v7.3.0-preview.2 Release of PowerShell

7.3.0-preview.2 - 2022-02-24

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix the clean block for generated proxy function (#16827)
• Add support to allow invoking method with generic type arguments (#12412 and #16822) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Report error when PowerShell built-in modules are missing (#16628)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Prevent command completion if the word to complete is a single dash (#16781) (Thanks @ayousuf23!)
• Use FindFirstFileW instead of FindFirstFileExW to correctly handle Unicode file names on FAT32 (#16840) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add completion for loop labels after Break/Continue (#16438) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Support OpenSSH options for PSRP over SSH commands (#12802) (Thanks @BrannenGH!)
• Adds a .ResolvedTarget Property to File-System Items to Reflect a Symlink's Target as FileSystemInfo (#16490) (Thanks @hammy3502!)
• Use NotifyEndApplication to re-enable VT mode (#16612)
• Add new parameter to Start-Sleep: [-Duration] <timespan> (#16185) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• Add lock and null check to remoting internals (#16542) (#16683) (Thanks @SergeyZalyadeev!)
• Make Measure-Object ignore missing properties unless running in strict mode (#16589) (Thanks @KiwiThePoodle!)
• Add -StrictMode to Invoke-Command to allow specifying strict mode when invoking command locally (#16545) (Thanks @Thomas-Yu!)
• Fix $PSNativeCommandArgPassing = Windows to handle empty args correctly (#16639)
• Reduce the amount of startup banner text (#16516) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• Add exec cmdlet for bash compatibility (#16462)
• Add AMSI method invocation logging as experimental feature (#16496)
• Fix web cmdlets so that an empty Get does not include a content-length header (#16587)
• Update HelpInfoUri for 7.3 release (#16646)
• Fix parsing SemanticVersion build label from version string (#16608)
• Fix ForEach-Object -Parallel when passing in script block variable (#16564)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@eltociear, @iSazonov, @xtqqczze

• Fix typo in PowerShellExecutionHelper.cs (#16776) (Thanks @eltociear!)
• Use more efficient platform detection API (#16760) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Seal ClientRemotePowerShell (#15802) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix the DSC overview URL in a markdown file and some small cleanup changes (#16629)

Tools

• Fix automation to update experimental JSON files in GitHub action (#16837)

Tests

• Update markdownlint to the latest version (#16825)
• Bump the package path-parse from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 (#16820)
• Remove assert that is incorrect and affecting our tests (#16588)

Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!

@dahlia

• Update NuGet Testing to not re-install dotnet, when not needed and dynamically determine the DOTNET_ROOT (Internal 19268, 19269, 19272, 19273, and 19274)
• Remove SkipExperimentalFeatureGeneration when building alpine (Internal 19248)
• Revert .NET 7 changes, Update to the latest .NET 6 and Update WXS file due to blocking issue in .NET 7 Preview 1
• Install and Find AzCopy
• Use Start-PSBootStrap for installing .NET during nuget packaging
• Fix pool syntax for deployments (Internal 19189)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.5.2 to 10.6.9 (#16888)
• Update projects and scripts to use .NET 7 preview 1 pre-release builds (#16856)
• Add warning messages when package precheck fails (#16867)
• Refactor Global Tool packaging to include SBOM generation (#16860)
• Update to use windows-latest as the build agent image (#16831)
• Ensure alpine and arm SKUs have powershell.config.json file with experimental features enabled (#16823)
• Update experimental feature json files (#16838) (Thanks @github-actions[bot]!)
• Remove WiX install (#16834)
• Add experimental json update automation (#16833)
• Update .NET SDK to 6.0.101 and fix Microsoft.PowerShell.GlobalTool.Shim.csproj (#16821)
• Add SBOM manifest to nuget packages (#16711)
• Improve logic for updating .NET in CI (#16808)
• Add Linux package dependencies for packaging (#16807)
• Switch to our custom images for build and release (#16801)
• Remove all references to cmake for the builds in this repo (#16578)
• Fix build for new InvokeCommand attributes (#16800)
• Let macOS installer run without Rosetta on Apple Silicon (#16742) (Thanks @dahlia!)
• Update the expect .NET SDK quality to GA for installing dotnet (#16784)
• Change nuget release yaml to use UseDotNet task (#16701)
• Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.19.0 to 2.20.0 (#16642)
• Register NuGet source when generating CGManifest (#16570)
• Update Images used for release (#16580)
• Update SBOM generation (#16641)
• Bring changes from 7.3.0-preview.1 (#16640)
• Update the vmImage and PowerShell root directory for macOS builds (#16611)
• Update macOS build image and root folder for build (#16609)
• Disabled Yarn cache in markdown.yml (#16599)
• Update cgmanifest (#16600)
• Fix broken links in markdown (#16598)

Documentation and Help Content

• Add newly joined members to their respective Working Groups (#16849)
• Update Engine Working Group members (#16780)
• Replace the broken link about pull request (#16771)
• Update change log to remove a broken URL (#16735)
• Updated README.md and metadata.json for v7.3.0-preview.1 release (#16627)
• Updating changelog for 7.2.1 (#16616)
• Updated README.md and metadata.json for 7.2.1 release (#16586)

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