v2020.2.0-preview

v2020.2.0

Thursday, February 20, 2020

vscode-PowerShell

• 🐛📖 vscode-PowerShell #2470 -
  Fix incorrect reference to New-ManifestModule in documentation. (Thanks @rbleattler!)
• 🐛📺 vscode-PowerShell #2469 -
  Close other open pwsh instances when updating PowerShell.
• 🐛📟 vscode-PowerShell #2434 -
  Use a new VSCode API to hide the integrated terminal from the shell list
  until debugging when showOnStartup is disabled.
• ✨🐢 vscode-PowerShell #2445 -
  Add Run/Debug Pester tests context menu options in the VSCode explorer
  for Pester test files. (Thanks @bergmeister!)
• 🐛🐢 vscode-PowerShell #2438 -
  Fixes test failures in Pester contexts not showing up in the Problems pane. (Thanks @tillig!)
• 🐛🔍 vscode-PowerShell #2548 -
  Show error message instead of hanging when temp debugging is used with an untitled file.
• 👷 vscode-PowerShell #2465 -
  Move macOS CI images to 10.14 (Thanks @bergmeister!)

PowerShellEditorServices

• 🐛📁 vscode-PowerShell #2421 -
  Fix WorkspacePath so that references work with non-ASCII characters.
• 🐛📟 vscode-PowerShell #2372 -
  Fix prompt behavior when debugging.
• 🐛🛫 PowerShellEditorServices #1171 -
  Fix race condition where running multiple profiles caused errors.
• 🐛📟 vscode-PowerShell #2420 -
  Fix an issue where pasting to a Get-Credential prompt in some Windows versions caused a crash.
• 🐛📟 vscode-PowerShell #1790 -
  Fix an inconsistency where Read-Host -Prompt 'prompt' would return $null rather than empty string
  when given no input.
• 🐛🔗 PowerShellEditorServices #1177 -
  Fix an issue where untitled files did not work with CodeLens.
• ⚡️⏱️ PowerShellEditorServices #1172 -
  Improve async/await and Task usage to reduce concurrency overhead and improve performance.
• 🐛📟 PowerShellEditorServices #1178 -
  Improve PSReadLine experience where no new line is rendered in the console.
• ✨🔍 PowerShellEditorServices #1119 -
  Enable new debugging APIs added in PowerShell 7, improving performance and fixing issues where
  the debugger would hang or be unable to update breakpoints while scripts were running.
• 👷📟 PowerShellEditorServices #1187 -
  Upgrade built-in PSReadLine to 2.0.0 GA.
• 🐛👮 PowerShellEditorServices #1179 -
  Improve integration with PSScriptAnalyzer, improving performance,
  fixing an error when PSScriptAnalyzer is not available, fix CodeActions not appearing on Windows,
  fix an issue where the PSModulePath is reset by PSScriptAnalyzer opening new runspaces.
• 🚂 PowerShellEditorServices #1183 -
  Close over public APIs not intended for external use and replace with new, async-friendly APIs.