7.2.md

7.2 Changelog

7.2.19 - 2024-04-11

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump to .NET 6.0.29

• Allow artifacts produced by partially successful builds to be consumed by release pipeline
• Update SDK, dependencies and cgmanifest for 7.2.19
• Revert changes to packaging.psm1
• Verify environment variable for OneBranch before we try to copy (#21441)
• Multiple fixes in official build pipeline (#21408)
• Add dotenv install as latest version does not work with current Ruby version (#21239)
• PowerShell co-ordinated build OneBranch pipeline (#21364)
• Remove surrogateFile setting of APIScan (#21238)

7.2.18 - 2024-01-11

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET to 6.0.418

• Update ThirdPartyNotices.txt for v7.2.18 (Internal 29173)
• Update 'cgmanifest.json' for v7.2.18 release (Internal 29161)
• Update .NET SDK to 6.0.418 (Internal 29141)
• Back port 3 build changes to apiscan.yml (#21036)
• Set the ollForwardOnNoCandidateFx in runtimeconfig.json to roll forward only on minor and patch versions (#20689)
• Remove the ref folder before running compliance (#20373)
• Fix the tab completion tests (#20867)

7.2.17 - 2023-11-16

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Redact Auth header content from ErrorRecord (Internal 28411)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump to .NET to version 6.0.417

• Bump to .NET 6.0.417 (Internal 28486)
• Copy azure blob with PowerShell global tool to private blob and move to CDN during release (Internal 28450)

7.2.16 - 2023-10-26

Build and Packaging Improvements

Update .NET 6 to version 6.0.416

• Fix release pipeline yaml
• Fix issues with merging backports in packaging (Internal 28158)
• Update .NET 6 and TPN (Internal 28149)
• Add runtime and packaging type info for mariner2 arm64 (#19450) (#20564)
• Add mariner arm64 to PMC release (#20176) (#20567)
• Remove HostArchitecture dynamic parameter for osxpkg (#19917) (#20565)
• Use fxdependent-win-desktop runtime for compliance runs (#20326) (#20568)
• Add SBOM for release pipeline (#20519) (#20570)
• Increase timeout when publishing packages to pacakages.microsoft.com (#20470) (#20569)
• Add mariner arm64 package build to release build (#19946) (#20566)

7.2.15 - 2023-10-10

Security Fixes

• Block getting help from network locations in restricted remoting sessions (Internal 27699)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Build infrastructure maintenance

• Release build: Change the names of the PATs (#20315)
• Switch to GitHub Action for linting markdown (#20309)
• Put the calls to Set-AzDoProjectInfo and Set-AzDoAuthToken` in the right order (#20312)

7.2.14 - 2023-09-18

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET SDK version to 6.0.414

• Update to use .NET SDK 6.0.414 (Internal 27575)
• Enable vPack provenance data (#20242)
• Start using new packages.microsoft.com CLI (#20241)
• Remove spelling CI in favor of GitHub Action (#20239)
• Make PR creation tool use --web because it is more reliable (#20238)
• Update variable used to bypass the blocking check for multiple NuGet feeds (#20237)
• Don't publish notice on failure because it prevents retry (#20236)
• Publish rpm package for rhel9 (#20234)
• Add ProductCode in registry for MSI install (#20233)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update man page to match current help for pwsh (#20240)
• Update the link for getting started in README.md (#20235)

7.2.13 - 2023-07-13

Tests

• Increase the timeout to make subsystem tests more reliable (#19937)
• Increase the timeout when waiting for the event log (#19936)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET SDK version to 6.0.412

• Update Notice file (#19956)
• Update cgmanifest (#19938)
• Bump to 6.0.412 SDK (#19933)
• Update variable used to bypass the blocking check for multiple NuGet feeds (#19935)

7.2.12 - 2023-06-27

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET version to 6.0.411

• Disable SBOM signing for CI and add extra files for packaging tests (#19729)
• Update ThirdPartyNotices (Internal 26349)
• Update the cgmanifest
• Add PoolNames variable group to compliance pipeline (#19408)
• Add tool to trigger license information gathering for NuGet modules (#18827)
• Update to .NET 6.0.410 (#19798)
• Always regenerate files wxs fragment (#19803)
• Add prompt to fix conflict during backport (#19583)
• Add backport function to release tools (#19568)
• Do not remove penimc_cor3.dll from build (#18438)
• Remove unnecessary native dependencies from the package (#18213)
• Delete symbols on Linux as well (#19735)
• Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.MarkdownRender (#19751)
• Backport compliance changes (#19719)
• Delete charset regular expression test (#19585)
• Fix issue with merge of 19068 (#19586)
• Update the team member list in releaseTools.psm1 (#19574)
• Verify that packages have license data (#19543) (#19575)
• Update experimental-feature.json (#19581)
• Fix the regular expression used for package name check in vPack build (#19573)
• Make the vPack PAT library more obvious (#19572)
• Add an explicit manual stage for changelog update (#19551) (#19567)

7.2.11 - 2023-04-12

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET version to 6.0.16

• Update ThirdPartyNotices.txt
• Update cgmanifest.json
• Fix the template that creates nuget package
• Update the wix file
• Update .NET SDK to 6.0.408
• Fix the build script and signing template
• Fix stage dependencies and typo in release build (#19353)
• Fix issues in release build and release pipeline (#19338)
• Restructure the package build to simplify signing and packaging stages (#19321)
• Skip VT100 tests on Windows Server 2012R2 as console does not support it (#19413)
• Improve package management acceptance tests by not going to the gallery (#19412)
• Test fixes for stabilizing tests (#19068)
• Add stage for symbols job in Release build (#18937)
• Use reference assemblies generated by dotnet (#19302)
• Add URL for all distributions (#19159)
• Update release pipeline to use Approvals and automate some manual tasks (#17837)

7.2.10 - 2023-02-23

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET version to 6.0.14

• Fixed package names verification to support multi-digit versions (#17220)
• Add pipeline secrets (from #17837) (Internal 24413)
• Update to azCopy 10 (#18509)
• Update third party notices for v7.2.10 (Internal 24346)
• Update cgmanifest for v7.2.10 (Internal 24333)
• Pull latest patches for 7.2.10 dependencies (Internal 24325)
• Update SDK to 6.0.406 for v7.2.10 (Internal 24324)
• Add test for framework dependent package in release pipeline (#18506) (#19114)
• Mark 7.2.x releases as latest LTS but not latest stable (#19069)

7.2.9 - 2023-01-24

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix for JEA session leaking functions (Internal 23821 & 23819)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Correct incorrect cmdlet name in script (#18919)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET version to 6.0.13

• Create test artifacts for windows arm64 (#18932)
• Update dependencies for .NET release (Internal 23816)
• Don't install based on build-ID for RPM (#18921)
• Apply expected file permissions to linux files after authenticode signing (#18922)
• Add authenticode signing for assemblies on linux builds (#18920)

7.2.8 - 2022-12-13

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Remove TabExpansion for PSv2 from remote session configuration (Internal 23294)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.403

• Update CGManifest and ThirdPartyNotices
• Update Microsoft.CSharp from 4.3.0 to 4.7.0
• Update to latest SDK (#18610)
• Allow two-digit revisions in vPack package validation pattern (#18569)
• Update outdated dependencies (#18576)
• Work around args parsing issue (#18606)
• Bump System.Data.SqlClient from 4.8.4 to 4.8.5 (#18515)

7.2.7 - 2022-10-20

Engine Updates and Fixes

• On Unix, explicitly terminate the native process during cleanup only if it's not running in background (#18280)
• Stop sending telemetry about ApplicationType (#18168)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Remove the 1-second minimum delay in Invoke-WebRequest for downloading small files, and prevent file-download-error suppression (#18170)
• Enable searching for assemblies in GAC_Arm64 on Windows (#18169)
• Fix error formatting to use color defined in $PSStyle.Formatting (#18287)

Tests

• Use Ubuntu 20.04 for SSH remoting test (#18289)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET to version 6.0.402 (#18188)(#18290)

• Update cgmanifest (#18319)
• Fix build.psm1 to find the required .NET SDK version when a higher version is installed (#17299) (#18282)
• Update MSI exit message (#18173)
• Remove XML files for min-size package (#18274)
• Update list of PS team members in release tools (#18171)
• Make the link to minimal package blob public during release (#18174)
• Add XML reference documents to NuPkg files for SDK (#18172)
• Update to use version 2.21.0 of Application Insights (#18271)

7.2.6 - 2022-08-11

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix ForEach-Object -Parallel when passing in script block variable (#16564)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Make Out-String and Out-File keep string input unchanged (#17455)
• Update regular expression used to remove ANSI escape sequences to be more specific to decoration and hyperlinks (#16811)
• Fix legacy ErrorView types to use $host.PrivateData colors (#17705)
• Fix Export-PSSession to not throw error when a rooted path is specified for -OutputModule (#17671)

Tests

• Disable RPM SBOM test. (#17532)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.8 (Internal 22065)

We thank the following contributors!

@tamasvajk

• Update Wix manifest
• Add AppX capabilities in MSIX manifest so that PS7 can call the AppX APIs (#17416)
• Use Quality only with Channel in dotnet-install (#17847)
• Fix build.psm1 to not specify both version and quality for dotnet-install (#17589) (Thanks @tamasvajk!)
• Install .NET 3.1 as it is required by the vPack task

7.2.5 - 2022-06-21

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix native library loading for osx-arm64 (#17495) (Thanks @awakecoding!)

Tests

• Make Assembly Load Native test work on a FX Dependent Linux Install (#17496)
• Enable more tests to be run in a container. (#17294)
• Switch to using GitHub action to verify Markdown links for PRs (#17281)
• Try to stabilize a few tests that fail intermittently (#17426)
• TLS test fix back-port (#17424)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.301 (Internal 21218)

• Update Wix file (Internal 21242)
• Conditionally add output argument
• Rename mariner package to cm (#17506)
• Backport test fixes for 7.2 (#17494)
• Update dotnet-runtime version (#17472)
• Update to use windows-latest as the build agent image (#17418)
• Publish preview versions of mariner to preview repository (#17464)
• Move cgmanifest generation to daily (#17258)
• Fix mariner mappings (#17413)
• Make sure we execute tests on LTS package for older LTS releases (#17430)
• Add a finalize template which causes jobs with issues to fail (#17428)
• Make mariner packages Framework dependent (#17425)
• Base work for adding mariner amd64 package (#17417)

7.2.4 - 2022-05-13

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.203

• Add mapping for Ubuntu22.04 Jammy (#17317)
• Update to use mcr.microsoft.com (#17272)
• Update third party notices
• Update global.json and wix
• Put Secure supply chain analysis at correct place (#17273)
• Fix web cmdlets so that an empty Get does not include a content-length header (#16587)
• Update package fallback list for Ubuntu (from those updated for Ubuntu 22.04) (deb) (#17217)
• Add sha256 digests to RPM packages (#17215)
• Allow multiple installations of dotnet. (#17216)

7.2.3 - 2022-04-26

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix for partial PowerShell module search paths, that can be resolved to CWD locations (Internal 20126)
• Do not include node names when sending telemetry. (#16981) to v7.2.3 (Internal 20188)

Tests

• Re-enable PowerShellGet tests targeting PowerShell gallery (#17062)
• Skip failing scriptblock tests (#17093)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.202

• Making NameObscurerTelemetryInitializer internal - v7.2.3 (Internal 20239)
• Updated files.wxs for 7.2.3 (Internal 20211)
• Updated ThirdPartyNotices for 7.2.3 (Internal 20199)
• Work around issue with notice generation
• Replace . in notices container name
• Updated cgmanifest.json by findMissingNotices.ps1 in v7.2.3 (Internal 20190)
• v7.2.3 - Updated packages using dotnet-outdated global tool (Internal 20170)
• Updated to .NET 6.0.4 / SDK 6.0.202 (Internal 20128)
• Update dotnet-install script download link (Internal 19951)
• Create checksum file for global tools (#17056) (Internal 19935)
• Make sure global tool packages are published in stable build (Internal 19625)
• Fix release pipeline (Internal 19617)

7.2.2 - 2022-03-16

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.201

• Update WiX file (Internal 19460)
• Update .NET SDK version to 6.0.201 (Internal 19457)
• Update experimental feature JSON files (#16838)
• Ensure Alpine and ARM SKUs have powershell.config.json file with experimental features enabled (#16823)
• Update the vmImage and PowerShell root directory for macOS builds (#16611)
• Update macOS build image and root folder for build (#16609)
• Remove WiX install (#16834)
• Opt-in to build security monitoring (#16911)
• Add SBOM manifest for release packages (#16641, #16711)
• Add Linux package dependencies for packaging (#16807)
• Switch to our custom images for build and release (#16801, #16580)
• Remove all references to cmake for the builds in this repository (#16578)
• Register NuGet source when generating CGManifest (#16570)

7.2.1 - 2021-12-14

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Remove declaration of experimental features in Utility module manifest as they are stable (#16460)
• Bring back pwsh.exe for framework dependent packages to support Start-Job (#16535)
• Change default for $PSStyle.OutputRendering to Ansi (Internal 18394)
• Update HelpInfoUri for 7.2 release (#16456)
• Fix typo for "privacy" in MSI installer (#16407)

Tests

• Set clean state before testing UseMU in the MSI (#16543)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Add explicit job name for approval tasks in Snap stage (#16579)
• Fixing the build by removing duplicate TSAUpload entries (Internal 18399)
• Port CGManifest fixes (Internal 18402)
• Update CGManifest (Internal 18403)
• Updated package dependencies for 7.2.1 (Internal 18388)
• Use different containers for different branches (#16434)
• Use notice task to generate license assuming CGManifest contains all components (#16340)
• Create compliance build (#16286)
• Update release instructions with link to new build (#16419)
• Add diagnostics used to take corrective action when releasing buildInfoJson (#16404)
• vPack release should use buildInfoJson new to 7.2 (#16402)
• Add checkout to build json stage to get ci.psm1 (#16399)
• Update the usage of metadata.json for getting LTS information (#16381)
• Move mapping file into product repository and add Debian 11 (#16316)

7.2.0 - 2021-11-08

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Handle exception when trying to resolve a possible link path (#16310)

Tests

• Fix global tool and SDK tests in release pipeline (#16342)

Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!

@kondratyev-nv

• Add an approval for releasing build-info json (#16351)
• Release build info json when it is preview (#16335)
• Update metadata.json for v7.2.0 release
• Update to the latest notices file and update cgmanifest.json (#16339)(#16325)
• Fix issues in release build by updating usage of powershell.exe with pwsh.exe (#16332)
• Update feed and analyzer dependency (#16327)
• Update to .NET 6 GA build 6.0.100-rtm.21527.11 (#16309)
• Add a major-minor build info JSON file (#16301)
• Fix Windows build ZIP packaging (#16299) (Thanks @kondratyev-nv!)
• Clean up crossgen related build scripts also generate native symbols for R2R images (#16297)
• Fix issues reported by code signing verification tool (#16291)

7.2.0-rc.1 - 2021-10-21

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Disallow COM calls for AppLocker system lockdown (#16268)
• Configure Microsoft.ApplicationInsights to not send cloud role name (#16246)
• Disallow Add-Type in NoLanguage mode on a locked down machine (#16245)
• Make property names for color VT100 sequences consistent with documentation (#16212)
• Make moving a directory into itself with Move-Item an error (#16198)
• Change FileSystemInfo.Target from a CodeProperty to an AliasProperty that points to FileSystemInfo.LinkTarget (#16165)

Tests

• Removed deprecated docker-based tests for PowerShell release packages (#16224)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.100-rc.2

• Update .NET 6 to version 6.0.100-rc.2.21505.57 (#16249)
• Fix RPM packaging (Internal 17704)
• Update ThirdPartyNotices.txt (#16283)
• Update pipeline yaml file to use ubuntu-latest image (#16279)
• Add script to generate cgmanifest.json (#16278)
• Update version of Microsoft.PowerShell.Native and Microsoft.PowerShell.MarkdownRender packages (#16277)
• Add cgmanifest.json for generating correct third party notice file (#16266)
• Only upload stable buildinfo for stable releases (#16251)
• Don't upload .dep or .tar.gz for RPM because there are none (#16230)
• Ensure RPM license is recognized (#16189)
• Add condition to only generate release files in local dev build only (#16259)
• Ensure psoptions.json and manifest.spdx.json files always exist in packages (#16258)
• Fix CI script and split out ARM runs (#16252)
• Update vPack task version to 12 (#16250)
• Sign third party executables (#16229)
• Add Software Bill of Materials to the main packages (#16202)
• Upgrade set-value package for Markdown test (#16196)
• Fix Microsoft update spelling issue (#16178)
• Move vPack build to 1ES Pool (#16169)

7.2.0-preview.10 - 2021-09-28

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Remove duplicate remote server mediator code (#16027)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Use PlainText when writing to a host that doesn't support VT (#16092)
• Remove support for AppExecLinks to retrieve target (#16044)
• Move GetOuputString() and GetFormatStyleString() to PSHostUserInterface as public API (#16075)
• Add isOutputRedirected parameter to GetFormatStyleString() method (#14397)
• Fix ConvertTo-SecureString with key regression due to .NET breaking change (#16068)
• Fix regression in Move-Item to only fallback to CopyAndDelete in specific cases (#16029)
• Set $? correctly for command expression with redirection (#16046)
• Use CurrentCulture when handling conversions to DateTime in Add-History (#16005) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Fix NullReferenceException in Format-Wide (#15990) (Thanks @DarylGraves!)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@xtqqczze!

• Improve CommandInvocationIntrinsics API documentation and style (#14369)
• Use bool?.GetValueOrDefault() in FormatWideCommand (#15988) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Tools

• Fix typo in build.psm1 (#16038) (Thanks @eltociear!)
• Add .stylecop to filetypexml and format it (#16025)
• Enable sending Teams notification when workflow fails (#15982)

Tests

• Enable two previously disabled Get-Process tests (#15845) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Details

• Add SHA256 hashes to release (#16147)
• Update Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp version (#16138)
• Change path for Component Governance for build to the path we actually use to build (#16137)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#16070) (#16045) (#16036) (#16021) (#15985)
• Update .NET to 6.0.100-rc.1.21458.32 (#16066)
• Update minimum required OS version for macOS (#16088)
• Ensure locale is set correctly on Ubuntu 20.04 in CI (#16067) (#16073)
• Update .NET SDK version from 6.0.100-preview.6.21355.2 to 6.0.100-rc.1.21455.2 (#16041) (#16028) (#15648)
• Fix the GitHub Action for updating .NET daily builds (#16042)
• Move from PkgES hosted agents to 1ES hosted agents (#16023)
• Update Ubuntu images to use Ubuntu 20.04 (#15906)
• Fix the macOS build by updating the pool image name (#16010)
• Use Alpine 3.12 for building PowerShell for Alpine Linux (#16008)
• Ignore error from Find-Package (#15999)
• Find packages separately for each source in UpdateDotnetRuntime.ps1 script (#15998)
• Update metadata to start using .NET 6 RC1 builds (#15981)

7.2.0-preview.9 - 2021-08-23

Breaking Changes

• Change the default value of $PSStyle.OutputRendering to OutputRendering.Host and remove OutputRendering.Automatic (#15882)
• Fix CA1052 for public API to make classes static when they only have static methods (#15775) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Update pwsh.exe -File to only accept .ps1 script files on Windows (#15859)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Update .NET adapter to handle interface static members properly (#15908)
• Catch and handle unauthorized access exception when removing AppLocker test files (#15881)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Add -PassThru parameter to Set-Clipboard (#13713) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!)
• Add -Encoding parameter for Tee-Object (#12135) (Thanks @Peter-Schneider!)
• Update ConvertTo-Csv and Export-Csv to handle IDictionary objects (#11029) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Update the parameters -Exception and -ErrorRecord for Write-Error to be position 0 (#13813) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!)
• Don't use ArgumentList when creating COM object with New-Object as it's not applicable to the COM parameter set (#15915)
• Fix $PSStyle list output to correctly show TableHeader (#15928)
• Remove the PSImplicitRemotingBatching experimental feature (#15863)
• Fix issue with Get-Process -Module failing to stop when it's piped to Select-Object (#15682) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
• Make the experimental features PSUnixFileStat, PSCultureInvariantReplaceOperator, PSNotApplyErrorActionToStderr, PSAnsiRendering, PSAnsiProgressFeatureName stable (#15864)
• Enhance Remove-Item to work with OneDrive (#15571) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Make global tool entrypoint class static (#15880)
• Update ServerRemoteHost version to be same as PSVersion (#15809)
• Make the initialization of HttpKnownHeaderNames thread safe (#15519) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• ConvertTo-Csv: Quote fields with quotes and newlines when using -UseQuotes AsNeeded (#15765) (Thanks @lselden!)
• Forwarding progress stream changes from Foreach-Object -Parallel runspaces (#14271) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Add validation to $PSStyle to reject printable text when setting a property that only expects ANSI escape sequence (#15825)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@xtqqczze

• Avoid unneeded array allocation in module code (#14329) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable and fix analysis rules CA1052, CA1067, and IDE0049 (#15840) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Avoid unnecessary allocation in formatting code (#15832) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Specify the analyzed API surface for all code quality rules (#15778) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Tools

• Enable /rebase to automatically rebase a PR (#15808)
• Update .editorconfig to not replace tabs with spaces in .tsv files (#15815) (Thanks @SethFalco!)
• Update PowerShell team members in the changelog generation script (#15817)

Tests

• Add more tests to validate the current command error handling behaviors (#15919)
• Make Measure-Object property test independent of the file system (#15879)
• Add more information when a syslog parsing error occurs (#15857)
• Harden logic when looking for syslog entries to be sure that we select based on the process ID (#15841)

Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!

@xtqqczze

• Disable implicit namespace imports for test projects (#15895)
• Update language version to 10 and fix related issues (#15886)
• Update CodeQL workflow to use Ubuntu 18.04 (#15868)
• Bump the version of various packages (#15944, #15934, #15935, #15891, #15812, #15822) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update README and metadata files for release v7.2.0-preview.8 (#15819)
• Update changelogs for 7.0.7 and 7.1.4 (#15921)
• Fix spelling in XML docs (#15939) (Thanks @slowy07!)
• Update PowerShell Committee members (#15837)

7.2.0-preview.8 - 2021-07-22

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Add a Windows mode to $PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing that allows some commands to use legacy argument passing (#15408)
• Use nameof to get parameter names when creating ArgumentNullException (#15604) (Thanks @gukoff!)
• Test if a command is 'Out-Default' more thoroughly for transcribing scenarios (#15653)
• Add Microsoft.PowerShell.Crescendo to telemetry allow list (#15372)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Use $PSStyle.Formatting.FormatAccent for Format-List and $PSStyle.Formatting.TableHeader for Format-Table output (#14406)
• Highlight using error color the exception Message and underline in PositionMessage for Get-Error (#15786)
• Implement a completion for View parameter of format cmdlets (#14513) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add support to colorize FileInfo filenames (#14403)
• Don't serialize to JSON ETS properties for DateTime and string types (#15665)
• Fix HyperVSocketEndPoint.ServiceId setter (#15704) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Add DetailedView to $ErrorView (#15609)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@iSazonov, @xtqqczze

• Remove consolehost.proto file (#15741) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Implement IDisposable for ConvertToJsonCommand (#15787) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDisposable implementation for CommandPathSearch (#15793) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Delete IDE dispose analyzer rules (#15798) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Seal private classes (#15725) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0029: UseCoalesceExpression (#15770) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0070: UseSystemHashCode (#15715) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0030: UseCoalesceExpressionForNullable (#14289) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA1846 and CA1845 for using AsSpan instead of Substring (#15738)
• Use List<T>.RemoveAll to avoid creating temporary list (#15686) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0044: MakeFieldReadonly (#13880) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Disable IDE0130 (#15728) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Make classes sealed (#15675) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1043: Use integral or string argument for indexers (#14467) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1812 (#15674) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Replace Single with First when we know the element count is 1 (#15676) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Skip analyzers for Microsoft.Management.UI.Internal (#15677) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA2243: Attribute string literals should parse correctly (#15622) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1401 (#15621) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA1309: Use ordinal StringComparison in Certificate Provider (#14352) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA1839: Use Environment.ProcessPath (#15650) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Add new analyzer rules (#15620) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Tools

• Add SkipRoslynAnalyzers parameter to Start-PSBuild (#15640) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Create issue template for issues updating PowerShell through Windows update. (#15700)
• Add DocumentationAnalyzers to build (#14336) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Convert GitHub issue templates to modern forms (#15645)

Tests

• Add more tests for ConvertFrom-Json (#15706) (Thanks @strawgate!)
• Update glob-parent and hosted-git-info test dependencies (#15643)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Update .NET to version v6.0.0-preview.6

• Add new package name for osx-arm64 (#15813)
• Prefer version when available for dotnet-install (#15810)
• Make warning about MU being required dynamic (#15776)
• Add Start-PSBootstrap before running tests (#15804)
• Update to .NET 6 Preview 6 and use crossgen2 (#15763)
• Enable ARM64 packaging for macOS (#15768)
• Make Microsoft Update opt-out/in check boxes work (#15784)
• Add Microsoft Update opt out to MSI install (#15727)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.4.4 to 10.4.5 (#15769)
• Fix computation of SHA512 checksum (#15736)
• Update the script to use quality parameter for dotnet-install (#15731)
• Generate SHA512 checksum file for all packages (#15678)
• Enable signing daily release build with lifetime certificate (#15642)
• Update metadata and README for 7.2.0-preview.7 (#15593)

Documentation and Help Content

• Fix broken RFC links (#15807)
• Add to bug report template getting details from Get-Error (#15737)
• Update issue templates to link to new docs (#15711)
• Add @jborean93 to Remoting Working Group (#15683)

7.2.0-preview.7 - 2021-06-17

Breaking Changes

• Remove PSDesiredStateConfiguration v2.0.5 module and published it to the PowerShell Gallery (#15536)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix splatting being treated as positional parameter in completions (#14623) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Prevent PowerShell from crashing when a telemetry mutex can't be created (#15574) (Thanks @gukoff!)
• Ignore all exceptions when disposing an instance of a subsystem implementation (#15511)
• Wait for SSH exit when closing remote connection (#14635) (Thanks @dinhngtu!)

Performance

• Retrieve ProductVersion using informational version attribute in AmsiUtils.Init() (#15527) (Thanks @Fs00!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Fix retrieving dynamic parameters from provider even if globbed path returns no results (#15525)
• Revert "Enhance Remove-Item to work with OneDrive (#15260)" due to long path issue (#15546)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@octos4murai, @iSazonov, @Fs00

• Correct parameter name passed to exception in PSCommand constructor (#15580) (Thanks @octos4murai!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.ICommandRuntime (#15566) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Clean up code regarding AppDomain.CreateDomain and AppDomain.Unload (#15554)
• Replace ProcessModule.FileName with Environment.ProcessPath and remove PSUtils.GetMainModule (#15012) (Thanks @Fs00!)

Tests

• Fix Start-Benchmarking to put TargetPSVersion and TargetFramework in separate parameter sets (#15508)
• Add win-x86 test package to the build (#15517)

Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!

@schuelermine

• Update README.md and metadata.json for version 7.2.0-preview.6 (#15464)
• Make sure GA revision increases from RC and Preview releases (#15558)
• Remove SupportsShouldProcess from Start-PSBootstrap in build.psm1 (#15491) (Thanks @schuelermine!)
• Update DotnetMetadataRuntime.json next channel to take daily build from .NET preview 5 (#15518)
• Fix deps.json update in the release pipeline (#15486)

Documentation and Help Content

• Add new members to Engine and Cmdlet Working Groups document (#15560)
• Update the mdspell command to exclude the folder that should be ignored (#15576)
• Replace 'User Voice' with 'Feedback Hub' in README.md (#15557)
• Update Virtual User Group chat links (#15505) (Thanks @Jaykul!)
• Fix typo in FileSystemProvider.cs (#15445) (Thanks @eltociear!)
• Add PipelineStoppedException notes to PowerShell API (#15324)
• Updated governance on Working Groups (WGs) (#14603)
• Correct and improve XML documentation comments on PSCommand (#15568) (Thanks @octos4murai!)

7.2.0-preview.6 - 2021-05-27

Experimental Features

• [Breaking Change] Update prediction interface to provide additional feedback to a predictor plugin (#15421)

Performance

• Avoid collecting logs in buffer if a pipeline execution event is not going to be logged (#15350)
• Avoid allocation in LanguagePrimitives.UpdateTypeConvertFromTypeTable (#15168) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Replace Directory.GetDirectories with Directory.EnumerateDirectories to avoid array allocations (#15167) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Use List.ConvertAll instead of LINQ (#15140) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Use AllocConsole before initializing CLR to ensure codepage is correct for WinRM remoting (PowerShell/PowerShell-Native#70) (Thanks @jborean93!)
• Add completions for #requires statements (#14596) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Add completions for comment-based help keywords (#15337) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Move cross platform DSC code to a PowerShell engine subsystem (#15127)
• Fix Minimal progress view to handle activity that is longer than console width (#15264)
• Handle exception if ConsoleHost tries to set cursor out of bounds because screen buffer changed (#15380)
• Fix NullReferenceException in DSC ClearCache() (#15373)
• Update ControlSequenceLength to handle colon as a virtual terminal parameter separator (#14942)
• Update the summary comment for StopTranscriptCmdlet.cs (#15349) (Thanks @dbaileyut!)
• Remove the unusable alias d for the -Directory parameter from Get-ChildItem (#15171) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Fix tab completion for un-localized about topics (#15265) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Remove the unneeded SSH stdio handle workaround (#15308)
• Add LoadAssemblyFromNativeMemory API to load assemblies from memory in a native PowerShell host (#14652) (Thanks @awakecoding!)
• Re-implement Remove-Item OneDrive support (#15260) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Kill native processes in pipeline when pipeline is disposed on Unix (#15287)
• Default to MTA on Windows platforms where STA is not supported (#15106)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@xtqqczze, @powercode, @bcwood

• Enable nullable in some classes (#14185, #14177, #14159, #14191, #14162, #14150, #14156, #14161, #14155, #14163, #14181, #14157, #14151) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Annotate ThrowTerminatingError with DoesNotReturn attribute (#15352) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Use GetValueOrDefault() for nullable PSLanguageMode (#13849) (Thanks @bcwood!)
• Enable SA1008: Opening parenthesis should be spaced correctly (#14242) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Tools

• Add winget release script (#15050)

Tests

• Enable cross-runtime benchmarking to compare different .NET runtimes (#15387) (Thanks @adamsitnik!)
• Add the performance benchmark project for PowerShell performance testing (#15242)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Update .NET to version v6.0.0-preview.4

• Suppress prompting when uploading the msixbundle package to blob (#15227)
• Update to .NET preview 4 SDK (#15452)
• Update AppxManifest.xml with newer OS version to allow PowerShell installed from Windows Store to make system-level changes (#15375)
• Ensure the build works when PSDesiredStateConfiguration module is pulled in from PSGallery (#15355)
• Make sure daily release tag does not change when retrying failures (#15286)
• Improve messages and behavior when there's a problem in finding zip files (#15284)

Documentation and Help Content

• Add documentation comments section to coding guidelines (#14316) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

7.2.0-preview.5 - 2021-04-14

Breaking Changes

• Make PowerShell Linux deb and RPM packages universal (#15109)
• Enforce AppLocker Deny configuration before Execution Policy Bypass configuration (#15035)
• Disallow mixed dash and slash in command-line parameter prefix (#15142) (Thanks @davidBar-On!)

Experimental Features

• PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing: Use ArgumentList for native executable invocation (breaking change) (#14692)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Add IArgumentCompleterFactory for parameterized ArgumentCompleters (#12605) (Thanks @powercode!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Fix SSH remoting connection never finishing with misconfigured endpoint (#15175)
• Respect TERM and NO_COLOR environment variables for $PSStyle rendering (#14969)
• Use ProgressView.Classic when Virtual Terminal is not supported (#15048)
• Fix Get-Counter issue with -Computer parameter (#15166) (Thanks @krishnayalavarthi!)
• Fix redundant iteration while splitting lines (#14851) (Thanks @hez2010!)
• Enhance Remove-Item -Recurse to work with OneDrive (#14902) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Change minimum depth to 0 for ConvertTo-Json (#14830) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Allow Set-Clipboard to accept empty string (#14579)
• Turn on and off DECCKM to modify keyboard mode for Unix native commands to work correctly (#14943)
• Fall back to CopyAndDelete() when MoveTo() fails due to an IOException (#15077)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@xtqqczze, @iSazonov, @ZhiZe-ZG

• Update .NET to 6.0.0-preview.3 (#15221)
• Add space before comma to hosting test to fix error reported by SA1001 (#15224)
• Add SecureStringHelper.FromPlainTextString helper method for efficient secure string creation (#14124) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Use static lambda keyword (#15154) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove unnecessary Array -> List -> Array conversion in ProcessBaseCommand.AllProcesses (#15052) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Standardize grammar comments in Parser.cs (#15114) (Thanks @ZhiZe-ZG!)
• Enable SA1001: Commas should be spaced correctly (#14171) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Refactor MultipleServiceCommandBase.AllServices (#15053) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Tools

• Use Unix line endings for shell scripts (#15180) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Tests

• Add the missing tag in Host Utilities tests (#14983)
• Update copy-props version in package.json (#15124)

Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!

@JustinGrote

• Fix yarn-lock for copy-props (#15225)
• Make package validation regular expression accept universal Linux packages (#15226)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.4.0 to 10.4.1 (#15190)
• Make MSI and EXE signing always copy to fix daily build (#15191)
• Sign internals of EXE package so that it works correctly when signed (#15132)
• Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 16.9.1 to 16.9.4 (#15141)
• Update daily release tag format to work with new Microsoft Update work (#15164)
• Feature: Add Ubuntu 20.04 Support to install-powershell.sh (#15095) (Thanks @JustinGrote!)
• Treat rebuild branches like release branches (#15099)
• Update WiX to 3.11.2 (#15097)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.11 to 10.4.0 (#15092)
• Allow patching of preview releases (#15074)
• Bump Newtonsoft.Json from 12.0.3 to 13.0.1 (#15084, #15085)
• Update the minSize build package filter to be explicit (#15055)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.10 to 10.3.11 (#14965)

Documentation and Help Content

• Merge 7.2.0-preview.4 changes to master (#15056)
• Update README and metadata.json (#15046)
• Fix broken links for dotnet CLI (#14937)

7.2.0-preview.4 - 2021-03-16

Breaking Changes

• Fix Get-Date -UFormat %G and %g behavior (#14555) (Thanks @brianary!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Update engine script signature validation to match Get-AuthenticodeSignature logic (#14849)
• Avoid array allocations from GetDirectories and GetFiles (#14327) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Add UseOSCIndicator setting to enable progress indicator in terminal (#14927)
• Re-enable VT mode on Windows after running command in ConsoleHost (#14413)
• Fix Move-Item for FileSystemProvider to use copy-delete instead of move for DFS paths (#14913)
• Fix PromptForCredential() to add targetName as domain (#14504)
• Update Concise ErrorView to not show line information for errors from script module functions (#14912)
• Remove the 32,767 character limit on the environment block for Start-Process (#14111) (Thanks @hbuckle!)
• Don't write possible secrets to verbose stream for web cmdlets (#14788)

Tools

• Update dependabot configuration to V2 format (#14882)
• Add tooling issue slots in PR template (#14697)

Tests

• Move misplaced test file to tests directory (#14908) (Thanks @MarianoAlipi!)
• Refactor MSI CI (#14753)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Update .NET to version 6.0.100-preview.2.21155.3

• Update .NET to version 6.0.100-preview.2.21155.3 (#15007)
• Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Native to 7.2.0-preview.1 (#15030)
• Create MSIX Bundle package in release pipeline (#14982)
• Build self-contained minimal size package for Guest Config team (#14976)
• Bump XunitXml.TestLogger from 3.0.62 to 3.0.66 (#14993) (Thanks @dependabot[bot]!)
• Enable building PowerShell for Apple M1 runtime (#14923)
• Fix the variable name in the condition for miscellaneous analysis CI (#14975)
• Fix the variable usage in CI yaml (#14974)
• Disable running Markdown link verification in release build CI (#14971)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 3.9.0-3.final to 3.9.0 (#14934) (Thanks @dependabot[bot]!)
• Declare which variable group is used for checking the blob in the release build (#14970)
• Update metadata and script to enable consuming .NET daily builds (#14940)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.9 to 10.3.10 (#14933) (Thanks @dependabot[bot]!)
• Use template that disables component governance for CI (#14938)
• Add suppress for nuget multi-feed warning (#14893)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.8 to 10.3.9 (#14926) (Thanks @dependabot[bot]!)
• Add exe wrapper to release (#14881)
• Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.16.0 to 2.17.0 (#14847)
• Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 16.8.3 to 16.9.1 (#14895) (Thanks @dependabot[bot]!)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.7 to 10.3.8 (#14896) (Thanks @dependabot[bot]!)
• Disable codesign validation where the file type is not supported (#14885)
• Fixing broken Experimental Feature list in powershell.config.json (#14858)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.6 to 10.3.7 (#14855)
• Add exe wrapper for Microsoft Update scenarios (#14737)
• Install wget on CentOS 7 docker image (#14857)
• Fix install-dotnet download (#14856)
• Fix Bootstrap step in Windows daily test runs (#14820)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.5 to 10.3.6 (#14818)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.3.4 to 10.3.5 (#14807)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update README.md and metadata.json for upcoming releases (#14755)
• Merge 7.1.3 and 7.0.6 changelog to master (#15009)
• Update README and metadata.json for releases (#14997)
• Update ChangeLog for v7.1.2 release (#14783)
• Update ChangeLog for v7.0.5 release (#14782) (Internal 14479)

7.2.0-preview.3 - 2021-02-11

Breaking Changes

• Fix Get-Date -UFormat %u behavior to comply with ISO 8601 (#14549) (Thanks @brianary!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Together with PSDesiredStateConfiguration v3 module allows Get-DscResource, Invoke-DscResource and DSC configuration compilation on all platforms, supported by PowerShell (using class-based DSC resources).

Performance

• Avoid array allocations from Directory.GetDirectories and Directory.GetFiles. (#14326) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Avoid string.ToLowerInvariant() from GetEnvironmentVariableAsBool() to avoid loading libicu at startup (#14323) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Get PowerShell version in PSVersionInfo using assembly attribute instead of FileVersionInfo (#14332) (Thanks @Fs00!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Suppress Write-Progress in ConsoleHost if output is redirected and fix tests (#14716)
• Experimental feature PSAnsiProgress: Add minimal progress bar using ANSI rendering (#14414)
• Fix web cmdlets to properly construct URI from body when using -NoProxy (#14673)
• Update the ICommandPredictor to provide more feedback and also make feedback easier to be correlated (#14649)
• Reset color after writing Verbose, Debug, and Warning messages (#14698)
• Fix using variable for nested ForEach-Object -Parallel calls (#14548)
• When formatting, if collection is modified, don't fail the entire pipeline (#14438)
• Improve completion of parameters for attributes (#14525) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Write proper error messages for Get-Command ' ' (#13564) (Thanks @jakekerr!)
• Fix typo in the resource string ProxyURINotSupplied (#14526) (Thanks @romero126!)
• Add support to $PSStyle for strikethrough and hyperlinks (#14461)
• Fix $PSStyle blink codes (#14447) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@xtqqczze, @powercode

• Fix coding style issues: RCS1215, IDE0090, SA1504, SA1119, RCS1139, IDE0032 (#14356, #14341, #14241, #14204, #14442, #14443) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable coding style checks: CA2249, CA1052, IDE0076, IDE0077, SA1205, SA1003, SA1314, SA1216, SA1217, SA1213 (#14395, #14483, #14494, #14495, #14441, #14476, #14470, #14471, #14472) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable nullable in PowerShell codebase (#14160, #14172, #14088, #14154, #14166, #14184, #14178) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Use string.Split(char) instead of string.Split(string) (#14465) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Use string.Contains(char) overload (#14368) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Refactor complex if statements (#14398) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Tools

• Update script to use .NET 6 build resources (#14705)
• Fix the daily GitHub action (#14711) (Thanks @imba-tjd!)
• GitHub Actions: fix deprecated ::set-env (#14629) (Thanks @imba-tjd!)
• Update Markdown test tools (#14325) (Thanks @RDIL!)
• Upgrade StyleCopAnalyzers to v1.2.0-beta.312 (#14354) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Tests

• Remove packaging from daily Windows build (#14749)
• Update link to the Manning book (#14750)
• A separate Windows packaging CI (#14670)
• Update ini component version in test package.json (#14454)
• Disable libmi dependent tests for macOS. (#14446)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Fix the NuGet feed name and URL for .NET 6
• Fix third party signing for files in sub-folders (#14751)
• Make build script variable an ArrayList to enable Add() method (#14748)
• Remove old .NET SDKs to make dotnet restore work with the latest SDK in CI pipeline (#14746)
• Remove outdated Linux dependencies (#14688)
• Bump .NET SDK version to 6.0.0-preview.1 (#14719)
• Bump NJsonSchema to 10.3.4 (#14714)
• Update daily GitHub action to allow manual trigger (#14718)
• Bump XunitXml.TestLogger to 3.0.62 (#14702)
• Make universal deb package based on the deb package specification (#14681)
• Add manual release automation steps and improve changelog script (#14445)
• Fix release build to upload global tool packages to artifacts (#14620)
• Port changes from the PowerShell v7.0.4 release (#14637)
• Port changes from the PowerShell v7.1.1 release (#14621)
• Updated README and metadata.json (#14401, #14606, #14612)
• Do not push nupkg artifacts to MyGet (#14613)
• Use one feed in each nuget.config in official builds (#14363)
• Fix path signed RPMs are uploaded from in release build (#14424)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update distribution support request template to point to .NET 5.0 support document (#14578)
• Remove security GitHub issue template (#14453)
• Add intent for using the Discussions feature in repository (#14399)
• Fix Universal Dashboard to refer to PowerShell Universal (#14437)
• Update document link because of HTTP 301 redirect (#14431) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

7.2.0-preview.2 - 2020-12-15

Breaking Changes

• Improve detection of mutable value types (#12495) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Ensure -PipelineVariable is set for all output from script cmdlets (#12766) (Thanks @vexx32!)

Experimental Features

• PSAnsiRendering: Enable ANSI formatting via $PSStyle and support suppressing ANSI output (#13758)

Performance

• Optimize IEnumerable variant of replace operator (#14221) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Refactor multiply operation for better performance in two Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility methods (#14148) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Use Environment.TickCount64 instead of Datetime.Now as the random seed for AppLocker test file content (#14283) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Avoid unnecessary array allocations when searching in GAC (#14291) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Use OrdinalIgnoreCase in CommandLineParser (#14303) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Use StringComparison.Ordinal instead of StringComparison.CurrentCulture (#14298) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Avoid creating instances of the generated delegate helper class in -replace implementation (#14128)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Write better error message if config file is broken (#13496) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Make AppLocker Enforce mode take precedence over UMCI Audit mode (#14353)
• Add -SkipLimitCheck switch to Import-PowerShellDataFile (#13672)
• Restrict New-Object in NoLanguage mode under lock down (#14140) (Thanks @krishnayalavarthi!)
• The -Stream parameter now works with directories (#13941) (Thanks @kyanha!)
• Avoid an exception if file system does not support reparse points (#13634) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Enable CA1012: Abstract types should not have public constructors (#13940) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable SA1212: Property accessors should follow order (#14051) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@xtqqczze, @matthewjdegarmo, @powercode, @Gimly

• Enable SA1007: Operator keyword should be followed by space (#14130) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Expand where alias to Where-Object in Reset-PWSHSystemPath.ps1 (#14113) (Thanks @matthewjdegarmo!)
• Fix whitespace issues (#14092) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Add StyleCop.Analyzers package (#13963) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0041: UseIsNullCheck (#14041) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0082: ConvertTypeOfToNameOf (#14042) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Remove unnecessary usings part 4 (#14023) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix PriorityAttribute name (#14094) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.IBoxableInstruction (#14165) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.Provider.IDynamicPropertyProvider (#14167) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.Language.IScriptExtent (#14179) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.Language.ICustomAstVisitor2 (#14192) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.LanguagePrimitives.IConversionData (#14187) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable nullable: System.Automation.Remoting.Client.IWSManNativeApiFacade (#14186) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.Language.ISupportsAssignment (#14180) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.ICommandRuntime2 (#14183) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.IOutputProcessingState (#14175) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.IJobDebugger (#14174) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.IInstructionProvider (#14173) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.IHasSessionStateEntryVisibility (#14169) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.Tracing.IEtwEventCorrelator (#14168) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Fix syntax error in Windows packaging script (#14377)
• Remove redundant local assignment in AclCommands (#14358) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.Language.IAstPostVisitHandler (#14164) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.IModuleAssemblyInitializer (#14158) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Use Microsoft.PowerShell.MarkdownRender package from nuget.org (#14090)
• Replace GetFiles in TestModuleManifestCommand (#14317) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.Provider.IContentWriter (#14152) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Simplify getting Encoding in TranscriptionOption.FlushContentToDisk (#13910) (Thanks @Gimly!)
• Mark applicable structs as readonly and use in-modifier (#13919) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.IArgumentCompleter (#14182) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable CA1822: Mark private members as static (#13897) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDE0090: Simplify new expression part 6 (#14338) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Avoid array allocations from GetDirectories/GetFiles. (#14328) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Avoid array allocations from GetDirectories/GetFiles. (#14330) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix RCS1188: Remove redundant auto-property initialization part 2 (#14262) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.Host.IHostSupportsInteractiveSession (#14170) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Enable nullable: System.Management.Automation.Provider.IPropertyCmdletProvider (#14176) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Fix IDE0090: Simplify new expression part 5 (#14301) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0075: SimplifyConditionalExpression (#14078) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Remove unnecessary usings part 9 (#14288) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix StyleCop and MarkdownLint CI failures (#14297) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable SA1000: Keywords should be spaced correctly (#13973) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix RCS1188: Remove redundant auto-property initialization part 1 (#14261) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Mark private members as static part 10 (#14235) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Mark private members as static part 9 (#14234) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix SA1642 for Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimCmdlets (#14239) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Use AsSpan/AsMemory slice constructor (#14265) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDE0090: Simplify new expression part 4.6 (#14260) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDE0090: Simplify new expression part 4.5 (#14259) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDE0090: Simplify new expression part 4.3 (#14257) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDE0090: Simplify new expression part 4.2 (#14256) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDE0090: Simplify new expression part 2 (#14200) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable SA1643: Destructor summary documentation should begin with standard text (#14236) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDE0090: Simplify new expression part 4.4 (#14258) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Use xml documentation child blocks correctly (#14249) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDE0090: Simplify new expression part 4.1 (#14255) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Use consistent spacing in xml documentation tags (#14231) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0074: Use coalesce compound assignment (#13396) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Remove unnecessary finalizers (#14248) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Mark local variable as const (#13217) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDE0032: UseAutoProperty part 2 (#14244) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDE0032: UseAutoProperty part 1 (#14243) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Mark private members as static part 8 (#14233) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA1822: Mark members as static part 6 (#14229) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA1822: Mark members as static part 5 (#14228) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA1822: Mark members as static part 4 (#14227) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA1822: Mark members as static part 3 (#14226) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA1822: Mark members as static part 2 (#14225) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA1822: Mark members as static part 1 (#14224) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Use see keyword in documentation (#14220) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA2211: Non-constant fields should not be visible (#14073) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1816: Dispose methods should call SuppressFinalize (#14074) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Remove incorrectly implemented finalizer (#14246) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA1822: Mark members as static part 7 (#14230) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix SA1122: Use string.Empty for empty strings (#14218) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix various xml documentation issues (#14223) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Remove unnecessary usings part 8 (#14072) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable SA1006: Preprocessor keywords should not be preceded by space (#14052) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix SA1642 for Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility (#14142) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA2216: Disposable types should declare finalizer (#14089) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Wrap and name LoadBinaryModule arguments (#14193) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Wrap and name GetListOfFilesFromData arguments (#14194) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable SA1002: Semicolons should be spaced correctly (#14197) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDE0090: Simplify new expression part 3 (#14201) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable SA1106: Code should not contain empty statements (#13964) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Code performance fixes follow-up (#14207) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Remove uninformative comments (#14199) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDE0090: Simplify new expression part 1 (#14027) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable SA1517: Code should not contain blank lines at start of file (#14131) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable SA1131: Use readable conditions (#14132) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable SA1507: Code should not contain multiple blank lines in a row (#14136) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable SA1516 Elements should be separated by blank line (#14137) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0031: Null check can be simplified (#13548) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1065: Do not raise exceptions in unexpected locations (#14117) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1000: Do not declare static members on generic types (#14097) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Tools

• Fixing formatting in Reset-PWSHSystemPath.ps1 (#13689) (Thanks @dgoldman-msft!)

Tests

• Reinstate Test-Connection tests (#13324)
• Update Markdown test packages with security fixes (#14145)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Fix a typo in the Get-ChangeLog function (#14129)
• Update README and metadata.json for 7.2.0-preview.1 release (#14104)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.2.2 to 10.3.1 (#14040)
• Move windows package signing to use ESRP (#14060)
• Use one feed in each nuget.config in official builds (#14363)
• Fix path signed RPMs are uploaded from in release build (#14424)
• Add Microsoft.PowerShell.MarkdownRender to the package reference list (#14386)
• Fix issue with unsigned build (#14367)
• Move macOS and nuget to ESRP signing (#14324)
• Fix nuget packaging to scrub NullableAttribute (#14344)
• Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 16.8.0 to 16.8.3 (#14310)
• Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.22.0 to 0.22.1 (#14305)
• Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.15.0 to 2.16.0 (#14031)
• Move Linux to ESRP signing (#14210)

Documentation and Help Content

• Fix example nuget.config (#14349)
• Fix a broken link in Code Guidelines doc (#14314) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

7.2.0-preview.1 - 2020-11-17

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Change the default fallback encoding for GetEncoding in Start-Transcript to be UTF8 without a BOM (#13732) (Thanks @Gimly!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Update pwsh -? output to match docs (#13748)
• Fix NullReferenceException in Test-Json (#12942) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Make Dispose in TranscriptionOption idempotent (#13839) (Thanks @krishnayalavarthi!)
• Add additional Microsoft PowerShell modules to the tracked modules list (#12183)
• Relax further SSL verification checks for WSMan on non-Windows hosts with verification available (#13786) (Thanks @jborean93!)
• Add the OutputTypeAttribute to Get-ExperimentalFeature (#13738) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!)
• Fix blocking wait when starting file associated with a Windows application (#13750)
• Emit warning if ConvertTo-Json exceeds -Depth value (#13692)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@xtqqczze, @mkswd, @ThomasNieto, @PatLeong, @paul-cheung, @georgettica

• Fix RCS1049: Simplify boolean comparison (#13994) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0062: Make local function static (#14044) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA2207: Initialize value type static fields inline (#14068) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1837: Use ProcessId and CurrentManagedThreadId from System.Environment (#14063) (Thanks @xtqqczze and @PatLeong!)
• Remove unnecessary using directives (#14014, #14017, #14021, #14050, #14065, #14066, #13863, #13860, #13861, #13814) (Thanks @xtqqczze and @ThomasNieto!)
• Remove unnecessary usage of LINQ Count method (#13545) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix SA1518: The code must not contain extra blank lines at the end of the file (#13574) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1829: Use the Length or Count property instead of Count() (#13925) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1827: Do not use Count() or LongCount() when Any() can be used (#13923) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable or fix nullable usage in a few files (#13793, #13805, #13808, #14018, #13804) (Thanks @mkswd and @georgettica!)
• Enable IDE0040: Add accessibility modifiers (#13962, #13874) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Make applicable private Guid fields readonly (#14000) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA1003: Use generic event handler instances (#13937) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Simplify delegate creation (#13578) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix RCS1033: Remove redundant boolean literal (#13454) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix RCS1221: Use pattern matching instead of combination of as operator and null check (#13333) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Use is not syntax (#13338) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Replace magic number with constant in PDH (#13536) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix accessor order (#13538) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0054: Use compound assignment (#13546) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix RCS1098: Constant values should be on right side of comparisons (#13833) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1068: CancellationToken parameters must come last (#13867) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA10XX rules with suggestion severity (#13870, #13928, #13924) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0064: Make Struct fields writable (#13945) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Run dotnet-format to improve formatting of source code (#13503) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1825: Avoid zero-length array allocations (#13961) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Add IDE analyzer rule IDs to comments (#13960) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1830: Prefer strongly-typed Append and Insert method overloads on StringBuilder (#13926) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enforce code style in build (#13957) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1836: Prefer IsEmpty over Count when available (#13877) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1834: Consider using StringBuilder.Append(char) when applicable (#13878) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDE0044: Make field readonly (#13884, #13885, #13888, #13892, #13889, #13886, #13890, #13891, #13887, #13893, #13969, #13967, #13968, #13970, #13971, #13966, #14012) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0048: Add required parentheses (#13896) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE1005: Invoke delegate with conditional access (#13911) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0036: Enable the check on the order of modifiers (#13958, #13881) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Use span-based String.Concat instead of String.Substring (#13500) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1050: Declare types in namespace (#13872) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix minor keyword typo in C# code comment (#13811) (Thanks @paul-cheung!)

Tools

• Enable CodeQL Security scanning (#13894)
• Add global AnalyzerConfig with default configuration (#13835) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!

@mkswd, @xtqqczze

• Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk to 16.8.0 (#14020)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp to 3.8.0 (#14075)
• Remove workarounds for .NET 5 RTM builds (#14038)
• Migrate 3rd party signing to ESRP (#14010)
• Fixes to release pipeline for GA release (#14034)
• Don't do a shallow checkout (#13992)
• Add validation and dependencies for Ubuntu 20.04 distribution to packaging script (#13993)
• Add .NET install workaround for RTM (#13991)
• Move to ESRP signing for Windows files (#13988)
• Update PSReadLine version to 2.1.0 (#13975)
• Bump .NET to version 5.0.100-rtm.20526.5 (#13920)
• Update script to use .NET RTM feeds (#13927)
• Add checkout step to release build templates (#13840)
• Turn on /features:strict for all projects (#13383) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Bump NJsonSchema to 10.2.2 (#13722, #13751)
• Add flag to make Linux script publish to production repository (#13714)
• Bump Markdig.Signed to 0.22.0 (#13741)
• Use new release script for Linux packages (#13705)

Documentation and Help Content

• Fix links to LTS versions for Windows (#14070)
• Fix crontab formatting in example doc (#13712) (Thanks @dgoldman-msft!)