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    Breaking Changes:

    Fix string parameter binding for BigInteger numeric literals (#11634)

    Engine Updates and Fixes:

    Set correct PSProvider full name at module load time (#11813)

    Experimental Features:

    Support passing PSPath to native commands (#12386)

    General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes:

    Fix incorrect index in format string in ParameterBinderBase (#12630)
    Copy the CommandInfo property in Command.Clone() (#12301)
    Apply -IncludeEqual in Compare-Object when -ExcludeDifferent is specified (#12317)
    Change Get-FileHash to close file handles before writing output (#12474)
    Fix inconsistent exception message in -replace operator (#12388)

    Code Cleanup:

    Tools:

    Update @PoshChan config to include SSH (#12526)
    Update log message in Start-PSBootstrap (#12573)
    Add the .NET SDK installation path to the current process path in tools/UpdateDotnetRuntime.ps1 (#12525)

    Tests:

    Make CIM tab completion test case insensitive (#12636)
    Mark ping tests as Pending due to stability issues in macOS (#12504)

    Build and Packaging Improvements:

    Documentation and Help Content:

    Add link to life cycle doc to distribution request template (#12638)
    Update TFM reference in build docs (#12514)
    Fix broken link for blogs in documents (#12471)

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    Breaking Changes:

    Make the switch parameter -Qualifier not positional for Split-Path (#12960) (Thanks @yecril71pl!)
    Resolve the working directory as literal path for Start-Process when it's not specified (#11946) (Thanks @NoMoreFood!)
    Make -OutFile parameter in web cmdlets to work like -LiteralPath (#11701) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

    Engine Updates and Fixes:

    Ensure null-coalescing LHS is evaluated only once (#12667)
    Fix path handling bug in PSTask (#12554) (Thanks @IISResetMe!)
    Remove extra line before formatting group (#12163) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    Make module formatting not generate error with strict mode (#11943)
    Adding more ETW logs to WSMan plugin (#12798) (Thanks @krishnayalavarthi!)
    Restrict loading of amsi.dll to system32 folder (#12730)

    General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes:

    Fix NullReferenceException in CommandSearcher.GetNextCmdlet (#12659) (Thanks @powercode!)
    Prevent NullReferenceException in Unix computer cmdlets with test hooks active (#12651) (Thanks @vexx32!)
    Fix issue in Select-Object where Hashtable members (e.g. Keys) cannot be used with -Property or -ExpandProperty (#11097) (Thanks @vexx32!)
    Fix conflicting shorthand switch -w for pwsh (#12945)
    Rename the CimCmdlet resource file (#12955) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    Remove use of Test-Path in ConciseView (#12778)
    Flag default switch statement condition clause as keyword (#10487) (Thanks @msftrncs!)
    Add parameter SchemaFile to Test-Json cmdlet (#11934) (Thanks @beatcracker!)
    Bring back Certificate provider parameters (#10622) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    Fix New-Item to create symbolic link to relative path target (#12797) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    Add CommandLine property to Process (#12288) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    Adds -MaskInput parameter to Read-Host (#10908) (Thanks @davinci26!)
    Change CimCmdlets to use AliasAttribute (#12617) (Thanks @thlac!)

    Code Cleanup:

    We thank the following contributors!
    @xtqqczze, @sethvs, @romero126, @kvprasoon, @powercode

    Tools:

    Use correct isError parameter with Write-Log (#12989)
    Disable NonPrivateReadonlyFieldsMustBeginWithUpperCaseLetter rule in StyleCop (#12855) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
    Add @TylerLeonhardt to PowerShell team list to correct changelog generation (#12927)
    Enable the upload of ETW traces to CLR CAP in Windows daily build (#12890)
    Prevent GitHub workflow for daily dotnet build updates from running in forks (#12763) (Thanks @bergmeister!)
    Add GitHub action for PR creation and Wix file generation logic (#12748)

    Tests:

    Remove duplicate tests from Measure-Object.Tests.ps1 (#12683) (Thanks @sethvs!)
    Fix tests to not write errors to console (#13010)
    Make sure tabcompletion tests run (#12981)
    Remove dependency on DNS for Test-Connection tests on macOS (#12943)
    Restore markdownlint tests (#12549) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
    Wrap tests in pester blocks (#12700) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

    Build and Packaging Improvements:

    We thank the following contributors!
    @iSazonov, @kvprasoon, @Saancreed, @heaths, @xtqqczze

    Documentation and Help Content:

    Update README and metadata files for next release (#12717)
    Update README.md removing experimental status of Arm builds, but Win-Arm64 is still preview for Stable release. (#12707)
    Add link to Github compare in changelog (#12713) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
    Added missing changelog for v7.1.0-preview.2 (#12665)
    Update required Visual Studio version in build docs (#12628) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
    minor update to Distribution_Request.md (#12705) (Thanks @kilasuit!)
    Update docs.microsoft.com links (#12653) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
    Update change log for 6.2.5 release (#12670)
    Update README.md and metadata.json for next release (#12668)
    Merge 7.0.1 change log (#12669)
    Remove markdown unused definitions (#12656) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
    Add HoloLens to list of PowerShell adopters (#12940) (Thanks @reynoldsbd!)
    Update README.md and metadata.json for next releases (#12939)
    Fix broken link in README.md (#12887) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
    Minor typo corrections in Distribution Request Issue Templates (#12744) (Thanks @corbob!)
    Correct 'review-for-comments' in Governance.md (#11035) (Thanks @MarvTheRobot!)
    Fix markdown ordered lists (#12657) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
    Fix broken docs.microsoft.com link (#12776) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
    Replace link to Slack with link to PowerShell Virtual User Group (#12786) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
    Update LICENSE.txt so that it's recognized as MIT (#12729)

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    Engine Updates and Fixes:

    Make fixes to ComInterop code as suggested by .NET team (#13533)

    General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes:

    Fix case where exception message contains just "`n" on Windows (#13684)
    Recognize CONOUT$ and CONIN$ as reserved device names (#13508) (Thanks @davidreis97!)
    Fix ConciseView for interactive advanced function when writing error (#13623)

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Engine Updates and Fixes

    Fix a logic bug in MapSecurityZone (#13921) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

    Update pwsh -? output to match docs (#13748)

Tests

    markdownlint security updates (#13730)

Build and Packaging Improvements
Bump .NET to version 5.0.100-rtm.20526.5 (#13920)

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    Engine Updates and Fixes:

    Change the default fallback encoding for GetEncoding in Start-Transcript to be UTF8 without a BOM (#13732) (Thanks @Gimly!)

    General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes:

    Update pwsh -? output to match docs (#13748)
    Fix NullReferenceException in Test-Json (#12942) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    Make Dispose in TranscriptionOption idempotent (#13839) (Thanks @krishnayalavarthi!)
    Add additional Microsoft PowerShell modules to the tracked modules list (#12183)
    Relax further SSL verification checks for WSMan on non-Windows hosts with verification available (#13786) (Thanks @jborean93!)
    Add the OutputTypeAttribute to Get-ExperimentalFeature (#13738) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!)
    Fix blocking wait when starting file associated with a Windows application (#13750)
    Emit warning if ConvertTo-Json exceeds -Depth value (#13692)

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    General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes:

    Avoid an exception if file system does not support reparse points (#13634) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    Make AppLocker Enforce mode take precedence over UMCI Audit mode (#14353)

    Code Cleanup:

    Fix syntax error in Windows packaging script (#14377)

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    Tools:

    Add winget release script (#15050)

    Tests:

    Enable cross-runtime benchmarking to compare different .NET runtimes (#15387) (Thanks @adamsitnik!)
    Add the performance benchmark project for PowerShell performance testing (#15242)

    Build and Packaging Improvements:

    Update .NET to version v6.0.0-preview.4

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    Breaking Changes:

    Remove PSDesiredStateConfiguration v2.0.5 module and published it to the PowerShell Gallery (#15536)

    Engine Updates and Fixes:

    Fix splatting being treated as positional parameter in completions (#14623) (Thanks @MartinGC94!)
    Prevent PowerShell from crashing when a telemetry mutex can't be created (#15574) (Thanks @gukoff!)
    Ignore all exceptions when disposing an instance of a subsystem implementation (#15511)
    Wait for SSH exit when closing remote connection (#14635) (Thanks @dinhngtu!)

    Performance:

    Retrieve ProductVersion using informational version attribute in AmsiUtils.Init() (#15527) (Thanks @Fs00!)

    General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes:

    Fix retrieving dynamic parameters from provider even if globbed path returns no results (#15525)
    Revert "Enhance Remove-Item to work with OneDrive (#15260)" due to long path issue (#15546)

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    Engine Updates and Fixes:

    Add a Windows mode to $PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing that allows some commands to use legacy argument passing (#15408)
    Use nameof to get parameter names when creating ArgumentNullException (#15604) (Thanks @gukoff!)
    Test if a command is 'Out-Default' more thoroughly for transcribing scenarios (#15653)
    Add Microsoft.PowerShell.Crescendo to telemetry allow list (#15372)

    General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes:

    Use $PSStyle.Formatting.FormatAccent for Format-List and $PSStyle.Formatting.TableHeader for Format-Table output (#14406)
    Highlight using error color the exception Message and underline in PositionMessage for Get-Error (#15786)
    Implement a completion for View parameter of format cmdlets (#14513) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    Add support to colorize FileInfo file names (#14403)
    Don't serialize to JSON ETS properties for DateTime and string types (#15665)
    Fix HyperVSocketEndPoint.ServiceId setter (#15704) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
    Add DetailedView to $ErrorView (#15609)

    Code Cleanup:

    We thank the following contributors!
    @iSazonov, @xtqqczze

    Tools:

    Add SkipRoslynAnalyzers parameter to Start-PSBuild (#15640) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
    Create issue template for issues updating PowerShell through Windows update. (#15700)
    Add DocumentationAnalyzers to build (#14336) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
    Convert GitHub issue templates to modern forms (#15645)

    Tests:

    Add more tests for ConvertFrom-Json (#15706) (Thanks @strawgate!)
    Update glob-parent and hosted-git-info test dependencies (#15643)
    Build and Packaging Improvements:
    Update .NET to version v6.0.0-preview.6

    Documentation and Help Content:

    Fix broken RFC links (#15807)
    Add to bug report template getting details from Get-Error (#15737)
    Update issue templates to link to new docs (#15711)
    Add @jborean93 to Remoting Working Group (#15683)

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    Breaking Changes:

    Change the default value of $PSStyle.OutputRendering to OutputRendering.Host and remove OutputRendering.Automatic (#15882)
    Fix CA1052 for public API to make classes static when they only have static methods (#15775) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
    Update pwsh.exe -File to only accept .ps1 script files on Windows (#15859)

    Engine Updates and Fixes:

    Update .NET adapter to handle interface static members properly (#15908)
    Catch and handle unauthorized access exception when removing AppLocker test files (#15881)
    General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes:
    Add -PassThru parameter to Set-Clipboard (#13713) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!)
    Add -Encoding parameter for Tee-Object (#12135) (Thanks @peter-Schneider!)
    Update ConvertTo-Csv and Export-Csv to handle IDictionary objects (#11029) (Thanks @vexx32!)
    Update the parameters -Exception and -ErrorRecord for Write-Error to be position 0 (#13813) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!)
    Don't use ArgumentList when creating COM object with New-Object as it's not applicable to the COM parameter set (#15915)
    Fix $PSStyle list output to correctly show TableHeader (#15928)
    Remove the PSImplicitRemotingBatching experimental feature (#15863)
    Fix issue with Get-Process -Module failing to stop when it's piped to Select-Object (#15682) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
    Make the experimental features PSUnixFileStat, PSCultureInvariantReplaceOperator, PSNotApplyErrorActionToStderr, PSAnsiRendering, PSAnsiProgressFeatureName stable (#15864)
    Enhance Remove-Item to work with OneDrive (#15571) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    Make global tool entrypoint class static (#15880)
    Update ServerRemoteHost version to be same as PSVersion (#15809)
    Make the initialization of HttpKnownHeaderNames thread safe (#15519) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
    ConvertTo-Csv: Quote fields with quotes and newlines when using -UseQuotes AsNeeded (#15765) (Thanks @lselden!)
    Forwarding progress stream changes from Foreach-Object -Parallel runspaces (#14271) (Thanks @powercode!)
    Add validation to $PSStyle to reject printable text when setting a property that only expects ANSI escape sequence (#15825)

    Code Cleanup:

    We thank the following contributors: @xtqqczze

    Tools:

    Enable /rebase to automatically rebase a PR (#15808)
    Update .editorconfig to not replace tabs with spaces in .tsv files (#15815) (Thanks @SethFalco!)
    Update PowerShell team members in the change log generation script (#15817)

    Tests:

    Add more tests to validate the current command error handling behaviors (#15919)
    Make Measure-Object property test independent of the file system (#15879)
    Add more information when a syslog parsing error occurs (#15857)
    Harden logic when looking for syslog entries to be sure that we select based on the process id (#15841)

    Build and Packaging Improvements:

    We thank the following contributors: @xtqqczze

    Documentation and Help Content:

    Update README and metadata files for release v7.2.0-preview.8 (#15819)
    Update change logs for 7.0.7 and 7.1.4 (#15921)
    Fix spelling in XML docs (#15939) (Thanks @slowy07!)
    Update PowerShell Committee members (#15837)

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    Telemetry Changes:

    Configure ApplicationInsights to not send cloud role name (Internal 17100)

    Engine Updates and Fixes:

    Handle error from unauthorized access when removing AppLocker test files (#15881)
    Test more thoroughly whether a command is Out-Default for transcription scenarios (#15653)
    Handle error when the telemetry mutex cannot be created (#15574) (Thanks @gukoff!)
    Disallow Add-Type in NoLanguage mode on a locked down machine (Internal 17522)

    Tools:

    Add .stylecop to filetypexml and format it (#16025)

    Build and Packaging Improvements:

    Bump .NET SDK to 5.0.402

    Documentation and Help Content:

    Fix example nuget.config (#14349)

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    General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes:

    Disallow COM calls for AppLocker system lockdown (#16268)
    Configure Microsoft.ApplicationInsights to not send cloud role name (#16246)
    Disallow Add-Type in NoLanguage mode on a locked down machine (#16245)
    Make property names for color VT100 sequences consistent with documentation (#16212)
    Make moving a directory into itself with Move-Item an error (#16198)
    Change FileSystemInfo.Target from a CodeProperty to an AliasProperty that points to FileSystemInfo.LinkTarget (#16165)

    Tests:

    Removed deprecated docker-based tests for PowerShell release packages (#16224)

    Build and Packaging Improvements:

    Bump .NET SDK to 6.0.100-rc.2:

    Update .NET 6 to version 6.0.100-rc.2.21505.57 (#16249)
    Fix RPM packaging (Internal 17704)
    Update ThirdPartyNotices.txt (#16283)
    Update pipeline yaml file to use ubuntu-latest image (#16279)
    Add script to generate cgmanifest.json (#16278)
    Update version of Microsoft.PowerShell.Native and Microsoft.PowerShell.MarkdownRender packages (#16277)
    Add cgmanifest.json for generating correct third party notice file (#16266)
    Only upload stable buildinfo for stable releases (#16251)
    Don't upload .dep or .tar.gz for RPM because there are none (#16230)
    Ensure RPM license is recognized (#16189)
    Add condition to only generate release files in local dev build only (#16259)
    Ensure psoptions.json and manifest.spdx.json files always exist in packages (#16258)
    Fix CI script and split out ARM runs (#16252)
    Update vPack task version to 12 (#16250)
    Sign third party executables (#16229)
    Add Software Bill of Materials to the main packages (#16202)
    Upgrade set-value package for markdown test (#16196)
    Fix Microsoft update spelling issue (#16178)
    Move vPack build to 1ES Pool (#16169)

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