Breaking Changes

• Update some PowerShell APIs to throw ArgumentException instead of ArgumentNullException when the argument is an empty string (#19215) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Add the parameter -ProgressAction to the common parameters (#18887)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Fix PlainText output to correctly remove the Reset VT sequence without number (#19283)
• Fix ConciseView to handle custom ParserError error records (#19239)
• Fix VtSubstring helper method to correctly check characters copied (#19240)
• Update the FeedbackProvider interface to return structured data (#19133)
• Make the exception error in PowerShell able to associate with the right history entry (#19095)
• Fix for JEA session leaking functions (#19024)
• Add WDAC events and system lockdown notification (#18893)
• Fix support for nanoserver due to lack of AMSI (#18882)

Performance

• Use interpolated strings (#19002)(#19003)(#18977)(#18980)(#18996)(#18979)(#18997)(#18978)(#18983)(#18992)(#18993)(#18985)(#18988) (Thanks @CarloToso!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Fix completion for PSCustomObject variable properties (#18682) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Improve type inference for Get-Random (#18972) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Make -Encoding parameter able to take ANSI encoding in PowerShell (#19298) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Telemetry improvements for tracking experimental feature opt out (#18762)
• Support HTTP persistent connections in Web Cmdlets (#19249) (Thanks @stevenebutler!)
• Fix using xml -Body in webcmdlets without an encoding (#19281) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Add the Statement property to $MyInvocation (#19027) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
• Fix Start-Process -Wait with -Credential (#19096) (Thanks @jborean93!)
• Adjust PUT method behavior to POST one for default content type in WebCmdlets (#19152) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Improve verbose message in web cmdlets when content length is unknown (#19252) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Preserve WebSession.MaximumRedirection from changes (#19190) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Take into account ContentType from Headers in WebCmdlets (#19227) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Use C# 11 UTF-8 string literals (#19243) (Thanks @turbedi!)
• Add property assignment completion for enums (#19178) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Fix class member completion for classes with base types (#19179) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Add -Path and -LiteralPath parameters to Test-Json cmdlet (#19042) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
• Allow to preserve the original HTTP method by adding -PreserveHttpMethodOnRedirect to Web cmdlets (#18894) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Webcmdlets display an error on https to http redirect (#18595) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Build the relative URI for links from the response in Invoke-WebRequest (#19092) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Fix redirection for -CustomMethod POST in WebCmdlets (#19111) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Dispose previous response in Webcmdlets (#19117) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Improve Invoke-WebRequest xml and json errors format (#18837) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Fix error formatting to remove the unneeded leading newline for concise view (#19080)
• Add -NoHeader parameter to ConvertTo-Csv and Export-Csv cmdlets (#19108) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
• Fix Start-Process -Credential -Wait to work on Windows (#19082)
• Add ValidateNotNullOrEmpty to OutFile and InFile parameters of WebCmdlets (#19044) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Correct spelling of "custom" in event (#19059) (Thanks @spaette!)
• Ignore expected error for file systems not supporting alternate streams (#19065)
• Adding missing guard for telemetry opt out to avoid NullReferenceException when importing modules (#18949) (Thanks @powercode!)
• Fix progress calculation divide by zero in Copy-Item (#19038)
• Add progress to Copy-Item (#18735)
• WebCmdlets parse XML declaration to get encoding value, if present. (#18748) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• HttpKnownHeaderNames update headers list (#18947) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Fix bug with managing redirection and KeepAuthorization in Web cmdlets (#18902) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Fix Get-Error to work with strict mode (#18895)
• Add AllowInsecureRedirect switch to Web cmdlets (#18546) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Invoke-RestMethod -FollowRelLink fix links containing commas (#18829) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Prioritize the default parameter set when completing positional arguments (#18755) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Add -CommandWithArgs parameter to pwsh (#18726)
• Enable creating composite subsystem implementation in modules (#18888)
• Fix Format-Table -RepeatHeader for property derived tables (#18870)
• Add StatusCode to HttpResponseException (#18842) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Fix type inference for all scope variables (#18758) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Add completion for Using keywords (#16514) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!
@CarloToso, @iSazonov, @xtqqczze, @turbedi, @syntax-tm, @eltociear, @ArmaanMcleod

• Small cleanup in the WebCmdlet code (#19299) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Remove unused GUID detection code from console host (#18871) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Fix CodeFactor issues in the code base - part 4 (#19270) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Fix codefactor if part 3 (#19269) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Fix codefactor if part 2 (#19267) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Fix codefactor if part 1 (#19266) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Remove comment and simplify condition in WebCmdlets (#19251) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Small style changes (#19241) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Use ArgumentException.ThrowIfNullOrEmpty as appropriate [part 1] (#19215) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Use using variable to reduce the nested level (#19229) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Use ArgumentException.ThrowIfNullOrEmpty() in more places (#19213) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Replace BitConverter.ToString with Convert.ToHexString where appropriate (#19216) (Thanks @turbedi!)
• Replace Requires.NotNullOrEmpty(string) with ArgumentException.ThrowIfNullOrEmpty (#19197) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Use ArgumentOutOfRangeException.ThrowIfNegativeOrZero when applicable (#19201) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Use CallerArgumentExpression on Requires.NotNull (#19200) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Revert a few change to not use 'ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull' (#19151)
• Corrected some minor spelling mistakes (#19176) (Thanks @syntax-tm!)
• Fix a typo in InitialSessionState.cs (#19177) (Thanks @eltociear!)
• Fix a typo in pwsh help content (#19153)
• Revert comment changes in WebRequestPSCmdlet.Common.cs (#19136) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Small cleanup webcmdlets (#19128) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Merge partials in WebRequestPSCmdlet.Common.cs (#19126) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Cleanup WebCmdlets comments (#19124) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Added minor readability and refactoring fixes to Process.cs (#19123) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
• Small changes in Webcmdlets (#19109) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Rework SetRequestContent in WebCmdlets (#18964) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Small cleanup WebCmdlets (#19030) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Update additional interpolated string changes (#19029)
• Revert some of the interpolated string changes (#19018)
• Cleanup StreamHelper.cs, WebRequestPSCmdlet.Common.cs and InvokeRestMethodCommand.Common.cs (#18950) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Small cleanup common code of webcmdlets (#18946) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Simplification of GetHttpMethod and HttpMethod in WebCmdlets (#18846) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Fix typo in ModuleCmdletBase.cs (#18933) (Thanks @eltociear!)
• Fix regression in RemoveNulls (#18881) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Replace all NotNull with ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull (#18820) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Cleanup InvokeRestMethodCommand.Common.cs (#18861) (Thanks @CarloToso!)

Tools

• Add a Mariner install script (#19294)
• Add tool to trigger license information gathering for NuGet modules (#18827)

Tests

• Update and enable the test for the type of $input (#18968) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Increase the timeout for creating the WebListener (#19268)
• Increase the timeout when waiting for the event log (#19264)
• Add Windows ARM64 CI (#19040)
• Change test so output does not include newline (#19026)
• Allow system lock down test debug hook to work with new WLDP API (#18962)
• Add tests for Allowinsecureredirect parameter in Web cmdlets (#18939) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Enable get-help pattern tests on Unix (#18855) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Create test to check if WebCmdlets decompress brotli-encoded data (#18905) (Thanks @CarloToso!)

Build and Packaging Improvements

We thank the following contributors!
@pwshBot, @bergmeister, @xtqqczze

• Restructure the package build to simplify signing and packaging stages (#19321)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 4.4.0 to 4.6.0-2.23152.6 (#19306)(#19233)
• Test fixes for stabilizing tests (#19068)
• Bump Newtonsoft.Json from 13.0.2 to 13.0.3 (#19290)(#19289)
• Fix mariner sudo detection (#19304)
• Add stage for symbols job in Release build (#18937)
• Bump .NET to Preview 2 version (#19305)
• Move workflows that create PRs to private repo (#19276)
• Use reference assemblies generated by dotnet (#19302)
• Update the cgmanifest (#18814)(#19165)(#19296)
• Always regenerate files WXS fragment (#19196)
• MSI installer: Add checkbox and MSI property DISABLE_TELEMETRY to optionally disable telemetry. (#10725) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Add -Force to Move-Item to fix the GitHub workflow (#19262)
• Update and remove outdated docs to fix the URL link checks (#19261)
• Bump Markdig.Signed from 0.30.4 to 0.31.0 (#19232)
• Add pattern to replace for reference API generation (#19214)
• Split test artifact build into windows and non-windows (#19199)
• Set LangVersion compiler option to 11.0 (#18877) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Update to .NET 8 preview 1 build (#19194)
• Simplify Windows Packaging CI Trigger YAML (#19160)
• Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 17.4.0 to 17.5.0 (#18823)(#19191)
• Add URL for all distributions (#19159)
• Bump Microsoft.Extensions.ObjectPool from 7.0.1 to 7.0.3 (#18925)(#19155)
• Add verification of R2R at packaging (#19129)
• Allow cross compiling windows (#19119)
• Update CodeQL build agent (#19113)
• Bump XunitXml.TestLogger from 3.0.70 to 3.0.78 (#19066)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Analyzers from 3.3.3 to 3.3.4 (#18975)
• Bump BenchmarkDotNet to 0.13.3 (#18878) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Bump Microsoft.PowerShell.Native from 7.4.0-preview.1 to 7.4.0-preview.2 (#18910)
• Add checks for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 in the MSI installer (#18904)
• Update build to include WinForms / WPF in all Windows builds (#18859)

Documentation and Help Content

• Update to the latest NOTICES file (#19169)(#19309)(#19086)(#19077)
• Update supported distros in Readme (#18667) (Thanks @techguy16!)
• Remove the 'Code Coverage Status' badge (#19265)
• Pull in change logs for v7.2.10 and v7.3.3 releases (#19219)
• Update tools metadata and README (#18831)(#19204)(#19014)
• Update a broken link in the README.md (#19187)
• Fix typos in comments (#19064) (Thanks @spaette!)
• Add 7.2 and 7.3 change logs (#19025)
• typos (#19058) (Thanks @spaette!)
• Fix typo in dotnet-tools/README.md (#19021) (Thanks @spaette!)
• Fix up all comments to be in the proper order with proper spacing (#18619)
• Change log for v7.4.0-preview.1 release (#18835)

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Posted By: Brink
15 Mar 2023