Changelog

Note: MSI installer packages have been removed due to #13035 till further investigation.

Breaking Changes

• Make the switch parameter -Qualifier not positional for Split-Path (#12960) (Thanks @yecril71pl!)
• Resolve the working directory as literal path for Start-Process when it's not specified (#11946) (Thanks @NoMoreFood!)
• Make -OutFile parameter in web cmdlets to work like -LiteralPath (#11701) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Ensure null-coalescing LHS is evaluated only once (#12667)
• Fix path handling bug in PSTask (#12554) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• Remove extra line before formatting group (#12163) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Make module formatting not generate error with strict mode (#11943)
• Adding more ETW logs to WSMan plugin (#12798) (Thanks @krishnayalavarthi!)
• Restrict loading of amsi.dll to system32 folder (#12730)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Fix NullReferenceException in CommandSearcher.GetNextCmdlet (#12659) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Prevent NullReferenceException in Unix computer cmdlets with test hooks active (#12651) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Fix issue in Select-Object where Hashtable members (e.g. Keys) cannot be used with -Property or -ExpandProperty (#11097) (Thanks @vexx32!)
• Fix conflicting shorthand switch -w for pwsh (#12945)
• Rename the CimCmdlet resource file (#12955) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove use of Test-Path in ConciseView (#12778)
• Flag default switch statement condition clause as keyword (#10487) (Thanks @msftrncs!)
• Add parameter SchemaFile to Test-Json cmdlet (#11934) (Thanks @beatcracker!)
• Bring back Certificate provider parameters (#10622) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix New-Item to create symbolic link to relative path target (#12797) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add CommandLine property to Process (#12288) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Adds -MaskInput parameter to Read-Host (#10908) (Thanks @davinci26!)
• Change CimCmdlets to use AliasAttribute (#12617) (Thanks @thlac!)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!
@xtqqczze, @sethvs, @romero126, @kvprasoon, @powercode
Tools

• Use correct isError parameter with Write-Log (#12989)
• Disable NonPrivateReadonlyFieldsMustBeginWithUpperCaseLetter rule in StyleCop (#12855) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Add @TylerLeonhardt to PowerShell team list to correct changelog generation (#12927)
• Enable the upload of ETW traces to CLR CAP in Windows daily build (#12890)
• Prevent GitHub workflow for daily dotnet build updates from running in forks (#12763) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Add GitHub action for PR creation and Wix file generation logic (#12748)

Downloads from - https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerS....1.0-preview.4

Posted By: DooGie
26 Jun 2020