Adds the $PSApplicationOutputEncoding variable that can be used to control the encoding PowerShell uses when reading the raw bytes to a string of an external application.
Adds the `IsRemoteDebuggerAttached` property to `Runspace` that
indicates whether a debugger is attached to the Runspace through the
`Debug-Runspace` cmdlet. Also adds a new engine event
`PowerShell.OnDebugAttach` that is emitted when the debugger is
attached.
Always use the v5.1 `$using:` logic when dealing with any connection type that is not based on the `WSManConnectionInfo`. This allows the caller to use the more advanced `$using` features like variables with special names, having `$using` vars inside sub scopes, and more. `WSMan` based connections might still communicate with older versions but as the oldest supported version is v3 on Server 2012. We don't need to keep the default as v2 (which has been deprecated) to support some of the newer features.
Use the help message on the parameter in the completion tool tip to provide better completion help. This can be utilized by other tools to provide more context for a parameter outside of the current type and parameter name which is quite minimal.
Instead of never emitting a ProgressRecord if stdout is redirected, continue to emit the CLIXML serialized record when pwsh was started with -OutputFormat xml regardless of redirection. This allows calling processes to receive the progress record from the spawned process when it captures the output.
Turn off the AMSI member invocation logging for non-Windows release
builds. This is slightly more efficient as there's no extra work to
create the AMSI string.
Add explicit exception when attempting to call PushRunspace on a
runspace that is not remote. Instead of failing with a hard to
understand NullReferenceException an ArgumentException is raised with
information about what went wrong.
Adds the -DateKind parameter to the ConvertFrom-Json that allows the
caller to control how DateTime strings are converted into an object. The
default behaviour is to create a DateTime value with the Kind being
Unspecified if no TZ is set, Utc if the TZ Z is set, Local (after
conversion) if an explicit TZ is set. This adds a Utc, Local to
explicitly set the Kind as desired as well as a Offset and String value
to create a DateTimeOffset or keep as a string.
Ensure Get-Error does not hang when attempting to serialize an exception
that contains a property whose type is an array of System.Type
instances. Also ensures that primitive types like System.Int32,
System.Boolean as well as System.String is formatted as a string rather
than an object with properties.
Jordan Borean