v7.0.0-preview.2 - 07/17/2019

Breaking Changes

• Cleanup workflow - remove PSProxyJob (#10083) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Disable Enter-PSHostProcess cmdlet when system in lock down mode (Internal 9168)
• Consider DBNull.Value and NullString.Value the same as $null when comparing with $null and casting to bool (#9794) (Thanks Rain Sallow (/u/ta11ow) (@vexx32)!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Allow methods to be named after keywords (#9812) (Thanks Rain Sallow (/u/ta11ow) (@vexx32)!)
• Create JumpList in STA thread as some COM APIs are strictly STA only to avoid sporadic CLR crashes (#9928) (#10057) (Thanks Christoph Bergmeister (@bergmeister)!)
• Skip JumpList on NanoServer and IoT (#10164)
• Display COM method signature with argument names (#9858) (Thanks nbkalex!)
• Use the original precision (prior-dotnet-core-3) for double/float-to-string conversion (#9893)
• Import-DscResource should allow to overwrite DSC built-in resources. (#9879)
• Add ability to pass InitialSessionState to the ConsoleShell.Start (#9802) (Thanks asrosent!)
• Have console host not enter command prompt mode when using Read-Host -Prompt (#9743)
• Fix use of Start-Process http://bing.com (#9793)
• Support negative numbers in -split operator (#8960) (Thanks Jacob Scott (@ece-jacob-scott)!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Support DSC compilation on Linux. (#9834)
• Add alias for Service StartType (#9940) (Thanks NB (@NeoBeum)!)
• Add -SecurityDescriptorSddl parameter to Set-Service (#8626) (Thanks PRASOON KARUNAN V (@kvprasoon)!)
• Fix auto-download of files when enumerating files from a OneDrive folder (#9895)
• Set request headers when request body is empty in Web Cmdlets (#10034) (Thanks Mark Kraus (@markekraus)!)
• Fix wrong comparison in CertificateProvider (#9987) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Sync docs changes into the embedded help for pwsh (#9952)
• Display Duration when displaying HistoryInfo (#9751) (Thanks Keith Hill (@rkeithhill)!)
• Update console startup and help url for PowerShell docs (#9775)
• Make UseAbbreviationExpansion and TempDrive official features (#9872)
• Fix Get-ChildItem -Path with wildcard char (#9257) (Thanks kwkam!)

Performance

• Add another fast path to WildcardPattern.IsMatch for patterns that only have an asterisk in the end (#10054) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Move some of the creations of WildcardPattern in outer loop to avoid unnecessary allocation (#10053) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Make Foreach-Object 2 times faster by reducing unnecessary allocations and boxing (#10047)
• Use a static cache for PSVersionInfo.PSVersion to avoid casting SemanticVersion to Version every time accessing that property (#10028)
• Reduce allocations in NavigationCmdletProvider.NormalizePath() (#10038) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Add fast path for wildcard patterns that contains no wildcard characters (#10020)
• Avoid Assembly.GetName() in ClrFacade.GetAssemblies(string) to reduce allocations of CultureInfo objects (#10024) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Avoid the int[] and int[,] allocation when tokenizing line comments and matching wildcard pattern (#10009)

Tools

• Update change log generation tool to deal with private commits (#10096)
• Update Start-PSBuild -Clean logic of git clean to ignore locked files from VS2019 (#10071) (Thanks Christoph Bergmeister (@bergmeister)!)
• Indent fix in markdown-link.tests.ps1 (#10049) (Thanks Reece Dunham (@RDIL)!)
• Start-PSBuild -Clean does not remove all untracked files (#10022) (Thanks Rain Sallow (/u/ta11ow) (@vexx32)!)
• Add module to support Pester tests for automating debugger commands (stepInto, stepOut, etc.), along with basic tests (#9825) (Thanks Kirk Munro (@KirkMunro)!)
• Remove markdownlint tests due to security issues (#10163)

Code Cleanup

• Cleanup CompiledScriptBlock.cs (#9735) (Thanks Rain Sallow (/u/ta11ow) (@vexx32)!)
• Cleanup workflow code (#9638) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Use AddOrUpdate() instead of Remove then Add to register runspace (#10007) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Suppress PossibleIncorrectUsageOfAssignmentOperator rule violation by adding extra parenthesis (#9460) (Thanks xtqqczze!)
• Use AddRange in GetModules() (#9975) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Code cleanup: use IndexOf(char) overload (#9722) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Move consts and methods to single CharExtensions class (#9992) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Cleanup: Use EndsWith(char) and StartsWith(char) (#9994) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Remove LCIDToLocaleName P/Invoke from GetComputerInfoCommand (#9716) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Cleanup Parser tests (#9792) (Thanks Rain Sallow (/u/ta11ow) (@vexx32)!)
• Remove EtwActivity empty constructor and make minor style fixes (#9958) (Thanks Reece Dunham (@RDIL)!)
• Fix style issues from last commits (#9937) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Remove dead code about IsTransparentProxy (#9966)
• Fix minor typos in code comments (#9917) (Thanks Reece Dunham (@RDIL)!)
• Style fixes for CimAsyncOperations (#9945) (Thanks Reece Dunham (@RDIL)!)
• Fix minor CodeFactor style issues in ModuleCmdletBase (#9915) (Thanks Reece Dunham (@RDIL)!)
• Clean up the use of SetProfileRoot and StartProfile in ConsoleHost (#9931)
• Fix minor style issues come from last commits (#9640) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Improve whitespace for Parser tests (#9806) (Thanks Rain Sallow (/u/ta11ow) (@vexx32)!)
• Use new string.ConCat() in Process.cs (#9720) (Thanks Ilya (@iSazonov)!)
• Code Cleanup: Tidy up scriptblock.cs (#9732) (Thanks Rain Sallow (/u/ta11ow) (@vexx32)!)

Tests

• Mark Set-Service tests with password as Pending (#10146)
• Fix test password generation rule to meet Windows complexity requirements (#10143)
• Add test for New-Item -Force (#9971) (Thanks Robert Dyjas (@robdy)!)
• Fix gulp versions (#9916) (Thanks Reece Dunham (@RDIL)!)
• Indentation fixes in ci.psm1 (#9947) (Thanks Reece Dunham (@RDIL)!)
• Remove some Travis-CI references (#9919) (Thanks Reece Dunham (@RDIL)!)
• Improve release testing Docker images (#9942) (Thanks Reece Dunham (@RDIL)!)
• Use yarn to install global tools (#9904) (Thanks Reece Dunham (@RDIL)!)
• Attempt to work around the zip download issue in Azure DevOps Windows CI (#9911)
• Update PowerShell SDK version for hosting tests (Internal 9185)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Update the target framework for reference assemblies to netcoreapp3.0 (#9747)
• Pin version of netDumbster to 2.0.0.4 (#9748)
• Fix daily CodeCoverageAndTest build by explicitly calling Start-PSBootStrap (#9724)
• Split the fxdependent package on Windows into two packages (#10134)
• Bump System.Data.SqlClient (#10109)
• Bump System.Security.AccessControl (#10100)
• Add performance tag to change log command (Internal)
• Upgrade .Net Core 3 SDK from preview5 to preview6 and related out of band Nuget packages from 2.1 to 3.0-preview6 (#9888) (Thanks Christoph Bergmeister (@bergmeister)!)
• Add to /etc/shells on macOS (#10066)
• Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.17.0 to 0.17.1 (#10062)
• Update copyright symbol for NuGet packages (#9936)
• Download latest version (6.2.0) of PSDesiredStateConfiguration nuget package. (#9932)
• Add automated RPM signing to release build (#10013)
• Bump ThreadJob from 1.1.2 to 2.0.1 in /src/Modules (#10003)
• Bump PowerShellGet from 2.1.4 to 2.2 in /src/Modules (#9933) (#10085)
• Bump PackageManagement from 1.4 to 1.4.3 in /src/Modules (#9820) (#9918) (#10084)
• Update to use TSAv2 (#9914)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 9.14.1 to 10.0.21 (#9805) (#9843) (#9854) (#9862) (#9875) (#9885) (#9954) (#10017)
• Bump System.Net.Http.WinHttpHandler from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 (#9786)
• Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.9.1 to 2.10.0 (#9757)
• Increase timeout of NuGet job to workaround build timeout (#9772)

Documentation and Help Content

• Change log 6.1.4 (#9759)
• Change log for release 6.2.1 (#9760)
• Add quick steps for adding docs to cmdlets (#9978)
• Update readme gitter badge (#9920) (Thanks Reece Dunham (@RDIL)!)
• Update README and metadata.json for 7.0.0-preview.1 release (#9767)

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