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PowerShell v6.0.0-alpha.16 Release

16 Feb 02:28
@raghushantha raghushantha
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Here are the major changes:

  • 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 incompleted input to allow defining class in interactive host
  • Add the RoleCapabilityFiles keyword for JEA support on Windows

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts:

  • powershell-6.0.0_alpha.16-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
    • FF3ECFA697727D69358521A6159713086DFC0AB361663D8D82F16C9F648EE091
  • powershell_6.0.0-alpha.16-1ubuntu1.14.04.1_amd64.deb
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  • powershell_6.0.0-alpha.16-1ubuntu1.16.04.1_amd64.deb
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  • PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.16-win10-win2016-x64.msi
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  • PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.16-win10-win2016-x64.zip
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  • PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.16-win7-win2008r2-x64.msi
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  • PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.16-win7-win2008r2-x64.zip
    • A81B53B78EC8EE6BF00EFCC545FC82A88AA2DCB84D8697C6393C030070D5EEB9
  • PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.16-win7-x86.msi
    • D053765B2000E3E6934E65CE43764C6A9DADF56E7848ACCF7A44895365A064BB
  • PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.16-win7-x86.zip
    • B9FABB26FB64586F133A326E1239E3FFEB7A7FF434B4E7D107F849A51A6B5C11
  • PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.16-win81-win2012r2-x64.msi
    • 58C704DF587BAAA760CA60EFB5C5A6FC9257D114CEFEBC7C824D21A876FC1434
  • PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.16-win81-win2012r2-x64.zip
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  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.16.pkg
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PowerShell v6.0.0-alpha.15 Release

25 Jan 19:25
@raghushantha raghushantha
v6.0.0-alpha.15
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PowerShell v6.0.0-alpha.15 Release

Release Notes:

  • Use parens 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

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts:

powershell-6.0.0_alpha.15-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm

  • 0A8546D03C472A374D3A42CAF1404C3E12E171D089DB635FB9D5133D816E99D2

powershell_6.0.0-alpha.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.1_amd64.deb

  • 5F2AC3B7EB68038A7317906BF3EEEADCC05575B13080B22FADA806FCC67D2A79

powershell_6.0.0-alpha.15-1ubuntu1.16.04.1_amd64.deb

  • 882ECA33839F33ACA78E0E400E7B843A62B24C84F0218BDDF0E517939EBA1A0C

PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.15-win10-win2k16-x64.msi

  • CC52D21F3287E412B9C3B73C98BB5B06F8056D49D63201072216DF92B7F2E59B

PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.15-win10-win2k16-x64.zip

  • 4297C4ADBF93133CD343B7A4248FAEE225060E3A739A38D9368E1AA2086381BB

PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.15-win7-win2k8r2-x64.msi

  • 712CD8B9079B6A29AC00B1DDD2BFEDDEE7809649B49F4C3F870FE52FBFBF53FA

PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.15-win7-win2k8r2-x64.zip

  • D3384B9C8C2B5152B113791193A89DFE4AB01EE94CAF8F995633906258FD14C3

PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.15-win7-x86.msi

  • 19CE135B43C8E7FCCE4EBE36000B887EC3B119D8972F6C895369A116FE8039DC

PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.15-win7-x86.zip

  • B36A2B91F8B6A7D1AE8AE13E96072F0B39724910E856BEA27B24CEECEA0D6491

PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.15-win81-win2k12r2-x64.msi

  • 0E691F474E3B8D7A457995667151CDB9981CEC3BC3834F957B9FAAB5DCB71D3C

PowerShell_6.0.0-alpha.15-win81-win2k12r2-x64.zip

  • 387F6667BA5DC4C9CEF3D159B45099EF9B88C4C116EA56144063055D06E00965

powershell-6.0.0-alpha.15.pkg

  • 222807166c5310b7d2a5862012fafe39793aa7876f1c712d64551bbf48c83110
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v6.0.0-alpha.14 release of PowerShell

15 Dec 19:51
@lzybkr lzybkr
v6.0.0-alpha.14
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Here are the major changes:

  • 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

These are the SHA 256 hashes:

  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.14.pkg
    • 8fd7abc4ec1a2e4a28543b90a6ee60cd437d4b366b544c39b341a05276eb8ccf
  • powershell-6.0.0_alpha.14-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
    • 88e01ff76d89b8ed16468bbc8ef8fa51ecb4bb341adb878eec139319411e2da0
  • powershell_6.0.0-alpha.14-1ubuntu1.14.04.1_amd64.deb
    • 402c3b6b51210b7e7700260cd5ea37f75ef56b97e4102a7ba62d431cb9879483
  • powershell_6.0.0-alpha.14-1ubuntu1.16.04.1_amd64.deb
    • b5a177fda872d5af05b029b7b1071ab37b192323170e10d853ac250e69ff95da
  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.14-win10-x64.zip
    • 3F5FD873B6E3062D9741B019BC645E6F20999BE66B2FDAA4374495FEBEDD0E03
  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.14-win7-x64.zip
    • 689E59C8A97A7F6F136104A56BE397D9456D46069AA2C1121BBDA421C14852F8
  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.14-win7-x86.zip
    • DCB821299D8269989D8DCEAB5A45B4E7F959257CA5E640373C0675758C734505
  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.14-win81-x64.zip
    • F5410AA6BAC63C53B5DE5882591F11CED2772DEA5C4AD728C9F9BFDC1A5B4142
  • PowerShell_6.0.0.14-alpha.14-win10-x64.msi
    • 503F3AD52223699765895D3E9615FBD7988194693BCB725BE90C9EF0CD594447
  • PowerShell_6.0.0.14-alpha.14-win7-x64.msi
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  • PowerShell_6.0.0.14-alpha.14-win7-x86.msi
    • 3763A0D4E5859B16495CDA68279614E70A36FF51EA82148F302A54AC0D62E116
  • PowerShell_6.0.0.14-alpha.14-win81-x64.msi
    • 9BAF5D38719C28AE98A76683647AB9161A3A151A399781C050D43942D37C096C
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v6.0.0-alpha.13 release of PowerShell

23 Nov 23:17
@daxian-dbw daxian-dbw
v6.0.0-alpha.13
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With 99 non-merge commits since v6.0.0-alpha.12, here are the major changes:

  • 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 windowsservercore and NanoServer
  • 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

These are the SHA 256 hashes:

  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.13.pkg
    • 3bcb890d934a41fab1cb67e40e8ed6d58df902cddb420b4e359aa12ce7c85b01
  • powershell-6.0.0_alpha.13-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
    • 290cac313a08a0118c34bff866f484fb7c7951b95c7461d439918f15663e5d71
  • powershell_6.0.0-alpha.13-1ubuntu1.14.04.1_amd64.deb
    • bc0890d45bdacd55ab82bc9b9e5951b22ee7955c67f78da43b862141338e50f7
  • powershell_6.0.0-alpha.13-1ubuntu1.16.04.1_amd64.deb
    • 719fc2d42486f4fe123156e9b4380929c6dd28cb6ccbf928ba746020c1caea58
  • PowerShell_6.0.0.13-alpha.13-win10-x64.msi
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  • PowerShell_6.0.0.13-alpha.13-win7-x64.msi
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  • PowerShell_6.0.0.13-alpha.13-win7-x86.msi
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  • PowerShell_6.0.0.13-alpha.13-win81-x64.msi
    • 486c2494e382a70bf4559a4a56655e352dc34abe83fe02646849b43961f745be
  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.13-win10-x64.zip
    • b54afedaec636d44e5c3dea0a8f4ee9d82d9e02eabff3eff1ce3d31010f83860
  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.13-win7-x64.zip
    • 1a64f92533ef50ee412390c0c88aaa4c0e570fe8be7304596901915863747133
  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.13-win7-x86.zip
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  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.13-win81-x64.zip
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v6.0.0-alpha.12 Release of PowerShell

03 Nov 21:20
@mirichmo mirichmo
v6.0.0-alpha.12
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With 71 non-merge commits since v6.0.0-alpha.11, here are the major changes:

  • Fix Get-ChildItem -Recurse -ErrorAction Ignore to ignore additional errors
  • Don't block pipeline when running Windows exes
  • 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 DotNet Core preview1-24530-04

These are the SHA 256 hashes:

  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.12.pkg
    • f990ba234d7fe0e017d53bc77382b28b7811f9e69f31a6ea1c13f97a69b67cdc
  • powershell-6.0.0_alpha.12-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
    • 8104df5fa40e678d691a6a943988f9a5a864be08f60309b451970ae295de87ce
  • powershell_6.0.0-alpha.12-1ubuntu1.14.04.1_amd64.deb
    • 7e032d36b3e1e4d2e99fd0941d71ed3f08435fc0ecaa9f28b35531cff97c25ee
  • powershell_6.0.0-alpha.12-1ubuntu1.16.04.1_amd64.deb
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  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.12-win10-x64.zip
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  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.12-win81-x64.zip
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  • PowerShell_6.0.0.12-alpha.12-win10-x64.msi
    • F3C3F3276462588E24BFE197DAA8795140E37557596861126D54462561C98671
  • PowerShell_6.0.0.12-alpha.12-win81-x64.msi
    • 5FEB757346D5ED6FA6786ACDA96D0361663EE4DCBB719D53E6C32835BFD8C670
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v6.0.0-alpha.11 release of PowerShell

18 Oct 17:23
@daxian-dbw daxian-dbw
v6.0.0-alpha.11
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v6.0.0-alpha.11 release of PowerShell

With 108 non-merge commits since v6.0.0-alpha.10, here are the major changes:

  • 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 readonly 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

These are the SHA 256 hashes:

  • powershell-6.0.0_alpha.11-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
    • 6abd338de3d0d3b4ce060ba71aa9911b679e825f3e2af4a450685b6c45501a4b
  • powershell_6.0.0-alpha.11-1ubuntu1.14.04.1_amd64.deb
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  • powershell_6.0.0-alpha.11-1ubuntu1.16.04.1_amd64.deb
    • 57269171eeae0c15c09e72b662ea6caeba97e29ba8f22f6df568e18679e40a08
  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.11.pkg
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  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.11-win10-x64.zip
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  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.11-win81-x64.zip
    • 85fc7dc42a1ea1957199697644e93e25dd3b2b1ce2b55df3fee96e8ecd10dbf2
  • PowerShell_6.0.0.11-alpha.11-win10-x64.msi
    • ad15b3a3d7eccc2c604c51b5b2262e486ee05b55c532b9bf230a8f216db9f2b3
  • PowerShell_6.0.0.11-alpha.11-win81-x64.msi
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v6.0.0-alpha.10 release of PowerShell

16 Sep 22:18
@andyleejordan andyleejordan
v6.0.0-alpha.10
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With 311 non-merge commits since v6.0.0-alpha.9, here are the major changes:

  • 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

These are the SHA 256 hashes:

  • powershell-6.0.0_alpha.10-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
    • c2756cdeec2e178aa8f5149fad6c0a115fc1fbf8f04d95d3545b953a3016c34c
  • powershell_6.0.0-alpha.10-1ubuntu1.14.04.1_amd64.deb
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  • powershell_6.0.0-alpha.10-1ubuntu1.16.04.1_amd64.deb
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  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.10.pkg
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  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.10-win81-x64.zip
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  • v6.0.0-alpha.10.zip
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  • v6.0.0-alpha.10.tar.gz
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v6.0.0-alpha.9 release of PowerShell

16 Aug 18:53
@andyleejordan andyleejordan
v6.0.0-alpha.9
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With 33 non-merge commits since v6.0.0-alpha.8, here are the major changes:

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

These are the SHA 256 hashes:

  • powershell_6.0.0-alpha.9-1ubuntu1.14.04.1_amd64.deb
    • 275127929dcc36d5ef5c6d4a98784f65e50acae4fa9ce2f92e78220ac32983cc
  • powershell_6.0.0-alpha.9-1ubuntu1.16.04.1_amd64.deb
    • 5d56a0419c23ce879dd4ddaca009f03e888355fccc9eecf882b64d63da5f38e3
  • PowerShell_6.0.0.9-alpha.9-win10-x64.msi
    • 183892e908bac570e2018b5ad3e5eac440a3f38c6bde649719ebfa4b9d25e81d
  • PowerShell_6.0.0.9-alpha.9-win81-x64.msi
    • 83f88b20220a2d5d645cf4e42d866471c936e952bc9875eca7e8f353bb9bad31
  • powershell-6.0.0_alpha.9-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
    • 7e891ca77c19b268d27fbc41f9fae19b21c76b2fcab0937347c8f812483f61e3
  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.9-win10-x64.zip
    • 35b08c1b3482a5b613926bb8cb51c95591648381431117d74ff20e5d6beaf3d6
  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.9-win81-x64.zip
    • 4c801f001ecea8a9bc95b02709144a1b27cb89d77242ae63e152b3e98aea7f86
  • powershell-6.0.0-alpha.9.pkg
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  • v6.0.0-alpha.9.tar.gz
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v6.0.0-alpha.8 release of PowerShell

12 Aug 01:34
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v6.0.0-alpha.8 release of PowerShell

With 304 non-merge commits since v6.0.0-alpha.7, here are the major changes:

  • PowerSell 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
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v6.0.0-alpha.7 release of PowerShell

26 Jul 23:38
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v6.0.0-alpha.7 release of PowerShell

With 294 non-merge commits since v0.6.0, here are the major changes:

  • Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod ported to PowerShell Core
  • Set PSReadLine default edit mode to Emacs on Linux
  • IsCore variable renamed to IsCoreCLR
  • 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 add back for Windows
  • Get-ComputerInfo cmdlet added back for Windows

Please note that this build corresponds to v0.7.0, with the version updated to reflect the upcoming PowerShell 6.0 release.

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