PowerShell 7.4.0 preview 1 released

NOTE

• Snap packages are not available for this release.
• Nano server docker images are not available for this release.

Engine Updates and Fixes​

• Add Instrumentation to AmsiUtil and make the init variable readonly (#18727)
• Fix typo in OutOfProcTransportManager.cs (#18766) (Thanks @eltociear!)
• Allow non-default encodings to be used in user's script/code (#18605)
• Add Dim and DimOff to $PSStyle (#18653)
• Change exec from alias to function to handle arbitrary arguments (#18567)
• The command prefix should also be in the error color for NormalView (#18555)
• Skip cloud files marked as "not on disk" during command discovery (#18152)
• Replace UTF8Encoding(false) with Encoding.Default (#18356) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix Switch-Process to set termios appropriate for child process (#18467)
• On Unix, only explicitly terminate the native process if not in background (#18215)
• Treat [NullString]::Value as the string type when resolving methods (#18080)
• Improve pseudo binding for dynamic parameters (#18030) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Make experimental feature PSAnsiRenderingFileInfo stable (#18042)
• Update to use version 2.21.0 of Application Insights. (#17903)
• Do not preserve temporary results when no need to do so (#17856)

Performance​

• Remove some static constants from Utils.Separators (#18154) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Avoid using regex when unnecessary in ScriptWriter (#18348)
• Use source generator for PSVersionInfo to improve startup time (#15603) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Skip evaluating suggestions at startup (#18232)
• Avoid using Regex when not necessary (#18210)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes​

• Update to use ComputeCore.dll for PowerShell Direct (#18194)
• Replace ArgumentNullException(nameof()) with ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull() (#18792)(#18784) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Remove TabExpansion from remote session configuration (#18795) (Internal 23331)
• WebCmdlets get Retry-After from headers if status code is 429 (#18717) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Implement SupportsShouldProcess in Stop-Transcript (#18731) (Thanks @JohnLBevan!)
• Fix New-Item -ItemType Hardlink to resolve target to absolute path and not allow link to itself (#18634)
• Add output types to Format commands (#18746) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Fix the process CommandLine on Linux (#18710) (Thanks @jborean93!)
• Fix SuspiciousContentChecker.Match to detect a pre-defined string when the text starts with it (#18693)
• Switch $PSNativeCommandUseErrorActionPreference to $true when feature is enabled (#18695)
• Fix Start-Job to check the existence of working directory using the PowerShell way (#18675)
• Webcmdlets add 308 to redirect codes and small cleanup (#18536) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Ensure HelpInfo.Category is consistently a string (#18254)
• Remove gcloud from the legacy list because it's resolved to a .ps1 script (#18575)
• Add gcloud and sqlcmd to list to use legacy argument passing (#18559)
• Fix native access violation (#18545) (#18547) (Thanks @chrullrich!)
• Fix issue when completing the first command in a script with an empty array expression (#18355) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Improve type inference of hashtable keys (#17907) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Fix Switch-Process to copy the current env to the new process (#18452)
• Fix Switch-Process error to include the command that is not found (#18443)
• Update Out-Printer to remove all decorating ANSI escape sequences from PowerShell formatting (#18425)
• Web cmdlets set default charset encoding to UTF8 (#18219) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Fix incorrect cmdlet name in the script used by Restart-Computer (#18374) (Thanks @urizen-source!)
• Add the function cd~ (#18308) (Thanks @GigaScratch!)
• Fix type inference error for empty return statements (#18351) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Fix the exception reporting in ConvertFrom-StringData (#18336) (Thanks @GigaScratch!)
• Implement IDisposable in NamedPipeClient (#18341) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Replace command-error suggestion with new implementation based on subsystem plugin (#18252)
• Remove the ProcessorArchitecture portion from the full name as it's obsolete (#18320)
• Make the fuzzy searching flexible by passing in the fuzzy matcher (#18270)
• Add -FuzzyMinimumDistance parameter to Get-Command (#18261)
• Improve startup time by triggering initialization of additional types on background thread (#18195)
• Fix decompression in web cmdlets (#17955) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Add CustomTableHeaderLabel formatting to differentiate table header labels that are not property names (#17346)
• Remove the extra new line form List formatting (#18185)
• Minor update to the FileInfo table formatting on Unix to make it more concise (#18183)
• Fix Parent property on processes with complex name (#17545) (Thanks @jborean93!)
• Make PowerShell class not affiliate with Runspace when declaring the NoRunspaceAffinity attribute (#18138)
• Complete the progress bar rendering in Invoke-WebRequest when downloading is complete or cancelled (#18130)
• Display download progress in human readable format for Invoke-WebRequest (#14611) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• Update WriteConsole to not use stackalloc for buffer with too large size (#18084)
• Filter out compiler generated types for Add-Type -PassThru (#18095)
• Fixing CA2014 warnings and removing the warning suppression (#17982) (Thanks @creative-cloud!)
• Make experimental feature PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing stable (#18044)
• Make experimental feature PSAMSIMethodInvocationLogging stable (#18041)
• Handle PSObject argument specially in method invocation logging (#18060)
• Fix typos in EventResource.resx (#18063) (Thanks @eltociear!)
• Make experimental feature PSRemotingSSHTransportErrorHandling stable (#18046)
• Make experimental feature PSExec stable (#18045)
• Make experimental feature PSCleanBlock stable (#18043)
• Fix error formatting to use color defined in $PSStyle.Formatting (#17987)
• Remove unneeded use of chmod 777 (#17974)
• Support mapping foreground/background ConsoleColor values to VT escape sequences (#17938)
• Make pwsh server modes implicitly not show banner (#17921)
• Add output type attributes for Get-WinEvent (#17948) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Remove 1 second minimum delay in Invoke-WebRequest for small files, and prevent file-download-error suppression. (#17896) (Thanks @AAATechGuy!)
• Add completion for values in comparisons when comparing Enums (#17654) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Fix positional argument completion (#17796) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Fix member completion in attribute argument (#17902) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
• Throw when too many parameter sets are defined (#17881) (Thanks @fflaten!)
• Limit searching of charset attribute in meta tag for HTML to first 1024 characters in webcmdlets (#17813)
• Fix Update-Help failing silently with implicit non-US culture. (#17780) (Thanks @dkaszews!)
• Add the ValidateNotNullOrWhiteSpace attribute (#17191) (Thanks @wmentha!)
• Improve enumeration of inferred types in pipeline (#17799) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)

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