Engine Updates and Fixes

• Add a Windows mode to $PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing that allows some commands to use legacy argument passing (#15408)
• Use nameof to get parameter names when creating ArgumentNullException (#15604) (Thanks @gukoff!)
• Test if a command is 'Out-Default' more thoroughly for transcribing scenarios (#15653)
• Add Microsoft.PowerShell.Crescendo to telemetry allow list (#15372)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Use $PSStyle.Formatting.FormatAccent for Format-List and $PSStyle.Formatting.TableHeader for Format-Table output (#14406)
• Highlight using error color the exception Message and underline in PositionMessage for Get-Error (#15786)
• Implement a completion for View parameter of format cmdlets (#14513) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add support to colorize FileInfo file names (#14403)
• Don't serialize to JSON ETS properties for DateTime and string types (#15665)
• Fix HyperVSocketEndPoint.ServiceId setter (#15704) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Add DetailedView to $ErrorView (#15609)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!
@iSazonov, @xtqqczze

• Remove consolehost.proto file (#15741) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Implement IDisposable for ConvertToJsonCommand (#15787) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix IDisposable implementation for CommandPathSearch (#15793) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Delete IDE dispose analyzer rules (#15798) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Seal private classes (#15725) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0029: UseCoalesceExpression (#15770) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0070: UseSystemHashCode (#15715) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0030: UseCoalesceExpressionForNullable (#14289) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA1846 and CA1845 for using AsSpan instead of Substring (#15738)
• Use List<T>.RemoveAll to avoid creating temporary list (#15686) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable IDE0044: MakeFieldReadonly (#13880) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Disable IDE0130 (#15728) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Make classes sealed (#15675) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1043: Use integral or string argument for indexers (#14467) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1812 (#15674) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Replace Single with First when we know the element count is 1 (#15676) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Skip analyzers for Microsoft.Management.UI.Internal (#15677) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA2243: Attribute string literals should parse correctly (#15622) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Enable CA1401 (#15621) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA1309: Use ordinal StringComparison in Certificate Provider (#14352) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix CA1839: Use Environment.ProcessPath (#15650) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Add new analyzer rules (#15620) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

Tools

• Add SkipRoslynAnalyzers parameter to Start-PSBuild (#15640) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Create issue template for issues updating PowerShell through Windows update. (#15700)
• Add DocumentationAnalyzers to build (#14336) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Convert GitHub issue templates to modern forms (#15645)

Tests

• Add more tests for ConvertFrom-Json (#15706) (Thanks @strawgate!)
• Update glob-parent and hosted-git-info test dependencies (#15643)

Build and Packaging Improvements

Update .NET to version v6.0.0-preview.6

• Add new package name for osx-arm64 (#15813)
• Prefer version when available for dotnet-install (#15810)
• Make warning about MU being required dynamic (#15776)
• Add Start-PSBootstrap before running tests (#15804)
• Update to .NET 6 Preview 6 and use crossgen2 (#15763)
• Enable ARM64 packaging for macOS (#15768)
• Make Microsoft Update opt-out/in check boxes work (#15784)
• Add Microsoft Update opt out to MSI install (#15727)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.4.4 to 10.4.5 (#15769) (Thanks @dependabot[bot]!)
• Fix computation of SHA512 checksum (#15736)
• Update the script to use quality parameter for dotnet-install (#15731)
• Generate SHA512 checksum file for all packages (#15678)
• Enable signing daily release build with lifetime certificate (#15642)
• Update metadata and README for 7.2.0-preview.7 (#15593)

Documentation and Help Content

• Fix broken RFC links (#15807)
• Add to bug report template getting details from Get-Error (#15737)
• Update issue templates to link to new docs (#15711)
• Add @jborean93 to Remoting Working Group (#15683)

Read more: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerS....2.0-preview.8

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