CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

v6.2.0-preview.4 - 2019-01-28

Breaking Changes

• Add -Stable to Sort-Object and related tests (#7862) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Improve Start-Sleep cmdlet to accept fractional seconds (#8537) (Thanks @Prototyyppi!)
• Change hashtable to use OrdinalIgnoreCase to be case-insensitive in all Cultures (#8566)
• Fix LiteralPath in Import-Csv to bind to Get-ChildItem output (#8277) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Allow user-specified underlying type for enums (#8329) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• Handle case where AppLocker test script fails to delete (#8627)
• Update CommandNotFound fuzzy suggestion to only return unique results (#8640)
• Add support to show suggestions on CommandNotFound exception (#8458)
• Make S.M.A.PowerShell.GetSteppablePipeline method public (#8055) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Add S.M.A.PowerShell.Create method overload with Runspace argument (#8057) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Fix mistake on deserialization (#8502)
• Fix formatting of header of table when center aligned (#8497)
• Add -RepeatHeader to Format-Table to enable repeating header for each screen full (#8481)
• Fix Debug-Runspace for Unix platforms and properly enable Windows identity impersonation code (#8451)
• Reset output attributes if column had ESC char when using Format-Table; Replace ... with unicode ellipsis (#8326)

Experimental Features

• Add the experimental feature PSUseAbbreviationExpansion to support tab completion on abbreviated command names (#8109)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Fix code page parsing issue in Invoke-RestMethod (#8694) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix Expect 100-continue issue with Web Cmdlets (#8679) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Allow 'name' as an alias key for 'label' in ConvertTo-Html, allow the 'width' entry to be an integer (#8426) (Thanks @mklement0!)
• Resolve :PAGER if its path contains spaces (#8571) (Thanks @pougetat!)
• Add support enum and char types in Format-Hex cmdlet (#8191) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Change Get-Help cmdlet -Parameter parameter so it accepts string arrays (#8454) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Fix FixupFileName to not load resolved assembly during module discovery (#8634)
• Change Clear-Host back to using $RAWUI and clear to work over remoting (#8609)
• Fix LiteralPath in Import-Csv to bind to Get-ChildItem output (#8277) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Make scriptblock based calculated properties work again in ConvertTo-Html (#8427) (Thanks @mklement0!)
• Fix Join-String cmdlet FormatString parameter logic (#8449) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Allow Windows users in developer mode to create symlinks without elevation (#8534)
• Help function should only pass content to pager if content was found (#8528)
• Change Clear-Host to simply called [console]::clear and remove clear alias from Unix (#8603)
• help function shouldn't use pager for AliasHelpInfo (#8552)
• Fix XML nesting bug in CustomSerializer.WriteMemberInfoCollection() (#8476) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• Add -UseMinimalHeader to Start-Transcript to minimize transcript header (#8402) (Thanks @lukexjeremy!)

Code Cleanup

• Remove the no longer used RunspaceConfigurationEntry types (#8424)
• Remove unneeded catch/throw from mkdir and oss functions (#8425)
• Remove comments after closing brackets (#8344) (Thanks @Meir017!)
• Cleanup Format-Hex (#8683) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Delete appveyor.yml (#8639) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Revise use of Start-Sleep cmdlet (#8633) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Style: Change first char to upper in summary comments (#8597) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Style: Use the type aliases char and bool instead of Char and Boolean (#8572) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Style: Use the type alias string instead of String in places that are appropriate (#8573) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Correctly capitalize the ForEach operator in *.ps1 (#8583) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Remove unnecessary trim of passed-in command line in interactive debugging (#8594)
• Style: Add a space after "//" in comments and remove unneeded comments after "}" (#8576) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Style: Add the ending period to the XML document texts (#8577) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Avoid use of mkdir alias in *.ps1 and *.psm1 (#8582) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Regularize redirection operator spacing in *.ps1 and *.psm1 (#8581) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Style: Change 'String.' to 'string.' (#8568) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Style: Replace String.IsNullOrEmpty with string.IsNullOrEmpty (#8557) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix typo in AMSI test (#8561) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Style: Convert to upper first char in <param> and <exception> doc tags (#8556) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Style: Add period before </param> and </exception> doc tags (#8553) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove use of cmdlet aliases from .\test\powershell (#8546) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Style: Remove extra spaces after <para> and before </para> docs tags (#8547) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Style: Remove preceding spaces from C# preprocessor-type keywords (#8540) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Style: remove <remarks> </remarks> (#8538) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Style: Add period before returns doc tag (#8535) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Style: Change Object[] to object[] (#8526) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Style: Change Object to object (#8522) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Style: Change UInt64? to ulong? (#8527) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Style: Change Byte{} to byte[] (#8525) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Code cleanup: Add space after closing brace where needed (#8530)
• Style: Change System.Boolean to bool (#8521) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Change String to string for simple references (#8519)
• Change Int32 to int for simple references in variable declaration (#8518)
• Style: Member access symbols should be followed with member name (#8517)
• Style: Remove extra space before colon in named parameters (#8504)
• Style: Use the shorthand of the nullable type (#8501)
• Remove empty lines; correct space on closing square brackets, negative signs, and generic brackets (#8508)
• Remove space after new keyword in implicitly typed array allocation (#8505)
• The static keyword should be right after access modifier (#8506)
• Remove comments after closing bracket (#8503)
• Remove space character after '!' (#8507)
• Style: Remove extra space before colon in named parameters (#8504)

Tools

• Recommend Azure DevOps extension inside VS-Code for better YAML editing. (#8403) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• -AddToPath re-implementation in install-powershell.ps1 (#8081) (Thanks @glachancecmaisonneuve!)
• Change the feed URL to feed name due to changes in AzDevOps (#8664)
• Batch merge builds together while a merge build is running (#8668)
• Fix grammar in stale bot message (#8660) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Add macOS files to .gitignore (#8456) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Name the spelling yaml something more appropriate (#8601) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Add script to create icns files. (#7456) (Thanks @thezim!)
• Pass nugetkey as parameter (#8461)
• Add gitkracken files to gitignore (#8434) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Create release process issue template (#8417)
• Support for linuxmint in installpsh-debian.sh (#8440) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
• Enable install-powershell.ps1 to use MSI (#8418)

Tests

• Remove broken HelpUri from CimTest (#8688) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Remove appveyor environment checks (#8669) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Adding tests for PSDiagnostics Module (#8431) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Increase diagnose-ability of Link Checker failures (#8667)
• Fix broken urls (#8653)
• Update fuzzy test to fix daily build (#8629)
• Create link check task (#8471) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Add Tests for ConfirmImpact Ratings (#8214) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Fix style issues in xUnit tests (#8465) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Move xUnit tests in new folder (#8356) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix environment variable test and add missing null check in CommandHelpProvider (#8408)
• Remove dotnet dependency to start WebListener (#8390)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update Third Party Notices (#8415)
• Adding yaml for Windows Release builds (#8374)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 9.13.1 to 9.13.2 (#8422)
• Do not ship fullclr binaries of PackageManagement (#8700) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix the build for fxdependent build for dotnet sdk (#8670)
• Add Windows build to universal release build YAML (#8695)
• Remove Debian 8 references as it is EOL (#8678)
• Build(deps): Bump NJsonSchema from 9.13.14 to 9.13.15 (#8671)
• Build package build using ubuntu 18.04 image (#8666)
• Fix a typo in packaging.psm1 (#8647) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Add function to create a framework dependent package dotnet-sdk containers (#8644)
• Build(deps): Bump NJsonSchema from 9.13.13 to 9.13.14 (#8648)
• Build(deps): Bump PowerShellGet from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 (#8649)
• Fix installing fpm and ronn in macOS CI by avoid installing docs for them (#8656)
• Build(deps): Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.15.6 to 0.15.7 (#8637)
• Build(deps): Bump System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2 (#8614)
• Build(deps): Bump System.Net.Http.WinHttpHandler from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2 (#8615)
• Build(deps): Bump NJsonSchema from 9.13.11 to 9.13.13 (#8616)
• Build(deps): Bump System.Text.Encoding.CodePages from 4.5.0 to 4.5.1 (#8613)
• Enable install of Preview MSI release side-by-side with Stable release (#8513)
• Get macOS to publish daily build to nugetfeed (#8464)
• Build(deps): Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.15.5 to 0.15.6 (#8558)
• Build(deps): Bump NJsonSchema from 9.13.10 to 9.13.11 (#8569)
• Remove duplicate Open Here context menu item upgrading to newer Preview release (#8496)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 9.13.9 to 9.13.10 (#8511)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 9.13.7 to 9.13.9 (#8498)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 9.13.4 to 9.13.7 (#8493)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 9.13.3 to 9.13.4 (#8462)
• Fix daily NuGet publishing (#8460)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 9.13.2 to 9.13.3 (#8457)
• Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.15.4 to 0.15.5 (#8444)

Documentation and Help Content

• Remove unused AppVeyor links from README.md (#8685) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Update README.md (#8684)
• Update Package Management license to MIT (#8676) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Create Support File (#8618) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Update git clone URL (#8673) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• docs(contributing): add link check information (#8659) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Update License and Third Party Notice (#8646)
• Update README, metadata.json and changelog for release 6.1.2 (#8658)
• Fix typo in README.md (#8642) (Thanks @MarkTiedemann!)
• Fix some typos in the README (#8623) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Remove en-us from docs.microsoft.com URL (#8628) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Update examples for hosting PSCore and remove old outdated examples (#8472) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Update the pull request template (#8624) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Contributing guidelines: Remove references to Travis CI and AppVeyor (#8617) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Update code coverage analysis document (#8543) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Remove en-us from our doc links (#8602)
• Document First-time-issue and Hackathon/Hacktoberfest labels (#8575)
• Updated linux build link (#8579) (Thanks @jwmoss!)
• Update contributing guidelines doc to run spellchecking in English (#8473) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Updating links to point to new VS Code docs (#8468)

v6.2.0-preview.3 - 2018-12-10

Breaking Changes

• Get-ExperimentalFeature no longer has -ListAvailable switch (#8318)
• Debug parameter now sets DebugPreference to Continue instead of Inquire (#8195) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Improve PowerShell startup time by 24% (#8341) (#8396)
• Remove extra newlines from formatting which resulted in unnecessary double newlines (#8247)
• Add Enable-ExperimentalFeature and Disable-ExperimentalFeature cmdlets (#8318)
• Fix Export-ModuleMember bug for a ScriptBlock having no context (#8363)
• Fix race condition to access powershell.config.json (#8249) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add SkipCA and SkipCN check requirement to WinRM/OMI HTTPS connection (#8279)
• Add fix for Start-Job initialization script which should not be executed as trusted in system lockdown (#8284)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Add Enable-ExperimentalFeature and Disable-ExperimentalFeature cmdlets (#8318)
• Add cmdlet Join-String for creating text from pipeline input (#7660) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Expose all cmdlets from PSDiagnostics if logman.exe is available (#8366)
• Fix Get-Help for advanced functions with MAML help content (#8353)
• Conditionally mark getter/setter implementations as virtual in generated classes (#8303) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• Fix for PSDrive creation with a UNC path with a trailing backslash or forward slash when combined with -Persist (#8305) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Remove Persist parameter from New-PSDrive on non-Windows platform (#8291) (Thanks @lukexjeremy!)
• Test-Path: Return $false when given an empty or $null -Path/-LiteralPath value (#8080) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Token calculation fix for Get-Help executed on ScriptBlock for comment help. (#8238) (Thanks @hubuk!)
• Support Get-PSHostProcessInfo and Enter-PSHostProcess on Unix platforms (#8232)

Code Cleanup

• Update resgen, typegen to use .Net Core 2.1 (#8369) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Change Newtonsoft deserializing bug comment to link to the new issue (#8377) (Thanks @louistio!)
• Cleanup #if !CORECLR code (#8337) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Cleanup UpdatableHelpSystem and enable XSD validation on MAML help content (#8335) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove old customPSSnapInType parameter from PSSnapInInfo() (#8333) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Cleanup #if CORECLR from some files (#8332) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Cleanup AssemblyInfo (#8190) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix GetLocationCommand output type parameter set and style issues (#8324) (Thanks @Meir017!)

Tools

• Remove dependabot attribution and generate changelog sections using CL-* labels (#8386)

Tests

• Update folder path for storing optimization profile and add test to validate loaded assemblies and libraries on startup (#8406)
• Fix an intermittent failure in macOS logging tests (#8385)
• Created a csproj to pin test modules and updated build.psm1 accordingly (#8350)
• Update help content for TabCompletion tests only if it does not exist (#8355)
• Skip Enter-PSHostProcess tests on AppVeyor due to PSReadline issue (#8317)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Remove AmazonLinux Dockerfile (#8271) (Thanks @kiazhi!)
• Make install-powershell.sh auto-detect if it should use wget or curl (#8225) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 9.12.2 to 9.13.1 (#8319) (#8328) (#8412) (#8371) (#8384)
• Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Native from 6.2.0-preview.2 to 6.2.0-preview.3 (#8411)
• Update the name of the artifact to be unique per artifact (#8405)
• Create unified release build for macOS and Linux packages (#8399)
• Add Linux ARM64 build support (#8016) (Thanks @slide!)
• Update the timeout of CI builds (#8398)
• Bump PackageManagement from 1.2.2 to 1.2.4 in /src/Modules (#8320) (#8383)
• Bump Newtonsoft.Json from 11.0.2 to 12.0.1 (#8348)
• Enable pipeline to sync PSGallery modules to AzArtifacts feed (#8316)
• Build Alpine tar.gz package in release builds (#8340)
• Publish test package to AppVeyor daily build (#8273)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 2.9.0 to 2.10.0 (#8294)
• Bump PowerShellGet from 2.0.1 to 2.0.3 in /src/Modules (#8321)
• Enable Open Here context menu on Windows to work with root of a drive (#8287)
• Bump System.Data.SqlClient from 4.5.1 to 4.6.0 (#8266)

Documentation and Help Content

• Merge changelogs from 6.1.1 and 6.0.5 into master (#8283)
• Remove all reference to AppVeyor and Travis CI from docs (#8376)
• Change default issue template to use different categories (#8203)

v6.2.0-preview.2 - 2018-11-15

Breaking Changes

• Honor -OutputFormat if specified in non-interactive, redirected, encoded command used with pwsh (#8115)
• Load assembly from module base path before trying to load from the GAC (#8073)
• Remove tilde from Linux preview packages (#8244)
• Move processing of -WorkingDirectory before processing of profiles (#8079)

Known Issues

• PowerShell WSMan remoting does not work on Debian 9 due to missing symbolic links. For more information and a workaround see issue #7598

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Enable case-insensitive tab completion for files and folders on case-sensitive filesystem (#8128)
• Experimental feature: Implicit remoting batching performance improvements (#8038)
• Add a path for checking ZoneInformation without throwing an exception (#8025) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Fix CVE-2018-8256, issues with expanding ZIP files with relative paths (#8252)
• Fix CVE-2018-8415, issue logging when the scriptblock has a null character (#8253)
• Make PSVersionInfo.PSVersion and PSVersionInfo.PSEdition public (#8054) (Thanks @KirkMunro!)
• Enable distinct ModuleAnalysisCache files for each installation of pwsh (#8174)
• Consolidation of all Windows PowerShell work ported to PowerShell Core (#8257)
• Fix incorrect name check when auto-loading required modules (#8218)
• Adding verbose output for experimental implicit remoting batching feature (#8166)
• Add Type Inference for $_ / $PSItem in catch{ } blocks (#8020) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Fix static method invocation type inference (#8018) (Thanks @SeeminglyScience!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Reduce allocations in Get-Content cmdlet (#8103) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Enable Set-Location -LiteralPath to work with folders named - and + (#8089)
• Enable Add-Content to share read access with other tools while writing content (#8091)
• Add new Offset and Count parameters to Format-Hex and refactor the cmdlet (#7877) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add -Name, -NoUserOverrides and -ListAvailable parameters to Get-Culture cmdlet (#7702) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Allow dynamic parameter to be returned even if path does not match any provider (#7957)
• Style fixes in Format-Hex (#8083) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix logic to rely on PowerShell major and minor version instead of build number to determine whether to output formatdata (#8063)
• Fix Rename-Item -Path with wildcard char (#7398) (Thanks @kwkam!)
• When using Start-Transcript and file exists, empty file rather than deleting (#8131) (Thanks @paalbra!)
• Error message enhancement for Clear-Content cmdlet when targeting a directory (#8134) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Make Select-String faster by not doing extra work (#7673) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Remove ShouldProcess from Format-Hex (#8178)

Code Cleanup

• Remove clone of command-line arguments array (#7910) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Use DefaultPathSeparator char instead of DefaultPathSeparatorString (#8082) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Replace StringComparision.CurrentCulture with StringComparision.Ordinal (#8068) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix typo in -icontains description from incase sensitive to case insensitive (#7840) (Thanks @StingyJack!)
• Refactor module version/GUID comparison logic (#7125)

Tools

• Update installpsh-amazonlinux.sh for container specific issues (#7907) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
• Update the codeowners file (#8017)

Tests

• Filter the TestPackage artifact upload by name to avoid other ZIP files being uploaded (#8116)
• Adding fxdependent PowerShell package tests (#7830)
• Fix Windows Feature tests running in Azure DevOps (#8220)
• Create $PROFILE if it does not exist for -WorkingDirectory processing test (#8152)
• Add test coverage for additional Get-Module parameters (#8137) (Thanks @KevinMarquette!)
• Fix conflict with Get-AdlStoreChildItem from az module in tab completion tests (#8167)
• Fix static secret in code (#8186)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Bump xunit.runner.visualstudio from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 (#8139)
• Bump xunit from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 (#8140)
• Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.8.0 to 2.8.1 (#8104)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 9.11.1 to 9.12.1 (#8183, #8248)
• Fix Start-PSBuild -Output (#7504) (Thanks @kwkam!)
• Adding YML for Linux builds (#8168)
• Publish test package at AGENT_WORKFOLDER if TEMP is not available (#8108)
• Fix psmodulerestore path when built in Visual Studio Code (#8075)
• Use approved verb instead of Generate-CrossGenAssembly (#8151) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Add path filters to CI YAML (#8222)
• Update SignType in signing.xml (#8223)
• Update metadata for 6.0.5 and 6.1.1 releases (#8259)
• Port changes to allow Azure DevOps NuGet feeds for Mac build (Internal 5818)
• Update version for dependencies (Internal 5822)
• Add code to use private NuGet feeds when running in internal CI system (#8187)
• Add title to Open Here window for MSI installer (#8164)
• Remove build and documentation references to git submodules (#8177) (Thanks @andschwa!)
• Add function to create a new nuget.config file (#8170)
• Update macOS release build to create the nuget.config (#8185)
• Workaround for accessing Azure Artifacts (#8188)
• Fix script path for PowerShellPackageVsts.ps1 (#8189)
• Microsoft.PowerShell.Native now has MUSL binaries for Alpine.

Documentation and Help Content

• Fix grammar in README.md (#8059) (Thanks @daviddreher2!)
• Update powershell-beginners-guide.md to add alias for Clear-Host (#7912) (Thanks @aavdberg!)
• Add Microsoft Docs link to FAQ (#8133) (Thanks @vongrippen!)
• Added updated photo of Visual Studio Code due to new version of Code (#8084) (Thanks @lassehastrup!)
• Update license.rtf to only have major version (#8127)
• Updated Pester Syntax in Writing Tests Guide (#8039) (Thanks @markwragg!)
• Remove duplicate parts from license file (#8143) (Thanks @azkarmoulana!)
• Fix spellings in CHANGELOG.md (#8062)
• Update license RTF to 6.2 (#8065)
• Combine notes about ITuple changes in Change Log (#8077) (Thanks @Jocapear!)
• Correct typos in powershell-beginners-guide.md (#8088) (Thanks @nycjan!)
• Added Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches as recommended reading (#8067) (Thanks @tobvil!)
• Update README.md for v6.1.1 (#8255)
• Fix some typos (#8206) (Thanks @jeis2497052!)
• Promote HTTPS (#8160) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Simple grammatical correction in README.md file (#7978) (Thanks @iGotenz!)
• Update URLs to use HTTPS instead of HTTP in the documentation (#8165) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Remove #7633 from v6.2.0-preview.1 CHANGELOG.md updates. (#8101) (Thanks @stknohg!)

v6.2.0-preview.1 - 2018-10-18

Breaking Changes

• Do not add PATHEXT environment variable on Unix (#7697) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Known Issues

• Remoting on Windows IOT ARM platforms has an issue loading modules. See #8053

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Add C# style type accelerators and suffixes for ushort, uint, ulong, and short literals (#7813) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Create inferred types for Select-Object, Group-Object, PSObject and Hashtable (#7231) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Fix .NET adapter to be able to get members from System.IntPtr (#7808)
• Fix .NET adapter to not throw when fails to create a PSMethod due to ByRef-like type (#7788)
• Support calling method with ByRef-like type parameters (#7721)
• Fix perf issue in provider by using Refresh() to update the status rather than instantiating ServiceController which has a significant perf degradation from .NET Framework (#7680)
• Update PowerShell to handle the case where the Windows PowerShell module path is already in the environment's PSModulePath (#7727)
• Ensure the SSHClientSessionTransportManager stream writer and reader fields are cleared after dispose. (#7746)
• Add unified attribute for completion for Encoding parameter. (#7732) (Thanks @ThreeFive-O!)
• Add support for Byte Literals (#7901) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Fix Property and ScriptBlock expressions in EntrySelectedBy tags within custom controls (#7913) (Thanks @SeeminglyScience!)
• Fix BeginInvoke/EndInvoke to return results when Stop or BeginStop/EndStop was called previously (#7917)
• Allow root node of format.ps1xml to have attributes that are ignored (#7987)
• Use non-virtual call to invoke 'family or assembly' methods on base class from PowerShell class (#7622) (#7624) (Thanks @yurko7!)
• Make the parameter to ImportPSModule use params so that it is easier to call (#7933) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Add EscapeHandling parameter in ConvertTo-Json cmdlet (#7775) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Make Add-Type open source files with FileAccess.Read and FileShare.Read explicitly (#7915) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• No longer skips a column without name if double quote delimiter is used in Import-Csv (#7899) (Thanks @Topping!)
• Add support for cd + (#7206) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Allow numeric Ids and name of registered code pages in -Encoding parameters (#7636) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove extra space in LastWriteTime format (#7810) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix Enter-PSSession -ContainerId for the latest Windows (#7883)
• Get/Add-Content throws improved error when targeting a container (#7823) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Ensure NestedModules property gets populated by Test-ModuleManifest (#7859)
• Add %F case to Get-Date -UFormat (#7630) (Thanks @britishben!)
• Fix file blocking issue with web cmdlets (#7676) (Thanks @Claustn!)
• Improve error message on non-Windows when importing clixml with securestring (#7997)
• Add prompt to the use of less in the function 'help' to instruct user how to quit (#7998)
• Fix Set-Service -Status Stopped to stop services with dependencies (#5525) (Thanks @zhenggu!)

Code Cleanup

• Use nameof() in bound parameters.contains key() (#7908) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Cleanup all native code from repository (#7892)
• Add XSDs for Format and Types.ps1xml files (#7832) (Thanks @felixfbecker!)
• Remove unused commented out code (#7935) (Thanks @vpondala!)
• Add .editorconfig (#7357) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove unused stopwatch (#7878)
• Clean up MshObject.cs and MshMemberInfo.cs (#7446)
• Add TimeToLive and Hops aliases to MaxHops parameter of Test-Connection cmdlet. (#7850) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Fix a typo in Credential.cs (#7696) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Remove workaround on VSTS that is no longer needed (#7666)
• Improve code style of Send-MailMessage cmdlet (#7723) (Thanks @ThreeFive-O!)
• Cleanup FileSystemProvider from runtime checks (#7655) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove extra spaces in error messages in Modules.resx (#7662) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Remove empty XML comment lines (missed in #7401) (#7641) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Remove Suspend-Job and Resume-Job cmdlets from compilation (#7650)

Tools

• Fix syntax error in installpwsh-amazonlinux.sh (#7905) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
• Add tools for PowerShell perf analysis (#7595) (Thanks @lzybkr!)
• Started using Dependabot to create PRs to update package and module versions

Tests

• Add test for $error[0] tab completion (#7924) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Replace test certificates with self-signed certificate generating command (#7875)
• Standardize Pester syntax in ReplaceOperator.Tests.ps1 (#7963) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Updating ModulePath.Tests for fxdependent package (#7772)
• Add tests for Import-Module -Force (#7491)
• Updates to Docker package tests (#7667)
• Updating test gallery URL in PackageManagement tests (#7879)
• Add version checking tests for Import-Module (#7499)
• Update Markdown tests (#7838)
• Change locale of mdspell to en-US (#7671)
• Test changes needed for running in a container (#7869)
• Add daily build non-windows platforms (#7683)
• Remove workaround on VSTS that is no longer needed (#7666)
• Fix module specification hashtable in ModuleSpecification.Tests.ps1 (#7663) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Use dotnet test since the dotnet xunit test runner has been deprecated (#7980) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix pipeline test where SmtpServer key was set wrong in pipeline object (#7745) (Thanks @ThreeFive-O!)
• Change API to get host name to match cmdlet which is more reliable in Azure DevOps Pipelines Hosted Windows VS2017 (#8003)
• Disable travis-ci (#7766)
• Make artifact upload only occur for non-PR builds (#7657)
• Change logic for downloading zip files based on job id (#7653)
• Add missing dependency for hosting xUnit tests

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Change default of Start-PSBuild to include -PSModuleRestore (#7881)
• Specify verb, pwsh, for shell context menu to avoid overriding the default verb (#7932) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Converting aliases to cmdlets in build.psm1 (#7964) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Add dependencies for SUSE (#7938) (Thanks @Jellyfrog!)
• Wait for package manager not to be locked (#7817)
• Make Start-PSPackage give better message about how to fix files.wxs (#7841)
• Bump to .NET Core 2.1.5 with SDK 2.1.403 and latest packages (#7646, #7834, #7922, #7936) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Bump Markdig.Signed NuGet package from 0.15.3 to 0.15.4 (#7960) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.7.2 to 2.8.0 (#8002)
• Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Native from 6.1.0-rc.1 to 6.1.0 (#7861)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 9.10.71 to 9.11.1 (#7705, #7764, #7990)
• Bump PackageManagement from 1.1.7.2 to 1.2.2 in /src/Modules (#8014, #8029)
• Bump Pester to use latest version (#8015)
• Bump PowerShellGet to 2.0.0 (#7831)
• Bump PSReadLine to 2.0.0-beta3 (#7711)
• Bump Xunit.SkippableFact from 1.3.6 to 1.3.12 (#7972)
• Make Windows MSI uninstallation shortcut remove work when more than one version is installed (#7701) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Update Docker files to use MCR (#7726)
• Update metadata.json in preparation for 6.1 release (#7741)
• Build and package framework dependent package (#7729)
• Make sure MSI build works when not preview (#7752)
• Remove PDBs from fxdependent package (#8006)
• Improve debugging of NuGet package generation and add type to filtering

Documentation and Help Content

• Replace ambiguous hang term (#7902, #7931) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Updating incorrect example of PowerShell.Create() (#7926) (Thanks @1RedOne!)
• Update governance.md (#7927) (Thanks @tommymaynard!)
• Add cURL to the Bash users list in README.md (#7948) (Thanks @vmsilvamolina!)
• Optimize image assets used in documentation (#7874) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Update build badges (#7792)
• Remove packaging, building and installation scripts for Ubuntu 17.10 (#7773)
• Remove badges for master build as it reflects last PR which is not actionable from the README file (#7816)
• Improve Markdown formatting of beginners guide (#7684) (Thanks @fbehrens!)
• Fix the Basic cookbooks link (#7934) (Thanks @vmsilvamolina!)
• Update version for PowerShell release 6.1.0 (#7751)
• Add VSTS CI build badges for master branch to README.md (#7691) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Add a paragraph on files.wxs updating (#7695) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Update CONTRIBUTION.md about adding an empty line after the copyright header (#7706) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Update docs about .NET Core version 2.0 to be about version 2.x (#7467) (Thanks @bergmeister!)

v6.1.2 - 2019-01-15

Tests

• Fix test failures (Internal 6310)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Moved the cleanup logic to Restore-PSModuleToBuild (Internal 6442)
• Update dependency versions (Internal 6421)
• Create unified release build for macOS and Linux packages (#8399)
• Build Alpine tar.gz package in release builds (Internal 6027)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update version for README, Alpine docker file and hosting tests (Internal 6438)

v6.1.1 - 2018-11-13

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix issue with logging the null character in ScriptBlock logging (Internal 5607)
• Consolidation of all Windows PowerShell work ported to 6.1 (Internal 5233)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Use ZipFile and ExtractToDirectory APIs to extract zip file (Internal 5608)

v6.0.5 - 2018-11-13

Engine updates and fixes

• Fix issue with logging the null character in ScriptBlock logging (Internal 5605)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Use ZipFile and ExtractToDirectory APIs to extract zip file (Internal 4802)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update SignType in signing.xml (Internal 5721)
• Port changes to pull PowerShell Gallery modules from Modules csproj (Internal 5713)
• Port macOS Release build changes changes from GitHub (#8189, #8188, #8185)
• Fix script path for PowerShellPackageVsts.ps1 (#8189)
• Workaround for accessing AzDevOps Artifacts (#8188)
• Bump various packages to latest patch version (Internal 5675)
• Update PowerShell SDK NuGet various metadata description (Internal 4527, 4510, 4505)

v6.0.4 - 2018-08-10

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update the Archive module version (Internal 5671)
• Update to .NET Core 2.1.5 with SDK 2.1.403 (#7936) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Disable package major upgrade tests for release branch (Internal 5209)
• Bump versions for dependencies (Internal 5612)
• Port changes to allow AzDevOps NuGet feeds for macOS build (Internal 5716)
• Port macOS changes from GitHub (#8189, #8188, #8185)
• Add function to create a new nuget.config file (#8170)
• Updated wxs file to match published packages (Internal 5660)

Tests

• Change API to match cmdlet which is more reliable in AzDevOps Pipelines Windows (#8003)
• Fix conflict with Get-AdlStoreChildItem from az module in tab completion tests (#8167)

v6.1.0 - 2018-09-13

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Enable indexing operations on System.Tuple and System.ValueTuple (#7633) (Thanks @SeeminglyScience!)
• Use non-virtual call to invoke 'family or assembly' methods on base class from PowerShell class (#7624) (Thanks @yurko7!)
• Handle operations with ByRef-like types gracefully in PowerShell (#7533)
• Make the -settingfile flag on pwsh work for ScriptBlock logging on windows (#7631)
• Ensure the SSHClientSessionTransportManager stream writer and reader fields are cleared after disposing (#7746)
• Add LocationChangedAction handler to support the Windows Compatibility module (#7552)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Fix Set-Service -Status Stopped to stop services with dependencies (#5525) (Thanks @zhenggu!)
• Add the Duration property to HistoryInfo (#5208) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Fix null reference in ConvertFrom-Markdown when the markdown content is empty (#7463)
• Fix file blocking issue with WebCmdlets (#7676) (Thanks @Claustn!)
• Fix performance issue in WSMan provider by using Refresh() to update the status rather than instantiating ServiceController (#7680)

Code Cleanup

• Remove Suspend-Job and Resume-Job cmdlets from compilation on Unix platforms (#7650)
• Remove extra spaces in error messages in Modules.resx (#7662) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Cleanup the platform runtime checks from FileSystemProvider (#7655) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Improve code style of Send-MailMessage cmdlet (#7723) (Thanks @ThreeFive-O!)

Tools

• Add tools for PowerShell performance analysis (#7595) (Thanks @lzybkr!)
• Update code coverage module to download zip files based on job ID (#7653)

Tests

• Update test which assumes all previews have the name preview in the version (#7625)
• Update Pester syntax in Set-Location test (#7615) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add ScriptBlock logging test for Linux and macOS (#7599) (#7586)
• Add tests to report when package references are out of date (#7661)
• Fix ModuleSpecification.Tests.ps1 (#7663) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Updates Docker package tests (#7667)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update to the latest package references, dotnet core SDK and framework (#7646) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Make the artifact upload only occur for non-PR builds (#7657)
• Change to not upload artifacts during pull request due to missing VSTS feature (#7588)
• Remove workaround on VSTS that is no longer needed (#7666)
• Update docker files to use MCR (#7656)
• Add symbolic links for libssl and libcrypto to Debian 9 build to make remoting work (#7609)
• Simplify the StartupInfo type used in Jumplist creation for faster P/Invoke (#7580) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Add VSTS CI for Windows (#7536)
• Update the version of PowerShellGet module to 1.6.7 (#7564)
• update the version of PSReadLine module to 2.0.0-beta3 (#7711)
• Make sure MSI build works for non-preview builds (#7752)
• Build and package framework dependent package (#7729)
• Change locale of mdspell to en-US (#7671)
• Add daily build on non-windows platforms (#7683)
• Fix Windows MSI to remove the Uninstall shortcut during an uninstall when more than one version is installed (#7701) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix docker image names for release build (#7726)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update the version of .NET Core in docs (#7467) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix links in README.md (#7619) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add VSTS CI build badges for master branch to README.md (#7691) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Add a paragraph in CONTRIBUTING.md about updating files.wxs (#7695) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

v6.1.0-rc.1 - 2018-08-22

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix to not duplicate the System32 module path when starting pwsh from pwsh (#7414)
• Fix sequence point update for switch/if/for/while/do-while/do-until statements (#7305)
• Set the cursor to the place where a user hits tab key (#7299)
• Adding LanguagePrimitives.TryCompare to provide faster comparisons (#7438) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Improving performance of LanguagePrimitives.TryConvertTo (#7418) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Set PowerShellVersion to 3.0 for built-in modules to make Windows PowerShell work when starting from PowerShell Core (#7365)
• Avoid extra unnecessary allocations in PSMemberInfoInternalCollection<T> (#7435) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Enforce the CompatiblePSEditions check for modules from the legacy System32 module path (#7183)
• Make sure that SettingFile argument is parsed before we load the settings (#7449)
• Default to DefaultConsoleWidth when DotNet says WindowWidth is 0 (#7465)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Fix parameter name in the Get-Variable cmdlet error message (#7384) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Fix Move-Item -Path with wildcard character (#7397) (Thanks @kwkam!)
• Ignore Newtonsoft.Json metadata properties in ConvertFrom-Json (#7308) (Thanks @louistio!)
• Fix several issues in Markdown cmdlets (#7329)
• Add support for parsing Link Header with variable whitespace (#7322)
• Change parameter order in Get-Help and help in order to get first -Full and then -Functionality when using Get-Help -Fu followed by pressing tab and help -Fu followed by pressing tab (#7370) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Add support for passing files and Markdown directly to Show-Markdown (#7354)
• Add -SkipIndex parameter to Select-Object (#7483) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Improve performance of Import-CSV up to 10 times (#7413) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Update Enable-PSRemoting so configuration name is unique for Preview releases (#7202)
• Improve performance on JSON to PSObject conversion (#7482) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Fix error message for Add-Type when -AssemblyName with wildcard is not found (#7444)
• Make native globbing on Unix return an absolute path when it is given an absolute path (#7106)
• Improve the performance of Group-Object (#7410) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Remove one unneeded verbose output from ConvertTo-Json (#7487) (Thanks @devblackops!)
• Enable Get-ChildItem to produce Mode property even if cannot determine if hard link (#7355)

Code Cleanup

• Remove empty XML comment lines (#7401) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Cleanup Docker files (#7328)
• Correct the comment for WSManReceiveDataResult.Unmarshal (#7364)
• Format Utility csproj with updated codeformatter (#7263) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Bulk update format for files in Management folder with codeformatter (#7346) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Cleanup: replace Utils.FileExists()/DirectoryExists()/ItemExists() with DotNet methods (#7129) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Update Utils.IsComObject to use Marshal.IsComObject since CAS is no longer supported in DotNet Core (#7344)
• Fix some style issues in engine code (#7246) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Test

• Use -BeExactly and -HaveCount instead of -Be in BugFix.Tests.ps1 (#7386) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Use -BeExactly and -HaveCount instead of -Be in TabCompletion.Tests.ps1 (#7380) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Update CI scripts to support running tests for experimental features (#7419)
• Use -HaveCount instead of -Be in Where-Object.Tests.ps1 (#7379) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Fix ThreadJob tests so that they will run more reliably (#7360)
• Make logging tests for macOS pending (#7433)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update Build script owners (#7321)
• Make MUSL NuGet package optional (#7316)
• Enable pwsh-preview to work on Windows (#7345)
• Fix SDK dependencies
• Add back the powershell-core NuGet source for hosting tests
• Fix typo in environment checker (#7547 & #7549)
• Only remove the revision if it is 0 from module version when restoring modules (#7538)
• Update WCF and NJsonSchema NuGet packages to latest released patch version (#7411) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Add Linux and macOS VSTS CI (#7490, #7527, #7535, #7515 & #7516)
• Updated ThreadJob to version 1.1.2 (#7522)
• Add xUnit project to PowerShell.sln and make it runnable from within VisualStudio (#7254) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Update NuGet packaging code for the new markdown assembly (#7431)
• Update version of modules shipped with PowerShell (#7531)
• Retry restore on failure (#7544 & #7550)
• Update PowerShellGet version
• Update NuGet package metadata (#7517)
• Update reference to use packages from NuGet.org (#7525)
• Start-DevPowerShell: add -Configuration and handle -ArgumentList more properly (#7300) (Thanks @jazzdelightsme!)
• Add preview icon to macOS launcher (#7448) (Thanks @thezim!)
• Add Microsoft.PowerShell.MarkdownRender to signing.xml (#7472)
• Fix building on RedHat Enterprise Linux (#7489)
• Build: Also search PATH for rcedit (#7503) (Thanks @kwkam!)
• Save modules to un-versioned folder to enable servicing (#7518 & #7523)
• Fix macOS launcher app to allow release and preview versions (#7306) (Thanks @thezim!)

Documentation and Help Content

• Fix docs comments in utility folder (#7192) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix a typo in issue-management.md (#7393) (Thanks @alexandair!)
• Fix casing of GitHub in best-practice.md (#7392) (Thanks @alexandair!)
• Fix typos in docs/maintainers/README.md (#7390) (Thanks @alexandair!)
• Add maintainer's best practice document and update maintainer list (#7311)
• Update Docker link to PowerShell-Docker (#7351) (Thanks @JoshuaCooper!)
• Add Snapcraft to spelling dictionary (#7318)
• Update README.md and metadata.json for release v6.0.4 (#7497)
• Add Former Repository Maintainers section in maintainers/README.md (#7475)
• Update the HelpUri for Get-ExperimentalFeature (#7466)

v6.1.0-preview.4 - 2018-07-19

Breaking Changes

• Remove the VisualBasic support from Add-Type (#7284)
• Update PowerShell Direct to try pwsh then fallback to powershell (#7241)
• Make pwsh able to start in a directory with wildcards in the name (#7240)
• Update Enable-PSRemoting so configuration name is unique for Preview releases (#7202)
• Enforce the CompatiblePSEditions check for modules from the legacy System32 module path (#7183)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Add support to experimental features (#7242)
• Fix error when using Get-ChildItem c: (#7033) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Add location history for Set-Location to enable cd - scenario (issue #2188) (#5051) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix padding for right aligned column in table formatting (#7136)
• Fix a performance regression to the -replace operator after adding ScriptBlock support (#7135)
• Fix tab expansion for Get-Process on macOS (#7176)
• When using PSRP, if we receive text instead of XML, output it as error to help troubleshoot (#7168)
• Fix trimming of whitespace when table is wrapped (#7184)
• Modified the Group-Object -AsHashTable to use the base object of PSObject as the key for the Hashtable (#7123)
• Add back ADSI and WMI type accelerators (#7085)
• Add CompatiblePSEditions to PowerShell Core built-in modules (#7083)
• Make Start-Process -ArgumentList to accept @() or $null (#6597)
• Avoid calling native APIs to check for existence of FileSystem items (#6929) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add copy environment variables from ProcessStartInfo to key/pair array used in creating SSH process (#7070)
• Add markdown rendering feature assemblies to the trusted assembly list (#7280)
• Don't fail if SaferPolicy API is not available on Windows 10 IoT or NanoServer (#7075)
• Fix conditions for transcription of Write-Information command. (#6917) (Thanks @hubuk!)
• Fix a parsing error when break and continue are used in a switch statement in a finally block (#7273)
• Fix prompt string to be platform agnostic and keep its trailing spaces (#7255)
• Make progress panel display correctly on UNIX when the user is typing. (#6972)
• Revert change to have SetLocation() treat wildcarded path as literal if it exists (#7101)
• Make Select-Object/ForEach-Object/Where-Object see dynamic properties (#6898) (Thanks @jazzdelightsme!)
• Fix class searcher to ignore hidden properties (#7188)
• Update remote prompt when using SSH to show username if different (#7191)
• Remove SemanticVersion from knowntypes list in serialization code to enable interop between Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core (#7016)
• Add more information to job process failure error (#7251)
• Use .Net Core File.Delete() method to remove symbolic links and alternate streams (#7017) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Enable UseShellExecute on all platforms (#7198)
• Methods with return type [object] should return null for an empty result (#7138)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Add Markdown rendering cmdlets (#6926)
• Send-MailMessage: Update all parameters to support ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName. (#6911) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Allow Basic Auth over HTTPS (#6890)
• Add ThreadJob module package and tests (#7169)
• Fix Windows Event Log channel isolation semantics (#6956) (Thanks @Robo210!)
• Make Measure-Object handle scriptblock properties. (#6934)
• Added functionality to retry in Invoke-RestMethod and Invoke-WebRequest. (#5760)
• Add type inference for Select-Object command (#7171) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Add -AllStats Switch parameter for Measure-Object cmdlet (#7220) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)

Code Cleanup

• Remove unneeded code that forces ARM platforms to run PowerShell in CL mode (#7046)
• Bulk update code base to put null on the right-hand-side of a comparison expression (#6949) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove MapSecurityZoneWithUrlmon method and related code (#7103)
• Cleanup: remove the unneeded type RemotingCommandUtils (#7029)
• Remove unneeded "Windows-Full" modules (#7030)
• CodeFactor code style cleanup: replace literal empty strings with string.Empty (#6950) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove dummy comments in Utility module files (#7224) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Use empty array for Functions/Cmdlets/AliasesToExport to follow the best practice (#7108)
• Refactor module code related to Get-Module -ListAvailable (#7145)
• Refactor module specification logic (#7126)

Test

• Add tests for module specifications (#7140)
• Update test string for better clarity in Send-MailMessage.Tests.ps1 (#7195) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Add test to verify filesystem provider isn't used when accessing root path in PSDrive (#7173)
• Fix to address ThreadJob tests reliability and speed (#7270)
• Add additional checks for test that passes inconsistently (#7051)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• install-powershell.sh filter pre-releases (when available), params documentation (#6849) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
• Fedora 28 was released, Fedora 26 and 25 went end of life. (#7079) (Thanks @adelton!)
• Disambiguate icon on Windows for preview builds/installers to use Powershell_av_colors and make daily build use Powershell_avatar instead (#7086) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Update to build for Alpine (#7139)
• Update build and packaging modules for Alpine (#7149)
• Add ability to install previews side-by-side with production releases (#7194) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
• Enable NuGet Package Registration for compliance (#7053)
• Fix the preview macOS package link (#7061)
• Remove PSReadLine from then PowerShell.sln file (#7137)
• Fix the file PowerShell.sln that was corrupted by accident (#7288)
• Fix the encoding of PowerShell.sln to be utf-8 (#7289)
• Make sure all references to the Package ID for previews packages is powershell-preview (#7066)
• Update internals.md with the latest build changes (#7058)
• When installing using MSI, set the working directory of the shortcut to the user home directory (#7072)
• Move to dotnet core 2.1.1 (#7161) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Update to latest package references, runtime framework, and SDK (#7272)
• AppVeyor build matrix: more efficient build job split to reduce total time by another 5 minutes (#7021) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Build: Fix the source location of PowerShell.Core.Instrumentation.dll (#7226)
• Add Andrew to the default reviewers of the build related files (#7019)
• Build: Fix a check to avoid null argument in case vcvarsall.bat is absent (#7218) (Thanks @PetSerAl!)
• Update releaseTag in tools/metadata.json (#7214)
• Update Start-PSPester to make it more user friendly (#7210) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Make Start-PSBuild -Clean not prompt due to locked files when Visual Studio is open by excluding sqlite3 folder and use -x instead of -X option on git clean (#7235) (Thanks @bergmeister!)

Documentation and Help Content

• Fix typos in DOCSMIGRATION.md (#7094) (Thanks @alexandair!)
• Add instructions to update Homebrew formula for the preview version PowerShell (#7067) (Thanks @vors!)
• Merge Third Party Notices and License updates (#7203)
• Update third party notices (#7042)
• Fix Markdown and spelling errors in CHANGELOG.md (#7064)
• Fix New-TemporaryFile online help URI (#6608)
• Fix links to PowerShell install docs (#7001) (Thanks @jokajak!)
• Update links that contain en-us culture (#7013) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Update docs for ArgumentCompleterAttribute class (#7227) (Thanks @Meir017!)
• Fix the name of a Register-EngineEvent test (#7222) (Thanks @alexjordan6!)
• Update README files for native code for migration (#7248)
• Comment about dynamic members for the DotNetAdapter, GetMember and GetMembers (#7087)
• Update the PowerShell executable location in building guide docs (#7205) (Thanks @louistio!)

v6.1.0-preview.3 - 2018-06-07

Breaking Changes

• Clean up uses of CommandTypes.Workflow and WorkflowInfo (#6708)
• Disallow Basic Auth over HTTP in PowerShell Remoting on Unix (#6787)
• Change packaging to differentiate only between major versions and previews (#6968)
• Enhance and refactor Add-Type cmdlet (#6141) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • A few error strings were removed and thus the corresponding fully qualified error ids are no longer in use.

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix crash when terminal is reset (#6777)
• Fix a module-loading regression that caused an infinite loop (#6843)
• Further improve PSMethod to Delegate conversion (#6851)
• Blacklist System.Windows.Forms from loading to prevent a crash (#6822)
• Fix Format-Table where rows were being trimmed unnecessarily if there's only one row of headers (#6772)
• Fix SetDate function in libpsl-native to avoid corrupting memory during P/Invoke (#6881)
• Fix tab completions for hash table (#6839) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix parser to continue parsing key-value pairs after an If-Statement value in a HashExpression (#7002)
• Add error handling for #requires in an interactive session (#6469)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Improve parameter validation in ExportCsvHelper (#6816) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Quote Multipart form-data field names (#6782) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix Web Cmdlets for .NET Core 2.1 (#6806) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix Set-Location DriveName: to restore current working directory in the drive (#6774) (Thanks @mcbobke!)
• Add the alias -lp for -LiteralPath parameters #6732 (#6770) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Remove more function and move the $env:PAGER capability into the help function (#6059) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add line break to the error message for Set-ExecutionPolicy (#6803) (Thanks @wesholton84!)

Code Cleanup

• Clean up #if SILVERLIGHT (#6907) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Clean up the unused method NonWindowsGetDomainName() (#6948) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Clean up FileSystem provider (#6909) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Test

• Add tests for PowerShell hosting API to verify MyGet packages (#6737)
• Remove Web Cmdlets tests using proxy environment variables (#6808) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Enable Web Cmdlets tests for greater platform support (#6836) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Convert ShouldBeErrorId to Should -Throw -ErrorId in PowerShell tests (#6682)
• Fix CIM cmdlets tests (#6755) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Add tests for PowerShell classes inheriting from abstract .NET classes (#6752)
• Fix Select-Object.Tests.ps1 which previously failed intermittently on Unix platforms. (#6747)
• Update docker package tests to fix error on OpenSUSE 42 (#6783)
• Fix test and infrastructure that block code coverage runs (#6790)
• Update Tests Isfile to correct response for "/" (#6754) (Thanks @Patochun!)
• Improve code coverage in Export-Csv.Tests.ps1 (#6795) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Change -Quiet parameter of Invoke-Pester to -Show None in OpenCover.psm1 (#6798) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Replace Dbg.Assert with if () throw in CSVCommands.cs (#6910) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Fix xUnit test GetTempFileName (#6943) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Add Windows Compatibility Pack 2.0.0 to PowerShell Core and adopt the official .NET Core 2.1 (#6958)
• Add Jumplist 'Run as Administrator' to Taskbar on Windows (#6913, #6985) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Use AppVeyor matrix for faster Pull Request builds (#6945) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix build.psm1 to not add tool path to $PATH twice (#6834)
• Add script to create a container manifest (#6735)
• Fix docker manifest creation script to work with more complex tags and with repeated use (#6852)
• Add functions to merge Pester and xUnit logs (#6854)
• Enable generating full symbols for the Windows debug build (#6853)
• Add functions into build.psm1 to save and restore PSOptions between different sessions. (#6884)
• Update signing XML based on new signing guidelines (#6893)
• Update the release docker files to allow specifying the version of to-be-installed PowerShell and the version of image to use (#6835)
• Updates docker files for Fedora 27 and Kali Linux (#6819)
• Change packaging to support Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 (#6769)
• Update Get-ChangeLog to make it more accurate (#6764)
• Fix comparison to see if sudo test is needed in install-*.sh (#6771) (Thanks @bjh7242!)
• Packaging: Add registry keys to support library folder background for explorer context menu (#6784) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Skip dotnet-cli initialization and stop caching the dotnet folder for Travis CI (#7007)
• Skip compiling the non-supported cmdlets on Unix in System.Management.Automation.dll to fix the crash in Unix debug build (#6939)
• Use PSReadLine 2.0.0-beta2 from PSGallery (#6998)
• Update PSRP Linux NuGet package version to 1.4.2-* (#6711)
• Add path cleanup utility Reset-PWSHSystemPath.ps1 (#6892) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
• Add logic to create signing XML for NuGet packages (#6921)
• Add and config the Settings.StyleCop file (#6930, #6986) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix the double curly bracket typo in a docker file (#6960) (Thanks @adelton!)
• Remove dependencies on libcurl and libunwind in packaging to match the .NET Core behavior (#6964) (Thanks @qmfrederik!)
• Make the docker build fail when the curl operation fails. (#6961) (Thanks @adelton!)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update installation doc about Raspbian (#6859)
• Add code coverage report generation instructions (#6515)
• Migrate docs from PowerShell repository to Docs repository (#6899)
• Fix broken links due to migrating GitHub docs on Installation, Known Issues and Breaking Changes to docs.microsoft.com (#6981) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Update documentation on how to write tests verifying errors conditions (#6687)
• Fix preview download links in README.md (#6762)

v6.1.0-preview.2 - 2018-04-27

Breaking Changes

• Remove support for file to opt-out of telemetry, only support environment variable (#6601)
• Simplify the installation paths the MSI uses (#6442)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix running pwsh produced from dotnet build (#6549)
• Remove the FullCLR-only symbol-info related code from EventManager.cs (#6563)
• Improve PSMethod-to-Delegate conversion (#6570)
• Fix PsUtils.GetManModule() to avoid infinite loop when there was no main module (#6358)
• Fix error in windows environment provider when the environment variable has duplicates that differ only by case (#6489) (Thanks @mklement0!)
• Make sure that the width of the header is at least the size of the label (or property name) (#6487)
• Enable [Environment]::OSVersion to return current OS rather than compatible version (#6457)
• Change the SaveError method in Parser to use nameof for error ids (#6498)
• Fix error when Format-Wide -AutoSize | Out-String is called (#6491) (Thanks @stknohg!)
• Make LanguagePrimitive.GetEnumerable treat DataTable as Enumerable (#6511)
• Fix formatting of tables where headers span multiple rows (#6504)
• Improve performance of parsing RegexOption for -split by using if branches (#6605) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Enable specifying sshd subsystem to use via -Subsystem (#6603)
• Add some optimizations in formatting subsystem (#6678) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Throw better parsing error when statements should be put in named block (#6434)
• Use Unregister-Event to remove an event subscriber when removing PSEdit function (#6449)
• Make the PSISERemoteSessionOpenFile a support event (#6582)
• Add -WorkingDirectory parameter to pwsh (#6612)
• Support importing module paths that end in trailing directory separator (#6602)
• Formatting: Use cache for dash padding strings for tables (#6625) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Port Windows PowerShell AppLocker and DeviceGuard UMCI application white listing support (#6133)
• Reduce allocations in TableWriter (#6648) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Add -Resume Feature to WebCmdlets (#6447) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Support user@host:port syntax for SSH transport (#6558)
• Add ported Test-Connection cmdlet (#5328) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Added line break to Access-Denied error message (#6607)
• Some fixes in Get-Date -UFormat (#6542) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Added check for existence of Location HTTP header before using it (#6560) (Thanks @ffeldhaus!)
• Enable Update-Help to save help content in user scope by default (#6352)
• Update Enable-PSRemoting to create PowerShell.6 endpoint and version specific endpoint (#6519, #6630)
• Update error message that Disconnect-PSSession is only supported with WSMan (#6689)
• Make Export-FormatData print pretty XML output (#6691) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add -AsArray parameter to ConvertoTo-Json command (#6438)
• Add Test-Json cmdlet (NJsonSchema) (#5229) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Correct a typo in comment for Invoke-WebRequest (#6700) (Thanks @gabrielsroka!)
• Re-order UFormat options in Get-Date (#6627) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add the parameter -Not to Where-Object (#6464) (Thanks @SimonWahlin!)

Code Cleanup

• Engine: Fix several code cleanup issues (#6552, #6609)
• Clean up workflow logic in the module loading component (#6523)
• Engine: Clean up unneeded GetTypeInfo() calls (#6613, #6636, #6633, #6635, #6634)

Test

• Fix line ending in DefaultCommands.Tests.ps1 from CRLF to LF (#6553)
• Use new Pester parameter syntax in tests (#6490, #6574, #6535, #6536, #6488, #6366, #6351, #6349, #6256, #6250) (Thanks @KevinMarquette, @sethvs, @bergmeister!)
• Fix Copy.Item.Tests.ps1 (#6596) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Fix typos or formatting in some test files (#6595, #6593, #6594, #6592, #6591) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Add missing Start-WebListener to WebCmdlets tests (#6604) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Update Dockerfile test to use Ubuntu 17.10 as the base image (#6503)
• Add PowerShell logging tests for macOS and Linux (#6025)
• Add tests for Format-Table -Wrap (#6670) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Reformat Format-Table tests (#6657) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add new reliable tests for Get-Date -UFormat (#6614) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Use C# latest language in .csproj files (#6559) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Update installpsh-<distrofamily>.sh installers to handle "preview" in version number (#6573) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
• Enable PowerShell.sln to work in VisualStudio (#6546)
• Remove duplicate Restore-PSPackage (#6544)
• Use -WorkingDirectory parameter to handle context menu when path contains single quotes (#6660) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Make -CI not depend on -PSModuleRestore in Start-PSBuild (#6450)
• Restore for official Linux arm builds (#6455)
• Fix error about setting readonly variable in install-powershell.sh (#6617)
• Make release macOS build work better (#6619, #6610)
• MSI: add function to generate a MSP package (#6445)

Documentation and Help Content

• Doc: Update Ubuntu source creation commands to use curl -o (#6510) (Thanks @M-D-M!)
• Update stale bot message (#6462) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove extraneous SSH and install docs from the 'demos' folder (#6628)

v6.1.0-preview.1 - 2018-03-23

Breaking Changes

• Throw terminating error in New-TemporaryFile and make it not rely on the presence of the TEMP environment variable (#6182) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Remove the unnecessary AddTypeCommandBase class from Add-Type (#5407) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove unsupported members from the enum Language in Add-Type (#5829) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix range operator to work better with character ranges (#5732) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix ValidateSet with generator in a module (#5702)
• Update SAL annotation and fix warnings (#5617)
• Add ForEach and Where methods to PSCustomobject (#5756) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add Count and Length properties to PSCustomobject (#5745) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Make minor fixes in compiler to properly handle void type expression (#5764)
• Logging: Fix the escaped characters when generating .resx file from PowerShell ETW manifest. (#5892)
• Remove PSv2 only code from Types_Ps1Xml.cs and HostUtilities.cs (#5907) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Enable passing arrays to pwsh -EncodedArguments on debug builds. (#5836)
• Logging: Handle path that contains spaces in RegisterManifest.ps1 (#5859) (Thanks @tandasat!)
• Add -settingsfile to pwsh to support loading a custom powershell config file. (#5920)
• Return better error for pwsh -WindowStyle on unsupported platforms. (#5975) (Thanks @thezim!)
• Enable conversions from PSMethod to Delegate (#5287) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Minor code clean-up changes in tab completion code (#5737) (Thanks @kwkam!)
• Add lambda support to -replace operator (#6029) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• Fix retrieval of environment variables on Windows in cases where variable names differ only by case. (#6320)
• Fix the NullRefException when using -PipelineVariable with DynamicParam block (#6433)
• Add NullReference checks to two code paths related to PseudoParameterBinder (#5738) (Thanks @kwkam!)
• Fix PropertyOnlyAdapter to allow calling base methods (#6394)
• Improve table view for Certs and Signatures by adding EnhancedKeyUsageList and StatusMessage (#6123)
• Fix the filtering of analytic events on Unix platforms. (#6086)
• Update copyright and license headers (#6134)
• Set pipeline thread stack size to 10MB (#6224) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Fix the NullRefException in Enter-PSHostProcess (#5995)
• Merge and Sort BasicHtmlWebResponseObject and ContentHelper in Web Cmdlets (#5720) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Encoding for New-ModuleManifest on all platforms should be UTF-8 NoBOM (#5923)
• Make Set-Location use path with wildcard characters as literal if it exists (#5839)
• Combine Web Cmdlets partial class files (#5612) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Change Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetDateCommand.SystemTime to struct. (#6006) (Thanks @stknohg!)
• Add Simplified multipart/form-data support to Web Cmdlets through -Form parameter (#5972) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Make a relative redirect URI absolute when Authorization header present (#6325) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Make relation-link handling in Web Cmdlets case-insensitive (#6338)
• Make Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath accept Include or Exclude filter (#5462)
• Stop ConvertTo-Json when Ctrl+c is hit (#6392)
• Make Resolve-Path -Relative return useful path when $PWD and -Path is on different drive (#5740) (Thanks @kwkam!)
• Correct the %c, %l, %k, %s and %j formats in Get-Date -UFormat (#4805) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add standard deviation implementation on Measure-Object (#6238) (Thanks @CloudyDino!)
• Make Get-ChildItem <PATH>/* -file include <Path> as search directory (#5431)
• Enable setting PSSession Name when using SSHTransport and add Transport property (#5954)
• Add Path alias to -FilePath parameters and others for several commands (#5817) (Thanks @KevinMarquette!)
• Add the parameter -Password to Get-PfxCertificate (#6113) (Thanks @maybe-hello-world!)
• Don't add trailing spaces to last column when using Format-Table (#5568)
• Fix table alignment and padding. (#6230)
• Add -SkipHeaderValidation Support to ContentType on Web Cmdlets (#6018) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Add common aliases for all write-* commands default message parameter (#5816) (Thanks @KevinMarquette!)
• Make UTF-8 the default encoding for application/json (#6109) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Enable $env:PAGER to work correctly if arguments are used (#6144)

Test

• Convert Web Cmdlets test to one-true-brace-style formatting (#5716) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Add a test for IValidateSetValuesGenerator in a module (#5830) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix function to test for docker OS due to change to use linuxkit for macOS (#5843)
• Replace HttpListener tests with WebListener (#5806, #5840, #5872) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Stop HttpListener from running in Web Cmdlets tests (#5921) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix PSVersion in PSSessionConfiguration tests (#5554) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Update test framework to support Pester v4 (#6064)
• Update tests to use Pester v4 Syntax. (#6294, #6257, #6306, #6304, #6298)
• Add negative tests for Copy-Item over remote sessions (#6231)
• Markdown test: Use strict in JavaScript (#6328)
• Add tests for Get-Process about the -Module and -FileVersion parameters (#6272)
• Add test for the OsLocalDateTime property of Get-ComputerInfo. (#6253)
• Change Get-FileHash tests to use raw bytes (#6430)
• Remove runas.exe from tests as we have tags to control this behavior (#6432)
• Refactor the Get-Content tests to use -TestCases. (#6082)
• Use RequireAdminOnWindows tag in Set-Date tests (#6034) (Thanks @stknohg!)
• Remove -TimeOutSec from non timeout related tests (#6055) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Add verbosity and more accurate timeout implementation for Start-WebListener (#6013) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Skip tests that use ExecutionPolicy cmdlets on Unix (#6021)
• Change Web Cmdlet tests to use 127.0.0.1 instead of Localhost (#6069) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix Start-PSPester to include or exclude RequireSudoOnUnix tag smartly on Unix (#6241)
• Fix the terse output on Windows for test runs without admin privilege (#6252)
• Add RequireSudoOnUnix tag for Get-Help tests. (#6223)
• Add tests for *-Item Cmdlets in function provider (#6172)
• Support running tests in root privilege on Linux. (#6145)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Add option to add explorer shell context menu in Windows installer (#5774) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Make the explorer shell context menu registry entries platform specific to allow side by side of x86 and x64. (#5824) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix start menu folder clash of shortcut when x86 and x64 are both installed by appending (x86) for x86 installation. (#5826) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Reduce image file sizes using lossless compression with imgbot (#5808) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Windows installer: Allow Launch PowerShell checkbox to be toggled using the space bar. (#5792) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix release packaging build (#6459)
• Fail AppVeyor Build if MSI does not build (#5755) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Cleanup temporarily created WiX files after compilation to be able to have a clean re-build (#5757) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix install-powershell.ps1 for running during window setup (#5727)
• Start using Travis-CI cache (#6003)
• Fix build, packaging and installation scripts for SLES (#5918) (Thanks @tomconte!)
• Update recommended WiX toolset link to be generic to WiX 3.x but mention that latest version of 3.11 has to be taken (#5926) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Add service point manager call in Install-PowerShell.ps1 to force TLS1.2. (#6310) (Thanks @DarqueWarrior!)
• Add -Restore when build win-arm and win-arm64 (#6353)
• Make sure package verification failure fails the AppVeyor build (#6337)
• Specify the runtime when running dotnet restore in Start-PSBuild (#6345)
• Rename log and logerror to Write-Log [$message] [-error] (#6333)
• Make Linux packages use correct version scheme for preview releases (#6318)
• Add support for Debian in installpsh-debian.sh (#6314) (Thanks @Pawamoy!)
• MSI: Make preview builds to install Side by side with release builds (#6301)
• Add TLS1.2 workaround for code coverage script (#6299)
• Cleanup after Powershell install for CentOS and Fedora Docker images (#6264) (Thanks @strawgate!)
• MSI: Update the environment variable PATH with proper value (#6441)
• MSI: Remove the version from the product name (#6415)
• Support non-GitHub commits in the change log generation script (#6389)
• Fix secret and JavaScript compliance issues (#6408)
• Remove AppVeyor specific cmdlet from Start-NativeExecution (#6263)
• Restore modules from the NuGet package cache by using dotnet restore (#6111)
• CI Build: Use TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST_SHA to accurately get the commit message (#6024)
• Use TLS1.2 on Windows during Start-PSBootstrap (#6235) (Thanks @CallmeJoeBob!)
• Use TLS1.2 in Start-PSBootStrap without breaking HTTPS (#6236) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Add options to enable PSRemoting and register Windows Event Logging Manifest to MSI installer (#5999) (Thanks @bergmeister!)

Documentation and Help Content

• Separate macOS from Linux install instructions. (#5823) (Thanks @thezim!)
• Show usage (short) help if command line parameter is wrong (#5780) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add the breaking changes doc for 6.0.0 release. (#5620) (Thanks @maertendMSFT!)
• Remove DockerFile for Fedora 25 and add DockerFile for Fedora 27 (#5984) (Thanks @seemethere!)
• Add a missing step to prepare the build environment on Mac. (#5901) (Thanks @zackJKnight!)
• Update BREAKINGCHANGES.md to include WebCmdlets breaking changes (#5852) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix typos in BREAKINGCHANGES.md (#5913) (Thanks @brianbunke!)
• Update macos.md to use brew cask upgrade for upgrading powershell (#5875) (Thanks @timothywlewis!)
• Add verification step to macOS install docs (#5860) (Thanks @rpalo!)
• Fix links in macOS install docs (#5861) (Thanks @kanjibates!)
• Update docs with test guidelines with the RequireSudoOnUnix tag. (#6274)
• Add Alpine Linux support (#6367) (Thanks @kasper3!)
• Update to Governance doc to reflect current working model (#6323)
• Add guidance on adding copyright and license header to new source files (#6140)
• Fix the command to build type catalog in internals.md (#6084) (Thanks @ppadmavilasom!)
• Fix Pull Request Process dead link (#6066) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• Update processes to allow for coordinated vulnerability disclosure (#6042)
• Rework Windows Start menu folder name (#5891) (Thanks @Stanzilla!)
• Update Raspbian installation instructions to create symlink for pwsh (#6122)
• Fix various places that still refer to old versions of pwsh (#6179) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Correct a Linux installation typo (#6219) (Thanks @mababio!)
• Change synopsis of install-powershell.ps1 to reflect that it works cross-platform (#5465) (Thanks @bergmeister!)

v6.0.2 - 2018-03-15

Engine updates and fixes

• Update PowerShell to use 2.0.6 dotnet core runtime and packages (#6403)
  • This change addresses this vulnerability: Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2018-0875: Hash Collision can cause Denial of Service

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Add Ubuntu build without AppImage (#6380)
• Add scripts to set and or update the release tag in VSTS (#6107)
• Fix DSC Configuration compilation (#6225)
• Fix errors in Start-PSBootStrap during release builds (#6159)
• Fix spelling failures in CI (#6191)
• Use PowerShell windowsservercore Docker image for release builds (#6226)
• Use ADD instead of Invoke-WebRequest in nanoserver Docker file (#6255)
• When doing daily/test build in a non-release branch use the branch name as the preview name (#6355)
• Add Environment Variable override of telemetry (#6063) (Thanks @diddledan!)
• Build: Remove two unneeded lines from Invoke-AppveyorFinish (#6344)
• MSI: Refactor New-MsiPackage into packaging.psm1 and various fixes to enable patching (#5871, #6221, #6254, #6303, #6356, #6208, #6334, #6379, #6094, #6192)
• MSI: Use HKLM instead of HKCU registry keys since the current installation scope is per-machine. (#5915) (Thanks @bergmeister!)

v6.0.1 - 2018-01-25

Engine updates and fixes

• Update PowerShell to use 2.0.5 dotnet core runtime and packages. (#5903, #5961) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Re-release of v6.0.0 as v6.0.1 due to issues upgrading from pre-release versions

Test

• Update regular expression to validate GitCommitId in $PSVersionTable to not require a pre-release tag (#5893)

v6.0.0 - 2018-01-10

Breaking changes

• Remove sc alias which conflicts with sc.exe (#5827)
• Separate group policy settings and enable policy controlled logging in PowerShell Core (#5791)

Engine updates and fixes

• Handle DLLImport failure of libpsrpclient in PowerShell Remoting on Unix platforms (#5622)

Test

• Replace lee.io Tests with WebListener (#5709) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Update the docker based release package tests due to the removal of Pester module and other issues (#5692)
• Replace Remaining HttpBin.org Tests with WebListener (#5665) (Thanks @markekraus!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update x86 and x64 MSI packages to not overwrite each other (#5812) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Update Restore-PSPester to include the fix for nested describe errors (#5771)
• Automate the generation of release change log draft (#5712)

Documentation and Help Content

• Updated help Uri to point to latest help content for Microsoft.PowerShell.Core module (#5820)
• Update the installation doc for Raspberry-Pi about supported devices (#5773)
• Fix a typo and a Markdown linting error in the Pull Request Template (#5807) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Update submodule documentation for pester removal (#5786) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Change Github to GitHub in CONTRIBUTING.md (#5697) (Thanks @stuntguy3000!)
• Fix incorrect release date on the changelog (#5698) (Thanks @SwarfegaGit!)
• Add instructions to deploy win-arm build on Windows IoT (#5682)

v6.0.0-rc.2 - 2017-12-14

Breaking changes

• Skip null-element check for collections with a value-type element type (#5432)
• Make AllSigned execution policy require modules under $PSHome to be signed (#5511)

Engine updates and fixes

• Update PowerShell to use 2.0.4 dotnet core runtime. (#5677)
• Remove references to the old executable powershell or powershell.exe (#5408)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Remove unnecessary check for Paths.count > 0, in the *-FileCatalog CmdLets (#5596)
• Use explicit libpsl-native binary name for dllimport. (#5580)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Fix Get-EnvironmentInformation to properly check for CoreCLR (#5592) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Make Travis CI use libcurl+openssl+gssapi (#5629) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Disambiguate icon for daily builds on Windows (#5467) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix Import-CliXml tests which still use powershell instead of pwsh and make sure it fails if it regresses (#5521) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Update port number used for WebCmdlets tests which broke due to a change in AppVeyor (#5520) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Clean up use of Runspaceconfiguration from comments and xUnit test code (#5569) (Thanks @Bhaal22!)
• Replace HttpListener Response Tests with WebListener (#5540, #5605) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix the path to powershell_xxx.inc in Start-Build (#5538) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove Pester as a module include with the PowerShell Packages. You should be able to add it by running Install-Module Pester. (#5623, #5631)
• Refactor New-UnixPackaging into functions to make the large function more readable. (#5625)
• Make the experience better when Start-PSPester doesn't find Pester (#5673)
• Update packaging and release build scripts to produce zip packages for win-arm and win-arm64 (#5664)
• Enable Install-Debian to work with VSTS Hosted Linux Preview (#5659)
• Add linux-arm tarball package to release build (#5652, #5660)
• Enable building for win-arm and win-arm64 (#5524)
• Make macOS package require 10.12 or newer (#5649, #5654)
• Update signing subjects to something meaningful (#5650)
• Make New-UnixPackage more readable (#5625)
• Update PowerShellGet tests to validate the new install location of AllUsers scope. (#5633)
• Increase reliability of flaky test that fails intermittently in CI (#5641)
• Exclude markdown files from Pester folder from the Markdown meta test (#5636)
• Run tests for Windows installer only on Windows (#5619)
• Suppress the expected errors from Select-Xml tests (#5591)
• Add retry logic to prerequisite URL and output URL on failure so you can more easily troubleshoot (#5601, #5570)
• Make sure submodule are initialized when running Mac release build (#5496)
• Remove duplicate files in Windows packages in a folder called signed (#5527)
• Add PowerShell VSCode style settings (#5529) (Thanks @bergmeister)
• Add Travis CI matrix for improved job tagging (#5547)
• Remove community docker files from official docker image validation (#5508)

Documentation and Help Content

• XML documentation fix for CompletionResult (#5550) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Change synopsis of install-powershell.ps1 to reflect that it works cross-platform (#5465) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Add more helpful message for AmbiguousParameterSet exception (#5537) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Update the contribution guideline to note that updating the changelog is required. (#5586)
• Updated doc to build arm/arm64 versions of psrp.windows and PowerShell.Core.Instrumentation.dll libraries (#5668)
• Update Contribution guidelines with work in progress guidance (#5655)
• Update code coverage tests to get GitCommitId using the ProductVersion from Assembly (#5651)
• Remove requirement to updating changelog update in PR (#5644, #5586)
• Minor refactoring of the release build scripts (#5632)
• Update PowerShell executable name in using-vscode.md (#5593)
• Fix xUnit test for PS (#4780)
• Update install link and instructions for R-Pi (#5495)

Compliance Work

Compliance work is required for Microsoft to continue to sign and release packages from the project as official Microsoft packages.

• Remove PerformWSManPluginReportCompletion, which was not used, from pwrshplugin.dll (#5498) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Remove exclusion for hang and add context exception for remaining instances (#5595)
• Replace strlen with strnlen in native code (#5510)

v6.0.0-rc - 2017-11-16

Breaking changes

• Fix -Verbose to not override $ErrorActionPreference. (#5113)
• Fix Get-Item -LiteralPath a*b to return error if a*b doesn't actually exist. (#5197)
• Remove AllScope from most default aliases to reduce overhead on creating new scopes. (#5268)
• Change $OutputEncoding default to be UTF8 without BOM rather than ASCII. (#5369)
• Add error on legacy credential over non-HTTPS for Web Cmdlets. (#5402) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix single value JSON null in Invoke-RestMethod. (#5338) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Add PSTypeName Support for Import-Csv and ConvertFrom-Csv. (#5389) (Thanks @markekraus!)

Engine updates and fixes

• Add char range overload to the .. operator, so 'a'..'z' returns characters from 'a' to 'z'. (#5026) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• Remove CommandFactory because it serves no real purpose. (#5266)
• Change to not insert line breaks at console window width to output (except for tables). (#5193)
• Use Ast for context in parameter binding and fix to glob the native command argument only when it's not quoted. (#5188)
• Fix dynamic class assembly name. (#5292)
• Update PowerShell to use 2.0.4-servicing dotnet core runtime. (#5295)
• Fix ExecutionContext.LoadAssembly to load with name when file cannot be found. (#5161)
• Speed up the check for suspicious content in script texts. (#5302)
• Use native os_log APIs on macOS for PowerShell Core logging. (#5310)
• Redirect ETW logging to Syslog on Linux. (#5144)
• Improve how we pass the array literal to native commands. (#5301)
• Make SemanticVersion compatible with SemVer 2.0. (#5037) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Revert refactoring changes that broke remoting to Windows PowerShell 5.1. (#5321)
• Port some fixes in Job for an issue that causes PowerShell to not respond. (#5258)
• Multiple improvements by CodeRush static analysis. (#5132) (Thanks @Himura2la!)
• Fix the Runspace cleanup issue that causes PowerShell to not respond on exit. (#5356)
• Update PowerShell to depend on new version of psrp and libmi nuget packages on Unix platforms. (#5469)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Add -AsHashtable to ConvertFrom-Json to return a Hashtable instead. (#5043) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix Import-module to not report a loaded module was not found. (#5238)
• Fix performance issues in Add-Type. (#5243) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix PSUserAgent generation for Web Cmdlets on Windows 7. (#5256) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Remove DCOM support from *-Computer cmdlets. (#5277)
• Add multiple link header support to Web Cmdlets. (#5265) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Use wider columns for process id and user. (#5303)
• Add Remove-Alias Command. (#5143) (Thanks @PowershellNinja!)
• Update installpsh-suse.sh to work with the tar.gz package. (#5309)
• Add Jobject serialization support to ConvertTo-Json. (#5141)
• Display full help with 'help' function. (#5195) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• Fix help function to not pipe to more if objects are returned instead of help text. (#5395)
• Fix Unblock-File to not write an error if the file is already unblocked. (#5362) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Clean up FullCLR code from Web Cmdlets. (#5376) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Exclude cmdlets that are not supported on Unix platforms. (#5083)
• Make Import-Csv support CR, LF and CRLF as line delimiters. (#5363) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix spelling in Web Cmdlet errors. (#5427) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Add SslProtocol support to Web Cmdlets. (#5329) (Thanks @markekraus!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Use RCEdit to embed icon and version information into pwsh.exe. (#5178)
• Update Docker file for Nano Server 1709 release. (#5252)
• Change VSCode build task to use pwsh. (#5255)
• Refactor building and packaging scripts for signing in release build workflow. (#5300)
• Always build with -CrossGen in CI to verify a fix in CrossGen tool. (#5315)
• Separate Install-PowerShellRemoting.ps1 from psrp.windows nuget package. (#5330)
• Include symbols folder an embedded zip when packaging symbols. (#5333)
• Add Uniform Type Identifier conforming with Apple standards using a reverse DNS style prefix. (#5323)
• Update Wix toolset download link to newer version 3.11 (#5339) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Re-enable macOS launcher after fixing an issue that blocked macOS package generation. (#5291) (Thanks @thezim!)
• Set expected binaries and variable name for folder for symbols build. (#5357)
• Rename and update PowerShell ETW manifest to remove the Windows PowerShell dependency. (#5360)
• Add ability to produce tar.gz package for Raspbian. (#5387)
• Update Find-Dotnet to find dotnet with the compatible SDK. (#5341) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• Add signing manifest and script to update it with production values. (#5397)
• Add install-powershell.ps1 to install PowerShell Core on windows. (#5383)
• Make -Name a dynamic parameter in Start-PSPackage. (#5415)
• Support [package] tag in PR CI and fix nightly build on macOS. (#5410)
• Enhance install-powershell.ps1 to work on Linux and macOS. (#5411)
• Move the RCEdit step to the build phase rather than the packaging phase. (#5404)
• Allow packaging from a zip package to allow for signing. (#5418)
• Add automation to validate PowerShell Core packages using Docker containers. (#5401)
• Fix the brew update issue in bootstrap script. (#5400)
• Enable install-powershell.ps1 to update the current running PowerShell Core. (#5429)
• Add standard set of VSCode workspace setting files. (#5457) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• Add support for installing PowerShell Core on Amazon Linux via install-powershell.sh. (#5461) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
• Get PowerShellGet and PackageManagement from the PowerShell Gallery. (#5452)
• Fix Start-PSBuild on WSL if repository was already built on Windows. (#5346) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix build in VSCode and use an improved version of tasks.json from @rkeithhill. (#5453)
• Add scripts for signing packages in the release build workflow. (#5463)

Documentation and Help Content

• Fix the codebase to use the consistent copyright string. (#5210)
• Add documentation about how to create libpsl and psrp.windows nuget packages. (#5278)
• Add help strings in PowerShell banner. (#5275) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Change all links in README.md to absolute as they are being used in other places outside of GitHub. (#5354)
• Update instructions to build on VSCode based on pwsh. (#5368)
• Update FAQ.md about how to use PowerShell Core nuget packages. (#5366)
• Correct the Fedora documentation (#5384) (Thanks @offthewoll!)
• Add instructions about how to create the PowerShell.Core.Instrumentation nuget package. (#5396)
• Updated PowerShell to use the latest help package. (#5454)

Compliance Work

Compliance work is required for Microsoft to continue to sign and release packages from the project as official Microsoft packages.

• Replace the word hang with something more appropriate and add rules about other terms. (#5213, #5297, #5358)
• Use simplified names for compliance folders (#5388)
• Add compliance label description (#5355)
• Set requestedExecutionLevel to asInvoker for pwsh.exe on Windows. (#5285)
• Add HighEntropyVA to building pwsh. (#5455)

v6.0.0-beta.9 - 2017-10-24

Breaking changes

• Fix ValueFromRemainingArguments to have consistent behavior between script and C# cmdlets. (#2038) (Thanks @dlwyatt)
• Remove parameters -importsystemmodules and -psconsoleFile from powershell.exe. (#4995)
• Removed code to show a GUI prompt for credentials as PowerShell Core prompts in console. (#4995)
• Remove -ComputerName from Get/Set/Remove-Service. (#5094)
• Rename the executable name from powershell to pwsh. (#5101)
• Remove RunspaceConfiguration support. (#4942)
• Remove -ComputerName support since .NET Core Process.GetProcesses(computer) returns local processes. (#4960)
• Make -NoTypeInformation the default on Export-Csv and ConvertTo-Csv. (#5164) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Unify cmdlets with parameter -Encoding to be of type System.Text.Encoding. (#5080)

Engine updates and fixes

• Fix PowerShell to update the PATH environment variable only if PATH exists. (#5021)
• Enable support of folders and files with colon in name on Unix. (#4959)
• Fix detection of whether -LiteralPath was used to suppress wildcard expansion for navigation cmdlets. (#5038)
• Enable using filesystem from a UNC location. (#4998)
• Escape trailing backslash when dealing with native command arguments. (#4965)
• Change location of ModuleAnalysisCache so it isn't shared with Windows PowerShell. (#5133)
• Put command discovery before scripts for Unix. (#5116)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Correct comma position in SecureStringCommands.resx. (#5033) (Thanks @markekraus)
• User Agent of Web Cmdlets now reports the OS platform (#4937) (Thanks @LDSpits)
• Add the positional parameter attribute to -InputObject for Set-Service. (#5017) (Thanks @travisty-)
• Add ValidateNotNullOrEmpty attribute to -UFormat for Get-Date. (#5055) (Thanks @DdWr)
• Add -NoNewLine switch for Out-String. (#5056) (Thanks @raghav710)
• Improve progress messages written by Web Cmdlets. (#5078) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add verb descriptions and alias prefixes for Get-Verb. (#4746) (Thanks @Tadas)
• Fix Get-Content -Raw to not miss the last line feed character. (#5076)
• Add authentication parameters to Web Cmdlets. (#5052) (Thanks @markekraus)
  • Add -Authentication that provides three options: Basic, OAuth, and Bearer.
  • Add -Token to get the bearer token for OAuth and Bearer options.
  • Add -AllowUnencryptedAuthentication to bypass authentication that is provided for any transport scheme other than HTTPS.
• Fix MatchInfoContext clone implementation (#5121) (Thanks @dee-see)
• Exclude PSHostProcess cmdlets from Unix platforms. (#5105)
• Fix Add-Member to fetch resource string correctly. (#5114)
• Enable Import-Module to be case insensitive. (#5097)
• Add exports for syslog APIs in libpsl-native. (#5149)
• Fix Get-ChildItem to not ignore -Depth parameter when using with -Include or -Exclude. (#4985) (Thanks @Windos)
• Added properties UserName, Description, DelayedAutoStart, BinaryPathName and StartupType to the ServiceController objects returned by Get-Service. (#4907) (Thanks @joandrsn)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Treat .rtf files as binary so EOL don't get changed. (#5020)
• Improve the output of tools/installpsh-osx.sh and update Travis-CI to use Ruby 2.3.3. (#5065)
• Improve Start-PSBootstrap to locate dotnet SDK before installing it. (#5059) (Thanks @PetSerAl)
• Fix the prerequisite check of the MSI package. (#5070)
• Support creating tar.gz package for Linux and macOS. (#5085)
• Add release builds that produce symbols for compliance scans. (#5086)
• Update existing Docker files for the Linux package changes. (#5102)
• Add compiler switches and replace dangerous function with safer ones. (#5089)
• Add macOS launcher. (#5138) (Thanks @thezim)
• Replace httpbin.org/response-headers Tests with WebListener. (#5058) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Update appimage.sh to reflect the new name pwsh. (#5172)
• Update the man help file used in packaging. (#5173)
• Update to use pwsh in macOS launcher. (#5174) (Thanks @thezim)
• Add code to send web hook for Travis-CI daily build. (#5183)
• Add global.json to pick correct SDK version. (#5118) (Thanks @rkeithhill)
• Update packaging to only package PowerShell binaries when packaging symbols. (#5145)
• Update Docker files and related due to the name change. (#5156)

Code Cleanup

• Clean up Json cmdlets. (#5001) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Remove code guarded by RELATIONSHIP_SUPPORTED and SUPPORTS_IMULTIVALUEPROPERTYCMDLETPROVIDER, which has never been used. (#5066)
• Remove PSMI code that has never been used. (#5075)
• Remove unreachable code for Stop-Job. (#5091) (Thanks @travisty-)
• Removed font and codepage handling code that is only applicable to Windows PowerShell. (#4995)

Test

• Fix a race condition between WebListener and Web Cmdlets tests. (#5035) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add warning to Start-PSPester if Pester module is not found (#5069) (Thanks @DdWr)
• Add tests for DSC configuration compilation on Windows. (#5011)
• Test fixes and code coverage automation fixes. (#5046)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update Pi demo instructions about installing libunwind8. (#4974)
• Add links on best practice guidelines in coding guideline. (#4983) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Reformat command line help for powershell -help (#4989) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Change logo in readme to current black icon. (#5030)
• Fix RPM package name in README.md. (#5044)
• Update docs/building/linux.md to reflect the current status of powershell build. (#5068) (Thanks @dee-see)
• Add black version of .icns file for macOS. (#5073) (Thanks @thezim)
• Update Arch Linux installation instructions. (#5048) (Thanks @kylesferrazza)
• Add submodule reminder to testing-guidelines.md. (#5061) (Thanks @DdWr)
• Update instructions in docs/building/internals.md for building from source. (#5072) (Thanks @kylesferrazza)
• Add UserVoice link to Issue Template. (#5100) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add Get-WebListenerUrl Based Examples to WebListener README.md. (#4981) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add document about how to create cmdlet with dotnet CLI. (#5117) (Thanks @rkeithhill)
• Update the help text for PowerShell executable with the new name pwsh. (#5182)
• Add new forward links for PowerShell 6.0.0 help content. (#4978)
• Fix VSCode launch.json to point to pwsh. (#5189)
• Add example of how to create .NET Core cmdlet with Visual Studio. (#5096)

v6.0.0-beta.8 - 2017-10-05

Breaking changes

• Changed New-Service to return error when given unsupported -StartupType and fixed Set-Service icon failing test. (#4802)
• Allow * to be used in registry path for Remove-Item. (#4866)
• Remove unsupported -ShowWindow switch from Get-Help. (#4903)
• Fix incorrect position of a parameter which resulted in the args passed as input instead of as args for InvokeScript(). (#4963)

Engine updates and fixes

• Make calls to void CodeMethod work. (#4850) (Thanks @powercode)
• Get PSVersion and GitCommitId from the ProductVersion attribute of assembly (#4863) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Fix powershell -version and built-in help for powershell.exe to align with other native tools. (#4958 & #4931) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Load assemblies with Assembly.LoadFrom before Assembly.Load when the file path is given. (#4196)
• Add a generic file watcher function in HelpersCommon.psm1. (#4775)
• Update old links and fix broken links in docs/host-powershell/README.md. (#4877)
• Fix when importing remote modules using version filters (and added tests). (#4900)
• Enable transcription of native commands on non-Windows platforms. (#4871)
• Add a new line to CommandNotFoundException error string. (#4934 & #4991)
• Fix bug where PowerShell would exit with an error within an SSH remoting connection on Linux. (#4993)
• Fix issues with expression redirected to file. (#4847)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Added Remove-Service to Management module. (#4858) (Thanks @joandrsn)
• Added functionality to set credentials on Set-Service command. (#4844) (Thanks @joandrsn)
• Fix Select-String to exclude directories (as opposed to individual files) discovered from -Path. (#4829) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Get-Date now supports more argument completion scenarios by adding ArgumentCompletionsAttribute. (#4835) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Exclude -ComObject parameter of New-Object on unsupported (currently non-Windows) platforms. (#4922) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Updated default ModuleVersion in New-ModuleManifest to 0.0.1 to align with SemVer. (#4842) (Thanks @LDSpits)
• Add Multipart support to web cmdlets. (#4782) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add -ResponseHeadersVariable to Invoke-RestMethod to enable the capture of response headers. (#4888) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Initialize web cmdlets headers dictionary only once. (#4853) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Change web cmdlets UserAgent from WindowsPowerShell to PowerShell. (#4914) (Thanks @markekraus)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Make the build output the WiX compilation log if it failed. (#4831) (Thanks @bergmeister)
• Use a simple file based check in the MSI for the VC++ 2015 redistributables. (#4745) (Thanks @bergmeister)
• New icon for PowerShell Core. (#4848)
• Build Powershell Core using the generic RID linux-x64. (#4841)
• Create generic Linux-x64 packages that are portable to all supported RPM Linux distros (and more similar for Debian based distros). (#4902 & #4994)
• Suppress the output of building test tools in Compress-TestContent. (#4957)
• Remove unnecessary error messages from output. (#4954)
• Update Travis CI script so that PRs can fail due to Pester tests. (#4830)
• Move release build definition into PowerShell. (#4884)
• Fix credential scan issues. (#4927 & #4935)
• Enable security flags in native compiler. (#4933)
• Add VS 2017 solution file for powershell-win-core. (#4748)

Code Cleanup

• Remove remainder of Utility.Activities (Workflow code). (#4880)
• Remove Microsoft.PowerShell.CoreCLR.AssemblyLoadContext.dll. (#4868)
• Enable auto EOL on Git repo side, fix some character encoding issues. (#4912)
• Updated EOL for all files to be LF in the repository. (#4943 & #4956)
• Removed leading whitespace. (#4991)

DSC Language

• Update version of PSDesiredStateConfiguration in project files to fix complication of MOF files with the Configuration keyword. (#4979)

Test

• Replace httpbin.org tests with WebListener. (Thanks @markekraus)
  • headers (#4799)
  • user-agent (#4798)
  • redirect (#4852)
  • encoding (#4869)
  • delay (#4905)
  • gzip & enable deflate (#4948)
  • related changes and fixes (#4920)
• Port tests for constrained language mode. (#4816)
• Enable Select-String test from a network path. (#4921) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Reformat Measure-Object test. (#4972) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Mitigate intermittent failures in access denied tests. (#4788)
• Fix tests that incorrectly use ShouldBeErrorId. (#4793)
• Fix a test issue that causes tests to be skipped in Travis CI run (#4891)
• Skip web cmdlet certificate authentication tests on CentOS and Mac. (#4822)
• Validate product resource strings against resx files. (#4811 & #4861)
• Add source files for coverage run. (#4925)
• Add the UTC offset correctly in tests for CDXML cmdlets. (#4867)
• Be sure to change PSDefaultParameterValue in the global scope. (#4977 & #4892)
• Reduce output of Pester for CI. (#4855)
• Add tests for
  • Get-Content (#4723) (Thanks @sarithsutha)
  • Remoting and Jobs (#4928)
  • Get-Help (#4895)
  • Get-Command -ShowCommandInfo (#4906)
  • Get-Content -Tail (#4790)
  • Get-Module over remoting (#4787)
  • Start/Stop/Suspend/Resume/Restart-Service cmdlets (#4774)
  • WSMan Config provider tests (#4756)
  • CDXML CIM DateTime test (#4796)

Documentation and Graphics

• Sort .spelling (Thanks @markekraus)
• Improve the guideline for performance consideration. (#4824)
• Add setup steps for MacOS to use PSRP over SSH. (#4872)
• Instructions to demo PowerShell Core on Raspbian. (#4882)
• Added instructions to get permission to use PowerShell image assets. (#4938)
• Added demo for using Windows PowerShell modules. (#4886)

v6.0.0-beta.7 - 2017-09-13

Breaking change

• Fix Get-Content -Delimiter to not include the delimiter in the array elements returned (#3706) (Thanks @mklement0)
• Rename $IsOSX to $IsMacOS (#4757)

Engine updates and fixes

• Use stricter rules when unwrapping a PSObject that wraps a COM object (#4614)
• Remove appended Windows PowerShell PSModulePath on Windows. (#4656)
• Ensure GetNetworkCredential() returns null if PSCredential has null or empty user name (#4697)
• Push locals of automatic variables to 'DottedScopes' when dotting script cmdlets (#4709)
• Fix using module when module has non-terminating errors handled with SilentlyContinue (#4711) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Enable use of 'Singleline,Multiline' option in split operator (#4721) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Fix error message in ValidateSetAttribute.ValidateElement() (#4722) (Thanks @iSazonov)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Add Meta, Charset, and Transitional parameters to ConvertTo-HTML (#4184) (Thanks @ergo3114)
• Prevent Test-ModuleManifest from loading unnecessary modules (#4541)
• Remove AlternateStream code and -Stream from provider cmdlets on non-Windows (#4567)
• Add explicit ContentType detection to Invoke-RestMethod (#4692)
• Fix an error on Enter-PSSession exit (#4693)
• Add -WhatIf switch to Start-Process cmdlet (#4735) (Thanks @sarithsutha)
• Remove double spaces in .cs, .ps1, and .resx files (#4741 & #4743) (Thanks @korygill)
• Replace 'Windows PowerShell' with 'PowerShell' in resx files (#4758) (Thanks @iSazonov)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Refactor MSBuild project files to get PowerShell version from git tag (#4182) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Create a single package for each Windows supported architecture (x86 and amd64) (#4540)
• Set the default windows RID to win7- (#4701)
• Enable cross-compiling for Raspberry-PI arm32 (#4742)
• Fix macOS brew reinstall command (#4627) (Thanks @TheNewStellW)
• Improvements to the Travis-CI script (#4689, #4731, #4807)
• Update OpenSUSE docker image to 42.2 (#4737)
• Confirm Start-PSPackage produces a package (#4795)

Code Cleanup

• Remove Workflow code (#4777)
• Clean up CORECLR preprocessor directives in TraceSource (#4684)

Test

• Add test WebListener module and tests for Web Cmdlet Certificate Authentication (#4622) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Move WebCmdlets HTTPS tests to WebListener (#4733) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Replace httpbin.org/get tests With WebListener (#4738) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Use -PassThru on Pester tests to reliably catch failures (#4644)
• Display the same number of tests regardless of platform (#4728)
• Improve comparison of code coverage values for a file (#4764)
• Silence PSSessionConfiguration test warning messages in the log (#4794)
• Add tests for
  • Get-Service (#4773)
  • Set-Service and New-Service (#4785)
  • Trace-Command (#4288)
  • StaticParameter (#4779)
  • Test-Wsman (#4771)
  • New-Object -ComObject (#4776)
  • ProxyCommand APIs (#4791)
• Disable tests
  • 'VC++ Redistributable'(#4673 & #4729)
  • "Test 01. Standard Property test - all properties ()" due to missing CsPhysicallyInstalledMemory (#4763)
  • New-Service failing test (#4806)

Documentation

• Update WritingPesterTests.md to recommend ShouldBeErrorId (#4637)
• Clarify the Pull Request process, roles, and responsibilities (#4710)
• Add absolute URLs in the issue template and pull request template (#4718) (Thanks @chucklu)
• Add new approved Build and Deploy verbs (#4725)
• Update using-vscode.md to use the new exe path (#4736)
• Update coding guidelines to make it more concrete and useful in a review process (#4754)

v6.0.0-beta.6 - 2017-08-24

Breaking change

• Make invalid argument error messages for -File and -Command consistent and make exit codes consistent with Unix standards (#4573)

Engine updates and fixes

• Make resource loading to work with PowerShell SxS installation (#4139)
• Add missing assemblies to TPA list to make Pwrshplughin.dll work (#4502)
• Make sure running powershell starts instance of the current version of PowerShell. (#4481)
• Make sure we only use Unicode output by default on Nano and IoT systems (#4074)
• Enable powershell -WindowStyle to work on Windows. (#4573)
• Enable enumeration of COM collections. (#4553)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Fix Web CmdLets -SkipHeaderValidation to work with non-standard User-Agent headers. (#4479 & #4512) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add Certificate authentication support for Web CmdLets. (#4646) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add support for content headers to Web CmdLets. (#4494 & #4640) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add support for converting enums to string (#4318) (Thanks @KirkMunro)
• Ignore casing when binding PSReadline KeyHandler functions (#4300) (Thanks @oising)
• Fix Unblock-File for the case of a read-only file. (#4395) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Use supported API to set Central Access Policy ID (CAPID) in SACL. (#4496)
• Make Start-Trace support paths that require escaping in the underlying APIs (#3863)
• Removing #if CORECLR enabled, Enable-PSRemoting and Disable-PSRemoting (#2671)
• Enable WSManCredSSP cmdlets and add tests. (#4336)
• Use .NET Core's implementation for ShellExecute. (#4523)
• Fix SSH Remoting handling of KeyFileParameter when the path must be quoted. (#4529)
• Make Web CmdLets use HTML meta charset attribute value, if present (#4338)
• Move to .NET Core 2.0 final (#4603)

Build/test and code cleanup

• Add Amazon Linux Docker image and enable related tests. (#4393) (Thanks @DarwinJS)
• Make MSI verify pre-requisites are installed. (#4602) (Thank @bergmeister)
• Fixed formatting issues in build files. (#4630) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Make sure install-powershell.sh installs latest powershell on macOS, even if an old version is cached in brew. (#4509) (Thanks @richardszalay for reporting.)
• Fixes install scripts issue for macOS. (#4631) (Thanks @DarwinJS)
• Many stability improvements to our nightly code coverage automation. (#4313 & #4550)
• Remove hash validation from nanoserver-insider Docker file, due to frequent changes. (#4498)
• Update to make Travis-CI daily build badge more reliable. (#4522)
• Remove unused build files, build code, and product code. (#4532, #4580, #4590, #4589, #4588, #4587, #4586, #4583, #4582, #4581)
• Add additional acceptance tests for PowerShellGet. (#4531)
• Only publish a NuGet of the full PowerShell core package on daily builds and not merge. (#4517)
• Update nanoserver-insider Docker file due to breaking changes in the base image. (#4555)
• Cleanup engine tests (#4551)
• Fix intermittent failures in filesystem tests (#4566)
• Add tests for
  • New-WinEvent. (#4384)
  • tab completion. (#4560)
  • various types. (#4503)
  • CDXML CmdLets. (#4537)
• Only allow packaging of powershell, if it was built from a repo at the root of the file system named powershell. (#4569 & #4600)
• Update Format-Hex test cases to use -TestCase instead of foreach loops. (#3800)
• Added functionality to get code coverage for a single file locally. (#4556)

Documentation

• Added Ilya (@iSazonov) as a Maintainer. (#4365)
• Grammar fix to the Pull Request Guide. (#4322)
• Add homebrew for macOS to install documentation. (#3838)
• Added a CodeOwner file. (#4565 & #4597)

Cleanup #if CORECLR code

PowerShell 6.0 will be exclusively built on top of CoreCLR, so we are removing a large amount of code that's built only for FullCLR. To read more about this, check out this blog post.

v6.0.0-beta.5 - 2017-08-02

Breaking changes

• Remove the *-Counter cmdlets in Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics due to the use of unsupported APIs until a better solution is found. (#4303)
• Remove the Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts due to the use of unsupported APIs until a better solution is found. (#4302)

Engine updates and fixes

• Fix the issue where PowerShell Core wasn't working on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2/2012 (non-R2). (#4463)
• ValidateSetAttribute enhancement: support set values to be dynamically generated from a custom ValidateSetValueGenerator. (#3784) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Disable breaking into debugger on Ctrl+Break when running non-interactively. (#4283) (Thanks to @mwrock!)
• Give error instead of crashing if WSMan client library is not available. (#4387)
• Allow passing $true/$false as a parameter to scripts using powershell.exe -File. (#4178)
• Enable DataRow/DataRowView adapters in PowerShell Core to fix an issue with DataTable usage. (#4258)
• Fix an issue where PowerShell class static methods were being shared across Runspaces/SessionStates. (#4209)
• Fix array expression to not return null or throw error. (#4296)
• Fixes a CIM deserialization bug where corrupted CIM classes were instantiating non-CIM types. (#4234)
• Improve error message when HelpMessage property of ParameterAttribute is set to empty string. (#4334)
• Make ShellExecuteEx run in a STA thread. (#4362)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Add -SkipHeaderValidation switch to Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod to support adding headers without validating the header value. (#4085)
• Add support for Invoke-Item -Path <folder>. (#4262)
• Fix ConvertTo-Html output when using a single column header. (#4276)
• Fix output of Length for FileInfo when using Format-List. (#4437)
• Fix an issue in implicit remoting where restricted sessions couldn't use Get-FormatData �PowerShellVersion. (#4222)
• Fix an issue where Register-PSSessionConfiguration fails if SessionConfig folder doesn't exist. (#4271)

Installer updates

• Create script to install latest PowerShell from Microsoft package repositories (or Homebrew) on non-Windows platforms. (#3608) (Thanks to @DarwinJS!)
• Enable MSI upgrades rather than a side-by-side install. (#4259)
• Add a checkbox to open PowerShell after the Windows MSI installer has finished. (#4203) (Thanks to @bergmeister!)
• Add Amazon Linux compatibility to install-powershell.sh. (#4360) (Thanks to @DarwinJS!)
• Add ability to package PowerShell Core as a NuGet package. (#4363)

Build/test and code cleanup

• Add build check for MFC for Visual C++ during Windows builds. This fixes a long-standing (and very frustrating!) issue with missing build dependencies! (#4185) (Thanks to @KirkMunro!)
• Move building Windows PSRP binary out of Start-PSBuild. Now Start-PSBuild doesn't build PSRP binary on windows. Instead, we consume the PSRP binary from a NuGet package. (#4335)
• Add tests for built-in type accelerators. (#4230) (Thanks to @dchristian3188!)
• Increase code coverage of Get-ChildItem on file system. (#4342) (Thanks to @jeffbi!)
• Increase test coverage for Rename-Item and Move-Item. (#4329) (Thanks to @jeffbi!)
• Add test coverage for Registry provider. (#4354) (Thanks to @jeffbi!)
• Fix warnings and errors thrown by PSScriptAnalyzer. (#4261) (Thanks to @bergmeister!)
• Fix regressions that cause implicit remoting tests to fail. (#4326)
• Disable legacy UTC and SQM Windows telemetry by enclosing the code in '#if LEGACYTELEMETRY'. (#4190)

Cleanup #if CORECLR code

PowerShell 6.0 will be exclusively built on top of CoreCLR, so we are removing a large amount of code that's built only for FullCLR. To read more about this, check out this blog post.

v6.0.0-beta.4 - 2017-07-12

Windows PowerShell backwards compatibility

In the beta.4 release, we've introduced a change to add the Windows PowerShell PSModulePath to the default PSModulePath in PowerShell Core on Windows. (#4132)

Along with the introduction of .NET Standard 2.0 in 6.0.0-beta.1 and a GAC probing fix in 6.0.0-beta.3, this change will enable a large number of your existing Windows PowerShell modules/scripts to "just work" inside of PowerShell Core on Windows. (Note: We have also fixed the CDXML modules on Windows that were regressed in 6.0.0-beta.2 as part of #4144).

So that we can further enable this backwards compatibility, we ask that you tell us more about what modules or scripts do and don't work in Issue #4062. This feedback will also help us determine if PSModulePath should include the Windows PowerShell values by default in the long run.

For more information on this, we invite you to read this blog post explaining PowerShell Core and .NET Standard in more detail.

Engine updates and fixes

• Add Windows PowerShell PSModulePath by default on Windows. (#4132)
• Move PowerShell to 2.0.0-preview3-25426-01 and using the .NET CLI version 2.0.0-preview2-006502. (#4144)
• Performance improvement in PSReadline by minimizing writing ANSI escape sequences. (#4110)
• Implement Unicode escape parsing so that users can use Unicode characters as arguments, strings or variable names. (#3958) (Thanks to @rkeithhill!)
• Script names or full paths can have commas. (#4136) (Thanks to @TimCurwick!)
• Added semver as a type accelerator for System.Management.Automation.SemanticVersion. (#4142) (Thanks to @oising!)
• Close eventLogSession and EventLogReader to unlock an ETL log. (#4034) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Move-Item cmdlet honors -Include, -Exclude, and -Filter parameters. (#3878)
• Add a parameter to Get-ChildItem called -FollowSymlink that traverses symlinks on demand, with checks for link loops. (#4020)
• Change New-ModuleManifest encoding to UTF8NoBOM on non-Windows platforms. (#3940)
• Get-AuthenticodeSignature cmdlets can now get file signature timestamp. (#4061)
• Add tab completion for Export-Counter -FileFormat parameter. (#3856)
• Fixed Import-Module on non-Windows platforms so that users can import modules with NestedModules and RootModules. (#4010)
• Close FileStream opened by Get-FileHash. (#4175) (Thanks to @rkeithhill!)

Remoting

• Fixed PowerShell not responding when the SSH client abruptly terminates. (#4123)

Documentation

• Added recommended settings for VS Code. (#4054) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)

v6.0.0-beta.3 - 2017-06-20

Breaking changes

• Remove the BuildVersion property from $PSVersionTable. This property was strongly tied to the Windows build version. Instead, we recommend that you use GitCommitId to retrieve the exact build version of PowerShell Core. (#3877) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Change positional parameter for powershell.exe from -Command to -File. This fixes the usage of #! (aka as a shebang) in PowerShell scripts that are being executed from non-PowerShell shells on non-Windows platforms. This also means that you can now do things like powershell foo.ps1 or powershell fooScript without specifying -File. However, this change now requires that you explicitly specify -c or -Command when trying to do things like powershell.exe Get-Command. (#4019)
• Remove ClrVersion property from $PSVersionTable. (This property is largely irrelevant for .NET Core, and was only preserved in .NET Core for specific legacy purposes that are inapplicable to PowerShell.) (#4027)

Engine updates and fixes

• Add support to probe and load assemblies from GAC on Windows platform. This means that you can now load Windows PowerShell modules with assembly dependencies which reside in the GAC. If you're interested in running your traditional Windows PowerShell scripts and cmdlets using the power of .NET Standard 2.0, try adding your Windows PowerShell module directories to your PowerShell Core $PSModulePath. (E.g. $env:PSModulePath += ';C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules') Even if the module isn't owned by the PowerShell Team, please tell us what works and what doesn't by leaving a comment in issue #4062! (#3981)
• Enhance type inference in tab completion based on runtime variable values. (#2744) (Thanks to @powercode!) This enables tab completion in situations like:

$p = Get-Process
$p | Foreach-Object Prio<tab>

• Add GitCommitId to PowerShell Core banner. Now you don't have to run $PSVersionTable as soon as you start PowerShell to get the version! (#3916) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix a bug in tab completion to make native.exe --<tab> call into native completer. (#3633) (Thanks to @powercode!)
• Fix PowerShell Core to allow use of long paths that are more than 260 characters. (#3960)
• Fix ConsoleHost to honour NoEcho on Unix platforms. (#3801)
• Fix transcription to not stop when a Runspace is closed during the transcription. (#3896)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Enable Send-MailMessage in PowerShell Core. (#3869)
• Fix Get-Help to support case insensitive pattern matching on Unix platforms. (#3852)
• Fix tab completion on Get-Help for about_* topics. (#4014)
• Fix PSReadline to work in Windows Server Core container image. (#3937)
• Fix Import-Module to honour ScriptsToProcess when -Version is specified. (#3897)
• Strip authorization header on redirects with web cmdlets. (#3885)
• Start-Sleep: add the alias ms to the parameter -Milliseconds. (#4039) (Thanks to @Tadas!)

Developer experience

• Make hosting PowerShell Core in your own .NET applications much easier by refactoring PowerShell Core to use the default CoreCLR loader. (#3903)
• Update Add-Type to support CSharpVersion7. (#3933) (Thanks to @iSazonov)

v6.0.0-beta.2 - 2017-06-01

Support backgrounding of pipelines with ampersand (&) (#3360)

• Putting & at the end of a pipeline will cause the pipeline to be run as a PowerShell job.
• When a pipeline is backgrounded, a job object is returned.
• Once the pipeline is running as a job, all of the standard *-Job cmdlets can be used to manage the job.
• Variables (ignoring process-specific variables) used in the pipeline are automatically copied to the job so Copy-Item $foo $bar & just works.
• The job is also run in the current directory instead of the user's home directory.
• For more information about PowerShell jobs, see about_Jobs.

Engine updates and fixes

• Crossgen more of the .NET Core assemblies to improve PowerShell Core startup time. (#3787)
• Enable comparison between a SemanticVersion instance and a Version instance that is constructed only with Major and Minor version values. This will fix some cases where PowerShell Core was failing to import older Windows PowerShell modules. (#3793) (Thanks to @mklement0!)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Support Link header pagination in web cmdlets (#3828)
  • For Invoke-WebRequest, when the response includes a Link header we create a RelationLink property as a Dictionary representing the URLs and rel attributes and ensure the URLs are absolute to make it easier for the developer to use.
  • For Invoke-RestMethod, when the response includes a Link header we expose a -FollowRelLink switch to automatically follow next rel links until they no longer exist or once we hit the optional -MaximumFollowRelLink parameter value.
• Update Get-ChildItem to be more in line with the way that the *nix ls -R and the Windows DIR /S native commands handle symbolic links to directories during a recursive search. Now, Get-ChildItem returns the symbolic links it encountered during the search, but it won't search the directories those links target. (#3780)
• Fix Get-ChildItem to continue enumeration after throwing an error in the middle of a set of items. This fixes some issues where inaccessible directories or files would halt execution of Get-ChildItem. (#3806)
• Fix ConvertFrom-Json to deserialize an array of strings from the pipeline that together construct a complete JSON string. This fixes some cases where newlines would break JSON parsing. (#3823)
• Enable Get-TimeZone for macOS/Linux. (#3735)
• Change to not expose unsupported aliases and cmdlets on macOS/Linux. (#3595) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix Invoke-Item to accept a file path that includes spaces on macOS/Linux. (#3850)
• Fix an issue where PSReadline was not rendering multi-line prompts correctly on macOS/Linux. (#3867)
• Fix an issue where PSReadline was not working on Nano Server. (#3815)

v6.0.0-beta.1 - 2017-05-08

Move to .NET Core 2.0 (.NET Standard 2.0 support)

PowerShell Core has moved to using .NET Core 2.0 so that we can leverage all the benefits of .NET Standard 2.0. (#3556) To learn more about .NET Standard 2.0, there's some great starter content on Youtube, on the .NET blog, and on GitHub. We'll also have more content soon in our repository documentation (which will eventually make its way to official documentation). In a nutshell, .NET Standard 2.0 allows us to have universal, portable modules between Windows PowerShell (which uses the full .NET Framework) and PowerShell Core (which uses .NET Core). Many modules and cmdlets that didn't work in the past may now work on .NET Core, so import your favorite modules and tell us what does and doesn't work in our GitHub Issues!

Telemetry

• For the first beta of PowerShell Core 6.0, telemetry has been to the console host to report two values (#3620):
  • the OS platform ($PSVersionTable.OSDescription)
  • the exact version of PowerShell ($PSVersionTable.GitCommitId)

If you want to opt-out of this telemetry, simply delete $PSHome\DELETE_ME_TO_DISABLE_CONSOLEHOST_TELEMETRY. Even before the first run of Powershell, deleting this file will bypass all telemetry. In the future, we plan on also enabling a configuration value for whatever is approved as part of RFC0015. We also plan on exposing this telemetry data (as well as whatever insights we leverage from the telemetry) in our community dashboard.

If you have any questions or comments about our telemetry, please file an issue.

Engine updates and fixes

• Add support for native command globbing on Unix platforms. (#3643)
  • This means you can now use wildcards with native binaries/commands (e.g. ls *.txt).
• Fix PowerShell Core to find help content from $PSHome instead of the Windows PowerShell base directory. (#3528)
  • This should fix issues where about_* topics couldn't be found on Unix platforms.
• Add the OS entry to $PSVersionTable. (#3654)
• Arrange the display of $PSVersionTable entries in the following way: (#3562) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
  • PSVersion
  • PSEdition
  • alphabetical order for rest entries based on the keys
• Make PowerShell Core more resilient when being used with an account that doesn't have some key environment variables. (#3437)
• Update PowerShell Core to accept the -i switch to indicate an interactive shell. (#3558)
  • This will help when using PowerShell as a default shell on Unix platforms.
• Relax the PowerShell SemanticVersion constructors to not require 'minor' and 'patch' portions of a semantic version name. (#3696)
• Improve performance to security checks when group policies are in effect for ExecutionPolicy. (#2588) (Thanks to @powercode)
• Fix code in PowerShell to use IntPtr(-1) for INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE instead of IntPtr.Zero. (#3544) (Thanks to @0xfeeddeadbeef)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Change the default encoding and OEM encoding used in PowerShell Core to be compatible with Windows PowerShell. (#3467) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix a bug in Import-Module to avoid incorrect cyclic dependency detection. (#3594)
• Fix New-ModuleManifest to correctly check if a URI string is well formed. (#3631)

Filesystem-specific updates and fixes

• Use operating system calls to determine whether two paths refer to the same file in file system operations. (#3441)
  • This will fix issues where case-sensitive file paths were being treated as case-insensitive on Unix platforms.
• Fix New-Item to allow creating symbolic links to file/directory targets and even a non-existent target. (#3509)
• Change the behavior of Remove-Item on a symbolic link to only removing the link itself. (#3637)
• Use better error message when New-Item fails to create a symbolic link because the specified link path points to an existing item. (#3703)
• Change Get-ChildItem to list the content of a link to a directory on Unix platforms. (#3697)
• Fix Rename-Item to allow Unix globbing patterns in paths. (#3661)

Interactive fixes

• Add Hashtable tab completion for -Property of Select-Object. (#3625) (Thanks to @powercode)
• Fix tab completion with @{<tab> to avoid crash in PSReadline. (#3626) (Thanks to @powercode)
• Use <id> - <name> as ToolTip and ListItemText when tab completing process ID. (#3664) (Thanks to @powercode)

Remoting fixes

• Update PowerShell SSH remoting to handle multi-line error messages from OpenSSH client. (#3612)
• Add -Port parameter to New-PSSession to create PowerShell SSH remote sessions on non-standard (non-22) ports. (#3499) (Thanks to @Lee303)

API Updates

• Add the public property ValidRootDrives to ValidateDriveAttribute to make it easy to discover the attribute state via ParameterMetadata or PSVariable objects. (#3510) (Thanks to @indented-automation!)
• Improve error messages for ValidateCountAttribute. (#3656) (Thanks to @iSazonov)
• Update ValidatePatternAttribute, ValidateSetAttribute and ValidateScriptAttribute to allow users to more easily specify customized error messages. (#2728) (Thanks to @powercode)

v6.0.0-alpha.18 - 2017-04-05

Progress Bar

We made a number of fixes to the progress bar rendering and the ProgressRecord object that improved cmdlet performance and fixed some rendering bugs on non-Windows platforms.

• Fix a bug that caused the progress bar to drift on Unix platforms. (#3289)
• Improve the performance of writing progress records. (#2822) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix the progress bar rendering on Unix platforms. (#3362) (#3453)
• Reuse ProgressRecord in Web Cmdlets to reduce the GC overhead. (#3411) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)

Cmdlet updates

• Use ShellExecute with Start-Process, Invoke-Item, and Get-Help -Online so that those cmdlets use standard shell associations to open a file/URI. This means you Get-Help -Online will always use your default browser, and Start-Process/Invoke-Item can open any file or path with a handler. (Note: there are still some problems with STA threads.) (#3281, partially fixes #2969)
• Add -Extension and -LeafBase switches to Split-Path so that you can split paths between the filename extension and the rest of the filename. (#2721) (Thanks to @powercode!)
• Implement Format-Hex in C# along with some behavioral changes to multiple parameters and the pipeline. (#3320) (Thanks to @MiaRomero!)
• Add -NoProxy to web cmdlets so that they ignore the system-wide proxy setting. (#3447) (Thanks to @TheFlyingCorpse!)
• Fix Out-Default -Transcript to properly revert out of the TranscribeOnly state, so that further output can be displayed on Console. (#3436) (Thanks to @PetSerAl!)
• Fix Get-Help to not return multiple instances of the same help file. (#3410)

Interactive fixes

• Enable argument auto-completion for -ExcludeProperty and -ExpandProperty of Select-Object. (#3443) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix a tab completion bug that prevented Import-Module -n<tab> from working. (#1345)

Cross-platform fixes

• Ignore the -ExecutionPolicy switch when running PowerShell on non-Windows platforms because script signing is not currently supported. (#3481)
• Standardize the casing of the PSModulePath environment variable. (#3255)

JEA fixes

• Fix the JEA transcription to include the endpoint configuration name in the transcript header. (#2890)
• Fix Get-Help in a JEA session. (#2988)

v6.0.0-alpha.17 - 2017-03-08

• Update PSRP client libraries for Linux and Mac.
  • We now support customer configurations for Office 365 interaction, as well as NTLM authentication for WSMan based remoting from Linux (more information here). (#3271)
• We now support remote step-in debugging for Invoke-Command -ComputerName. (#3015)
• Use prettier formatter with ConvertTo-Json output. (#2787) (Thanks to @kittholland!)
• Port *-CmsMessage and Get-PfxCertificate cmdlets to Powershell Core. (#3224)
• powershell -version now returns version information for PowerShell Core. (#3115)
• Add the -TimeOut parameter to Test-Connection. (#2492)
• Add ShouldProcess support to New-FileCatalog and Test-FileCatalog (fixes -WhatIf and -Confirm). (#3074) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix Test-ModuleManifest to normalize paths correctly before validating.
  • This fixes some problems when using Publish-Module on non-Windows platforms. (#3097)
• Remove the AliasProperty "Count" defined for System.Array.
  • This removes the extraneous Count property on some ConvertFrom-Json output. (#3231) (Thanks to @PetSerAl!)
• Port Import-PowerShellDatafile from PowerShell script to C#. (#2750) (Thanks to @powercode!)
• Add -CustomMethod parameter to web cmdlets to allow for non-standard method verbs. (#3142) (Thanks to @Lee303!)
• Fix web cmdlets to include the HTTP response in the exception when the response status code is not success. (#3201)
• Expose a process' parent process by adding the CodeProperty "Parent" to System.Diagnostics.Process. (#2850) (Thanks to @powercode!)
• Fix crash when converting a recursive array to a bool. (#3208) (Thanks to @PetSerAl!)
• Fix casting single element array to a generic collection. (#3170)
• Allow profile directory creation failures for Service Account scenarios. (#3244)
• Allow Windows' reserved device names (e.g. CON, PRN, AUX, etc.) to be used on non-Windows platforms. (#3252)
• Remove duplicate type definitions when reusing an InitialSessionState object to create another Runspace. (#3141)
• Fix PSModuleInfo.CaptureLocals to not do ValidateAttribute check when capturing existing variables from the caller's scope. (#3149)
• Fix a race bug in WSMan command plug-in instance close operation. (#3203)
• Fix a problem where newly mounted volumes aren't available to modules that have already been loaded. (#3034)
• Remove year from PowerShell copyright banner at start-up. (#3204) (Thanks to @kwiknick!)
• Fixed spelling for the property name BiosSerialNumber for Get-ComputerInfo. (#3167) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)

v6.0.0-alpha.16 - 2017-02-15

• Add WindowsUBR property to Get-ComputerInfo result
• Cache padding strings to speed up formatting a little
• Add alias Path to the -FilePath parameter of Out-File
• Fix the -InFile parameter of Invoke-WebRequest
• Add the default help content to powershell core
• Speed up Add-Type by crossgen'ing its dependency assemblies
• Convert Get-FileHash from script to C# implementation
• Fix lock contention when compiling the code to run in interpreter
• Avoid going through WinRM remoting stack when using Get-ComputerInfo locally
• Fix native parameter auto-completion for tokens that begin with a single "Dash"
• Fix parser error reporting for incomplete input to allow defining class in interactive host
• Add the RoleCapabilityFiles keyword for JEA support on Windows

v6.0.0-alpha.15 - 2017-01-18

• Use parentheses around file length for offline files
• Fix issues with the Windows console mode (terminal emulation) and native executables
• Fix error recovery with using module
• Report PlatformNotSupported on IoT for Get/Import/Export-Counter
• Add -Group parameter to Get-Verb
• Use MB instead of KB for memory columns of Get-Process
• Add new escape character for ESC: `e
• Fix a small parsing issue with a here string
• Improve tab completion of types that use type accelerators
• Invoke-RestMethod improvements for non-XML non-JSON input
• PSRP remoting now works on CentOS without addition setup

v6.0.0-alpha.14 - 2016-12-14

• Moved to .NET Core 1.1
• Add Windows performance counter cmdlets to PowerShell Core
• Fix try/catch to choose the more specific exception handler
• Fix issue reloading modules that define PowerShell classes
• Add ValidateNotNullOrEmpty to approximately 15 parameters
• New-TemporaryFile and New-Guid rewritten in C#
• Enable client side PSRP on non-Windows platforms
• Split-Path now works with UNC roots
• Implicitly convert value assigned to XML property to string
• Updates to Invoke-Command parameters when using SSH remoting transport
• Fix Invoke-WebRequest with non-text responses on non-Windows platforms
• Write-Progress performance improvement from alpha13 reverted because it introduced crash with a race condition

v6.0.0-alpha.13 - 2016-11-22

• Fix NullReferenceException in binder after turning on constrained language mode
• Enable Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod to not validate the HTTPS certificate of the server if required.
• Enable binder debug logging in PowerShell Core
• Add parameters -Top and -Bottom to Sort-Object for Top/Bottom N sort
• Enable Update-Help and Save-Help on Unix platforms
• Update the formatter for System.Diagnostics.Process to not show the Handles column
• Improve Write-Progress performance by adding timer to update a progress pane every 100 ms
• Enable correct table width calculations with ANSI escape sequences on Unix
• Fix background jobs for Unix and Windows
• Add Get-Uptime to Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
• Make Out-Null as fast as > $null
• Add DockerFile for 'Windows Server Core' and 'Nano Server'
• Fix WebRequest failure to handle missing ContentType in response header
• Make Write-Host fast by delay initializing some properties in InformationRecord
• Ensure PowerShell Core adds an initial / rooted drive on Unix platforms
• Enable streaming behavior for native command execution in pipeline, so that ping | grep doesn't block
• Make Write-Information accept objects from pipeline
• Fixes deprecated syscall issue on macOS 10.12
• Fix code errors found by the static analysis using PVS-Studio
• Add support to W3C Extended Log File Format in Import-Csv
• Guard against ReflectionTypeLoadException in type name auto-completion
• Update build scripts to support win7-x86 runtime
• Move PackageManagement code/test to oneget.org

v6.0.0-alpha.12 - 2016-11-03

• Fix Get-ChildItem -Recurse -ErrorAction Ignore to ignore additional errors
• Don't block pipeline when running Windows EXE's
• Fix for PowerShell SSH remoting with recent Win32-OpenSSH change.
• Select-Object with -ExcludeProperty now implies -Property * if -Property is not specified.
• Adding ValidateNotNullOrEmpty to -Name parameter of Get-Alias
• Enable Implicit remoting commands in PowerShell Core
• Fix GetParentProcess() to replace an expensive WMI query with Win32 API calls
• Fix Set-Content failure to create a file in PSDrive under certain conditions.
• Adding ValidateNotNullOrEmpty to -Name parameter of Get-Service
• Adding support in Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable
• Adding WindowsVersion to Get-ComputerInfo
• Remove the unnecessary use of lock in PseudoParameterBinder to avoid deadlock
• Refactor Get-WinEvent to use StringBuilder for XPath query construction
• Clean up and fix error handling of libpsl-native
• Exclude Registry and Certificate providers from UNIX PS
• Update PowerShell Core to consume .Net Core preview1-24530-04

v6.0.0-alpha.11 - 2016-10-17

• Add '-Title' to 'Get-Credential' and unify the prompt experience
• Update dependency list for PowerShell Core on Linux and OS X
• Fix 'powershell -Command -' to not stop responding and to not ignore the last command
• Fix binary operator tab completion
• Enable 'ConvertTo-Html' in PowerShell Core
• Remove most Maximum* capacity variables
• Fix 'Get-ChildItem -Hidden' to work on system hidden files on Windows
• Fix 'JsonConfigFileAccessor' to handle corrupted 'PowerShellProperties.json' and defer creating the user setting directory until a write request comes
• Fix variable assignment to not overwrite read-only variables
• Fix 'Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable' to work with named fields in UserData of event logs
• Fix 'Get-Help -Online' in PowerShell Core on Windows
• Spelling/grammar fixes

v6.0.0-alpha.10 - 2016-09-15

• Fix passing escaped double quoted spaces to native executables
• Add DockerFiles to build each Linux distribution
• ~/.config/PowerShell capitalization bug fixed
• Fix crash on Windows 7
• Fix remote debugging on Windows client
• Fix multi-line input with redirected stdin
• Add PowerShell to /etc/shells on installation
• Fix Install-Module version comparison bug
• Spelling fixes

v6.0.0-alpha.9 - 2016-08-15

• Better man page
• Added third-party and proprietary licenses
• Added license to MSI

v6.0.0-alpha.8 - 2016-08-11

• PowerShell packages pre-compiled with crossgen
• Get-Help content added
• Get-Help null reference exception fixed
• Ubuntu 16.04 support added
• Unsupported cmdlets removed from Unix modules
• PSReadline long prompt bug fixed
• PSReadline custom key binding bug on Linux fixed
• Default terminal colors now respected
• Semantic Version support added
• $env: fixed for case-sensitive variables
• Added JSON config files to hold some settings
• cd with no arguments now behaves as cd ~
• ConvertFrom-Json fixed for multiple lines
• Windows branding removed
• .NET CoreCLR Runtime patched to version 1.0.4
• Write-Host with unknown hostname bug fixed
• powershell man-page added to package
• Get-PSDrive ported to report free space
• Desired State Configuration MOF compilation ported to Linux
• Windows 2012 R2 / Windows 8.1 remoting enabled

v6.0.0-alpha.7 - 2016-07-26

• Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod ported to PowerShell Core
• Set PSReadline default edit mode to Emacs on Linux
• IsCore variable renamed to IsCoreCLR
• Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts and other Windows-only assemblies excluded on Linux
• PowerShellGet fully ported to Linux
• PackageManagement NuGet provider ported
• Write-Progress ported to Linux
• Get-Process -IncludeUserName ported
• Enumerating symlinks to folders fixed
• Bugs around administrator permissions fixed on Linux
• ConvertFrom-Json multi-line bug fixed
• Execution policies fixed on Windows
• TimeZone cmdlets added back; excluded from Linux
• FileCatalog cmdlets added back for Windows
• Get-ComputerInfo cmdlet added back for Windows

v0.6.0 - 2016-07-08

• Targets .NET Core 1.0 release
• PowerShellGet enabled
• [system.manage] completion issues fixed
• AssemblyLoadContext intercepts dependencies correctly
• Type catalog issues fixed
• Invoke-Item enabled for Linux and OS X
• Windows ConsoleHost reverted to native interfaces
• Portable ConsoleHost redirection issues fixed
• Bugs with pseudo (and no) TTY's fixed
• Source Depot synced to baseline changeset 717473
• SecureString stub replaced with .NET Core package

v0.5.0 - 2016-06-16

• Paths given to cmdlets are now slash-agnostic (both / and \ work as directory separator)
• Lack of cmdlet support for paths with literal \ is a known issue
• .NET Core packages downgraded to build rc2-24027 (Nano's build)
• XDG Base Directory Specification is now respected and used by default
• Linux and OS X profile path is now ~/.config/powershell/profile.ps1
• Linux and OS X history save path is now ~/.local/share/powershell/PSReadLine/ConsoleHost_history.txt
• Linux and OS X user module path is now ~/.local/share/powershell/Modules
• The ~/.powershell folder is deprecated and should be deleted
• Scripts can be called within PowerShell without the .ps1 extension
• Trace-Command and associated source cmdlets are now available
• Ctrl-C now breaks running cmdlets correctly
• Source Depot changesets up to 715912 have been merged
• Set-PSBreakPoint debugging works on Linux, but not on Windows
• MSI and APPX packages for Windows are now available
• Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts is available on Windows
• Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive is available on Windows
• Linux xUnit tests are running again
• Many more Pester tests are running

v0.4.0 - 2016-05-17

• PSReadline is ported and included by default
• Original Windows ConsoleHost is ported and replaced CoreConsoleHost
• .NET Core packages set to the RC2 release at build 24103
• OS X 10.11 added to Continuous Integration matrix
• Third-party C# cmdlets can be built with .NET CLI
• Improved symlink support on Linux
• Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.Native replaced with package
• Many more Pester tests

v0.3.0 - 2016-04-11

• Supports Windows, Nano, OS X, Ubuntu 14.04, and CentOS 7.1
• .NET Core packages are build rc3-24011
• Native Linux commands are not shadowed by aliases
• Get-Help -Online works
• more function respects the Linux $PAGER; defaults to less
• IsWindows, IsLinux, IsOSX, IsCore built-in PowerShell variables added
• Microsoft.PowerShell.Platform removed for the above
• Cross-platform core host is now CoreConsoleHost
• Host now catches exceptions in --command scripts
• Host's shell ID changed to Microsoft.PowerShellCore
• Modules that use C# assemblies can be loaded
• New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink supports arbitrary targets
• PSReadline implementation supports multi-line input
• Ctrl-R provides incremental reverse history search
• $Host.UI.RawUI now supported
• Ctrl-K and Ctrl-Y for kill and yank implemented
• Ctrl-L to clear screen now works
• Documentation was completely overhauled
• Many more Pester and xUnit tests added

v0.2.0 - 2016-03-08

• Supports Windows, OS X, Ubuntu 14.04, and CentOS 7.1
• .NET Core packages are build 23907
• System.Console PSReadline is fully functional
• Tests pass on OS X
• Microsoft.PowerShell.Platform module is available
• New-Item supports symbolic and hard links
• Add-Type now works
• PowerShell code merged with upstream rs1_srv_ps

v0.1.0 - 2016-02-23

• Supports Windows, OS X, and Ubuntu 14.04