7.2.0-preview.1 - 2020-11-17
Engine Updates and Fixes
- Change the default fallback encoding for
GetEncodinginStart-Transcriptto beUTF8without a BOM (#13732) (Thanks @Gimly!)
General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes
- Update
pwsh -?output to match docs (#13748) - Fix
NullReferenceExceptioninTest-Json(#12942) (Thanks @iSazonov!) - Make
DisposeinTranscriptionOptionidempotent (#13839) (Thanks @krishnayalavarthi!) - Add additional Microsoft PowerShell modules to the tracked modules list (#12183)
- Relax further
SSLverification checks forWSManon non-Windows hosts with verification available (#13786) (Thanks @jborean93!) - Add the
OutputTypeAttributetoGet-ExperimentalFeature(#13738) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!) - Fix blocking wait when starting file associated with a Windows application (#13750)
- Emit warning if
ConvertTo-Jsonexceeds-Depthvalue (#13692)
Code Cleanup
We thank the following contributors!
@xtqqczze, @mkswd, @ThomasNieto, @PatLeong, @paul-cheung, @georgettica
- Fix RCS1049: Simplify boolean comparison (#13994) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Enable IDE0062: Make local function static (#14044) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Enable CA2207: Initialize value type static fields inline (#14068) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Enable CA1837: Use
ProcessIdandCurrentManagedThreadIdfromSystem.Environment(#14063) (Thanks @xtqqczze and @PatLeong!) - Remove unnecessary using directives (#14014, #14017, #14021, #14050, #14065, #14066, #13863, #13860, #13861, #13814) (Thanks @xtqqczze and @ThomasNieto!)
- Remove unnecessary usage of LINQ
Countmethod (#13545) (Thanks @xtqqczze!) - Fix SA1518: The code must not contain extra blank lines at the end of the file (#13574) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Enable CA1829: Use the
LengthorCountproperty instead ofCount()(#13925) (Thanks @xtqqczze!) - Enable CA1827: Do not use
Count()orLongCount()whenAny()can be used (#13923) (Thanks @xtqqczze!) - Enable or fix nullable usage in a few files (#13793, #13805, #13808, #14018, #13804) (Thanks @mkswd and @georgettica!)
- Enable IDE0040: Add accessibility modifiers (#13962, #13874) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Make applicable private Guid fields readonly (#14000) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Fix CA1003: Use generic event handler instances (#13937) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Simplify delegate creation (#13578) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Fix RCS1033: Remove redundant boolean literal (#13454) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Fix RCS1221: Use pattern matching instead of combination of
asoperator and null check (#13333) (Thanks @xtqqczze!) - Use
is notsyntax (#13338) (Thanks @xtqqczze!) - Replace magic number with constant in PDH (#13536) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Fix accessor order (#13538) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Enable IDE0054: Use compound assignment (#13546) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Fix RCS1098: Constant values should be on right side of comparisons (#13833) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Enable CA1068:
CancellationTokenparameters must come last (#13867) (Thanks @xtqqczze!) - Enable CA10XX rules with suggestion severity (#13870, #13928, #13924) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Enable IDE0064: Make Struct fields writable (#13945) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Run
dotnet-formatto improve formatting of source code (#13503) (Thanks @xtqqczze!) - Enable CA1825: Avoid zero-length array allocations (#13961) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Add IDE analyzer rule IDs to comments (#13960) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Enable CA1830: Prefer strongly-typed
AppendandInsertmethod overloads onStringBuilder(#13926) (Thanks @xtqqczze!) - Enforce code style in build (#13957) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Enable CA1836: Prefer
IsEmptyoverCountwhen available (#13877) (Thanks @xtqqczze!) - Enable CA1834: Consider using
StringBuilder.Append(char)when applicable (#13878) (Thanks @xtqqczze!) - Fix IDE0044: Make field readonly (#13884, #13885, #13888, #13892, #13889, #13886, #13890, #13891, #13887, #13893, #13969, #13967, #13968, #13970, #13971, #13966, #14012) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Enable IDE0048: Add required parentheses (#13896) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Enable IDE1005: Invoke delegate with conditional access (#13911) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Enable IDE0036: Enable the check on the order of modifiers (#13958, #13881) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Use span-based
String.Concatinstead ofString.Substring(#13500) (Thanks @xtqqczze!) - Enable CA1050: Declare types in namespace (#13872) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
- Fix minor keyword typo in C# code comment (#13811) (Thanks @paul-cheung!)
Tools
- Enable
CodeQLSecurity scanning (#13894) - Add global
AnalyzerConfigwith default configuration (#13835) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
Build and Packaging Improvements
We thank the following contributors!
- Bump
Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdkto16.8.0(#14020) - Bump
Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharpto3.8.0(#14075) - Remove workarounds for .NET 5 RTM builds (#14038)
- Migrate 3rd party signing to ESRP (#14010)
- Fixes to release pipeline for GA release (#14034)
- Don't do a shallow checkout (#13992)
- Add validation and dependencies for Ubuntu 20.04 distribution to packaging script (#13993)
- Add .NET install workaround for RTM (#13991)
- Move to ESRP signing for Windows files (#13988)
- Update
PSReadLineversion to2.1.0(#13975) - Bump .NET to version
5.0.100-rtm.20526.5(#13920) - Update script to use .NET RTM feeds (#13927)
- Add checkout step to release build templates (#13840)
- Turn on
/features:strictfor all projects (#13383) (Thanks @xtqqczze!) - Bump
NJsonSchemato10.2.2(#13722, #13751) - Add flag to make Linux script publish to production repo (#13714)
- Bump
Markdig.Signedto0.22.0(#13741) - Use new release script for Linux packages (#13705)
Documentation and Help Content
- Fix links to LTS versions for Windows (#14070)
- Fix
crontabformatting in example doc (#13712) (Thanks @dgoldman-msft!)
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