
• Add -Delimiter parameter to ConvertFrom-StringData (#10665) (Thanks @steviecoaster!)
• Add positional parameter for ScriptBlock when using Invoke-Command with SSH (#10721) (Thanks @machgo!)
• Show line context information if multiple lines but no script name for ConciseView (#10746)
• Add support for \\wsl$\ paths to file system provider (#10674)
• Add the missing token text for TokenKind.QuestionMark in parser (#10706)
• Set current working directory of each ForEach-Object -Parallel running script to the same location as the calling script. (#10672)
• Replace api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-2.dll with Kernell32.dll for FindFirstStreamW and FindNextStreamW APIs (#10680) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Tweak help formatting script to be more StrictMode tolerant (#10563)
• Add -SecurityDescriptorSDDL parameter to New-Service (#10483) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Remove informational output, consolidate ping usage in Test-Connection (#10478) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Read special reparse points without accessing them (#10662) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Direct Clear-Host output to terminal (#10681) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add back newline for grouping with Format-Table and -Property (#10653)
• Remove [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty] from -InputObject on Get-Random to allow empty string (#10644)
• Make suggestion system string distance algorithm case-insensitive (#10549) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix null reference exception in ForEach-Object -Parallel input processing (#10577)

Code Cleanup

• Remove WorkflowJobSourceAdapter reference that is no longer used (#10326) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Cleanup COM interfaces in jump list code by fixing PreserveSig attributes (#9899) (Thanks @weltkante!)
• Add a comment describing why -ia is not the alias for -InformationAction common parameter (#10703) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Rename InvokeCommandCmdlet.cs to InvokeExpressionCommand.cs (#10659) (Thanks @kilasuit!)
• Add minor code cleanups related to update notifications (#10698)
• Remove deprecated workflow logic from the remoting setup scripts (#10320) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Update help format to use proper case (#10678) (Thanks @tnieto88!)
• Clean up CodeFactor style issues coming in commits for the last month (#10591) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix typo in description of PSTernaryOperator experimental feature (#10586) (Thanks @bergmeister!)

Performance

• Add minor performance improvements for runspace initialization (#10569) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Tools

• Make Install-PowerShellRemoting.ps1 handle empty string in PowerShellHome parameter (#10526) (Thanks @Orca88!)
• Switch from /etc/lsb-release to /etc/os-release in install-powershell.sh (#10773) (Thanks @Himura2la!)
• Check pwsh.exe and pwsh in daily version on Windows (#10738) (Thanks @centreboard!)
• Remove unneeded tap in installpsh-osx.sh (#10752)

Tests

• Temporary skip the flaky test TestAppDomainProcessExitEvenHandlerNotLeaking (#10827)
• Make the event handler leaking test stable (#10790)
• Sync capitalization in CI YAML (#10767) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Add test for the event handler leaking fix (#10768)
• Add Get-ChildItem test (#10507) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Replace ambiguous language for tests from switch to parameter for accuracy (#10666) (Thanks @romero126!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update package reference for PowerShell SDK to preview.5 (Internal 10295)
• Update ThirdPartyNotices.txt (#10834)
• Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Native to 7.0.0-preview.3 (#10826)
• Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.10.0 to 2.11.0 (#10608)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.0.24 to 10.0.27 (#10756)
• Add MacPorts support to the build system (#10736) (Thanks @Lucius-Q-User!)
• Bump PackageManagement from 1.4.4 to 1.4.5 (#10728)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.0.23 to 10.0.24 (#10635)
• Add environment variable to differentiate client/server telemetry in MSI (#10612)
• Bump PSDesiredStateConfiguration from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 (#10603)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 3.2.1 to 3.3.1 (#10607)
• Update to .Net Core 3.0 RTM (#10604) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Update MSIX packaging so the version to Windows Store requirements (#10588)

Documentation and Help Content

• Merge stable and servicing change logs (#10527)
• Update used .NET version in build docs (#10775) (Thanks @Greg-Smulko!)
• Replace links from MSDN to docs.microsoft.com in powershell-beginners-guide.md (#10778) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix broken DSC overview link (#10702)
• Update Support_Question.md to link to Stack Overflow as another community resource (#10638) (Thanks @mklement0!)
• Add processor architecture to distribution request template (#10661)
• Add new PowerShell MoL book to learning PowerShell docs (#10602)

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v7.0.0-preview.4 Release of PowerShell Core

v7.0.0-preview.4 - 09/19/2019

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Add support to ActionPreference.Break to break into debugger when Debug, Error, Information, Progress, Verbose or Warning messages are generated (#8205) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Enable starting control panel add-ins within PowerShell Core without specifying .CPL extension. (#9828)

Performance

• Make ForEach-Object faster for its commonly used scenarios (#10454) and fix ForEach-Object -Parallel performance problem with many runspaces (#10455)

Experimental Features

• Update PSDesiredStateConfiguration module version to 2.0.3 and bring new tests; enable compilation to MOF on non-Windows and use of Invoke-DSCResource without LCM (#10516)
• Add APIs for breakpoint management in runspaces and enable attach to process without BreakAll for PowerShell Editor Services (#10338) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Support ternary operator in PowerShell language (#10367)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Add PowerShell Core group policy definitions (#10468)
• Update console host to support XTPUSHSGR/XTPOPSGR VT control sequences that are used in composability scenarios. (#10208)
• Add WorkingDirectory parameter to Start-Job (#10324) (Thanks @davinci26!)
• Remove the event handler that was causing breakpoint changes to be erroneously replicated to the host runspace debugger (#10503) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Replace api-ms-win-core-job-12-1-0.dll with Kernell32.dll in Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NativeMethods P/Invoke API(#10417) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix wrong output for New-Service in variable assignment and -OutVariable (#10444) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Fix global tool issues around exit code, command line parameters and path with spaces (#10461)
• Fix recursion into OneDrive - change FindFirstFileEx() to use SafeFindHandle type (#10405)
• Skip auto-loading PSReadLine on Windows if the NVDA screen reader is active (#10385)
• Increase built-with-PowerShell module versions to 7.0.0.0 (#10356)
• Add throwing an error in Add-Type if a type with the same name already exists (#9609) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Code Cleanup

• Convert ActionPreference.Suspend enumeration value into a non-supported, reserved state, and remove restriction on using ActionPreference.Ignore in preference variables (#10317) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Replace ArrayList with List<T> to get more readable and reliable code without changing functionality (#10333) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Make code style fixes to TestConnectionCommand (#10439) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Cleanup AutomationEngine and remove extra SetSessionStateDrive method call (#10416) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Rename default ParameterSetName back to Delimiter for ConvertTo-Csv and ConvertFrom-Csv (#10425)

Tools

• Update install-powershell.ps1 to check for already installed daily build (#10489)

Tests

• Add experimental check to ForEach-Object -Parallel tests (#10354) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Update tests for Alpine validation (#10428)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Bump PowerShellGet version from 2.2 to 2.2.1 (#10382)
• Bump PackageManagement version from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4 (#10383)
• Update README.md and metadata.json for 7.0.0-preview.4 (Internal 10011)
• Upgrade .Net Core 3.0 version from Preview 9 to RC1 (#10552) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix ExperimentalFeature list generation (Internal 9996)
• Bump PSReadLine version from 2.0.0-beta4 to 2.0.0-beta5 (#10536)
• Fix release build script to set release tag
• Update version of Microsoft.PowerShell.Native to 7.0.0-preview.2 (#10519)
• Upgrade to Netcoreapp3.0 preview9 (#10484) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Make sure the daily coordinated build, knows it is a daily build (#10464)
• Update the combined package build to release the daily builds (#10449)
• Remove appveyor reference (#10445) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Bump NJsonSchema version from 10.0.22 to 10.0.23 (#10421)
• Remove the deletion of linux-x64 build folder because some dependencies for Alpine need it (#10407)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update README.md and metadata for v6.1.6 and v6.2.3 releases (#10523)
• Fix a typo in README.md (#10465) (Thanks @vedhasp!)
• Add a reference to PSKoans module to Learning Resources documentation (#10369) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Update README.md and metadata.json for 7.0.0-preview.3 (#10393)

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v6.2.3 Release of PowerShell Core

v6.2.3 - 09/12/2019

Note: Known issue on Raspberry-Pi for ValueFromRemainingArguments. For more information have a look at: #10528

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix debugger performance regression in system lock down mode (#10269)

Tests

• Remove markdownlint tests due to security issues (#10163)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update DotNet SDK and runtime framework version (Internal 9946)
• Fix macOS build break (#10207)

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts

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v6.1.6 Release of PowerShell Core

6.1.6 - 2019-09-12

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update DotNet SDK and runtime framework version (Internal 9945)

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v7.0.0-preview.3 Release of PowerShell Core

v7.0.0-preview.3 - 08/20/2019

Breaking Changes

• Remove kill alias for Stop-Process cmdlet on Unix (#10098) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Support for starting PowerShell as a login shell (pwsh -Login / pwsh -l) support (#10050)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Additional Telemetry - implementation of RFC0036 (#10336)
• Implement ForEach-Object -Parallel as an experimental feature (#10229)
• Skip JumpList on NanoServer and IoT (#10164)
• Make Get-DscResource work with class based resources (#10350)
• Fix #requires -version for pwsh 7 to include 6.1 and 6.2 in PSCompatibleVersions (#9943) (Thanks @bgelens!)
• Add dispose of _runspaceDebugCompleteEvent event object. (#10323)
• Fix performance regression from disabling debugger in system lockdown mode (#10269)
• Special case the posix locale in WildcardPattern (#10186)
• Use Platform.IsWindowsDesktop instead of checking both NanoServer and IoT (#10205)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Enable Experimental Features by default on Preview builds (#10228)

• Enable -sta and -mta switches for pwsh (-sta is required for GUIs) (#10061)

• Make breakpoints display better over PowerShell remoting (#10339) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)

• Add support for AppX reparse points (#10331)

• Make module name matching for get-module -FullyQualifiedName case insensitive (#10329)

• Expose PreRelease label in PSModuleInfo formatter (#10316)

• Add -Raw switch to Select-String which allows returning only the string that was matched (#9901) (Thanks @Jawz84!)

• Performance

• Reduce allocations in MakePath() method (#10027) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

• Remove extra check that the system dll exists (#10244) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

• Avoid boxing when passing value type arguments to PSTraceSource.WriteLine (#10052) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

• Reduce allocations in Escape() and Unescape() (#10041) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Code Cleanup

• Add the license header to nanoserver.tests.ps1 (#10171)
• Mark -parallel and -throttlelimit reserved for foreach and switch statements (#10328) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Deprecate workflow debugging code (#10321) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Fix style issues in InternalCommands.cs (#10352) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Deprecate internal HelpCategory.Workflow enumeration (#10319) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Update Microsoft.PowerShell.CoreCLR.Eventing to resolve conflict with System.Diagnostics.EventLog (#10305)
• Don't collect process start time as it's not being used on consolehost startup (#10294)
• .NET Core 3.0 now aborts the thread for us. Remove the ThreadAbortException code (#10230) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Use nameof() in LocationGlobber and PathInfo (#10200) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Tools

• Fix Hungarian prefix my (#9976) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Fix spelling error in issue template (#10256)
• Quote arguments in .vscode/tasks.json in case of spaces (#10204) (Thanks @msftrncs!)

Tests

• Remove markdownlint tests due to security issues (#10163)
• Add tests for WildcardPattern.Escape() and Unescape() (#10090) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Cleanup Docker release testing (#10310) (Thanks @RDIL!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure version to 2.0.0-preview.2 (#10366)
• Move to .NET Core 3.0 preview.8 (#10351) (#10227) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.0.21 to 10.0.22 (#10364)
• Add Microsoft.PowerShell.CoreCLR.Eventing.dll to exception list for build fix (#10337)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 3.1.0 to 3.2.1 (#10273) (#10330)
• Revert the temporary AzDevOps artifact workaround (#10260)
• Fix macOS build break (#10207)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update docs for 7.0.0-preview.2 release (#10160) (#10176)
• PSSA also includes formatting (#10172)
• Refactor security policy documentation so that they appear in the Security policy tab of GitHub (#9905) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Add tooling section to PR template (#10144)
• Update README.md and metadata.json for next releases (#10087)
• Update DotNet Support links (#10145)
• Update our language on our policy applying to security issues (#10304)
• Update dead links from powershell.com (#10297)
• Create Distribution_Request issue template (#10253)
• Fix: Removed dependency file with Dependabot (#10212) (Thanks @RDIL!)

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