PowerShell 7.7.0 preview 4 released for Windows 11

Engine Updates and Fixes​

• Fix FileOnlyEntry crashing on older versions of Windows (#27880)
• Call CodeGeneration.EscapeSingleQuotedStringContent API in SyncCurrentLocationHandler (#27874)
• Improve PowerShell Remoting Argument Validation (#27870)
• Improve validation for data fragments for PSRP frame headers (#27871)
• Add the xsd validation back for CIM cmdlets (#27869)
• Fix PATH caching in CommandDiscovery code (#27809)
• Add support for new WLDP setting EnableFileOnlyEntry (#26752)
• Fix the dot-sourcing behavior of pwsh -file for advanced-function scripts (#27727)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes​

• Improve output file path determination for Invoke-WebRequest (#27872)
• Improve Authorization Header default and redirect behavior (#27873)
• Fix the regression in tab completing positional parameters (#27857)
• Add New-TemporaryDirectory cmdlet (#27549) (Thanks Kirtikumar Anandrao Ramchandani (@KirtiRamchandani)!)

Code Cleanup​

• Remove Test-Bom and the boms JSON files (#27726)

Tests​

• Fix the scripts used for Copy-Item -FromSession/-ToSession scenarios and also enable tests (#27773)
• Fix TimeZone test with duplicate names (#27525) (Thanks Kirtikumar Anandrao Ramchandani (@KirtiRamchandani)!)

Build and Packaging Improvements​

• Add the needed variable groups to the MSIX VPack pipeline to enforce using the production ADO feed (#27896)
• Fix install dotnet for non-early-access release (#27892)
• Localized file check-in by OneLocBuild Task: Build definition ID 13420: Build ID 2691582 (#27876)
• Fix comments in CmdletizationCoreResources.resx (#27879)
• Localized file check-in by OneLocBuild Task: Build definition ID 13420: Build ID 2684623 (#27841)
• Use Azure CLI for early-access feed token (#27849)
• Fix OneBranch output variables for early .NET jobs (#27843)
• Localized file check-in by OneLocBuild Task: Build definition ID 13420: Build ID 2674492 (#27821)
• Localized file check-in by OneLocBuild Task: Build definition ID 13420: Build ID 2670960 (#27802)
• Use .NET SDK and NuGet feed early access for build, package and release pipelines (#27795)
• Update Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive version to 1.2.6 (#27784)
• PMC: Remove EOL debian12 distribution for v7.7.0 preview (#27763)
• PMC: Add Ubuntu 26.04 distribution for v7.7.0 (#27765)
• Localized file check-in by OneLocBuild Task: Build definition ID 13420: Build ID 2661935 (#27766)
• Localized file check-in by OneLocBuild Task: Build definition ID 13420: Build ID 2660148 (#27752)
• Update the manifest resource names for the localized resources embedded in satellite assemblies (#27756)
• Update LocProject.json to list each English resource file directly (#27751)
• Localized file check-in by OneLocBuild Task: Build definition ID 13420: Build ID 2652124 (#27736)
• Fix min-size package and ship localized resources only for MSIX packages (#27725)
• Fix the W3C URIs in .resx resource files (#27729)
• Update metadata.json for July releases (#27704)
• Prepare for onboarding PowerShell to the Native2Native localization pipeline (#27667)

Documentation and Help Content​

• Update changelogs for v7.4.18, v7.5.9, and v7.6.4 (#27707)

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