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Aditya Patwardhan 2367ea19f0 Merged PR 11200: Update change log for 7.1.0-preview.1 release
Update change log for 7.1.0-preview.1 release
2020-03-26 16:56:23 +00:00

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Current preview release

7.1.0-preview.1 - 2020-03-26

Breaking Changes

  • Use invariant culture string conversion for -replace operator (#10954) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

  • Revert the PRs that made DBNull.Value and NullString.Value treated as $null (#11648)

Experimental Features

  • Use invariant culture string conversion for -replace operator (#10954) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

  • Fix an operator preference order issue in binder code (#12075) (Thanks @DamirAinullin!)
  • Fix NullReferenceException when binding common parameters of type ActionPreference (#12124)
  • Fix default formatting for deserialized MatchInfo (#11728) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Use asynchronous streams in Invoke-RestMethod (#11095) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Address UTF-8 Detection In Get-Content -Tail (#11899) (Thanks @NoMoreFood!)
  • Handle the IOException in Get-FileHash (#11944) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Change 'PowerShell Core' to 'PowerShell' in a resource string (#11928) (Thanks @alexandair!)
  • Bring back MainWindowTitle in PSHostProcessInfo (#11885) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Miscellaneous minor updates to Windows Compatibility (#11980)
  • Fix ConciseView to split PositionMessage using [Environment]::NewLine (#12010)
  • Remove network hop restriction for interactive sessions (#11920)
  • Fix NullReferenceException in SuspendStoppingPipeline() and RestoreStoppingPipeline() (#11870) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Generate GUID for FormatViewDefinition InstanceId if not provided (#11896)
  • Fix ConciseView where error message is wider than window width and doesn't have whitespace (#11880)
  • Allow cross-platform CAPI-compatible remote key exchange (#11185) (Thanks @silijon!)
  • Fix error message (#11862) (Thanks @NextTurn!)
  • Fix ConciseView to handle case where there isn't a console to obtain the width (#11784)
  • Update CmsCommands to use Store vs certificate provider (#11643) (Thanks @mikeTWC1984!)
  • Enable pwsh to work on Windows systems where mpr.dll and STA is not available (#11748)
  • Refactor and implement Restart-Computer for Un*x and macOS (#11319)
  • Add an implementation of Stop-Computer for Linux and macOS (#11151)
  • Fix help function to check if less is available before using (#11737)
  • Update PSPath in certificate_format_ps1.xml (#11603) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Change regular expression to match relation-types without quotes in Link header (#11711) (Thanks @Marusyk!)
  • Fix error message during symbolic link deletion (#11331)
  • Add custom 'Selected.*' type to PSCustomObject in Select-Object only once (#11548) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Add -AsUTC to the Get-Date cmdlet (#11611)
  • Fix grouping behavior with Boolean values in Format-Hex (#11587) (Thanks @vexx32!)
  • Make Test-Connection always use the default synchronization context for sending ping requests (#11517)
  • Correct startup error messages (#11473) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Ignore headers with null values in web cmdlets (#11424) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Re-add check for Invoke-Command job dispose. (#11388)
  • Revert "Update formatter to not write newlines if content is empty (#11193)" (#11342) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Allow CompleteInput to return results from ArgumentCompleter when AST or Script has matching function definition (#10574) (Thanks @M1kep!)
  • Update formatter to not write new lines if content is empty (#11193)

Code Cleanup

  • Use span-based overloads (#11884) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Use new string.Split() overloads (#11867) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Remove unreachable DSC code (#12076) (Thanks @DamirAinullin!)
  • Remove old dead code from FullCLR (#11886) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Use Dictionary.TryAdd() where possible (#11767) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Use Environment.NewLine instead of hard-coded linefeed in ParseError.ToString (#11746)
  • Fix FileSystem provider error message (#11741) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Reformat code according to EditorConfig rules (#11681) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Replace use of throw GetExceptionForHR with ThrowExceptionForHR (#11640) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Refactor delegate types to lambda expressions (#11690) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Remove Unicode BOM from text files (#11546) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Fix Typo in Get-ComputerInfo cmdlet description (#11321) (Thanks @doctordns!)
  • Fix typo in description for Get-ExperimentalFeature PSWindowsPowerShellCompatibility (#11282) (Thanks @alvarodelvalle!)
  • Cleanups in command discovery (#10815) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Review currentculture (#11044) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Tools

  • Change recommended VS Code extension name from ms-vscode.csharp to ms-dotnettools.csharp (#12083) (Thanks @devlead!)
  • Specify csharp_preferred_modifier_order in EditorConfig (#11775) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Update .editorconfig (#11675) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Enable EditorConfig support in OmniSharp (#11627) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Specify charset in .editorconfig as utf-8 (no BOM) (#11654) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Configure the issue label bot (#11527)
  • Avoid variable names that conflict with automatic variables (#11392) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Tests

  • Add empty preview.md file to fix broken link (#12041)
  • Add helper functions for SSH remoting tests (#11955)
  • Add new tests for Get-ChildItem for FileSystemProvider (#11602) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Ensure that types referenced by PowerShellStandard are present (#10634)
  • Check state and report reason if it's not "opened" (#11574)
  • Fixes for running tests on Raspbian (#11661)
  • Unify pester test syntax for the arguments of -BeOfType (#11558) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Correct casing for automatic variables (#11568) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Avoid variable names that conflict with automatic variables part 2 (#11559) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Update pester syntax to v4 (#11544) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Allow error 504 (Gateway Timeout) in markdown-link tests (#11439) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Re-balance CI tests (#11420) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • Include URL in the markdown-links test error message (#11438) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Use CIM cmdlets instead of WMI cmdlets in tests (#11423) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

  • Put symbols in separate package (#12169)
  • Disable x86 PDB generation (#12167)
  • Bump NJsonSchema from 10.1.5 to 10.1.11 (#12050) (#12088) (#12166)
  • Create crossgen symbols for Windows x64 and x86 (#12157)
  • Move to .NET 5 preview.1 (#12140)
  • Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0 (#12136)
  • Move to standard internal pool for building (#12119)
  • Fix package syncing to private Module Feed (#11841)
  • Add Ubuntu SSH remoting tests CI (#12033)
  • Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.18.1 to 0.18.3 (#12078)
  • Fix MSIX packaging to determine if a Preview release by inspecting the semantic version string (#11991)
  • Ignore last exit code in the build step as dotnet may return error when SDK is not installed (#11972)
  • Fix daily package build (#11882)
  • Fix package sorting for syncing to private Module Feed (#11838)
  • Set StrictMode version 3.0 (#11563) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Bump .devcontainer version to dotnet 3.1.101 (#11707) (Thanks @Jawz84!)
  • Move to version 3 of AzFileCopy (#11697)
  • Update README.md and metadata.json for next release (#11664)
  • Code Cleanup for environment data gathering in build.psm1 (#11572) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
  • Update Debian Install Script To Support Debian 10 (#11540) (Thanks @RandomNoun7!)
  • Update ADOPTERS.md (#11261) (Thanks @edyoung!)
  • Change back to use powershell.exe in 'SetVersionVariables.yml' to unblock daily build (#11207)
  • Change to use pwsh to have consistent JSON conversion for DateTime (#11126)

Documentation and Help Content

  • Replace VSCode link in CONTRIBUTING.md (#11475) (Thanks @stevend811!)
  • Remove the version number of PowerShell from LICENSE (#12019)
  • Add the 7.0 change log link to CHANGELOG/README.md (#12062) (Thanks @LabhanshAgrawal!)
  • Improvements to the contribution guide (#12086) (Thanks @ShaydeNofziger!)
  • Update the doc about debugging dotnet core in VSCode (#11969)
  • Update README.md and metadata.json for the next release (#11918) (#11992)
  • Update Adopters.md to include info on Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions (#11888) (Thanks @alepauly!)
  • Add information about how Amazon AWS uses PowerShell. (#11365) (Thanks @bpayette!)
  • Add link to .NET CLI version in build documentation (#11725) (Thanks @joeltankam!)
  • Added info about DeploymentScripts in ADOPTERS.md (#11703)
  • Update CHANGELOG.md for 6.2.4 release (#11699)
  • Update README.md and metadata.json for next release (#11597)
  • Update the breaking change definition (#11516)
  • Adding System Frontier to the PowerShell Core adopters list ADOPTERS.md (#11480) (Thanks @OneScripter!)
  • Update ChangeLog, README.md and metadata.json for 7.0.0-rc.1 release (#11363)
  • Add AzFunctions to ADOPTERS.md (#11311) (Thanks @Francisco-Gamino!)
  • Add Universal Dashboard to ADOPTERS.md (#11283) (Thanks @adamdriscoll!)
  • Add config.yml for ISSUE_TEMPLATE so that Doc, Security, Support, and Windows PowerShell issues go to URLs (#11153)
  • Add Adopters.md file (#11256)
  • Update Readme.md for preview.6 release (#11108)
  • Update SUPPORT.md (#11101) (Thanks @mklement0!)
  • Update README.md (#11100) (Thanks @mklement0!)