v2022.5.0

Tuesday, May 03, 2022

vscode-powershell

Welcome to the new and improved PowerShell for Visual Studio Code!

This update represents a complete overhaul of the core PowerShell engine of PowerShell Editor Services, intending to create a more reliable and stable user experience. This release represents nearly two years' work, tracked in PSES #1295 and implemented in PSES #1459. It is our response to many issues opened by users over the last several years.

Thank you to all of the community members who opened issues which helped motivate this major update.

These major updates have also been tested over the last 6 months, in 13 releases of our PowerShell Preview extension for Visual Studio
Code. A huge thank you to all of the community members who have tested these changes to the extension and have worked with us to polish the extension before releasing it through our stable channel.

Please see our blog for more details!

PowerShellEditorServices

• ✨ 🙏 PowerShellEditorServices #1787 - Bump PSReadLine to v2.2.5.

v2022.5.0-preview

Monday, May 02, 2022

vscode-powershell

Fourth Release Candidate! Thanks for finding bugs and helping us squash them!

PowerShellEditorServices

• ✨ 📟 PowerShellEditorServices #1785 - Add IHostUISupportsMultipleChoiceSelection implementation.
• 🐛 🔍 PowerShellEditorServices #1784 - Do not exit from DebuggerStop unless resuming.

v2022.4.3-preview

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Third release candidate. Our recent debugger and ReadKey overhauls revealed some other
bugs that needed squashing! Please test this thoroughly. We're gaining confidence!

vscode-powershell

• 🐛 🙏 vscode-powershell #3939 - Send p instead of 0円 for sendKeyPress.

PowerShellEditorServices

• 🐛 🛫 PowerShellEditorServices #1782 - Fix ordering of startup tasks so psEditor is defined before profiles are loaded.
• 🐛 📟 PowerShellEditorServices #1781 - Bring back WriteWithPrompt().
• 🐛 📟 vscode-powershell #3937 - Update to latest PSReadLine beta (with fix for race condition).
• 🐛 🔍 PowerShellEditorServices #1778 - Fix extra prompting and manual debugger commands.
• ✨ 🚂 PowerShellEditorServices #1777 - Consolidate InterruptCurrentForeground and MustRunInForeground.
• ✨ 🚂 PowerShellEditorServices #1776 - Don't cancel on disposal of CancellationScope.

v2022.4.2-preview

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

vscode-powershell

Just including updates to PowerShell Editor Services. This is the second Release
Candidate! Please give it a thorough test.

PowerShellEditorServices

• 🐛 👷 PowerShellEditorServices #1761 - Bump net461 to net462 due to upcoming end of support.
• 🐛 💎 vscode-powershell #3928 - Fix formatting handlers and PSScriptAnalyzer loading.
• 🐛 🔍 PowerShellEditorServices #1762 - Fix prompt spam and general debugger reliability improvements.
• ✨ 🙏 PowerShellEditorServices #1479 - Enable IDE0005 (unneccessary using statements) as error.
• 🐛 🙏 PowerShellEditorServices #1754 - With a fix in PSReadLine, we don't have to return a "null" key press.

v2022.4.1-preview

Monday, April 18, 2022

This is our first Release Candidate. We've merged a set of major fixes to the debugger so
that attaching to remote processes / runspaces now works again. While the extension is not
perfect (yet), we believe at this point the preview far exceeds the stable extension in
terms of usability and stability, and it is time to roll this out. Please give this a
thorough testing, as we hope to roll it into the stable extension next week.

vscode-powershell

• ✨ 📺 vscode-powershell #3919 - Improve Settings Editor experience in a few places. (Thanks @TylerLeonhardt!)

PowerShellEditorServices

• #️⃣ 🙏 PowerShellEditorServices #1757 - Enable code analysis and formatting as errors on build.
• ✨ 🚂 PowerShellEditorServices #1755 - Apply automatic fixes (manually).
• 🐛 🔍 PowerShellEditorServices #1736 - Fix attach to process debugging.

Contributors

• @TylerLeonhardt

v2022.4.0-preview

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

We delayed moving the preview branch to stable in order to fix issues surrounding our
ReadKey / ReadLine logic. This preview contains a new minor release of PowerShell
Editor Services with an entire rewrite of that logic, utilizing what we hope is a much
better workaround for the underlying issue in .NET's Console.ReadKey. Please give this
release a thorough testing, especially in the console with PSReadLine.

vscode-powershell

• 🐛 🙏 vscode-powershell #3911 - Add sendKeyPress notification used to "cancel" Console.ReadKey.
• 🐛 ✂️ vscode-powershell #3276 - Fix snippet prefixes (especially #region).
• ✨ 📺 vscode-powershell #3897 - Add PowerShell icon to Integrated Console.

PowerShellEditorServices

• 🐛 🙏 PowerShellEditorServices #1751 - Re-workaround uncancellable Console.ReadKey.
• 🐛 ‍🕵️ PowerShellEditorServices #1749 - Correctly map SuggestedCorrection to MarkerCorrection. (Thanks @bergmeister!)

Contributors

• @bergmeister

v2022.3.1-preview

Thursday, March 24, 2022

vscode-powershell

• 🐛 📺 vscode-powershell #3878 - Add several more commands to activation events.
• 🐛 📖 vscode-powershell #3857 - Update troubleshooting guide etc.
• 🐛 📺 vscode-powershell #3874 - Add PowerShell version to language status item.

PowerShellEditorServices

• #️⃣ 🙏 PowerShellEditorServices #1746 - Replace _consoleHostUI with _underlyingHostUI.

v2022.3.0-preview

Thursday, March 10, 2022

vscode-powershell

• ✨ 📺 vscode-powershell #2499 - Use Code's new Language Status API.
• ✨ 📺 vscode-powershell #3866 - Fix title of PowerShell Command Explorer pane.
• ✨ 📺 vscode-powershell #3865 - Replace custom graphics with updated Codicons.
• ✨ 🔧 vscode-powershell #3858 - Deprecate promptToUpdatePackageManagement.
• 🐛 📟 vscode-powershell #3360 - Use new isTransient API to prevent duplicate integrated consoles.
• 🐛 🔍 vscode-powershell #3259 - Fix Pester Test/Debug code lenses to now change directory.
• ✨ ✂️ vscode-powershell #3839 - Modernize built-in snippets. (Thanks @JustinGrote!)

PowerShellEditorServices

• ✨ 🧠 vscode-powershell #3364 - Improve completion logic (more icons!).
• 🐛 🛫 PowerShellEditorServices #1576 - Remove PackageManagement module update prompt.
• 🐛 📟 PowerShellEditorServices #1734 - Finish redirection of $Host.PrivateData.
• 🐛 📟 PowerShellEditorServices #1639 - Redirect PSHost.Notify*Application methods.

Contributors

• @JustinGrote

v2022.2.2-preview

Thursday, February 24, 2022

vscode-powershell

• 🐛 📟 vscode-powershell #3820 - Remove -NonInteractive from PowerShell startup sequence.

PowerShellEditorServices

• 🐛 🛫 vscode-powershell #2658 - Avoid error when exclude entry is a clause.
• 🐛 🚂 vscode-powershell #3691 - Fix editor commands to interrupt current prompt.
• ✨ 🔍 PowerShellEditorServices #1724 - Re-enable line breakpoints for untitled scripts.
• ✨ 🙏 PowerShellEditorServices #1709 - Update PSReadLine to 2.2.2.
• 🐛 📟 vscode-powershell #3807 - Reset progress messages at end of REPL.
• 🐛 ‍🕵️ PowerShellEditorServices #1718 - Return a code action for each diagnostic record. (Thanks @bergmeister!)

Contributors

• @bergmeister

v2022.2.1-preview

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

vscode-powershell

• #️⃣ 🙏 vscode-powershell #3824 - Add known PowerShell.OnIdle event bug to troubleshooting.md. (Thanks @StevenBucher98!)

PowerShellEditorServices

• 🐛 🔍 vscode-powershell #3832 - Avoid stopping the debugger when canceling other tasks in a debug session.
• 🐛 📟 PowerShellEditorServices #1607 - Redirect EditorServicesConsolePSHost.PrivateData to _internalHost.
• 🐛 📟 PowerShellEditorServices #1699 - Handle edge case where prompt is undefined.
• 🐛 🔍 PowerShellEditorServices #1704 - Avoid recording debugger commands in the history.
• ✨ 🔍 PowerShellEditorServices #1703 - Use static readonly for default ExecutionOptions.
• 🐛 🔍 vscode-powershell #3655 - Fix running untitled scripts with arguments (but break line breakpoints) .
• ✨ 🙏 PowerShellEditorServices #1694 - Add Thread.Sleep(100) to throttle REPL when it's non-interactive. (Thanks @colinblaise!)

Contributors

• @colinblaise
• @StevenBucher98