PowerShell/CHANGELOG.md
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Changelog

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 paramter 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 plugin 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 startup. (#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 incompleted 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 parens 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 windowsservercore and NanoServer
  • 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 exes
  • 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 hang 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 readonly 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
  • 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) TTYs 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
  • Readline 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 readline 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