7.2.0-preview.9 - 2021-08-23

Note: Known issue about ANSI code being written out in table views when using PowerShell with a legacy host that doesn't support virtual terminal. For details see: #15978

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

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

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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