v6.0.2 release of PowerShell Core

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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v6.0.1 release of PowerShell Core

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

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v6.0.0 release of PowerShell Core

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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v6.0.0-rc.2 release of PowerShell Core

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

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v6.0.0-rc release of PowerShell Core

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)

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v6.0.0-beta.9 release of PowerShell Core

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 release of PowerShell Core

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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v6.0.0-beta.7 release of PowerShellCore

v6.0.0-beta.7 - 2017-09-13

Note: Starting from this release, we provide a single package for each Windows supported architecture (x64 and x86). In this release, we stop supporting openSUSE Leap 42.1 as it has reached the end of SUSE support. We will publish a package for openSUSE 42.2 in future releases.

Breaking change

• Fix Get-Content -Delimiter to not include the delimiter in the array elements returned (#3706) (Thanks @mklement0)
• Rename $IsOSX to $IsMacOS (#4757)

Engine updates and fixes

• Use stricter rules when unwrapping a PSObject that wraps a COM object (#4614)
• Remove appended Windows PowerShell PSModulePath on Windows. (#4656)
• Ensure GetNetworkCredential() returns null if PSCredential has null or empty user name (#4697)
• Push locals of automatic variables to 'DottedScopes' when dotting script cmdlets (#4709)
• Fix using module when module has non-terminating errors handled with SilentlyContinue (#4711) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Enable use of 'Singleline,Multiline' option in split operator (#4721) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Fix error message in ValidateSetAttribute.ValidateElement() (#4722) (Thanks @iSazonov)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Add Meta, Charset, and Transitional parameters to ConvertTo-HTML (#4184) (Thanks @ergo3114)
• Prevent Test-ModuleManifest from loading unnecessary modules (#4541)
• Remove AlternateStream code and -Stream from provider cmdlets on non-Windows (#4567)
• Add explicit ContentType detection to Invoke-RestMethod (#4692)
• Fix an error on Enter-PSSession exit (#4693)
• Add -WhatIf switch to Start-Process cmdlet (#4735) (Thanks @sarithsutha)
• Remove double spaces in .cs, .ps1, and .resx files (#4741 & #4743) (Thanks @korygill)
• Replace 'Windows PowerShell' with 'PowerShell' in resx files (#4758) (Thanks @iSazonov)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Refactor MSBuild project files to get PowerShell version from git tag (#4182) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Create a single package for each Windows supported architecture (x86 and amd64) (#4540)
• Set the default windows RID to win7- (#4701)
• Enable cross-compiling for Raspberry-PI arm32 (#4742)
• Fix macOS brew reinstall command (#4627) (Thanks @TheNewStellW)
• Improvements to the Travis-CI script (#4689, #4731, #4807)
• Update OpenSUSE docker image to 42.2 (#4737)
• Confirm Start-PSPackage produces a package (#4795)

Code Cleanup

• Remove part of the Workflow code (#4777)
• Clean up CORECLR preprocessor directives in TraceSource (#4684)

Test

• Add test WebListener module and tests for Web Cmdlet Certificate Authentication (#4622) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Move WebCmdlets HTTPS tests to WebListener (#4733) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Replace httpbin.org/get tests With WebListener (#4738) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Use -PassThru on Pester tests to reliably catch failures (#4644)
• Display the same number of tests regardless of platform (#4728)
• Improve comparison of code coverage values for a file (#4764)
• Silence PSSessionConfiguration test warning messages in the log (#4794)
• Add tests for
  • Get-Service (#4773)
  • Set-Service and New-Service (#4785)
  • Trace-Command (#4288)
  • StaticParameter (#4779)
  • Test-Wsman (#4771)
  • New-Object -ComObject (#4776)
  • ProxyCommand APIs (#4791)
• Disable tests
  • 'VC++ Redistributable'(#4673 & #4729)
  • "Test 01. Standard Property test - all properties ()" due to missing CsPhysicallyInstalledMemory (#4763)
  • New-Service failing test (#4806)

Documentation

• Update WritingPesterTests.md to recommend ShouldBeErrorId (#4637)
• Clarify the Pull Request process, roles, and responsibilities (#4710)
• Add absolute URLs in the issue template and pull request template (#4718) (Thanks @chucklu)
• Add new approved Build and Deploy verbs (#4725)
• Update using-vscode.md to use the new exe path (#4736)
• Update coding guidelines to make it more concrete and useful in a review process (#4754)

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts:

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v6.0.0-beta.6 release of PowerShellCore

v6.0.0-beta.6 - 2017-08-24

Breaking change

• Make invalid argument error messages for -File and -Command consistent and make exit codes consistent with Unix standards (#4573)

Engine updates and fixes

• Make resource loading to work with PowerShell SxS installation (#4139)
• Add missing assemblies to TPA list to make Pwrshplughin.dll work (#4502)
• Make sure running powershell starts an instance of the current version of PowerShell. (#4481)
• Make sure we only use Unicode output by default on Nano and IoT systems (#4074)
• Enable powershell -WindowStyle to work on Windows. (#4573)
• Enable enumeration of COM collections. (#4553)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Fix Web CmdLets -SkipHeaderValidation to work with non-standard User-Agent headers. (#4479 & #4512) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add Certificate authentication support for Web CmdLets. (#4646) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add support for content headers to Web CmdLets. (#4494 & #4640) (Thanks @markekraus)
• Add support for converting enums to string (#4318) (Thanks @KirkMunro)
• Ignore casing when binding PSReadline KeyHandler functions (#4300) (Thanks @oising)
• Fix Unblock-File for the case of a read-only file. (#4395) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Use supported API to set Central Access Policy ID (CAPID) in SACL. (#4496)
• Make Start-Trace support paths that require escaping in the underlying APIs (#3863)
• Removing #if CORECLR enabled, Enable-PSRemoting and Disable-PSRemoting (#2671)
• Enable WSManCredSSP cmdlets and add tests. (#4336)
• Use .NET Core's implementation for ShellExecute. (#4523)
• Fix SSH Remoting handling of KeyFileParameter when the path must be quoted. (#4529)
• Make Web CmdLets use HTML meta charset attribute value, if present (#4338)
• Move to .NET Core 2.0 final (#4603)

Build/test and code cleanup

• Add Amazon Linux Docker image and enable related tests. (#4393) (Thanks @DarwinJS)
• Make MSI verify pre-requisites are installed. (#4602) (Thank @bergmeister)
• Fixed formatting issues in build files. (#4630) (Thanks @iSazonov)
• Make sure install-powershell.sh installs latest powershell on macOS, even if an old version is cached in brew. (#4509) (Thanks @richardszalay for reporting.)
• Fixes install scripts issue for macOS. (#4631) (Thanks @DarwinJS)
• Many stability improvements to our nightly code coverage automation. (#4313 & #4550)
• Remove hash validation from nanoserver-insider Docker file, due to frequent changes. (#4498)
• Update to make Travis-CI daily build badge more reliable. (#4522)
• Remove unused build files, build code, and product code. (#4532, #4580, #4590, #4589, #4588, #4587, #4586, #4583, #4582, #4581)
• Add additional acceptance tests for PowerShellGet. (#4531)
• Only publish a NuGet of the full PowerShell core package on daily builds and not merge. (#4517)
• Update nanoserver-insider Docker file due to breaking changes in the base image. (#4555)
• Cleanup engine tests (#4551)
• Fix intermittent failures in filesystem tests (#4566)
• Add tests for
  • New-WinEvent. (#4384)
  • tab completion. (#4560)
  • various types. (#4503)
  • CDXML CmdLets. (#4537)
• Only allow packaging of powershell, if it was built from a repo at the root of the file system named powershell. (#4569 & #4600)
• Update Format-Hex test cases to use -TestCase instead of foreach loops. (#3800)
• Added functionality to get code coverage for a single file locally. (#4556)

Documentation

• Added Ilya (@iSazonov) as a Maintainer. (#4365)
• Grammar fix to the Pull Request Guide. (#4322)
• Add homebrew for macOS to install documentation. (#3838)
• Added a CodeOwner file. (#4565 & #4597)

Cleanup #if CORECLR code

PowerShell 6.0 will be exclusively built on top of CoreCLR,
so we are removing a large amount of code that's built only for FullCLR.
To read more about this, check out this blog post.

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts:

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v6.0.0-beta.5 release of PowerShellCore

v6.0.0-beta.5 - 2017-08-02

Breaking changes

• Remove the *-Counter cmdlets in Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics due to the use of unsupported APIs until a better solution is found. (#4303)
• Remove the Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts due to the use of unsupported APIs until a better solution is found. (#4302)

Engine updates and fixes

• Fix the issue where PowerShell Core wasn't working on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2/2012 (non-R2). (#4463)
• ValidateSetAttribute enhancement: support set values to be dynamically generated from a custom ValidateSetValueGenerator. (#3784) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Disable breaking into debugger on Ctrl+Break when running non-interactively. (#4283) (Thanks to @mwrock!)
• Give error instead of crashing if WSMan client library is not available. (#4387)
• Allow passing $true/$false as a parameter to scripts using powershell.exe -File. (#4178)
• Enable DataRow/DataRowView adapters in PowerShell Core to fix an issue with DataTable usage. (#4258)
• Fix an issue where PowerShell class static methods were being shared across Runspaces/SessionStates. (#4209)
• Fix array expression to not return null or throw error. (#4296)
• Fixes a CIM deserialization bug where corrupted CIM classes were instantiating non-CIM types. (#4234)
• Improve error message when HelpMessage property of ParameterAttribute is set to empty string. (#4334)
• Make ShellExecuteEx run in a STA thread. (#4362)

General cmdlet updates and fixes

• Add -SkipHeaderValidation switch to Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod to support adding headers without validating the header value. (#4085)
• Add support for Invoke-Item -Path <folder>. (#4262)
• Fix ConvertTo-Html output when using a single column header. (#4276)
• Fix output of Length for FileInfo when using Format-List. (#4437)
• Fix an issue in implicit remoting where restricted sessions couldn't use Get-FormatData –PowerShellVersion. (#4222)
• Fix an issue where Register-PSSessionConfiguration fails if SessionConfig folder doesn't exist. (#4271)

Installer updates

• Create script to install latest PowerShell from Microsoft package repositories (or Homebrew) on non-Windows platforms. (#3608) (Thanks to @DarwinJS!)
• Enable MSI upgrades rather than a side-by-side install. (#4259)
• Add a checkbox to open PowerShell after the Windows MSI installer has finished. (#4203) (Thanks to @bergmeister!)
• Add Amazon Linux compatibility to install-powershell.sh. (#4360) (Thanks to @DarwinJS!)
• Add ability to package PowerShell Core as a NuGet package. (#4363)

Build/test and code cleanup

• Add build check for MFC for Visual C++ during Windows builds.
  This fixes a long-standing (and very frustrating!) issue with missing build dependencies! (#4185) (Thanks to @KirkMunro!)
• Move building Windows PSRP binary out of Start-PSBuild.
  Now Start-PSBuild doesn't build PSRP binary on windows. Instead, we consume the PSRP binary from a NuGet package. (#4335)
• Add tests for built-in type accelerators. (#4230) (Thanks to @dchristian3188!)
• Increase code coverage of Get-ChildItem on file system. (#4342) (Thanks to @jeffbi!)
• Increase test coverage for Rename-Item and Move-Item. (#4329) (Thanks to @jeffbi!)
• Add test coverage for Registry provider. (#4354) (Thanks to @jeffbi!)
• Fix warnings and errors thrown by PSScriptAnalyzer. (#4261) (Thanks to @bergmeister!)
• Fix regressions that cause implicit remoting tests to fail. (#4326)
• Disable legacy UTC and SQM Windows telemetry by enclosing the code in '#if LEGACYTELEMETRY'. (#4190)

Cleanup #if CORECLR code

PowerShell 6.0 will be exclusively built on top of CoreCLR,
so we are removing a large amount of code that's built only for FullCLR.
To read more about this, check out this blog post.

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts:

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