v2020.5.0-preview

Wednesday, May 06, 2020

vscode-PowerShell

• ✨🐢 vscode-powershell #2670 -
  Add debug output setting for Pester. (Thanks @nohwnd!)
• ✨🔧 vscode-powershell #2689 -
  Migrate setting value of powershell.codeFormatting.whitespaceAroundPipe to powershell.codeFormatting.addWhitespaceAroundPipe automatically. (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• 🐛🔧 vscode-powershell #2688 -
  Respect user choice when dismissing the powerShellExePath dialog. (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• ✨👷 vscode-powershell #2686 -
  Code clean up around some unused variables. (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• vscode-powershell #2676 -
  Fix Pester invocation for 3x versions. (Thanks @nohwnd!)
• vscode-powershell #2674 -
  Add additional settings for PSScriptAnalyzer 1.19. (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• vscode-powershell #2672 -
  Use in-memory debug adapter instead of spinning up new process.

PowerShellEditorServices

• 🛫🐛 PowerShellEditorServices #1289 -
  Fix startup on empty workspaces.
• 🛫🐛 PowerShellEditorServices #1285 -
  Use API on ScriptBlock to generate PSCommand to run in ConstrainedLanguage mode.
• ⚡️🧠 PowerShellEditorServices #1283 -
  Move to Omnisharp lib 0.17.0 for increased performance.
• ✨👮 PowerShellEditorServices #1280 -
  Add additional settings for PSScriptAnalyzer 1.19. (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• 🔗 🐛 vscode-powershell #305 -
  Fix document highlight column.
• 🐛🧠 PowerShellEditorServices #1276 -
  Handle when no CommandInfo comes back from Get-Command to prevent an Exception showing up in logs.

v2020.4.3-preview

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

vscode-PowerShell

• 🛫 ✨ vscode-powershell #2651 -
  Add setting for the PackageManagement update feature.
• 👮‍ 🐛 vscode-powershell #2659 -
  Remove broken 'Select PSScriptAnalyzer Rules' command. (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• 🛫 ✨ vscode-powershell #2526 -
  Clean up WaitForSessionFile logic and support increasing timeout with warning.
• 📟 ✨ vscode-powershell #2644 -
  Display preview state and version info in PSIC startup banner. (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• 👷 ✨ vscode-powershell #2645 -
  Add workspace file to load both vscode-powershell and PSES. (Thanks @rkeithhill!)

PowerShellEditorServices

• 📟 🐛 PowerShellEditorServices #1272 -
  Allow progress colors to be settable and gettable from the internal host.
• 🛫 ✨ PowerShellEditorServices #1239 -
  Prompt to update PackageManagement when using an old version.
• 🛫 ✨ PowerShellEditorServices #1269 -
  Support ConstrainedLanguage mode.
• 📺 ✨ PowerShellEditorServices #1268 -
  Refactor GetCommandHandler to not use dynamic.
• 🔍 🐛 vscode-powershell #2654 -
  Fix interpolation in Log points, switch to double quotes. (Thanks @rkeithhill!)
• PowerShellEditorServices #1267 -
  Update module manifest to match current module.
• 📟 🐛 vscode-powershell #2637 -
  Leverage internal HostUI to check if VT100 is supported.
• 📟 🐛 vscode-powershell #2637 -
  Use stable builds of PSReadLine for the PowerShell extension and preview builds for the PowerShell Preview extension.
• 💎 ✨ vscode-powershell #2543 -
  Allow formatting when ScriptAnalysis setting is set to disabled.

v2020.4.0

Thursday, April 15, 2020

Combines everything since the last stable (2020.3.0) release.

• ⚡️🧠 Better performance of overall but especially IntelliSense.
• 🐛📟 Errors show up properly on screen in PowerShell Integrated Console.
• ✨🐢 Run a single test in Pester v5 by setting "powershell.pester.useLegacyCodeLens": false.
• 🐛🔧 Ignore files specified in files.exclude and search.exclude in reference/CodeLens search.

v2020.4.2-preview

Monday, April 13, 2020

PowerShellEditorServices

• 🐛📟 PowerShellEditorServices #1258 -
  No more warning about PowerShellEditorServices module being imported with unapproved verb.

v2020.4.1-preview

Wednesday, April 09, 2020

PowerShellEditorServices

• ✨📟 PowerShellEditorServices #1255 -
  Move PSReadLine invocation into cmdlets to get closer to supporting ConstrainedLanguage mode. Also removes hard coded PSReadLine assembly version.

v2020.4.0-preview

Wednesday, April 08, 2020

vscode-PowerShell

• ✨👷 vscode-powershell #2617 -
  Use PowerShell Daily in CI.
• 🐛📖 vscode-powershell #2618 -
  Fix link to 'Exchange Online Connection' in community snippets ToC. (Thanks @hjorslev!)
• 🐛🐢 vscode-powershell #2606 -
  Fix Pester CodeLens setting which allows Pester v4 scripts to work again. (Thanks @nohwnd!)

PowerShellEditorServices

• ✨👷 PowerShellEditorServices #1252 -
  Use PowerShell Daily in CI.
• 🐛⚡️🧠🔗 PowerShellEditorServices #1251 -
  Add cancellation to SignatureHelp request and cache results for cmdlets on Get-Command and Get-Help.

v2020.3.2-preview

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

PowerShellEditorServices

• ✨📟 PowerShellEditorServices #1245 -
  Better PSReadLine version filter check to include 2.1.0+ prereleases.
• 🐛⚡️🧠🔗 PowerShellEditorServices #1248 -
  Fix cancellation for completions and add textDocument/hover cancellation support.

v2020.3.1-preview

Thursday, March 26, 2020

PowerShellEditorServices

• 🐛🧠 vscode-powershell #2584 -
  Refactor GetCommandSynopsisAsync method to make sure cmdlets with module prefixes work.
• 🐛⚡️🧠📚 vscode-powershell #2556 -
  Add cancellation for textDocument/completion, textDocument/codeAction, textDocument/folding.
• ✨👮 vscode-powershell #2572 -
  Only run diagnostics on PowerShell files.
• ⚡️🧠 PowerShellEditorServices #1237 -
  Optimize when we run GetCommandInfoAsync to use the pipeline less for Intellisense.

v2020.3.0-preview

Thursday, March 12, 2020

vscode-PowerShell

• 🐛👷‍♀️ vscode-powershell #2533 -
  Change source repository's recommended extension from ms-vscode.csharp to ms-dotnettools.csharp. (Thanks @devlead!)

• ✨🐢 vscode-powershell #2441 -
  Run a single Pester test. (Thanks @nohwnd!)

• 🐛🔧 vscode-powershell #2524 -
  Add files.exclude and search.exclude to configurations sent through to exclude them from PSES functionality

PowerShellEditorServices

• ✨🧠 PowerShellEditorServices #1232 -
  Only resolve completion items from commands.
• ✨🐢 PowerShellEditorServices #1167 -
  Run a single test in Pester v5. (Thanks @nohwnd!)
• 🐛🔍 vscode-powershell #2534 -
  Ensure that errors are written to the console when debugging.
• 🐛🔍 vscode-powershell #2525 -
  Don't warn users when using Clear-Host in temp sessions.
• ✨💎 PowerShellEditorServices #1228 -
  Add better logging for formatter and refactor it into 1 class.
• 🐛🚂 vscode-powershell #2397 -
  Use Assembly.LoadFile for dependency loading in WinPS.
• ✨🛫 PowerShellEditorServices #1222 -
  Make initial logging work in constrained language mode, allowing the desired user-facing error to present.
• 🐛🛫 PowerShellEditorServices #1225 -
  Sign Clear-Host.ps1.
• 🐛🛫 PowerShellEditorServices #1219 -
  Ensure log directory is created.
• 🐛👷‍♀️ PowerShellEditorServices #1223 -
  Change Ms-vscode.csharp to ms-dotnettools.csharp. (Thanks @devlead!)
• 🐛🔧 PowerShellEditorServices #1220 -
  Fix typo in settings.
• ✨🔧 PowerShellEditorServices #1218 -
  Switch to better document selecting for vim extension.
• 🐛🧠 PowerShellEditorServices #1217 -
  Make session-state lock task-reentrant to fix Untitled file debugging.

v2020.3.0

v2020.3.0

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Release of preview work to stable branch

This release, coinciding with the GA release of PowerShell 7,
brings a year of work on the PowerShell extension into the stable release.
The timing of this release is deliberate, since some of the new features
depend on additions and bugfixes in PowerShell 7,
while others have a much better experience in PowerShell 7
thanks to many improvements shipping with it.

Some changes that come to the stable channel in this release include:

• Integration of PSReadLine into the Integrated Console,
  enabling syntax highlighting, a better (and more configurable) completion experience,
  multiline editing and searchable history in the PowerShell Integrated Console
• Performance and reliability improvements gained
  by replacing
  a hand-rolled Language Server Protocol stack
  with the LSP server library from the Omnisharp project
• An ISE compatibility mode
  setting to toggle a more ISE-like user experience
• Debugging improvements in PowerShell 7,
  using its new debugging APIs
• End of support for PowerShell v3/v4 and .NET 4.5.2

After this release, the stable/preview channels will now function as originally intended,
where the preview channel will be the beta release
for features to come out in the following stable release.

You may also notice that the history of the changelog has changed.
For a full list of changes between this release and the previous stable release,
see here.
You can find the changelog from the old stable fork
here.

vscode-PowerShell

• ✨📺 vscode-PowerShell #2503 -
  Pick up the PowerShell dotnet global tool as a PowerShell runtime.
• 🐛🛫 vscode-PowerShell #2491 -
  Fix a startup issue where console becomes unresponsive due to the client waiting for the terminal PID from VSCode.
• 🐛👮 vscode-PowerShell #2190 -
  Look for PSScriptAnalyzerSettings.psd1 in the workspace root by default for script analysis,
  defaulting back to the default rules when not found.
• 🧰 vscode-PowerShell #2477 -
  Stop using the caption field on powerShell/showChoicePrompt messages,
  and instead display only the message field.

PowerShellEditorServices

• 🐛📟 PowerShellEditorServices #1201 -
  Fix newlines in error formatting.
• 🐛👮 vscode-PowerShell #2489 -
  Fix PSScriptAnalyzer not using default rules when no settings file present.
• 🐛📟 vscode-PowerShell #2291 -
  Fix Read-Host dropping characters.
• 🐛📺 vscode-PowerShell #2424 -
  Fix F8 not working repeatedly in an Interactive Debugging session.
• 🐛🛫 vscode-PowerShell #2404 -
  Fix execution policy being set incorrectly at startup on Windows.
• 🐛🧠 vscode-PowerShell #2364 -
  Fix intellisense and F5 not working after debugging.
• 🐛🧰 vscode-PowerShell #2495 -
  Fix PowerShellEditorServices.Commands module commands not working due to types being moved.
• 🐛👮 vscode-PowerShell #2516 -
  Fix CommentHelp for when a function has other problems with it.