CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

v6.0.0-alpha.18 - 2017-04-05

Progress Bar

We made a number of fixes to the progress bar rendering and the ProgressRecord object that improved cmdlet performance and fixed some rendering bugs on non-Windows platforms.

• Fix a bug that caused the progress bar to drift on Unix platforms. (#3289)
• Improve the performance of writing progress records. (#2822) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix the progress bar rendering on Unix platforms. (#3362) (#3453)
• Reuse ProgressRecord in Web Cmdlets to reduce the GC overhead. (#3411) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)

Cmdlet updates

• Use ShellExecute with Start-Process, Invoke-Item, and Get-Help -Online so that those cmdlets use standard shell associations to open a file/URI. This means you Get-Help -Online will always use your default browser, and Start-Process/Invoke-Item can open any file or path with a handler. (Note: there are still some problems with STA threads.) (#3281, partially fixes #2969)
• Add -Extension and -LeafBase switches to Split-Path so that you can split paths between the filename extension and the rest of the filename. (#2721) (Thanks to @powercode!)
• Implement Format-Hex in C# along with some behavioral changes to multiple parameters and the pipeline. (#3320) (Thanks to @MiaRomero!)
• Add -NoProxy to web cmdlets so that they ignore the system-wide proxy setting. (#3447) (Thanks to @TheFlyingCorpse!)
• Fix Out-Default -Transcript to properly revert out of the TranscribeOnly state, so that further output can be displayed on Console. (#3436) (Thanks to @PetSerAl!)
• Fix Get-Help to not return multiple instances of the same help file. (#3410)

Interactive fixes

• Enable argument auto-completion for -ExcludeProperty and -ExpandProperty of Select-Object. (#3443) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix a tab completion bug that prevented Import-Module -n<tab> from working. (#1345)

Cross-platform fixes

• Ignore the -ExecutionPolicy switch when running PowerShell on non-Windows platforms because script signing is not currently supported. (#3481)
• Standardize the casing of the PSModulePath environment variable. (#3255)

JEA fixes

• Fix the JEA transcription to include the endpoint configuration name in the transcript header. (#2890)
• Fix Get-Help in a JEA session. (#2988)

v6.0.0-alpha.17 - 2017-03-08

• Update PSRP client libraries for Linux and Mac.
  • We now support customer configurations for Office 365 interaction, as well as NTLM authentication for WSMan based remoting from Linux (more information here). (#3271)
• We now support remote step-in debugging for Invoke-Command -ComputerName. (#3015)
• Use prettier formatter with ConvertTo-Json output. (#2787) (Thanks to @kittholland!)
• Port *-CmsMessage and Get-PfxCertificate cmdlets to Powershell Core. (#3224)
• powershell -version now returns version information for PowerShell Core. (#3115)
• Add the -TimeOut parameter to Test-Connection. (#2492)
• Add ShouldProcess support to New-FileCatalog and Test-FileCatalog (fixes -WhatIf and -Confirm). (#3074) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
• Fix Test-ModuleManifest to normalize paths correctly before validating.
  • This fixes some problems when using Publish-Module on non-Windows platforms. (#3097)
• Remove the AliasProperty "Count" defined for System.Array.
  • This removes the extraneous Count property on some ConvertFrom-Json output. (#3231) (Thanks to @PetSerAl!)
• Port Import-PowerShellDatafile from PowerShell script to C#. (#2750) (Thanks to @powercode!)
• Add -CustomMethod parameter to web cmdlets to allow for non-standard method verbs. (#3142) (Thanks to @Lee303!)
• Fix web cmdlets to include the HTTP response in the exception when the response status code is not success. (#3201)
• Expose a process' parent process by adding the CodeProperty "Parent" to System.Diagnostics.Process. (#2850) (Thanks to @powercode!)
• Fix crash when converting a recursive array to a bool. (#3208) (Thanks to @PetSerAl!)
• Fix casting single element array to a generic collection. (#3170)
• Allow profile directory creation failures for Service Account scenarios. (#3244)
• Allow Windows' reserved device names (e.g. CON, PRN, AUX, etc.) to be used on non-Windows platforms. (#3252)
• Remove duplicate type definitions when reusing an InitialSessionState object to create another Runspace. (#3141)
• Fix PSModuleInfo.CaptureLocals to not do ValidateAttribute check when capturing existing variables from the caller's scope. (#3149)
• Fix a race bug in WSMan command plug-in instance close operation. (#3203)
• Fix a problem where newly mounted volumes aren't available to modules that have already been loaded. (#3034)
• Remove year from PowerShell copyright banner at start-up. (#3204) (Thanks to @kwiknick!)
• Fixed spelling for the property name BiosSerialNumber for Get-ComputerInfo. (#3167) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)

v6.0.0-alpha.16 - 2017-02-15

• Add WindowsUBR property to Get-ComputerInfo result
• Cache padding strings to speed up formatting a little
• Add alias Path to the -FilePath parameter of Out-File
• Fix the -InFile parameter of Invoke-WebRequest
• Add the default help content to powershell core
• Speed up Add-Type by crossgen'ing its dependency assemblies
• Convert Get-FileHash from script to C# implementation
• Fix lock contention when compiling the code to run in interpreter
• Avoid going through WinRM remoting stack when using Get-ComputerInfo locally
• Fix native parameter auto-completion for tokens that begin with a single "Dash"
• Fix parser error reporting for incomplete input to allow defining class in interactive host
• Add the RoleCapabilityFiles keyword for JEA support on Windows

v6.0.0-alpha.15 - 2017-01-18

• Use parentheses around file length for offline files
• Fix issues with the Windows console mode (terminal emulation) and native executables
• Fix error recovery with using module
• Report PlatformNotSupported on IoT for Get/Import/Export-Counter
• Add -Group parameter to Get-Verb
• Use MB instead of KB for memory columns of Get-Process
• Add new escape character for ESC: `e
• Fix a small parsing issue with a here string
• Improve tab completion of types that use type accelerators
• Invoke-RestMethod improvements for non-XML non-JSON input
• PSRP remoting now works on CentOS without addition setup

v6.0.0-alpha.14 - 2016-12-14

• Moved to .NET Core 1.1
• Add Windows performance counter cmdlets to PowerShell Core
• Fix try/catch to choose the more specific exception handler
• Fix issue reloading modules that define PowerShell classes
• Add ValidateNotNullOrEmpty to approximately 15 parameters
• New-TemporaryFile and New-Guid rewritten in C#
• Enable client side PSRP on non-Windows platforms
• Split-Path now works with UNC roots
• Implicitly convert value assigned to XML property to string
• Updates to Invoke-Command parameters when using SSH remoting transport
• Fix Invoke-WebRequest with non-text responses on non-Windows platforms
• Write-Progress performance improvement from alpha13 reverted because it introduced crash with a race condition

v6.0.0-alpha.13 - 2016-11-22

• Fix NullReferenceException in binder after turning on constrained language mode
• Enable Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod to not validate the HTTPS certificate of the server if required.
• Enable binder debug logging in PowerShell Core
• Add parameters -Top and -Bottom to Sort-Object for Top/Bottom N sort
• Enable Update-Help and Save-Help on Unix platforms
• Update the formatter for System.Diagnostics.Process to not show the Handles column
• Improve Write-Progress performance by adding timer to update a progress pane every 100 ms
• Enable correct table width calculations with ANSI escape sequences on Unix
• Fix background jobs for Unix and Windows
• Add Get-Uptime to Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
• Make Out-Null as fast as > $null
• Add DockerFile for 'Windows Server Core' and 'Nano Server'
• Fix WebRequest failure to handle missing ContentType in response header
• Make Write-Host fast by delay initializing some properties in InformationRecord
• Ensure PowerShell Core adds an initial / rooted drive on Unix platforms
• Enable streaming behavior for native command execution in pipeline, so that ping | grep doesn't block
• Make Write-Information accept objects from pipeline
• Fixes deprecated syscall issue on macOS 10.12
• Fix code errors found by the static analysis using PVS-Studio
• Add support to W3C Extended Log File Format in Import-Csv
• Guard against ReflectionTypeLoadException in type name auto-completion
• Update build scripts to support win7-x86 runtime
• Move PackageManagement code/test to oneget.org

v6.0.0-alpha.12 - 2016-11-03

• Fix Get-ChildItem -Recurse -ErrorAction Ignore to ignore additional errors
• Don't block pipeline when running Windows EXE's
• Fix for PowerShell SSH remoting with recent Win32-OpenSSH change.
• Select-Object with -ExcludeProperty now implies -Property * if -Property is not specified.
• Adding ValidateNotNullOrEmpty to -Name parameter of Get-Alias
• Enable Implicit remoting commands in PowerShell Core
• Fix GetParentProcess() to replace an expensive WMI query with Win32 API calls
• Fix Set-Content failure to create a file in PSDrive under certain conditions.
• Adding ValidateNotNullOrEmpty to -Name parameter of Get-Service
• Adding support in Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable
• Adding WindowsVersion to Get-ComputerInfo
• Remove the unnecessary use of lock in PseudoParameterBinder to avoid deadlock
• Refactor Get-WinEvent to use StringBuilder for XPath query construction
• Clean up and fix error handling of libpsl-native
• Exclude Registry and Certificate providers from UNIX PS
• Update PowerShell Core to consume .Net Core preview1-24530-04

v6.0.0-alpha.11 - 2016-10-17

• Add '-Title' to 'Get-Credential' and unify the prompt experience
• Update dependency list for PowerShell Core on Linux and OS X
• Fix 'powershell -Command -' to not hang and to not ignore the last command
• Fix binary operator tab completion
• Enable 'ConvertTo-Html' in PowerShell Core
• Remove most Maximum* capacity variables
• Fix 'Get-ChildItem -Hidden' to work on system hidden files on Windows
• Fix 'JsonConfigFileAccessor' to handle corrupted 'PowerShellProperties.json' and defer creating the user setting directory until a write request comes
• Fix variable assignment to not overwrite read-only variables
• Fix 'Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable' to work with named fields in UserData of event logs
• Fix 'Get-Help -Online' in PowerShell Core on Windows
• Spelling/grammar fixes

v6.0.0-alpha.10 - 2016-09-15

• Fix passing escaped double quoted spaces to native executables
• Add DockerFiles to build each Linux distribution
• ~/.config/PowerShell capitalization bug fixed
• Fix crash on Windows 7
• Fix remote debugging on Windows client
• Fix multi-line input with redirected stdin
• Add PowerShell to /etc/shells on installation
• Fix Install-Module version comparison bug
• Spelling fixes

v6.0.0-alpha.9 - 2016-08-15

• Better man page
• Added third-party and proprietary licenses
• Added license to MSI

v6.0.0-alpha.8 - 2016-08-11

• PowerShell packages pre-compiled with crossgen
• Get-Help content added
• Get-Help null reference exception fixed
• Ubuntu 16.04 support added
• Unsupported cmdlets removed from Unix modules
• PSReadline long prompt bug fixed
• PSReadline custom key binding bug on Linux fixed
• Default terminal colors now respected
• Semantic Version support added
• $env: fixed for case-sensitive variables
• Added JSON config files to hold some settings
• cd with no arguments now behaves as cd ~
• ConvertFrom-Json fixed for multiple lines
• Windows branding removed
• .NET CoreCLR Runtime patched to version 1.0.4
• Write-Host with unknown hostname bug fixed
• powershell man-page added to package
• Get-PSDrive ported to report free space
• Desired State Configuration MOF compilation ported to Linux
• Windows 2012 R2 / Windows 8.1 remoting enabled

v6.0.0-alpha.7 - 2016-07-26

• Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod ported to PowerShell Core
• Set PSReadline default edit mode to Emacs on Linux
• IsCore variable renamed to IsCoreCLR
• Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts and other Windows-only assemblies excluded on Linux
• PowerShellGet fully ported to Linux
• PackageManagement NuGet provider ported
• Write-Progress ported to Linux
• Get-Process -IncludeUserName ported
• Enumerating symlinks to folders fixed
• Bugs around administrator permissions fixed on Linux
• ConvertFrom-Json multi-line bug fixed
• Execution policies fixed on Windows
• TimeZone cmdlets added back; excluded from Linux
• FileCatalog cmdlets added back for Windows
• Get-ComputerInfo cmdlet added back for Windows

v0.6.0 - 2016-07-08

• Targets .NET Core 1.0 release
• PowerShellGet enabled
• [system.manage] completion issues fixed
• AssemblyLoadContext intercepts dependencies correctly
• Type catalog issues fixed
• Invoke-Item enabled for Linux and OS X
• Windows ConsoleHost reverted to native interfaces
• Portable ConsoleHost redirection issues fixed
• Bugs with pseudo (and no) TTY's fixed
• Source Depot synced to baseline changeset 717473
• SecureString stub replaced with .NET Core package

v0.5.0 - 2016-06-16

• Paths given to cmdlets are now slash-agnostic (both / and \ work as directory separator)
• Lack of cmdlet support for paths with literal \ is a known issue
• .NET Core packages downgraded to build rc2-24027 (Nano's build)
• XDG Base Directory Specification is now respected and used by default
• Linux and OS X profile path is now ~/.config/powershell/profile.ps1
• Linux and OS X history save path is now ~/.local/share/powershell/PSReadLine/ConsoleHost_history.txt
• Linux and OS X user module path is now ~/.local/share/powershell/Modules
• The ~/.powershell folder is deprecated and should be deleted
• Scripts can be called within PowerShell without the .ps1 extension
• Trace-Command and associated source cmdlets are now available
• Ctrl-C now breaks running cmdlets correctly
• Source Depot changesets up to 715912 have been merged
• Set-PSBreakPoint debugging works on Linux, but not on Windows
• MSI and APPX packages for Windows are now available
• Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts is available on Windows
• Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive is available on Windows
• Linux xUnit tests are running again
• Many more Pester tests are running

v0.4.0 - 2016-05-17

• PSReadline is ported and included by default
• Original Windows ConsoleHost is ported and replaced CoreConsoleHost
• .NET Core packages set to the RC2 release at build 24103
• OS X 10.11 added to Continuous Integration matrix
• Third-party C# cmdlets can be built with .NET CLI
• Improved symlink support on Linux
• Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.Native replaced with package
• Many more Pester tests

v0.3.0 - 2016-04-11

• Supports Windows, Nano, OS X, Ubuntu 14.04, and CentOS 7.1
• .NET Core packages are build rc3-24011
• Native Linux commands are not shadowed by aliases
• Get-Help -Online works
• more function respects the Linux $PAGER; defaults to less
• IsWindows, IsLinux, IsOSX, IsCore built-in PowerShell variables added
• Microsoft.PowerShell.Platform removed for the above
• Cross-platform core host is now CoreConsoleHost
• Host now catches exceptions in --command scripts
• Host's shell ID changed to Microsoft.PowerShellCore
• Modules that use C# assemblies can be loaded
• New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink supports arbitrary targets
• PSReadline implementation supports multi-line input
• Ctrl-R provides incremental reverse history search
• $Host.UI.RawUI now supported
• Ctrl-K and Ctrl-Y for kill and yank implemented
• Ctrl-L to clear screen now works
• Documentation was completely overhauled
• Many more Pester and xUnit tests added

v0.2.0 - 2016-03-08

• Supports Windows, OS X, Ubuntu 14.04, and CentOS 7.1
• .NET Core packages are build 23907
• System.Console PSReadline is fully functional
• Tests pass on OS X
• Microsoft.PowerShell.Platform module is available
• New-Item supports symbolic and hard links
• Add-Type now works
• PowerShell code merged with upstream rs1_srv_ps

v0.1.0 - 2016-02-23

• Supports Windows, OS X, and Ubuntu 14.04