preview.md

Current preview release

7.3.0-preview.7 - 2022-08-09

Breaking Changes

• Move the type data definition of System.Security.AccessControl.ObjectSecurity to the Microsoft.PowerShell.Security module (#16355) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Enable searching for assemblies in GAC_Arm64 on Windows (#17816)
• Fix parser exception in using statements with empty aliases (#16745) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Do not always collapse space between parameter and value for native arguments. (#17708)
• Remove PSNativePSPathResolution experimental feature (#17670)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Fix for deserializing imported ordered dictionary (#15545) (Thanks @davidBar-On!)
• Make generated implicit remoting modules backwards compatible with PowerShell 5.1 (#17227) (Thanks @Tadas!)
• Re-enable IDE0031: Use Null propagation (#17811) (Thanks @fflaten!)
• Allow commands to still be executed even if the current working directory no longer exists (#17579)
• Stop referencing Microsoft.PowerShell.Security when the core snapin is used (#17771)
• Add support for HTTPS with Set-AuthenticodeSignature -TimeStampServer (#16134) (Thanks @Ryan-Hutchison-USAF!)
• Add type accelerator ordered for OrderedDictionary (#17804) (Thanks @fflaten!)
• Fix the definition of the PDH_COUNTER_INFO struct (#17779)
• Adding Virtualization Based Security feature names to Get-ComputerInfo (#16415) (Thanks @mattifestation!)
• Fix FileSystemProvider to work with volume and pipe paths (#15873)
• Remove pre-parse for array-based JSON (#15684) (Thanks @strawgate!)
• Improve type inference for $_ (#17716) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Prevent braces from being removed when completing variables (#17751) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Fix type inference for ICollection (#17752) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Fix Test-Json not handling non-object types at root (#17741) (Thanks @dkaszews!)
• Change Get-ChildItem to treat trailing slash in path as indicating a directory when used with -Recurse (#17704)
• Add find.exe to legacy argument binding behavior for Windows (#17715)
• Add completion for index expressions for dictionaries (#17619) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Fix enum-ranges for ValidateRange in proxy commands (#17572) (Thanks @fflaten!)
• Fix type completion for attribute tokens (#17484) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Add -noprofileloadtime switch to pwsh (#17535) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• Fix legacy ErrorView types to use $host.PrivateData colors (#17705)
• Improve dynamic parameter tab completion (#17661) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Avoid binding positional parameters when completing parameter in front of value (#17693) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Render decimal numbers in a table using current culture (#17650)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@fflaten, @Molkree, @eltociear

• Fix other path constructions using Path.Join (#17825)
• Use null propagation (#17787)(#17789)(#17790)(#17791)(#17792)(#17795) (Thanks @fflaten!)
• Re-enable compound assignment preference (#17784) (Thanks @Molkree!)
• Use null-coalescing assignment (#17719)(#17720)(#17721)(#17722)(#17723)(#17724)(#17725)(#17726)(#17727)(#17728)(#17729) (Thanks @Molkree!)
• Disable the warning IDE0031 to take .NET 7 Preview 7 (#17770)
• Fix typo in ModuleCmdletBase.cs (#17714) (Thanks @eltociear!)

Tests

• Re-enable tests because the corresponding dotnet issues were fixed (#17839)
• Add test for LanguageMode using remoting (#17803) (Thanks @fflaten!)
• Fix test perf by stopping ongoing write-progress (#17749) (Thanks @fflaten!)
• Re-enable the test TestLoadNativeInMemoryAssembly (#17738)

Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!

@varunsh-coder, @dkaszews, @Molkree, @ChuckieChen945

• Update release pipeline to use Approvals and automate some manual tasks (#17837)
• Add GitHub token permissions for workflows (#17781) (Thanks @varunsh-coder!)
• Bump actions/github-script from 3 to 6 (#17842)
• Bump cirrus-actions/rebase from 1.6 to 1.7 (#17843)
• Remove unneeded verbose message in build (#17840)
• Detect default runtime using dotnet --info in build.psm1 (#17818) (Thanks @dkaszews!)
• Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 3 (#17828)
• Bump actions/download-artifact from 2 to 3 (#17829)
• Bump github/codeql-action from 1 to 2 (#17830)
• Bump peter-evans/create-pull-request from 3 to 4 (#17831)
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 2 to 3 (#17832)
• Enable Dependabot for GitHub Actions (#17775) (Thanks @Molkree!)
• Update .NET SDK version from 7.0.100-preview.6.22352.1 to 7.0.100-preview.7.22377.5 (#17776)
• Fix a bug in install-powershell.ps1 (#17794) (Thanks @ChuckieChen945!)
• Bump xunit from 2.4.1 to 2.4.2 (#17817)
• Update how to update homebrew (#17798)
• Don't run link check on forks (#17797)
• Update dotnetmetadata.json to start consuming .NET 7 preview 7 builds (#17736)
• Bump PackageManagement from 1.4.7 to 1.4.8.1 (#17709)
• Exclude ARM images from running in CI (#17713)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update the comment about why R2R is disabled (#17850)
• Update changelog and .spelling for 7.3.0-preview.6 release (#17835)
• Updated ADOPTERS.md for Power BI (#17766)
• Update README.md with the current Fedora version (#15717) (Thanks @ananya26-vishnoi!)
• Update README and metadata.json for next release (#17676) (Thanks @SeeminglyScience!)

7.3.0-preview.6 - 2022-07-18

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Fix Export-PSSession to not throw error when a rooted path is specified for -OutputModule (#17671)
• Change ConvertFrom-Json -AsHashtable to use ordered hashtable (#17405)
• Remove potential ANSI escape sequences in strings before using in Out-GridView (#17664)
• Add the -Milliseconds parameter to New-TimeSpan (#17621) (Thanks @NoMoreFood!)
• Update Set-AuthenticodeSignature to use SHA256 as the default (#17560) (Thanks @jborean93!)
• Fix tab completion regression when completing ValidateSet values (#17628) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Show optional parameters as such when displaying method definition and overloads (#13799) (Thanks @eugenesmlv!)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@sethvs, @MartinGC94, @eltociear

• Fix comment in InternalCommands.cs (#17669) (Thanks @sethvs!)
• Use discards for unused variables (#17620) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Fix typo in CommonCommandParameters.cs (#17524) (Thanks @eltociear!)

Tests

• Fix SDK tests for release build (#17678)

Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!

@tamasvajk

• Create test artifacts for Windows ARM64 (#17675)
• Update to the latest NOTICES file (#17607)
• Update .NET SDK version from 7.0.100-preview.5.22307.18 to 7.0.100-preview.6.22352.1 (#17634)
• Set the compound assignment preference to false (#17632)
• Update DotnetMetadata.json to start consuming .NET 7 Preview 6 builds (#17630)
• Install .NET 3.1 as it is required by the vPack task (#17600)
• Update to use PSReadLine v2.2.6 (#17595)
• Fix build.psm1 to not specify both version and quality for dotnet-install (#17589) (Thanks @tamasvajk!)
• Bump Newtonsoft.Json in /test/perf/dotnet-tools/Reporting (#17592)
• Bump Newtonsoft.Json in /test/perf/dotnet-tools/ResultsComparer (#17566)
• Disable RPM SBOM test. (#17532)

Documentation and Help Content

• Remove katacoda.com from doc as it now returns 404 (#17625)
• Update change log for v7.2.5 and v7.3.0-preview.5 (#17565)
• Update README.md and metadata.json for upcoming releases (#17526)

7.3.0-preview.5 - 2022-06-21

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Improve type inference and completions (#16963) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Make Out-String and Out-File keep string input unchanged (#17455)
• Make AnsiRegex able to capture Hyperlink ANSI sequences (#17442)
• Add the -ConfigurationFile command line parameter to pwsh to support local session configuration (#17447)
• Fix native library loading for osx-arm64 (#17365) (Thanks @awakecoding!)
• Fix formatting to act appropriately when the style of table header or list label is empty string (#17463)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Fix various completion issues inside the param block (#17489) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Add Amended switch to Get-CimClass cmdlet (#17477) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Improve completion on operators (#17486) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Improve array element completion for command arguments (#17078) (Thanks @matt9ucci!)
• Use AST extent for PSScriptRoot path completion (#17376)
• Add type inference support for generic methods with type parameters (#16951) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Write out OSC indicator only if the stdout is not redirected (#17419)
• Remove the assert and use a relatively larger capacity to cover possible increase of .NET reference assemblies (#17423)
• Increase reference assembly count to 161 (#17420)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@Yulv-git, @eltociear

• Fix some typos in source code (#17481) (Thanks @Yulv-git!)
• Fix typo in `AsyncResult.cs` (#17396) (Thanks @eltociear!)

Tools

• Update script to pin to .NET 7 preview 5 version (#17448)
• Start-PSPester: argument completer for -Path (#17334) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Add reminder workflows (#17387)
• Move to configuring the fabric bot via JSON (#17411)
• Update Documentation Issue Template URL (#17410) (Thanks @michaeltlombardi!)
• Update script to automatically take new preview pre-release builds (#17375)

Tests

• Make Assembly Load Native test work on a FX Dependent Linux Install (#17380)
• Update Get-Error test to not depend on DNS APIs (#17471)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update .NET SDK version from 7.0.100-preview.4.22252.9 to 7.0.100-preview.5.22307.18 (#17402)
• Downgrade the Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers package to 7.0.0-preview1.22217.1 (#17515)
• Rename mariner package to cm (#17505)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#17476)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.7.1 to 10.7.2 (#17475)
• Publish preview versions of mariner to preview repo (#17451)
• Update to the latest NOTICES file (#17421)
• Do not publish package for Mariner 1.0 (#17415)
• Add AppX capabilities in MSIX manifest so that PS7 can call the AppX APIs (#17416)
• Update to the latest NOTICES file (#17401)
• Fix mariner mappings (#17413)
• Update the cgmanifest (#17393)
• Bump `NJsonSchema` from `10.7.0` to `10.7.1` (#17381)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update to the latest NOTICES file (#17493) (Thanks @github-actions[bot]!)
• Update the cgmanifest (#17478) (Thanks @github-actions[bot]!)
• Correct spelling in Comments and tests (#17480) (Thanks @Yulv-git!)
• Fix spelling errors introduced in changelog (#17414)
• Update change log for v7.3.0-preview.4 release (#17412)
• Update readme and metadata for 7.3.0-preview.4 release (#17378)

7.3.0-preview.4 - 2022-05-23

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Remove the use of BinaryFormatter in PSRP serialization (#17133) (Thanks @jborean93!)
• Update telemetry collection removing unused data and adding some new data (#17304)
• Fix the word wrapping in formatting to handle escape sequences properly (#17316)
• Fix the error message in Hashtable-to-object conversion (#17329)
• Add support for new WDAC API (#17247)
• On Windows, reset cursor visibility back to previous state when rendering progress (#16782)
• Fix the list view to not leak VT decorations (#17262)
• Fix formatting truncation to handle strings with VT sequences (#17251)
• Fix line breakpoints for return statements without a value (#17179)
• Fix for partial PowerShell module search paths, that can be resolved to CWD locations (#17231) (Internal 20126)
• Change logic in the testing helper module for determining whether PSHOME is writable (#17218)
• Make a variable assignment in a ParenExpression to return the variable value (#17174)
• Use new Windows signature APIs from Microsoft.Security.Extensions package (#17159)
• Do not include node names when sending telemetry. (#16981)
• Support forward slashes in network share (UNC path) completion (#17111) (#17117) (Thanks @sba923!)
• Do not generate clean block in proxy function when the feature is disabled (#17112)
• Ignore failure attempting to set console window title (#16948)
• Update regex used to remove ANSI escape sequences to be more specific to decoration and CSI sequences (#16811)
• Improve member auto completion (#16504) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Prioritize ValidateSet completions over Enums for parameters (#15257) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Add Custom Remote Connections Feature (#17011)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Add check for ScriptBlock wrapped in PSObject to $using used in ForEach-Object -Parallel (#17234) (Thanks @ryneandal!)
• Fix ForEach method to set property on a scalar object (#17213)
• Fix Sort-Object -Stable -Unique to actually do stable sorting (#17189) (Thanks @m1k0net!)
• Add OutputType attribute to various commands (#16962) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Make Stop-Service only request needed privileges when not setting SDDL. (#16663) (Thanks @kvprasoon!)

Code Cleanup

• Remove EventLogLogProvider and its related legacy code (#17027)
• Fix typos in names of method (#17003) (Thanks @al-cheb!)
• SemanticChecks: Avoid repeated type resolution of [ordered] (#17328) (Thanks IISResetMe!)
• Redo the change that was reverted by #15853 (#17357)
• Correct spelling of pseudo in Compiler.cs (#17285) (Thanks @eltociear!)
• MakeNameObscurerTelemetryInitializer internal (#17214)
• Make NameObscurerTelemetryInitializer internal (#17167)
• Correct Typo in the resource string PathResolvedToMultiple (#17098) (Thanks @charltonstanley!)
• Fix typo in ComRuntimeHelpers.cs (#17104) (Thanks @eltociear!)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update link to PowerShell remoting in depth video (#17166)

Tests

• Add -because to the failing test to aid in debugging (#17030)
• Simplify Enum generator for the -bnot operator test (#17014)
• Improve unique naming for tests (#17043)
• Use a random string for the missing help topic to improve the chances that the help topic really won't be found. (#17042)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update README.md and metadata.json for v7.3.0-preview.3 release (#17029)
• Do not pull dotnet updates from internal feed (#17007)
• Simplify Get-WSManSupport based on current .NET Distro Support (#17356)
• Update to the latest NOTICES file (#17372, #17332, #17311, #17275)
• Run on every PR and let the action skip (#17366)
• Make sure verbose message is not null (#17363)
• Release changelogs (#17364)
• Update build versions (#17318)
• Add Daily Link Check GitHub Workflow (#17351)
• Update the cgmanifest (#17361, #17344, #17324, #17302, #17268)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.6.10 to 10.7.0 (#17350)
• Disable broken macOS CI job, which is unused (#17221)
• Have rebase workflow Post a message when it starts (#17341)
• Update DotnetRuntimeMetadata.json for .NET 7 Preview 4 (#17336)
• Update Ubuntu 22 to be detected as not supported WSMan (#17338)
• Bump xunit.runner.visualstudio from 2.4.3 to 2.4.5 (#17274)
• Make sure we execute tests on LTS package for older LTS releases (#17326)
• Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 17.1.0 to 17.2.0 (#17320)
• Add fedora to the OS's that can't run WSMan (#17325)
• Add sles15 support to install-powershell.sh (#16984)
• Start rotating through all images (#17315)
• Update .NET SDK version from 7.0.100-preview.2.22153.17 to 7.0.100-preview.4.22252.9 (#17061)
• Disable release security analysis for SSH CI (#17303)
• Add a finalize template which causes jobs with issues to fail (#17314)
• Add mapping for ubuntu22.04 jammy (#17317)
• Enable more tests to be run in a container. (#17294)
• Fix build.psm1 to find the required .NET SDK version when a higher version is installed (#17299)
• Improve how Linux container CI builds are identified (#17295)
• Only inject NuGet security analysis if we are using secure nuget.config (#17293)
• Reduce unneeded verbose message from build.psm1 (#17291)
• Switch to using GitHub action to verify markdown links for PRs (#17281)
• Put Secure supply chain analysis at correct place (#17273)
• Fix build id variable name when selecting CI container (#17279)
• Add rotation between the two mariner images (#17277)
• Update to use mcr.microsoft.com (#17272)
• Update engine working group members (#17271)
• Bump PSReadLine from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 in /src/Modules (#17252)
• Update timeout for daily (#17263)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.6.9 to 10.6.10 (#16902)
• Update the cgmanifest (#17260)
• Fix Generate checksum file for packages build failure - v7.1.7 (#17219) (Internal 20274)
• Move cgmanifest generation to daily (#17258)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#17245)
• Update to the latest notice file (#17238)
• Add container to Linux CI (#17233)
• Mark Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.Runtime.Win as a developer dependency to hide in notice file (#17230)
• Fixing dotnet SDK version parsing in build.psm1 (#17198) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Fixed package names verification to support multi-digit versions (#17220)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 4.2.0-1.final to 4.2.0-4.final (#17210)
• Add backport action (#17212)
• Updated change logs for v7.0.9 / v7.0.10 / v7.1.6 / v7.1.7 / v7.2.2 / v7.2.3 (#17207)
• Updated metadata.json and README.md for v7.2.3 and v7.0.10 (#17158)
• Update package fallback list for ubuntu (from those updated for ubuntu 22.04) (deb) (#17180)
• Update wix to include security extensions package (#17171)
• Update rebase.yml (#17170)
• Adds sha256 digests to RPM packages (#16896) (Thanks @ngharo!)
• Make mariner packages Framework dependent (#17151)
• Update to the latest notice file (#17169)
• Update to the latest notice file (#17146)
• Replace . in notices container name (#17154)
• Allow multiple installations of dotnet. (#17141)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#17105)
• Update to the latest notice file (#16437)
• Skip failing scriptblock tests (#17093)
• Update dotnet-install script download link (#17086)
• Fix the version of the Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers package (#17075)
• Update dotnetmetadata.json to accept .NET 7 preview 3 builds (#17063)
• Re-enable PowerShellGet tests targeting PowerShell gallery (#17062)
• Add mariner 1.0 amd64 package (#17057)
• Create checksum file for global tools (#17056)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#17065)
• Use new cask format (#17064)

7.3.0-preview.3 - 2022-03-21

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix the parsing code for .NET method generic arguments (#16937)
• Allow the PSGetMemberBinder to get value of ByRef property (#16956)
• Allow a collection that contains Automation.Null elements to be piped to pipeline (#16957)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Add the module CompatPowerShellGet to the allow-list of telemetry modules (#16935)
• Fix Enter-PSHostProcess and Get-PSHostProcessInfo cmdlets by handling processes that have exited (#16946)
• Improve Hashtable completion in multiple scenarios (#16498) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)

Code Cleanup

• Fix a typo in CommandHelpProvider.cs (#16949) (Thanks @eltociear!)

Tests

• Update a few tests to make them more stable in CI (#16944)
• Roll back Windows images used in testing to Windows Server 2019 (#16958)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Update .NET SDK to 7.0.0-preview.2

• Update .NET to 7.0.0-preview.2 build (#16930)
• Update AzureFileCopy task and fix the syntax for specifying pool (#17013)

7.3.0-preview.2 - 2022-02-24

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix the clean block for generated proxy function (#16827)
• Add support to allow invoking method with generic type arguments (#12412 and #16822) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Report error when PowerShell built-in modules are missing (#16628)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Prevent command completion if the word to complete is a single dash (#16781) (Thanks @ayousuf23!)
• Use FindFirstFileW instead of FindFirstFileExW to correctly handle Unicode file names on FAT32 (#16840) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add completion for loop labels after Break/Continue (#16438) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Support OpenSSH options for PSRP over SSH commands (#12802) (Thanks @BrannenGH!)
• Adds a .ResolvedTarget Property to File-System Items to Reflect a Symlink's Target as FileSystemInfo (#16490) (Thanks @hammy3502!)
• Use NotifyEndApplication to re-enable VT mode (#16612)
• Add new parameter to Start-Sleep: [-Duration] <timespan> (#16185) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• Add lock and null check to remoting internals (#16542) (#16683) (Thanks @SergeyZalyadeev!)
• Make Measure-Object ignore missing properties unless running in strict mode (#16589) (Thanks @KiwiThePoodle!)
• Add -StrictMode to Invoke-Command to allow specifying strict mode when invoking command locally (#16545) (Thanks @Thomas-Yu!)
• Fix $PSNativeCommandArgPassing = Windows to handle empty args correctly (#16639)
• Reduce the amount of startup banner text (#16516) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• Add exec cmdlet for bash compatibility (#16462)
• Add AMSI method invocation logging as experimental feature (#16496)
• Fix web cmdlets so that an empty Get does not include a content-length header (#16587)
• Update HelpInfoUri for 7.3 release (#16646)
• Fix parsing SemanticVersion build label from version string (#16608)
• Fix ForEach-Object -Parallel when passing in script block variable (#16564)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@eltociear, @iSazonov, @xtqqczze

• Fix typo in PowerShellExecutionHelper.cs (#16776) (Thanks @eltociear!)
• Use more efficient platform detection API (#16760) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Seal ClientRemotePowerShell (#15802) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix the DSC overview URL in a markdown file and some small cleanup changes (#16629)

Tools

• Fix automation to update experimental JSON files in GitHub action (#16837)

Tests

• Update markdownlint to the latest version (#16825)
• Bump the package path-parse from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 (#16820)
• Remove assert that is incorrect and affecting our tests (#16588)

Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!

@dahlia

• Update NuGet Testing to not re-install dotnet, when not needed and dynamically determine the DOTNET_ROOT (Internal 19268, 19269, 19272, 19273, and 19274)
• Remove SkipExperimentalFeatureGeneration when building alpine (Internal 19248)
• Revert .NET 7 changes, Update to the latest .NET 6 and Update WXS file due to blocking issue in .NET 7 Preview 1
• Install and Find AzCopy
• Use Start-PSBootStrap for installing .NET during nuget packaging
• Fix pool syntax for deployments (Internal 19189)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.5.2 to 10.6.9 (#16888)
• Update projects and scripts to use .NET 7 preview 1 pre-release builds (#16856)
• Add warning messages when package precheck fails (#16867)
• Refactor Global Tool packaging to include SBOM generation (#16860)
• Update to use windows-latest as the build agent image (#16831)
• Ensure alpine and arm SKUs have powershell.config.json file with experimental features enabled (#16823)
• Update experimental feature json files (#16838) (Thanks @github-actions[bot]!)
• Remove WiX install (#16834)
• Add experimental json update automation (#16833)
• Update .NET SDK to 6.0.101 and fix Microsoft.PowerShell.GlobalTool.Shim.csproj (#16821)
• Add SBOM manifest to nuget packages (#16711)
• Improve logic for updating .NET in CI (#16808)
• Add Linux package dependencies for packaging (#16807)
• Switch to our custom images for build and release (#16801)
• Remove all references to cmake for the builds in this repo (#16578)
• Fix build for new InvokeCommand attributes (#16800)
• Let macOS installer run without Rosetta on Apple Silicon (#16742) (Thanks @dahlia!)
• Update the expect .NET SDK quality to GA for installing dotnet (#16784)
• Change nuget release yaml to use UseDotNet task (#16701)
• Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.19.0 to 2.20.0 (#16642)
• Register NuGet source when generating CGManifest (#16570)
• Update Images used for release (#16580)
• Update SBOM generation (#16641)
• Bring changes from 7.3.0-preview.1 (#16640)
• Update the vmImage and PowerShell root directory for macOS builds (#16611)
• Update macOS build image and root folder for build (#16609)
• Disabled Yarn cache in markdown.yml (#16599)
• Update cgmanifest (#16600)
• Fix broken links in markdown (#16598)

Documentation and Help Content

• Add newly joined members to their respective Working Groups (#16849)
• Update Engine Working Group members (#16780)
• Replace the broken link about pull request (#16771)
• Update change log to remove a broken URL (#16735)
• Updated README.md and metadata.json for v7.3.0-preview.1 release (#16627)
• Updating changelog for 7.2.1 (#16616)
• Updated README.md and metadata.json for 7.2.1 release (#16586)

7.3.0-preview.1 - 2021-12-16

Breaking Changes

• Add clean block to script block as a peer to begin, process, and end to allow easy resource cleanup (#15177)
• Change default for $PSStyle.OutputRendering to Ansi (Internal 18449)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Remove duplicate remote server mediator code (#16027)
• Fix PSVersion parameter version checks and error messages for PowerShell 7 remoting (#16228)
• Use the same temporary home directory when HOME env variable is not set (#16263)
• Fix parser to generate error when array has more than 32 dimensions (#16276)

Performance

• Avoid validation for built-in file extension and color VT sequences (#16320) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Update README.md and metadata.json for next preview release (#16107)
• Use PlainText when writing to a host that doesn't support VT (#16092)
• Remove support for AppExeCLinks to retrieve target (#16044)
• Move GetOuputString() and GetFormatStyleString() to PSHostUserInterface as public API (#16075)
• Fix ConvertTo-SecureString with key regression due to .NET breaking change (#16068)
• Fix regression in Move-Item to only fallback to copy and delete in specific cases (#16029)
• Set $? correctly for command expression with redirections (#16046)
• Use CurrentCulture when handling conversions to DateTime in Add-History (#16005) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Fix link header parsing to handle unquoted rel types (#15973) (Thanks @StevenLiekens!)
• Fix a casting error when using $PSNativeCommandUsesErrorActionPreference (#15993)
• Format-Wide: Fix NullReferenceException (#15990) (Thanks @DarylGraves!)
• Make the native command error handling optionally honor ErrorActionPreference (#15897)
• Remove declaration of experimental features in Utility module manifest as they are stable (#16460)
• Fix race condition between DisconnectAsync and Dispose (#16536) (Thanks @i3arnon!)
• Fix the Max_PATH condition check to handle long path correctly (#16487) (Thanks @Shriram0908!)
• Update HelpInfoUri for 7.2 release (#16456)
• Fix tab completion within the script block specified for the ValidateScriptAttribute. (#14550) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Update README.md to specify gathered telemetry (#16379)
• Fix typo for "privacy" in MSI installer (#16407)
• Remove unneeded call to File.ResolveLinkTarget from IsWindowsApplication (#16371) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add -HttpVersion parameter to web cmdlets (#15853) (Thanks @hayhay27!)
• Add support to web cmdlets for open-ended input tags (#16193) (Thanks @farmerau!)
• Add more tests to Tee-Object -Encoding (#14539) (Thanks @rpolley!)
• Don't throw exception when trying to resolve a possible link path (#16310)
• Fix ConvertTo-Json -Depth to allow 100 at maximum (#16197) (Thanks @KevRitchie!)
• Fix for SSH remoting when banner is enabled on SSHD endpoint (#16205)
• Disallow all COM for AppLocker system lock down (#16268)
• Configure ApplicationInsights to not send cloud role name (#16246)
• Disallow Add-Type in NoLanguage mode on a locked down machine (#16245)
• Specify the executable path as TargetObect for non-zero exit code ErrorRecord (#16108) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• Don't allow Move-Item with FileSystemProvider to move a directory into itself (#16198)
• Make property names for the color VT sequences consistent with documentations (#16212)
• Fix PipelineVariable to set variable in the right scope (#16199)
• Invoke-Command: improve handling of variables with $using: expression (#16113) (Thanks @dwtaber!)
• Change Target from a CodeProperty to be an AliasProperty that points to FileSystemInfo.LinkTarget (#16165)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!

@xtqqczze, @eltociear, @iSazonov

• Improve CommandInvocationIntrinsics API documentation and style (#14369)
• Use bool?.GetValueOrDefault() in FormatWideCommand (#15988) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Remove 4 assertions which cause debug build test runs to fail (#15963)
• Fix typo in `Job.cs` (#16454) (Thanks @eltociear!)
• Remove unnecessary call to `ToArray` (#16307) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove the unused `FollowSymLink` function (#16231)
• Fix typo in `TypeTable.cs` (#16220) (Thanks @eltociear!)
• Fixes #16176 - replace snippet tag with code tag in comments (#16177)

Tools

• Fix typo in build.psm1 (#16038) (Thanks @eltociear!)
• Add .stylecop to filetypexml and format it (#16025)
• Enable sending Teams notification when workflow fails (#15982)
• Use Convert-Path for unknown drive in Build.psm1 (#16416) (Thanks @matt9ucci!)

Tests

• Add benchmark to test compiler performance (#16083)
• Enable two previously disabled Get-Process tests (#15845) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Set clean state before testing UseMU in the MSI (#16543)
• Fix global tool and SDK tests in release pipeline (#16342)
• Remove the outdated test (#16269)
• Removed old not-used-anymore docker-based tests for PS release packages (#16224)

Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!

@github-actions[bot], @kondratyev-nv

• fix issue with hash file getting created before we have finished get-childitem (#16170)
• Add sha256 hashes to release (#16147)
• Change path for Component Governance for build to the path we actually use to build (#16137)
• Update Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp version (#16138)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#16070)
• Update .NET to 6.0.100-rc.1.21458.32 (#16066)
• Update minimum required OS version for macOS (#16088)
• Set locale correctly on Linux CI (#16073)
• Ensure locale is set correctly on Ubuntu 20.04 in CI (#16067)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#16045)
• Update .NET SDK version from `6.0.100-rc.1.21430.44` to `6.0.100-rc.1.21455.2` (#16041) (Thanks @github-actions[bot]!)
• Fix the GitHub Action for updating .NET daily builds (#16042)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 4.0.0-3.final to 4.0.0-4.21430.4 (#16036)
• Bump .NET to `6.0.100-rc.1.21430.44` (#16028)
• Move from PkgES hosted agents to 1ES hosted agents (#16023)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#16021)
• Update Ubuntu images to use Ubuntu 20.04 (#15906)
• Fix the mac build by updating the pool image name (#16010)
• Use Alpine 3.12 for building PowerShell for alpine (#16008)
• Update .NET SDK version from `6.0.100-preview.6.21355.2` to `6.0.100-rc.1.21426.1` (#15648) (Thanks @github-actions[bot]!)
• Ignore error from Find-Package (#15999)
• Find packages separately for each source in UpdateDotnetRuntime.ps1 script (#15998)
• Update metadata to start using .NET 6 RC1 builds (#15981)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#15985)
• Merge the v7.2.0-preview.9 release branch back to GitHub master (#15983)
• Publish global tool package for stable releases (#15961)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers to newer version (#15962)
• Disabled Yarn cache in markdown.yml (#16599)
• Update cgmanifest (#16600)
• Fix broken links in markdown (#16598)
• Add explicit job name for approval tasks in Snap stage (#16579)
• Bring back pwsh.exe for framework dependent packages to support Start-Job (#16535)
• Fix NuGet package generation in release build (#16509)
• Add `Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetStrictModeCommand.ArgumentToPSVersionTransformationAttribute` to list of patterns to remove for generated ref assembly (#16489)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from `4.0.0-6.final` to `4.0.1` (#16423)
• use different containers for different branches (#16434)
• Add import so we can use common GitHub workflow function. (#16433)
• Remove pre-release .NET 6 build sources (#16418)
• Update release instructions with link to new build (#16419)
• Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.18.0 to 2.19.0 (#16413)
• Update metadata.json to make 7.2.0 the latest LTS (#16417)
• Make static CI a matrix (#16397)
• Update metadata.json in preparation on 7.3.0-preview.1 release (#16406)
• Update cgmanifest (#16405)
• Add diagnostics used to take corrective action when releasing `buildInfoJson` (#16404)
• `vPack` release should use `buildInfoJson` new to 7.2 (#16402)
• Update the usage of metadata.json for getting LTS information (#16381)
• Add checkout to build json stage to get `ci.psm1` (#16399)
• Update CgManifest.json for 6.0.0 .NET packages (#16398)
• Add current folder to the beginning of the module import (#16353)
• Increment RC MSI build number by 100 (#16354)
• Bump XunitXml.TestLogger from 3.0.66 to 3.0.70 (#16356)
• Move PR Quantifier config to subfolder (#16352)
• Release build info json when it is preview (#16335)
• Add an approval for releasing build-info json (#16351)
• Generate manifest with latest public version of the packages (#16337)
• Update to the latest notices file (#16339) (Thanks @github-actions[bot]!)
• Use notice task to generate license assuming cgmanifest contains all components (#16340)
• Refactor cgmanifest generator to include all components (#16326)
• Fix issues in release build (#16332)
• Update feed and analyzer dependency (#16327)
• Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 16.11.0 to 17.0.0 (#16312)
• Update license and cgmanifest (#16325) (Thanks @github-actions[bot]!)
• Fix condition in cgmanifest logic (#16324)
• Add GitHub Workflow to keep notices up to date (#16284)
• Update to latest .NET 6 GA build 6.0.100-rtm.21527.11 (#16309)
• Create compliance build (#16286)
• Move mapping file into product repo and add Debian 11 (#16316)
• Add a major-minor build info JSON file (#16301)
• Clean up crossgen related build scripts also generate native symbols for R2R images (#16297)
• Fix Windows build ZIP packaging (#16299) (Thanks @kondratyev-nv!)
• Revert "Update to use .NET 6 GA build (#16296)" (#16308)
• Add wget as a dependency for Bootstrap script (#16303) (Thanks @kondratyev-nv!)
• Fix issues reported by code signing verification tool (#16291)
• Update to use .NET 6 GA build (#16296)
• Revert "add GH workflow to keep the cgmanifest up to date." (#16294)
• Update ChangeLog for 7.2.0-rc.1 and also fix RPM packaging (#16290)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#16271)
• add GH workflow to keep the cgmanifest up to date.
• Update ThirdPartyNotices.txt (#16283)
• Update `testartifacts.yml` to use ubuntu-latest image (#16279)
• Update version of Microsoft.PowerShell.Native and Microsoft.PowerShell.MarkdownRender packages (#16277)
• Add script to generate cgmanifest.json (#16278)
• Add cgmanifest.json for generating correct third party notice file (#16266)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers from `6.0.0-rtm.21504.2` to `6.0.0-rtm.21516.1` (#16264)
• Only upload stable buildinfo for stable releases (#16251)
• Make RPM license recognized (#16189)
• Don't upload dep or tar.gz for RPM because there are none. (#16230)
• Add condition to generate release files in local dev build only (#16259)
• Update .NET 6 to version 6.0.100-rc.2.21505.57 (#16249)
• change order of try-catch-finally and split out arm runs (#16252)
• Ensure psoptions.json and manifest.spdx.json files always exist in packages (#16258)
• Update to vPack task version to 12 (#16250)
• Remove unneeded `NuGetConfigFile` resource string (#16232)
• Add Software Bill of Materials to the main packages (#16202)
• Sign third party exes (#16229)
• Upgrade set-value package for markdown test (#16196)
• Use Ubuntu 20.04 for SSH remoting test (#16225)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers (#16194)
• Bump `Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers` from `6.0.0-rc2.21458.5` to `6.0.0-rtm.21480.8` (#16183)
• Move vPack build to 1ES Pool (#16169)
• Fix Microsoft update spelling issue. (#16178)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update Windows PowerShell issues link (#16105) (Thanks @andschwa!)
• Remove Joey from Committee and WG membership (#16119)
• Update more docs for net6.0 TFM (#16102) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Change snippet tag to code tag in XML comments (#16106)
• Update build documentation to reflect .NET 6 (#15751) (Thanks @Kellen-Stuart!)
• Update README.md about the change logs (#16471) (Thanks @powershellpr0mpt!)
• Update change log for 7.2.0 (#16401)
• Update metadata.json and README.md for 7.2.0 release (#16395)
• Update README.md and metadata.json files for v7.2.0-rc.1 release (#16285)
• Update the change logs for v7.0.8 and v7.1.5 releases (#16248)