PowerShell 7.7.0 preview 5 released for Windows 11

Engine Updates and Fixes​

• Tolerate IO/JSON errors reading the per-user powershell.config.json (#27373)
• Improve remote prompt handling for PSCredential and SecureString arrays (#28007)
• Improve CAB extraction path handling (#28009)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes​

• Fix telemetry UUID mutex acquisition (#28026)
• Allow user to force the default implicit formatting to use AutoSize (#28018)
• Prevent localization of WPF key gesture strings (#28020)
• Improve pointer lifecycle handling in PdhHelper (#28008)
• Improve validation for Copy-Item -FromSession (#28006)
• Handle MSIX installation specially when prepending to PATH (#27782)
• Add GetImportModuleCommand method back and check for session restriction in ShowCommand (#25557)
• Remove the <assembly> element for from CmdletizationCoreResources.resx (#27900)

Tools​

• Update Install-Dotnet to directly run the install script (#28022)

Tests​

• Mark DSC Profile tests pending on MSIX test runs (#27884)
• Fix flaky Debug-Runspace attach event test (#27885)
• Fix LocProject.json tests and trigger CIs on changes to LocProject.json (#27988)
• Fix the localization tests for the Release Automation environment (#27944)

Build and Packaging Improvements​

• Enable .NET 11 early access across release pipelines (#28024)
• Localized file check-in by OneLocBuild Task: Build definition ID 13420: Build ID 2730146 (#28030)
• Update Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet to 1.3.0-preview2 (#28031)
• Support macOS signatures in nonofficial pipelines (#27976)
• Add Azure Linux 4 RPM support (#28021)
• Localized file check-in by OneLocBuild Task: Build definition ID 13420: Build ID 2726204 (#28025)
• Localized file check-in by OneLocBuild Task: Build definition ID 13420: Build ID 2725870 (#28023)
• Localized file check-in by OneLocBuild Task: Build definition ID 13420: Build ID 2724482 (#28010)
• Simplify Microsoft Store listing metadata (#27968)
• Localized file check-in by OneLocBuild Task: Build definition ID 13420: Build ID 2716742 (#27983)
• Move to the .NET SDK 11-rc.1 for preview release (#27992)
• Update metadata.json for September releases (#27989)
• Add PDP.xml to the LocProject.json file for localization (#27966)
• Localized file check-in by OneLocBuild Task: Build definition ID 13420: Build ID 2704971 (#27958)
• Enable early .NET builds in APIScan (#27952)
• Change Windows test CI to stop using PowerShell 5.1 (#27940)
• Localized file check-in by OneLocBuild Task: Build definition ID 13420: Build ID 2701735 (#27895)
• Update metadata.json for August releases (#27919)
• Update AppxManifest.xml to only declare en-US for the <Resources> element (#27939)
• Use Custom Validation Policy for vPack Pipeline (#27911)
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1 (#27261)
• Bump actions/setup-dotnet from 5.2.0 to 5.3.0 (#27539)
• Bump actions/github-script from 8.0.0 to 9.0.0 (#27249)
• Bump github/codeql-action from 4.35.4 to 4.36.0 (#27531)

Documentation and Help Content​

• Correct New-TemporaryDirectory help URI (#27934)

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