v6.1.0-preview.2 - 2018-04-27

Known Issue

pwsh crashes on Win10 IoT arm32 - #6750

Breaking Changes

• Remove support for file to opt-out of telemetry, only support environment variable (#6601)
• Simplify the installation paths the MSI uses (#6442)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix running pwsh produced from dotnet build (#6549)
• Remove the FullCLR-only symbol-info related code from EventManager.cs (#6563)
• Improve PSMethod-to-Delegate conversion (#6570)
• Fix PsUtils.GetManModule() to avoid infinite loop when there was no main module (#6358)
• Fix error in windows environment provider when the environment variable has duplicates that differ only by case (#6489) (Thanks @mklement0!)
• Make sure that the width of the header is at least the size of the label (or property name) (#6487)
• Enable [Environment]::OSVersion to return current OS rather than compatible version (#6457)
• Change the SaveError method in Parser to use nameof for error ids (#6498)
• Fix error when Format-Wide -AutoSize | Out-String is called (#6491) (Thanks @stknohg!)
• Make LanguagePrimitive.GetEnumerable treat DataTable as Enumerable (#6511)
• Fix formatting of tables where headers span multiple rows (#6504)
• Improve performance of parsing RegexOption for -split by using if branches (#6605) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Enable specifying sshd subsystem to use via -Subsystem (#6603)
• Add some optimizations in formatting subsystem (#6678) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Throw better parsing error when statements should be put in named block (#6434)
• Use Unregister-Event to remove an event subscriber when removing PSEdit function (#6449)
• Make the PSISERemoteSessionOpenFile a support event (#6582)
• Add -WorkingDirectory parameter to pwsh (#6612)
• Support importing module paths that end in trailing directory separator (#6602)
• Formatting: Use cache for dash padding strings for tables (#6625) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Port Windows PowerShell AppLocker and DeviceGuard UMCI application white listing support (#6133)
• Reduce allocations in TableWriter (#6648) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Add -Resume Feature to WebCmdlets (#6447) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Support user@host:port syntax for SSH transport (#6558)
• Add ported Test-Connection cmdlet (#5328) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Added line break to Access-Denied error message (#6607)
• Some fixes in Get-Date -UFormat (#6542) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Added check for existence of Location HTTP header before using it (#6560) (Thanks @ffeldhaus!)
• Enable Update-Help to save help content in user scope by default (#6352)
• Update Enable-PSRemoting to create PowerShell.6 endpoint and version specific endpoint (#6519, #6630)
• Update error message that Disconnect-PSSession is only supported with WSMan (#6689)
• Make Export-FormatData print pretty XML output (#6691) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add -AsArray parameter to ConvertoTo-Json command (#6438)
• Add Test-Json cmdlet (NJsonSchema) (#5229) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Correct a typo in comment for Invoke-WebRequest (#6700) (Thanks @gabrielsroka!)
• Re-order UFormat options in Get-Date (#6627) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add the parameter -Not to Where-Object (#6464) (Thanks @SimonWahlin!)

Code Cleanup

• Engine: Fix several code cleanup issues (#6552, #6609)
• Clean up workflow logic in the module loading component (#6523)
• Engine: Clean up unneeded GetTypeInfo() calls (#6613, #6636, #6633, #6635, #6634)

Test

• Fix line ending in DefaultCommands.Tests.ps1 from CRLF to LF (#6553)
• Use new Pester parameter syntax in tests (#6490, #6574, #6535, #6536, #6488, #6366, #6351, #6349, #6256, #6250) (Thanks @KevinMarquette, @sethvs, @bergmeister!)
• Fix Copy.Item.Tests.ps1 (#6596) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Fix typos or formatting in some test files (#6595, #6593, #6594, #6592, #6591) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Add missing Start-WebListener to WebCmdlets tests (#6604) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Update Dockerfile test to use Ubuntu 17.10 as the base image (#6503)
• Add PowerShell logging tests for macOS and Linux (#6025)
• Add tests for Format-Table -Wrap (#6670) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Reformat Format-Table tests (#6657) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add new reliable tests for Get-Date -UFormat (#6614) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Use C# latest language in .csproj files (#6559) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Update installpsh-<distrofamily>.sh installers to handle "preview" in version number (#6573) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
• Enable PowerShell.sln to work in VisualStudio (#6546)
• Remove duplicate Restore-PSPackage (#6544)
• Use -WorkingDirectory parameter to handle context menu when path contains single quotes (#6660) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Make -CI not depend on -PSModuleRestore in Start-PSBuild (#6450)
• Restore for official Linux arm builds (#6455)
• Fix error about setting readonly variable in install-powershell.sh (#6617)
• Make release macOS build work better (#6619, #6610)
• MSI: add function to generate a MSP package (#6445)

Documentation and Help Content

• Doc: Update Ubuntu source creation commands to use curl -o (#6510) (Thanks @M-D-M!)
• Update stale bot message (#6462) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove extraneous SSH and install docs from the 'demos' folder (#6628)

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v6.1.0-preview.1 - 2018-03-23

Known Issue

$PSVersionTable.PSVersion throw error - #6482

Breaking Changes

• Throw terminating error in New-TemporaryFile and make it not rely on the presence of the TEMP environment variable (#6182) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Remove the unnecessary AddTypeCommandBase class from Add-Type (#5407) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove unsupported members from the enum Language in Add-Type (#5829) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix range operator to work better with character ranges (#5732) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix ValidateSet with generator in a module (#5702)
• Update SAL annotation and fix warnings (#5617)
• Add ForEach and Where methods to PSCustomobject (#5756) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add Count and Length properties to PSCustomobject (#5745) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Make minor fixes in compiler to properly handle void type expression (#5764)
• Logging: Fix the escaped characters when generating .resx file from PowerShell ETW manifest. (#5892)
• Remove PSv2 only code from Types_Ps1Xml.cs and HostUtilities.cs (#5907) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Enable passing arrays to pwsh -EncodedArguments on debug builds. (#5836)
• Logging: Handle path that contains spaces in RegisterManifest.ps1 (#5859) (Thanks @tandasat!)
• Add -settingsfile to pwsh to support loading a custom powershell config file. (#5920)
• Return better error for pwsh -WindowStyle on unsupported platforms. (#5975) (Thanks @thezim!)
• Enable conversions from PSMethod to Delegate (#5287) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Minor code clean-up changes in tab completion code (#5737) (Thanks @kwkam!)
• Add lambda support to -replace operator (#6029) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• Fix retrieval of environment variables on Windows in cases where variable names differ only by case. (#6320)
• Fix the NullRefException when using -PipelineVariable with DynamicParam block (#6433)
• Add NullReference checks to two code paths related to PseudoParameterBinder (#5738) (Thanks @kwkam!)
• Fix PropertyOnlyAdapter to allow calling base methods (#6394)
• Improve table view for Certs and Signatures by adding EnhancedKeyUsageList and StatusMessage (#6123)
• Fix the filtering of analytic events on Unix platforms. (#6086)
• Update copyright and license headers (#6134)
• Set pipeline thread stack size to 10MB (#6224) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Fix the NullRefException in Enter-PSHostProcess (#5995)
• Merge and Sort BasicHtmlWebResponseObject and ContentHelper in Web Cmdlets (#5720) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Encoding for New-ModuleManifest on all platforms should be UTF-8 NoBOM (#5923)
• Make Set-Location use path with wildcard characters as literal if it exists (#5839)
• Combine Web Cmdlets partial class files (#5612) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Change Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetDateCommand.SystemTime to struct. (#6006) (Thanks @stknohg!)
• Add Simplified multipart/form-data support to Web Cmdlets through -Form parameter (#5972) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Make a relative redirect URI absolute when Authorization header present (#6325) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Make relation-link handling in Web Cmdlets case-insensitive (#6338)
• Make Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath accept Include or Exclude filter (#5462)
• Stop ConvertTo-Json when Ctrl+c is hit (#6392)
• Make Resolve-Path -Relative return useful path when $PWD and -Path is on different drive (#5740) (Thanks @kwkam!)
• Correct the %c, %l, %k, %s and %j formats in Get-Date -UFormat (#4805) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add standard deviation implementation on Measure-Object (#6238) (Thanks @CloudyDino!)
• Make Get-ChildItem <PATH>/* -file include <Path> as search directory (#5431)
• Enable setting PSSession Name when using SSHTransport and add Transport property (#5954)
• Add Path alias to -FilePath parameters and others for several commands (#5817) (Thanks @KevinMarquette!)
• Add the parameter -Password to Get-PfxCertificate (#6113) (Thanks @maybe-hello-world!)
• Don't add trailing spaces to last column when using Format-Table (#5568)
• Fix table alignment and padding. (#6230)
• Add -SkipHeaderValidation Support to ContentType on Web Cmdlets (#6018) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Add common aliases for all write-* commands default message parameter (#5816) (Thanks @KevinMarquette!)
• Make UTF-8 the default encoding for application/json (#6109) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Enable $env:PAGER to work correctly if arguments are used (#6144)

Test

• Convert Web Cmdlets test to one-true-brace-style formatting (#5716) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Add a test for IValidateSetValuesGenerator in a module (#5830) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix function to test for docker OS due to change to use linuxkit for macOS (#5843)
• Replace HttpListener tests with WebListener (#5806, #5840, #5872) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Stop HttpListener from running in Web Cmdlets tests (#5921) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix PSVersion in PSSessionConfiguration tests (#5554) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Update test framework to support Pester v4 (#6064)
• Update tests to use Pester v4 Syntax. (#6294, #6257, #6306, #6304, #6298)
• Add negative tests for Copy-Item over remote sessions (#6231)
• Markdown test: Use strict in JavaScript (#6328)
• Add tests for Get-Process about the -Module and -FileVersion parameters (#6272)
• Add test for the OsLocalDateTime property of Get-ComputerInfo. (#6253)
• Change Get-FileHash tests to use raw bytes (#6430)
• Remove runas.exe from tests as we have tags to control this behavior (#6432)
• Refactor the Get-Content tests to use -TestCases. (#6082)
• Use RequireAdminOnWindows tag in Set-Date tests (#6034) (Thanks @stknohg!)
• Remove -TimeOutSec from non timeout related tests (#6055) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Add verbosity and more accurate timeout implementation for Start-WebListener (#6013) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Skip tests that use ExecutionPolicy cmdlets on Unix (#6021)
• Change Web Cmdlet tests to use 127.0.0.1 instead of Localhost (#6069) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix Start-PSPester to include or exclude RequireSudoOnUnix tag smartly on Unix (#6241)
• Fix the terse output on Windows for test runs without admin privilege (#6252)
• Add RequireSudoOnUnix tag for Get-Help tests. (#6223)
• Add tests for *-Item Cmdlets in function provider (#6172)
• Support running tests in root privilege on Linux. (#6145)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Add option to add explorer shell context menu in Windows installer (#5774) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Make the explorer shell context menu registry entries platform specific to allow side by side of x86 and x64. (#5824) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix start menu folder clash of shortcut when x86 and x64 are both installed by appending (x86) for x86 installation. (#5826) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Reduce image file sizes using lossless compression with imgbot (#5808) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Windows installer: Allow Launch PowerShell checkbox to be toggled using the space bar. (#5792) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix release packaging build (#6459)
• Fail AppVeyor Build if MSI does not build (#5755) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Cleanup temporarily created WiX files after compilation to be able to have a clean re-build (#5757) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix install-powershell.ps1 for running during window setup (#5727)
• Start using Travis-CI cache (#6003)
• Fix build, packaging and installation scripts for SLES (#5918) (Thanks @tomconte!)
• Update recommended WiX toolset link to be generic to WiX 3.x but mention that latest version of 3.11 has to be taken (#5926) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Add service point manager call in Install-PowerShell.ps1 to force TLS1.2. (#6310) (Thanks @DarqueWarrior!)
• Add -Restore when build win-arm and win-arm64 (#6353)
• Make sure package verification failure fails the AppVeyor build (#6337)
• Specify the runtime when running dotnet restore in Start-PSBuild (#6345)
• Rename log and logerror to Write-Log [$message] [-error] (#6333)
• Make Linux packages use correct version scheme for preview releases (#6318)
• Add support for Debian in installpsh-debian.sh (#6314) (Thanks @Pawamoy!)
• MSI: Make preview builds to install Side by side with release builds (#6301)
• Add TLS1.2 workaround for code coverage script (#6299)
• Cleanup after Powershell install for CentOS and Fedora Docker images (#6264) (Thanks @strawgate!)
• MSI: Update the environment variable PATH with proper value (#6441)
• MSI: Remove the version from the product name (#6415)
• Support non-GitHub commits in the change log generation script (#6389)
• Fix secret and JavaScript compliance issues (#6408)
• Remove AppVeyor specific cmdlet from Start-NativeExecution (#6263)
• Restore modules from the NuGet package cache by using dotnet restore (#6111)
• CI Build: Use TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST_SHA to accurately get the commit message (#6024)
• Use TLS1.2 on Windows during Start-PSBootstrap (#6235) (Thanks @CallmeJoeBob!)
• Use TLS1.2 in Start-PSBootStrap without breaking HTTPS (#6236) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Add options to enable PSRemoting and register Windows Event Logging Manifest to MSI installer (#5999) (Thanks @bergmeister!)

Documentation and Help Content

• Separate macOS from Linux install instructions. (#5823) (Thanks @thezim!)
• Show usage (short) help if command line parameter is wrong (#5780) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add the breaking changes doc for 6.0.0 release. (#5620) (Thanks @maertendMSFT!)
• Remove DockerFile for Fedora 25 and add DockerFile for Fedora 27 (#5984) (Thanks @seemethere!)
• Add a missing step to prepare the build environment on Mac. (#5901) (Thanks @zackJKnight!)
• Update BREAKINGCHANGES.md to include WebCmdlets breaking changes (#5852) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix typos in BREAKINGCHANGES.md (#5913) (Thanks @brianbunke!)
• Update macos.md to use brew cask upgrade for upgrading powershell (#5875) (Thanks @timothywlewis!)
• Add verification step to macOS install docs (#5860) (Thanks @rpalo!)
• Fix links in macOS install docs (#5861) (Thanks @kanjibates!)
• Update docs with test guidelines with the RequireSudoOnUnix tag. (#6274)
• Add Alpine Linux support (#6367) (Thanks @kasper3!)
• Update to Governance doc to reflect current working model (#6323)
• Add guidance on adding copyright and license header to new source files (#6140)
• Fix the command to build type catalog in internals.md (#6084) (Thanks @ppadmavilasom!)
• Fix Pull Request Process dead link (#6066) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• Update processes to allow for coordinated vulnerability disclosure (#6042)
• Rework Windows Start menu folder name (#5891) (Thanks @Stanzilla!)
• Update Raspbian installation instructions to create symlink for pwsh (#6122)
• Fix various places that still refer to old versions of pwsh (#6179) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Correct a Linux installation typo (#6219) (Thanks @mababio!)
• Change synopsis of install-powershell.ps1 to reflect that it works cross-platform (#5465) (Thanks @bergmeister!)

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts

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v6.0.2 - 2018-03-15

Engine updates and fixes

• Update PowerShell to use 2.0.6 dotnet core runtime and packages (d607f20)
  • This change addresses the following vulnerabilities:
    • Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2018-0875: Hash Collision can cause Denial of Service

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Add Ubuntu build without AppImage (#6380)
• Add scripts to set and or update the release tag in VSTS (#6107)
• Fix DSC Configuration compilation (#6225)
• Fix errors in Start-PSBootStrap during release builds (#6159)
• Fix spelling failures in CI (#6191)
• Use PowerShell windowsservercore Docker image for release builds (#6226)
• Use ADD instead of Invoke-WebRequest in nanoserver Docker file (#6255)
• When doing daily/test build in a non-release branch use the branch name as the preview name (#6355)
• Add Environment Variable override of telemetry (#6063) (Thanks, @diddledan!)
• Build: Remove two unneeded lines from 'Invoke-AppveyorFinish' (#6344)
• MSI: Refactor New-MsiPackage into packaging.psm1
  and various fixes to enable patching
  (#5871, #6221, #6254, #6303, #6356, #6208, #6334, #6379, #6094, #6192)
• MSI: Use HKLM instead of HKCU registry keys since the current installation scope is perMachine. (#5915) (Thanks @bergmeister!)

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts

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• PowerShell-6.0.2-win-arm64.zip
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• PowerShell-6.0.2-win-x64.msi
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• PowerShell-6.0.2-win-x64.zip
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• PowerShell-6.0.2-win-x86.msi
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• PowerShell-6.0.2-win-x86.zip
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v6.0.1 - 2018-01-25

Engine updates and fixes

• Update PowerShell to use 2.0.5 dotnet core runtime and packages. (#5903, #5961) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
  • This change addresses the following vulnerabilities:
    • Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2018-0764: Denial of Service when parsing XML documents
    • Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2018-0786: Security Feature Bypass in X509 Certificate Validation

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Re-release of v6.0.0 as v6.0.1 due to issues upgrading from pre-release versions

Test

• Update regular expression to validate GitCommitId in $PSVersionTable to not require a pre-release tag (#5893)

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts

• powershell_6.0.1-1.debian.8_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.1-1.debian.9_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.1-1.ubuntu.14.04_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.1-1.ubuntu.16.04_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.1-1.ubuntu.17.04_amd64.deb
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• powershell-6.0.1-1.rhel.7.x86_64.rpm
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• powershell-6.0.1-linux-arm32.tar.gz
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• powershell-6.0.1-linux-x64.tar.gz
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• powershell-6.0.1-osx-x64.tar.gz
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• powershell-6.0.1-osx.10.12-x64.pkg
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• PowerShell-6.0.1-win-arm32.zip
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• PowerShell-6.0.1-win-arm64.zip
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• PowerShell-6.0.1-win-x64.msi
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• PowerShell-6.0.1-win-x64.zip
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• PowerShell-6.0.1-win-x86.msi
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• PowerShell-6.0.1-win-x86.zip
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• powershell-6.0.1-x86_64.AppImage
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Breaking changes

• Remove sc alias which conflicts with sc.exe (#5827)
• Separate group policy settings and enable policy controlled logging in PowerShell Core (#5791)

Engine updates and fixes

• Handle DLLImport failure of libpsrpclient in PowerShell Remoting on Unix platforms (#5622)

Test

• Replace lee.io Tests with WebListener (#5709) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Update the docker based release package tests due to the removal of Pester module and other issues (#5692)
• Replace Remaining HttpBin.org Tests with WebListener (#5665) (Thanks @markekraus!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update x86 and x64 MSI packages to not overwrite each other (#5812) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Update Restore-PSPester to include the fix for nested describe errors (#5771)
• Automate the generation of release change log draft (#5712)

Documentation and Help Content

• Updated help Uri to point to latest help content for Microsoft.PowerShell.Core module (#5820)
• Update the installation doc for Raspberry-Pi about supported devices (#5773)
• Fix a typo and a Markdown linting error in the Pull Request Template (#5807) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Update submodule documentation for pester removal (#5786) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Change Github to GitHub in CONTRIBUTING.md (#5697) (Thanks @stuntguy3000!)
• Fix incorrect release date on the changelog (#5698) (Thanks @SwarfegaGit!)
• Add instructions to deploy win-arm build on Windows IoT (#5682)

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts

Note: powershell-6.0.0-osx.10.12-x64.pkg was previously uploaded with the following hash. We replaced it with the version listed with the rest of the hashed because the previous version was not signed. Previous Hash: 396BBB5907FD0EC0BDFBFE0BF01961B52B4F1F1CEDDC95467DD9ECD4FA5281DF

• powershell_6.0.0-1.debian.8_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.0-1.debian.9_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.0-1.ubuntu.14.04_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.0-1.ubuntu.16.04_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.0-1.ubuntu.17.04_amd64.deb
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• powershell-6.0.0-1.rhel.7.x86_64.rpm
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• powershell-6.0.0-linux-arm32.tar.gz
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• powershell-6.0.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
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• powershell-6.0.0-x86_64.AppImage
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• PowerShell-6.0.0-win-arm32.zip
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• PowerShell-6.0.0-win-arm64.zip
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• PowerShell-6.0.0-win-x64.msi
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• PowerShell-6.0.0-win-x64.zip
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• PowerShell-6.0.0-win-x86.msi
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• PowerShell-6.0.0-win-x86.zip
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• powershell-6.0.0-osx-x64.tar.gz
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• powershell-6.0.0-osx.10.12-x64.pkg
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Breaking changes

• Skip null-element check for collections with a value-type element type (#5432)
• Make AllSigned execution policy require modules under $PSHome to be signed (#5511)

Engine updates and fixes

• Update PowerShell to use 2.0.4 dotnet core runtime. (#5677)
• Remove references to the old executable powershell or powershell.exe (#5408)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Remove unnecessary check for Paths.count > 0, in the *-FileCatalog CmdLets (#5596)
• Use explicit libpsl-native binary name for dllimport. (#5580)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Fix Get-EnvironmentInformation to properly check for CoreCLR (#5592) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Make Travis CI use libcurl+openssl+gssapi (#5629) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Disambiguate icon for daily builds on Windows (#5467) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix Import-CliXml tests which still use powershell instead of pwsh and make sure it fails if it regresses (#5521) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Update port number used for WebCmdlets tests which broke due to a change in AppVeyor (#5520) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Clean up use of Runspaceconfiguration from comments and xUnit test code (#5569) (Thanks @Bhaal22!)
• Replace HttpListener Response Tests with WebListener (#5540, #5605) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix the path to powershell_xxx.inc in Start-Build (#5538) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove Pester as a module include with the PowerShell Packages.
  You should be able to add it by running Install-Module Pester. (#5623, #5631)
• Refactor New-UnixPackaging into functions to make the large function more readable. (#5625)
• Make the experience better when Start-PSPester doesn't find Pester (#5673)
• Update packaging and release build scripts to produce zip packages for win-arm and win-arm64 (#5664)
• Enable Install-Debian to work with VSTS Hosted Linux Preview (#5659)
• Add linux-arm tarball package to release build (#5652, #5660)
• Enable building for win-arm and win-arm64 (#5524)
• Make macOS package require 10.12 or newer (#5649, #5654)
• Update signing subjects to something meaningful (#5650)
• Make New-UnixPackage more readable (#5625)
• Update PowerShellGet tests to validate the new install location of AllUsers scope. (#5633)
• Increase reliability of flaky test that fails intermittently in CI (#5641)
• Exclude markdown files from Pester folder from the Markdown meta test (#5636)
• Run tests for Windows installer only on Windows (#5619)
• Suppress the expected errors from Select-Xml tests (#5591)
• Add retry logic to prerequisite URL and output URL on failure so you can more easily troubleshoot (#5601, #5570)
• Make sure submodule are initialized when running Mac release build (#5496)
• Remove duplicate files in Windows packages in a folder called signed (#5527)
• Add PowerShell VSCode style settings (#5529) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Add Travis CI matrix for improved job tagging (#5547)
• Remove community docker files from official docker image validation (#5508)

Documentation and Help Content

• XML documentation fix for CompletionResult (#5550) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Change synopsis of install-powershell.ps1 to reflect that it works cross-platform (#5465) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Add more helpful message for AmbiguousParameterSet exception (#5537) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)
• Update the contribution guideline to note that updating the changelog is required. (#5586)
• Updated doc to build arm/arm64 versions of psrp.windows and PowerShell.Core.Instrumentation.dll libraries (#5668)
• Update Contribution guidelines with work in progress guidance (#5655)
• Update code coverage tests to get GitCommitId using the ProductVersion from Assembly (#5651)
• Remove requirement to updating changelog update in PR (#5644, #5586)
• Minor refactoring of the release build scripts (#5632)
• Update PowerShell executable name in using-vscode.md (#5593)
• Fix xUnit test for PS (#4780)
• Update install link and instructions for R-Pi (#5495)

Compliance Work

Compliance work is required for Microsoft to continue to sign and release packages from the project as official Microsoft packages.

• Remove PerformWSManPluginReportCompletion, which was not used, from pwrshplugin.dll (#5498) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Remove exclusion for hang and add context exception for remaining instances (#5595)
• Replace strlen with strnlen in native code (#5510)

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts

• powershell-6.0.0-rc.2-linux-arm32.tar.gz
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• powershell-6.0.0-rc.2-linux-x64.tar.gz
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• powershell-6.0.0-rc.2-x86_64.AppImage
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• powershell-6.0.0_rc.2-1.rhel.7.x86_64.rpm
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• powershell_6.0.0-rc.2-1.debian.8_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.0-rc.2-1.debian.9_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.0-rc.2-1.ubuntu.14.04_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.0-rc.2-1.ubuntu.16.04_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.0-rc.2-1.ubuntu.17.04_amd64.deb
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• PowerShell-6.0.0-rc.2-win-arm32.zip
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• PowerShell-6.0.0-rc.2-win-arm64.zip
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• PowerShell-6.0.0-rc.2-win-x64.msi
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• PowerShell-6.0.0-rc.2-win-x64.zip
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• PowerShell-6.0.0-rc.2-win-x86.msi
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• PowerShell-6.0.0-rc.2-win-x86.zip
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• powershell-6.0.0-rc.2-osx-x64.tar.gz
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• powershell-6.0.0-rc.2-osx.10.12-x64.pkg
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Breaking changes

• Fix -Verbose to not override $ErrorActionPreference. (#5113)
• Fix Get-Item -LiteralPath a*b to return error if a*b doesn't actually exist. (#5197)
• Remove AllScope from most default aliases to reduce overhead on creating new scopes. (#5268)
• Change $OutputEncoding default to be UTF8 without BOM rather than ASCII. (#5369)
• Add error on legacy credential over non-HTTPS for Web Cmdlets. (#5402) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Fix single value JSON null in Invoke-RestMethod. (#5338) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Add PSTypeName Support for Import-Csv and ConvertFrom-Csv. (#5389) (Thanks @markekraus!)

Engine updates and fixes

• Add char range overload to the .. operator, so 'a'..'z' returns characters from 'a' to 'z'. (#5026) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• Remove CommandFactory because it serves no real purpose. (#5266)
• Change to not insert line breaks at console window width to output (except for tables). (#5193)
• Use Ast for context in parameter binding and fix to glob the native command argument only when it's not quoted. (#5188)
• Fix dynamic class assembly name. (#5292)
• Update powershell to use 2.0.4-servicing dotnet core runtime. (#5295)
• Fix ExecutionContext.LoadAssembly to load with name when file cannot be found. (#5161)
• Speed up the check for suspicious content in script texts. (#5302)
• Use native os_log APIs on macOS for PowerShell Core logging. (#5310)
• Redirect ETW logging to Syslog on Linux. (#5144)
• Improve how we pass the array literal to native commands. (#5301)
• Make SemanticVersion compatible with SemVer 2.0. (#5037) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Revert refactoring changes that broke remoting to Windows PowerShell 5.1. (#5321)
• Port some fixes in Job for an issue that causes PowerShell to not respond. (#5258)
• Multiple improvements by CodeRush static analysis. (#5132) (Thanks @Himura2la!)
• Fix the Runspace cleanup issue that causes PowerShell to not respond on exit. (#5356)
• Update PowerShell to depend on new version of psrp and libmi nuget packages on Unix platforms. (#5469)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Add -AsHashtable to ConvertFrom-Json to return a Hashtable instead. (#5043) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix Import-module to not report a loaded module was not found. (#5238)
• Fix performance issues in Add-Type. (#5243) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix PSUserAgent generation for Web Cmdlets on Windows 7. (#5256) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Remove DCOM support from *-Computer cmdlets. (#5277)
• Add multiple link header support to Web Cmdlets. (#5265) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Use wider columns for process id and user. (#5303)
• Add Remove-Alias Command. (#5143) (Thanks @PowershellNinja!)
• Update installpsh-suse.sh to work with the tar.gz package. (#5309)
• Add Jobject serialization support to ConvertTo-Json. (#5141)
• Display full help with 'help' function. (#5195) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• Fix help function to not pipe to more if objects are returned instead of help text. (#5395)
• Fix Unblock-File to not write an error if the file is already unblocked. (#5362) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Clean up FullCLR code from Web Cmdlets. (#5376) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Exclude cmdlets that are not supported on Unix platforms. (#5083)
• Make Import-Csv support CR, LF and CRLF as line delimiters. (#5363) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix spelling in Web Cmdlet errors. (#5427) (Thanks @markekraus!)
• Add SslProtocol support to Web Cmdlets. (#5329) (Thanks @markekraus!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Use RCEdit to embed icon and version information into pwsh.exe. (#5178)
• Update Docker file for Nano Server 1709 release. (#5252)
• Change VSCode build task to use pwsh. (#5255)
• Refactor building and packaging scripts for signing in release build workflow. (#5300)
• Always build with -CrossGen in CI to verify a fix in CrossGen tool. (#5315)
• Separate Install-PowerShellRemoting.ps1 from psrp.windows nuget package. (#5330)
• Include symbols folder an embedded zip when packaging symbols. (#5333)
• Add Uniform Type Identifier conforming with Apple standards using a reverse DNS style prefix. (#5323)
• Update Wix toolset download link to newer version 3.11 (#5339) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Re-enable macOS launcher after fixing an issue that blocked macOS package generation. (#5291) (Thanks @thezim!)
• Set expected binaries and variable name for folder for symbols build. (#5357)
• Rename and update PowerShell ETW manifest to remove the Windows PowerShell dependency. (#5360)
• Add ability to produce tar.gz package for Raspbian. (#5387)
• Update Find-Dotnet to find dotnet with the compatible SDK. (#5341) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• Add signing manifest and script to update it with production values. (#5397)
• Add install-powershell.ps1 to install PowerShell Core on windows. (#5383)
• Make -Name a dynamic parameter in Start-PSPackage. (#5415)
• Support [package] tag in PR CI and fix nightly build on macOS. (#5410)
• Enhance install-powershell.ps1 to work on Linux and macOS. (#5411)
• Move the RCEdit step to the build phase rather than the packaging phase. (#5404)
• Allow packaging from a zip package to allow for signing. (#5418)
• Add automation to validate PowerShell Core packages using Docker containers. (#5401)
• Fix the brew update issue in bootstrap script. (#5400)
• Enable install-powershell.ps1 to update the current running PowerShell Core. (#5429)
• Add standard set of VSCode workspace setting files. (#5457) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• Add support for installing PowerShell Core on Amazon Linux via install-powershell.sh. (#5461) (Thanks @DarwinJS!)
• Get PowerShellGet and PackageManagement from the PowerShell Gallery. (#5452)
• Fix Start-PSBuild on WSL if repository was already built on Windows. (#5346) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Fix build in VSCode and use an improved version of tasks.json from @rkeithhill. (#5453)
• Add scripts for signing packages in the release build workflow. (#5463)

Documentation and Help Content

• Fix the codebase to use the consistent copyright string. (#5210)
• Add documentation about how to create libpsl and psrp.windows nuget packages. (#5278)
• Add help strings in PowerShell banner. (#5275) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Change all links in README.md to absolute as they are being used in other places outside of GitHub. (#5354)
• Update instructions to build on VSCode based on pwsh. (#5368)
• Update FAQ.md about how to use PowerShell Core nuget packages. (#5366)
• Correct the Fedora documentation (#5384) (Thanks @offthewoll!)
• Add instructions about how to create the PowerShell.Core.Instrumentation nuget package. (#5396)
• Updated PowerShell to use the latest help package. (#5454)

Compliance Work

Compliance
work is required for Microsoft to continue to sign and release packages from the project as official Microsoft packages.

• Replace the word hang with something more appropriate and add rules about other terms. (#5213, #5297, #5358)
• Use simplified names for compliance folders (#5388)
• Add compliance label description (#5355)
• Set requestedExecutionLevel to asInvoker for pwsh.exe on Windows. (#5285)
• Add HighEntropyVA to building pwsh. (#5455)

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts:

• powershell_6.0.0-rc-1.debian.8_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.0-rc-1.debian.9_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.0-rc-1.ubuntu.14.04_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.0-rc-1.ubuntu.16.04_amd64.deb
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• powershell_6.0.0-rc-1.ubuntu.17.04_amd64.deb
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• powershell-6.0.0_rc-1.rhel.7.x86_64.rpm
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• powershell-6.0.0-rc-linux-arm32.tar.gz
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v6.0.0-beta.9 - 2017-10-24

Note: Starting from this release, the PowerShell Core executable is renamed to be pwsh (see the issue #4214 for the discussion details). We also start to provide PowerShell Core binary archive packages for Linux and macOS for advanced deployment.

Breaking changes

• Fix ValueFromRemainingArguments to have consistent behavior between script and C# cmdlets. (#2038) (Thanks @dlwyatt)
• Remove parameters -importsystemmodules and -psconsoleFile from powershell.exe. (#4995)
• Removed code to show a GUI prompt for credentials as PowerShell Core prompts in console. (#4995)
• Remove -ComputerName from Get/Set/Remove-Service. (#5094)
• Rename the executable name from powershell to pwsh. (#5101)
• Remove RunspaceConfiguration support. (#4942)
• Remove -ComputerName support since .NET Core Process.GetProcesses(computer) returns local processes. (#4960)
• Make -NoTypeInformation the default on Export-Csv and ConvertTo-Csv. (#5164) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Unify cmdlets with parameter -Encoding to be of type System.Text.Encoding. (#5080)

Engine updates and fixes

• Fix PowerShell to update the PATH environment variable only if PATH exists. (#5021)
• Enable support of folders and files with colon in name on Unix. (#4959)
• Fix detection of whether -LiteralPath was used to suppress wildcard expansion for navigation cmdlets. (#5038)
• Enable using filesystem from a UNC location. (#4998)
• Escape trailing backslash when dealing with native command arguments. (#4965)
• Change location of ModuleAnalysisCache so it isn't shared with Windows PowerShell. (#5133)
• Put command discovery before scripts for Unix. (#5116)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Correct comma position in SecureStringCommands.resx. (#5033) (Thanks @markekraus)
• User Agent of Web Cmdlets now reports the OS platform (#4937) (Thanks @LDSpits)
• Add the positional parameter attribute to -InputObject for Set-Service. (#5017) (Thanks @travisty-)
• Add ValidateNotNullOrEmpty attribute to -UFormat for Get-Date. (#5055) (Thanks @ddwr)
• Add -NoNewLine switch for Out-String. (#5056) (Thanks @raghav710)
• Improve progress messages written by Web Cmdlets. (#5078) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add verb descriptions and alias prefixes for Get-Verb. (#4746) (Thanks @Tadas)
• Fix Get-Content -Raw to not miss the last line feed character. (#5076)
• Add authentication parameters to Web Cmdlets. (#5052) (Thanks @markekraus)
  • Add -Authentication that provides three options: Basic, OAuth, and Bearer.
  • Add -Token to get the bearer token for OAuth and Bearer options.
  • Add -AllowUnencryptedAuthentication to bypass authentication that is provided for any transport scheme other than HTTPS.
• Fix MatchInfoContext clone implementation (#5121) (Thanks @dee-see)
• Exclude PSHostProcess cmdlets from Unix platforms. (#5105)
• Fix Add-Member to fetch resource string correctly. (#5114)
• Enable Import-Module to be case insensitive. (#5097)
• Add exports for syslog APIs in libpsl-native. (#5149)
• Fix Get-ChildItem to not ignore -Depth parameter when using with -Include or -Exclude. (#4985) (Thanks @Windos)
• Added properties UserName, Description, DelayedAutoStart, BinaryPathName and StartupType to the ServiceController objects returned by Get-Service. (#4907) (Thanks @joandrsn)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Treat .rtf files as binary so EOL don't get changed. (#5020)
• Improve the output of tools/installpsh-osx.sh and update Travis-CI to use Ruby 2.3.3. (#5065)
• Improve Start-PSBootstrap to locate dotnet SDK before installing it. (#5059) (Thanks @PetSerAl)
• Fix the prerequisite check of the MSI package. (#5070)
• Support creating tar.gz package for Linux and macOS. (#5085)
• Add release builds that produce symbols for compliance scans. (#5086)
• Update existing Docker files for the Linux package changes. (#5102)
• Add compiler switches and replace dangerous function with safer ones. (#5089)
• Add macOS launcher. (#5138) (Thanks @thezim)
• Replace httpbin.org/response-headers Tests with WebListener. (#5058) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Update appimage.sh to reflect the new name pwsh. (#5172)
• Update the man help file used in packaging. (#5173)
• Update to use pwsh in macOS launcher. (#5174) (Thanks @thezim)
• Add code to send web hook for Travis-CI daily build. (#5183)
• Add global.json to pick correct SDK version. (#5118) (Thanks @rkeithhill)
• Update packaging to only package PowerShell binaries when packaging symbols. (#5145)
• Update Docker files and related due to the name change. (#5156)

Code Cleanup

• Clean up Json cmdlets. (#5001) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Remove code guarded by RELATIONSHIP_SUPPORTED and SUPPORTS_IMULTIVALUEPROPERTYCMDLETPROVIDER, which has never been used. (#5066)
• Remove PSMI code that has never been used. (#5075)
• Remove unreachable code for Stop-Job. (#5091) (Thanks @travisty-)
• Removed font and codepage handling code that is only applicable to Windows PowerShell. (#4995)

Test

• Fix a race condition between WebListener and Web Cmdlets tests. (#5035) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add warning to Start-PSPester if Pester module is not found (#5069) (Thanks @ddwr)
• Add tests for DSC configuration compilation on Windows. (#5011)
• Test fixes and code coverage automation fixes. (#5046)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update Pi demo instructions about installing libunwind8. (#4974)
• Add links on best practice guidelines in coding guideline. (#4983) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Reformat command line help for powershell -help (#4989) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Change logo in readme to current black icon. (#5030)
• Fix RPM package name in README.md. (#5044)
• Update docs/building/linux.md to reflect the current status of powershell build. (#5068) (Thanks @dee-see)
• Add black version of .icns file for macOS. (#5073) (Thanks @thezim)
• Update Arch Linux installation instructions. (#5048) (Thanks @kylesferrazza)
• Add submodule reminder to testing-guidelines.md. (#5061) (Thanks @ddwr)
• Update instructions in docs/building/internals.md for building from source. (#5072) (Thanks @kylesferrazza)
• Add UserVoice link to Issue Template. (#5100) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add Get-WebListenerUrl Based Examples to WebListener README.md. (#4981) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add document about how to create cmdlet with dotnet CLI. (#5117) (Thanks @rkeithhill)
• Update the help text for PowerShell executable with the new name pwsh. (#5182)
• Add new forward links for PowerShell 6.0.0 help content. (#4978)
• Fix VSCode launch.json to point to pwsh. (#5189)
• Add example of how to create .NET Core cmdlet with Visual Studio. (#5096)

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v6.0.0-beta.8 - 2017-10-05

Note: Starting from this release, we officially support Ubuntu.17.04, Debian 8 (jessie) and Debian 9 (stretch). Separate DEB packages are published for those distros. We also start to provide a single RPM package for the supported Red Hat family of distros.

Breaking changes

• Changed New-Service to return error when given unsupported -StartupType and fixed Set-Service icon failing test. (#4802)
• Allow * to be used in registry path for Remove-Item. (#4866)
• Remove unsupported -ShowWindow switch from Get-Help. (#4903)
• Fix incorrect position of a parameter which resulted in the args passed as input instead of as args for InvokeScript(). (#4963)

Engine updates and fixes

• Make calls to void CodeMethod work. (#4850) (Thanks @powercode)
• Get PSVersion and GitCommitId from the ProductVersion attribute of assembly (#4863) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Fix powershell -version and built-in help for powershell.exe to align with other native tools. (#4958 & #4931) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Load assemblies with Assembly.LoadFrom before Assembly.Load when the file path is given. (#4196)
• Add a generic file watcher function in HelpersCommon.psm1. (#4775)
• Update old links and fix broken links in docs/host-powershell/README.md. (#4877)
• Fix when importing remote modules using version filters (and added tests). (#4900)
• Enable transcription of native commands on non-Windows platforms. (#4871)
• Add a new line to CommandNotFoundException error string. (#4934 & #4991)
• Fix bug where PowerShell would exit with an error within an SSH remoting connection on Linux. (#4993)
• Fix issues with expression redirected to file. (#4847)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Added Remove-Service to Management module. (#4858) (Thanks @joandrsn)
• Added functionality to set credentials on Set-Service command. (#4844) (Thanks @joandrsn)
• Fix Select-String to exclude directories (as opposed to individual files) discovered from -Path. (#4829) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Get-Date now supports more argument completion scenarios by adding ArgumentCompletionsAttribute. (#4835) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Exclude -ComObject parameter of New-Object on unsupported (currently non-Windows) platforms. (#4922) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Updated default ModuleVersion in New-ModuleManifest to 0.0.1 to align with SemVer. (#4842) (Thanks @LDSpits)
• Add Multipart support to web cmdlets. (#4782) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add -ResponseHeadersVariable to Invoke-RestMethod to enable the capture of response headers. (#4888) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Initialize web cmdlets headers dictionary only once. (#4853) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Change web cmdlets UserAgent from WindowsPowerShell to PowerShell. (#4914) (Thanks @markekraus)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Make the build output the WiX compilation log if it failed. (#4831) (Thanks @bergmeister)
• Use a simple file based check in the MSI for the VC++ 2015 redistributables. (#4745) (Thanks @bergmeister)
• New icon for PowerShell Core. (#4848)
• Build Powershell Core using the generic RID linux-x64. (#4841)
• Create generic Linux-x64 packages that are portable to all supported RPM Linux distros (and more similar for Debian based distros). (#4902 & #4994)
• Suppress the output of building test tools in Compress-TestContent. (#4957)
• Remove unnecessary error messages from output. (#4954)
• Update Travis CI script so that PRs can fail due to Pester tests. (#4830)
• Move release build definition into PowerShell. (#4884)
• Fix credential scan issues. (#4927 & #4935)
• Enable security flags in native compiler. (#4933)
• Add VS 2017 solution file for powershell-win-core. (#4748)

Code Cleanup

• Remove remainder of Utility.Activities (Workflow code). (#4880)
• Remove Microsoft.PowerShell.CoreCLR.AssemblyLoadContext.dll. (#4868)
• Enable auto EOL on Git repo side, fix some character encoding issues. (#4912)
• Updated EOL for all files to be LF in the repository. (#4943 & #4956)
• Removed leading whitespace. (#4991)

DSC Language

• Update version of PSDesiredStateConfiguration in project files to fix complication of MOF files with the Configuration keyword. (#4979)

Test

• Replace httpbin.org tests with WebListener. (Thanks @markekraus)
  • headers (#4799)
  • user-agent (#4798)
  • redirect (#4852)
  • encoding (#4869)
  • delay (#4905)
  • gzip & enable deflate (#4948)
  • related changes and fixes (#4920)
• Port tests for constrained language mode. (#4816)
• Enable Select-String test from a network path. (#4921) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Reformat Measure-Object test. (#4972) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Mitigate intermittent failures in access denied tests. (#4788)
• Fix tests that incorrectly use ShouldBeErrorId. (#4793)
• Fix a test issue that causes tests to be skipped in Travis CI run (#4891)
• Skip web cmdlet certificate authentication tests on CentOS and Mac. (#4822)
• Validate product resource strings against resx files. (#4811 & #4861)
• Add source files for coverage run. (#4925)
• Add the UTC offset correctly in tests for CDXML cmdlets. (#4867)
• Be sure to change PSDefaultParameterValue in the global scope. (#4977 & #4892)
• Reduce output of Pester for CI. (#4855)
• Add tests for
  • Get-Content (#4723) (Thanks @sarithsutha)
  • Remoting and Jobs (#4928)
  • Get-Help (#4895)
  • Get-Command -ShowCommandInfo (#4906)
  • Get-Content -Tail (#4790)
  • Get-Module over remoting (#4787)
  • Start/Stop/Suspend/Resume/Restart-Service cmdlets (#4774)
  • WSMan Config provider tests (#4756)
  • CDXML CIM DateTime test (#4796)

Documentation and Graphics

• Sort .spelling (Thanks @markekraus)
• Improve the guideline for performance consideration. (#4824)
• Add setup steps for MacOS to use PSRP over SSH. (#4872)
• Instructions to demo PowerShell Core on Raspbian. (#4882)
• Added instructions to get permission to use PowerShell image assets. (#4938)
• Added demo for using Windows PowerShell modules. (#4886)

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