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Breaking Changes​

• Move the type data definition of System.Security.AccessControl.ObjectSecurity to the Microsoft.PowerShell.Security module (#16355) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Engine Updates and Fixes​

• Enable searching for assemblies in GAC_Arm64 on Windows (#17816)
• Fix parser exception in using statements with empty aliases (#16745) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Do not always collapse space between parameter and value for native arguments. (#17708)
• Remove PSNativePSPathResolution experimental feature (#17670)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes​

• Fix for deserializing imported ordered dictionary (#15545) (Thanks @davidBar-On!)
• Make generated implicit remoting modules backwards compatible with PowerShell 5.1 (#17227) (Thanks @Tadas!)
• Re-enable IDE0031: Use Null propagation (#17811) (Thanks @fflaten!)
• Allow commands to still be executed even if the current working directory no longer exists (#17579)
• Stop referencing Microsoft.PowerShell.Security when the core snapin is used (#17771)
• Add support for HTTPS with Set-AuthenticodeSignature -TimeStampServer (#16134) (Thanks @Ryan-Hutchison-USAF!)
• Add type accelerator ordered for OrderedDictionary (#17804) (Thanks @fflaten!)
• Fix the definition of the PDH_COUNTER_INFO struct (#17779)
• Adding Virtualization Based Security feature names to Get-ComputerInfo (#16415) (Thanks @mattifestation!)
• Fix FileSystemProvider to work with volume and pipe paths (#15873)
• Remove pre-parse for array-based JSON (#15684) (Thanks @strawgate!)
• Improve type inference for $_ (#17716) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Prevent braces from being removed when completing variables (#17751) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Fix type inference for ICollection (#17752) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Fix Test-Json not handling non-object types at root (#17741) (Thanks @dkaszews!)
• Change Get-ChildItem to treat trailing slash in path as indicating a directory when used with -Recurse (#17704)
• Add find.exe to legacy argument binding behavior for Windows (#17715)
• Add completion for index expressions for dictionaries (#17619) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Fix enum-ranges for ValidateRange in proxy commands (#17572) (Thanks @fflaten!)
• Fix type completion for attribute tokens (#17484) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Add -noprofileloadtime switch to pwsh (#17535) (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• Fix legacy ErrorView types to use $host.PrivateData colors (#17705)
• Improve dynamic parameter tab completion (#17661) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Avoid binding positional parameters when completing parameter in front of value (#17693) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Render decimal numbers in a table using current culture (#17650)

Code Cleanup​

We thank the following contributors!

@fflaten, @Molkree, @eltociear

• Fix other path constructions using Path.Join (#17825)
• Use null propagation (#17787)(#17789)(#17790)(#17791)(#17792)(#17795) (Thanks @fflaten!)
• Re-enable compound assignment preference (#17784) (Thanks @Molkree!)
• Use null-coalescing assignment (#17719)(#17720)(#17721)(#17722)(#17723)(#17724)(#17725)(#17726)(#17727)(#17728)(#17729) (Thanks @Molkree!)
• Disable the warning IDE0031 to take .NET 7 Preview 7 (#17770)
• Fix typo in ModuleCmdletBase.cs (#17714) (Thanks @eltociear!)

Tests​

• Re-enable tests because the corresponding dotnet issues were fixed (#17839)
• Add test for LanguageMode using remoting (#17803) (Thanks @fflaten!)
• Fix test perf by stopping ongoing write-progress (#17749) (Thanks @fflaten!)
• Re-enable the test TestLoadNativeInMemoryAssembly (#17738)

Build and Packaging Improvements​

We thank the following contributors!

@varunsh-coder, @dkaszews, @Molkree, @ChuckieChen945

• Update release pipeline to use Approvals and automate some manual tasks (#17837)
• Add GitHub token permissions for workflows (#17781) (Thanks @varunsh-coder!)
• Bump actions/github-script from 3 to 6 (#17842)
• Bump cirrus-actions/rebase from 1.6 to 1.7 (#17843)
• Remove unneeded verbose message in build (#17840)
• Detect default runtime using dotnet --info in build.psm1 (#17818) (Thanks @dkaszews!)
• Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 3 (#17828)
• Bump actions/download-artifact from 2 to 3 (#17829)
• Bump github/codeql-action from 1 to 2 (#17830)
• Bump peter-evans/create-pull-request from 3 to 4 (#17831)
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 2 to 3 (#17832)
• Enable Dependabot for GitHub Actions (#17775) (Thanks @Molkree!)
• Update .NET SDK version from 7.0.100-preview.6.22352.1 to 7.0.100-preview.7.22377.5 (#17776)
• Fix a bug in install-powershell.ps1 (#17794) (Thanks @ChuckieChen945!)
• Bump xunit from 2.4.1 to 2.4.2 (#17817)
• Update how to update homebrew (#17798)
• Don't run link check on forks (#17797)
• Update dotnetmetadata.json to start consuming .NET 7 preview 7 builds (#17736)
• Bump PackageManagement from 1.4.7 to 1.4.8.1 (#17709)
• Exclude ARM images from running in CI (#17713)

Documentation and Help Content​

• Update the comment about why R2R is disabled (#17850)
• Update changelog and .spelling for 7.3.0-preview.6 release (#17835)
• Updated ADOPTERS.md for Power BI (#17766)
• Update README.md with the current Fedora version (#15717) (Thanks @ananya26-vishnoi!)
• Update README and metadata.json for next release (#17676) (Thanks @SeeminglyScience!)

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