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v7.6.0-preview.5 Release of PowerShell
Engine Updates and Fixes
- Allow opt-out of the named-pipe listener using the environment variable
POWERSHELL_DIAGNOSTICS_OPTOUT (#26086)
- Ensure that socket timeouts are set only during the token validation (#26066)
- Fix race condition in
RemoteHyperVSocket (#26057)
- Fix
stderr output of console host to respect NO_COLOR (#24391)
- Update PSRP protocol to deprecate session key exchange between newer client and server (#25774)
- Fix the
ssh PATH check in SSHConnectionInfo when the default Runspace is not available (#25780) (Thanks @jborean93!)
- Adding hex format for native command exit codes (#21067) (Thanks @sba923!)
- Fix infinite loop crash in variable type inference (#25696) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
Add PSForEach and PSWhere as aliases for the PowerShell intrinsic methods Where and Foreach (#25511) (Thanks @powercode!)General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes
- Remove
IsScreenReaderActive() check from ConsoleHost (#26118)
- Fix
ConvertFrom-Json to ignore comments inside array literals (#14553) (#26050) (Thanks @MatejKafka!)
- Fix
-Debug to not trigger the ShouldProcess prompt (#26081)
- Add the parameter
Register-ArgumentCompleter -NativeFallback to support registering a cover-all completer for native commands (#25230)
- Change the default feedback provider timeout from 300ms to 1000ms (#25910)
- Update PATH environment variable for package manager executable on Windows (#25847)
- Fix
Write-Host to respect OutputRendering = PlainText (#21188)
- Improve the
$using expression support in Invoke-Command (#24025) (Thanks @jborean93!)
- Use parameter
HelpMessage for tool tip in parameter completion (#25108) (Thanks @jborean93!)
- Revert "Never load a module targeting the PSReadLine module's
SessionState" (#25792)
- Fix debug tracing error with magic extents (#25726) (Thanks @jborean93!)
- Add
MethodInvocation trace for overload tracing (#21320) (Thanks @jborean93!)
- Improve verbose and debug logging level messaging in web cmdlets (#25510) (Thanks @JustinGrote!)
- Fix quoting in completion if the path includes a double quote character (#25631) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
- Fix the common parameter
-ProgressAction for advanced functions (#24591) (Thanks @cmkb3!)
- Use absolute path in
FileSystemProvider.CreateDirectory (#24615) (Thanks @Tadas!)
- Make inherited protected internal instance members accessible in PowerShell class scope (#25245) (Thanks @mawosoft!)
- Treat
-Target as literal in New-Item (#25186) (Thanks @GameMicrowave!)
- Remove duplicate modules from completion results (#25538) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
- Add completion for variables assigned in
ArrayLiteralAst and ParenExpressionAst (#25303) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
- Add support for thousands separators in
[bigint] casting (#25396) (Thanks @AbishekPonmudi!)
- Add internal methods to check Preferences (#25514) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
- Improve debug logging of Web cmdlet request and response (#25479) (Thanks @JustinGrote!)
- Revert "Allow empty prefix string in 'Import-Module -Prefix' to override default prefix in manifest (#20409)" (#25462) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
- Fix the
NullReferenceException when writing progress records to console from multiple threads (#25440) (Thanks @kborowinski!)
- Update
Get-Service to ignore common errors when retrieving non-critical properties for a service (#24245) (Thanks @jborean93!)
- Add single/double quote support for
Join-String Argument Completer (#25283) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
- Fix tab completion for env/function variables (#25346) (Thanks @jborean93!)
- Fix
Out-GridView by replacing use of obsolete BinaryFormatter with custom implementation (#25497) (Thanks @mawosoft!)
- Remove the use of Windows PowerShell ETW provider id from code base and update the
PSDiagnostics module to work for PowerShell 7 (#25590)
Code Cleanup
We thank the following contributors!
@xtqqczze, @mawosoft, @ArmaanMcleod
- Enable CA2021: Do not call Enumerable.Cast or Enumerable.OfType with incompatible types (#25813) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Remove some unused
ConsoleControl structs (#26063) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Remove unused
FileStreamBackReader.NativeMethods type (#26062) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Ensure data-serialization files end with one newline (#26039) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Remove unnecessary
CS0618 suppressions from Variant APIs (#26006) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Ensure
.cs files end with exactly one newline (#25968) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Remove obsolete
CA2105 rule suppression (#25938) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Remove obsolete
CA1703 rule suppression (#25955) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Remove obsolete
CA2240 rule suppression (#25957) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Remove obsolete
CA1701 rule suppression (#25948) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Remove obsolete
CA2233 rule suppression (#25951) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Remove obsolete
CA1026 rule suppression (#25934) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Remove obsolete
CA1059 rule suppression (#25940) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Remove obsolete
CA2118 rule suppression (#25924) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Remove redundant
System.Runtime.Versioning attributes (#25926) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Seal internal types in
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility (#25892) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Seal internal types in
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Management (#25849) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Make the interface
IDeepCloneable internal to minimize confusion (#25552)
- Remove
OnDeserialized and Serializable attributes from Microsoft.Management.UI.Internal project (#25548)
- Refactor Tooltip/ListItemText mapping to use
CompletionDisplayInfoMapper delegate (#25395) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
Tools
- Add Codeql Suppressions (#25943, #26132)
- Update CODEOWNERS to add Justin as a maintainer (#25386)
- Do not run labels workflow in the internal repo (#25279)
Tests
- Mark the 3 consistently failing tests as pending to unblock PRs (#26091)
- Make some tests less noisy on failure (#26035) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Suppress false positive
PSScriptAnalyzer warnings in tests and build scripts (#25864)
- Fix updatable help test for new content (#25819)
- Add more tests for
PSForEach and PSWhere methods (#25519)
- Fix the isolated module test that was disabled previously (#25420)
Build and Packaging Improvements
We thank the following contributors!
@alerickson, @senerh, @RichardSlater, @xtqqczze
- Update package references for the master branch (#26124)
- Remove
ThreadJob module and update PSReadLine to 2.4.4-beta4 (#26120)
- Automate Store Publishing (#25725)
- Add global config change detection to action (#26082)
- Update outdated package references (#26069)
- Ensure that the workflows are triggered on
.globalconfig and other files at the root of the repo (#26034)
- Update
Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet to 1.2.0-preview3 (#26056) (Thanks @alerickson!)
- Update metadata for Stable to v7.5.3 and LTS to v7.4.12 (#26054) (Thanks @senerh!)
- Bump github/codeql-action from 3.30.2 to 3.30.3 (#26036)
- Update version for the package
Microsoft.PowerShell.Native (#26041)
- Fix the APIScan pipeline (#26016)
- Move PowerShell build to use .NET SDK 10.0.100-rc.1 (#26027)
- fix(apt-package): add libicu76 dependency to support Debian 13 (#25866) (Thanks @RichardSlater!)
- Bump github/codeql-action from 3.30.1 to 3.30.2 (#26029)
- Update Ev2 Shell Extension Image to AzureLinux 3 for PMC Release (#26025)
- Bump github/codeql-action from 3.30.0 to 3.30.1 (#26008)
- Bump actions/github-script from 7 to 8 (#25983)
- Fix variable reference for release environment in pipeline (#26012)
- Add LinuxHost Network configuration to PowerShell Packages pipeline (#26000)
- Make logical template name consistent between pipelines (#25990)
- Update container images to use mcr.microsoft.com for Linux and Azure GǪ (#25981)
- Bump github/codeql-action from 3.29.11 to 3.30.0 (#25966)
- Bump actions/setup-dotnet from 4 to 5 (#25978)
- Add build to vPack Pipeline (#25915)
- Replace
DOTNET_SKIP_FIRST_TIME_EXPERIENCE with DOTNET_NOLOGO (#25946) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.7.2 to 4.7.3 (#25930)
- Bump github/codeql-action from 3.29.10 to 3.29.11 (#25889)
- Remove AsyncSDL from Pipelines Toggle Official/NonOfficial Runs (#25885)
- Specify .NET Search by Build Type (#25837)
- Update PowerShell to use .NET SDK v10-preview.7 (#25876)
- Bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.7.1 to 4.7.2 (#25882)
- Bump github/codeql-action from 3.29.9 to 3.29.10 (#25881)
- Change the macos runner image to macos 15 large (#25867)
- Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 (#25853)
- Bump github/codeql-action from 3.29.7 to 3.29.9 (#25857)
- Update to .NET 10 Preview 6 (#25828)
- Bump agrc/create-reminder-action from 1.1.20 to 1.1.22 (#25808)
- Bump agrc/reminder-action from 1.0.17 to 1.0.18 (#25807)
- Bump github/codeql-action from 3.28.19 to 3.29.5 (#25797)
- Bump super-linter/super-linter from 7.4.0 to 8.0.0 (#25770)
- Update metadata for v7.5.2 and v7.4.11 releases (#25687)
- Correct Capitalization Referencing Templates (#25669)
- Change linux packaging tests to ubuntu latest (#25634)
- Bump github/codeql-action from 3.28.18 to 3.28.19 (#25636)
- Move to .NET 10 preview 4 and update package references (#25602)
- Revert "Add windows signing for pwsh.exe" (#25586)
- Bump ossf/scorecard-action from 2.4.1 to 2.4.2 (#25628)
- Publish
.msixbundle package as a VPack (#25612)
- Bump agrc/reminder-action from 1.0.16 to 1.0.17 (#25573)
- Bump agrc/create-reminder-action from 1.1.18 to 1.1.20 (#25572)
- Bump github/codeql-action from 3.28.17 to 3.28.18 (#25580)
- Bump super-linter/super-linter from 7.3.0 to 7.4.0 (#25563)
- Bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.7.0 to 4.7.1 (#25562)
- Update metadata.json with 7.4.10 (#25554)
- Bump github/codeql-action from 3.28.16 to 3.28.17 (#25508)
- Bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.6.0 to 4.7.0 (#25529)
- Move MSIXBundle to Packages and Release to GitHub (#25512)
- Update outdated package references (#25506)
- Bump github/codeql-action from 3.28.15 to 3.28.16 (#25429)
- Fix Conditional Parameter to Skip NuGet Publish (#25468)
- Update metadata.json (#25438)
- Fix MSIX artifact upload, vPack template, changelog hashes, git tag command (#25437)
- Use new variables template for vPack (#25434)
- Bump
agrc/create-reminder-action from 1.1.17 to 1.1.18 (#25416)
- Add PSScriptAnalyzer (#25423)
- Update outdated package references (#25392)
- Use GitHubReleaseTask instead of custom script (#25398)
- Update APIScan to use new symbols server (#25388)
- Retry ClearlyDefined operations (#25385)
- Update to .NET 10.0.100-preview.3 (#25358)
- Enhance path filters action to set outputs for all changes when not a PR (#25367)
- Combine GitHub and Nuget Release Stage (#25318)
- Add Windows Store Signing to MSIX bundle (#25296)
- Bump skitionek/notify-microsoft-teams from 190d4d92146df11f854709774a4dae6eaf5e2aa3 to e7a2493ac87dad8aa7a62f079f295e54ff511d88 (#25366)
- Add CodeQL suppressions for PowerShell intended behavior (#25359)
- Migrate MacOS Signing to OneBranch (#25295)
- Bump github/codeql-action from 3.28.13 to 3.28.15 (#25290)
- Update test result processing to use NUnitXml format and enhance logging for better clarity (#25288)
- Fix R2R for fxdependent packaging (#26131)
- Remove
UseDotnet task and use the dotnet-install script (#26093)
Documentation and Help Content
- Fix a typo in the 7.4 changelog (#26038) (Thanks @VbhvGupta!)
- Add 7.4.12 Changelog (#26011)
- Add v7.5.3 Changelog (#25994)
- Fix typo in CHANGELOG for script filename suggestion (#25962)
- Update CHANGELOG for v7.5.2 (#25668)
- Update CHANGELOG for v7.4.11 (#25667)
- Update build documentation with instruction of dev terminal (#25587)
- Update links and contribution guide in documentation (#25532) (Thanks @JustinGrote!)
- Add 7.4.10 Changelog (#25520)
- Add 7.5.1 Change log (#25382)
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