v7.4.0-preview.3 Release of PowerShell

7.4.0-preview.3 - 2023-04-20

Breaking Changes

• Remove code related to #requires -pssnapin (#19320)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Change the arrow used in feedback suggestion to a more common Unicode character (#19534)
• Support trigger registration in feedback provider (#19525)
• Update the ICommandPredictor interface to reduce boilerplate code from predictor implementation (#19414)
• Fix a crash in the type inference code (#19400) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)

Performance

• Speed up Resolve-Path relative path resolution (#19171) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Infer external application output as strings (#19193) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Fix a race condition in Add-Type (#19471)
• Detect insecure https-to-http redirect only if both URIs are absolute (#19468) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Support Ctrl+c when connection hangs while reading data in WebCmdlets (#19330) (Thanks @stevenebutler!)
• Enable type conversion of AutomationNull to $null for assignment (#19415)
• Add the parameter -Environment to Start-Process (#19374)
• Add the parameter -RelativeBasePath to Resolve-Path (#19358) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Exclude redundant parameter aliases from completion results (#19382) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Allow using a folder path in WebCmdlets' -OutFile parameter (#19007) (Thanks @CarloToso!)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@eltociear, @CarloToso

• Fix typo in typeDataXmlLoader.cs (#19319) (Thanks @eltociear!)
• Fix typo in Compiler.cs (#19491) (Thanks @eltociear!)
• Inline the GetResponseObject method (#19380) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Simplify ContentHelper methods (#19367) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Initialize regex lazily in BasicHtmlWebResponseObject (#19361) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Fix codefactor issue in if-statement (part 5) (#19286) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Add nullable annotations in WebRequestSession.cs (#19291) (Thanks @CarloToso!)

Tests

• Harden the default command test (#19416)
• 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)

Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!

@dkattan

• Fixing MSI checkbox (#19325)
• Update the experimental feature JSON files (#19297)
• Update the cgmanifest (#19459, #19465)
• Update .NET SDK version to 8.0.100-preview.3.23178.7 (#19381)
• Force updating the transitive dependency on Microsoft.CSharp (#19514)
• Update DotnetRuntimeMetadata.json to consume the .NET 8.0.0-preview.3 release (#19529)
• Move PSGallery sync to a pool (#19523)
• Fix the regex used for package name check in vPack build (#19511)
• Make the vPack PAT library more obvious (#19505)
• Change Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp back to 4.5.0 (#19464) (Thanks @dkattan!)
• Update to the latest NOTICES file (#19332)
• Add PoolNames variable group to compliance pipeline (#19408)
• Fix stage dependencies and typo in release build (#19353)
• Fix issues in release build and release pipeline (#19338)

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