PowerShell 7.2.0 preview 8 released - July 22

Brink · Jul 23, 2021

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)