PowerShell · TravisEz13 · Jul 14, 2017 · Jul 13, 2017 · Jul 13, 2017 · Jul 13, 2017
diff --git a/.spelling b/.spelling
@@ -800,23 +800,38 @@ csharp
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  - CHANGELOG.md
+_
+_Jobs
+-Exclude
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+0xfeeddeadbeef
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+alpha.18
+behavioral
+beta.1
+beta.2
+beta.3
+beta.4
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+deserialize
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+ExecutionPolicy
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+globbing
+honors
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@@ -829,8 +844,12 @@ kittholland
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+MiaRomero
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+mklement0
+non-22
+oising
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@@ -841,13 +860,22 @@ PseudoParameterBinder
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-rc3-24011 
+rc3-24011
+RelationLink
+rkeithhill
+shebang
+startup
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+Tadas
+TheFlyingCorpse
+TimCurwick
+timestamp
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+UTF8NoBOM
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@@ -860,26 +888,7 @@ WebRequest
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  - test/tools/CodeCoverageAutomation/README.md
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,36 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## v6.0.0-beta.4 - 2017-07-12
+
+- Add Windows PowerShell `PSModulePath` by default on Windows. (#4132)
+- Move PowerShell to `2.0.0-preview3-25426-01` and using the .NET CLI version `2.0.0-preview2-006502`. (#4144)
+
+### Engine updates and fixes
+
+- Performance improvement in PSReadline by minimizing writing ANSI escape sequences. (#4110)
+- Implement Unicode escape parsing so that users can use Unicode characters as arguments, strings or variable names. (#3958) (Thanks to @rkeithhill!)
+- Script names or full paths can have commas. (#4136) (Thanks to @TimCurwick!)
+- Added `semver` as a type accelerator for `System.Management.Automation.SemanticVersion`. (#4142) (Thanks to @oising!)
+- Close `eventLogSession` and `EventLogReader` to unlock an ETL log. (#4034) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
+
+### General cmdlet updates and fixes
+
+- `Move-Item` cmdlet honors `-Include`, `-Exclude`, and `-Filter` parameters. (#3878)
+- Add a parameter to `Get-ChildItem` called `-FollowSymlink` that traverses symlinks on demand, with checks for link loops. (#4020)
+- Change `New-ModuleManifest` encoding to UTF8NoBOM on non-Windows platforms. (#3940)
+- `Get-AuthenticodeSignature` cmdlets can now get file signature timestamp. (#4061)
+- Add tab completion for `Export-Counter` `-FileFormat` parameter. (#3856)
+- Fixed `Import-Module` on non-Windows platforms so that users can import modules with `NestedModules` and `RootModules`. (#4010)
+- Close `FileStream` opened by `Get-FileHash`. (#4175) (Thanks to @rkeithhill!)
+
+### Remoting
+
+- Fixed hang when the SSH client abruptly terminates. (#4123)
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Added recommended settings for VS Code. (#4054) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
+
 ## v6.0.0-beta.3 - 2017-06-20
 
 ### Breaking changes

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -43,16 +43,16 @@ You can download and install a PowerShell package for any of the following platf
 | Docker                             |                        | [Instructions][in-docker]     |
 | Kali Linux                         | [.deb][rl-ubuntu16]    | [Instructions][in-kali]
 
-[rl-windows10]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.3/PowerShell-6.0.0-beta.3-win10-win2016-x64.msi
-[rl-windows81]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.3/PowerShell-6.0.0-beta.3-win81-win2012r2-x64.msi
+[rl-windows10]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.4/PowerShell-6.0.0-beta.4-win10-win2016-x64.msi
+[rl-windows81]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.4/PowerShell-6.0.0-beta.4-win81-win2012r2-x64.msi
 [rl-windows7-64]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-alpha.18/PowerShell-6.0.0-alpha.18-win7-win2008r2-x64.msi
 [rl-windows7-86]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-alpha.18/PowerShell-6.0.0-alpha.18-win7-x86.msi
-[rl-ubuntu16]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.3/powershell_6.0.0-beta.3-1ubuntu1.16.04.1_amd64.deb
-[rl-ubuntu14]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.3/powershell_6.0.0-beta.3-1ubuntu1.14.04.1_amd64.deb
-[rl-centos]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.3/powershell-6.0.0_beta.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
-[rl-ai]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.3/PowerShell-6.0.0-beta.3-x86_64.AppImage
-[rl-macos]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.3/powershell-6.0.0-beta.3-osx.10.12-x64.pkg
-[rl-opensuse421]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.3/powershell-6.0.0_beta.3-1.suse.42.1.x86_64.rpm
+[rl-ubuntu16]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.4/powershell_6.0.0-beta.4-1ubuntu1.16.04.1_amd64.deb
+[rl-ubuntu14]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.4/powershell_6.0.0-beta.4-1ubuntu1.14.04.1_amd64.deb
+[rl-centos]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.4/powershell-6.0.0_beta.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
+[rl-ai]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.4/PowerShell-6.0.0-beta.4-x86_64.AppImage
+[rl-macos]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.4/powershell-6.0.0-beta.4-osx.10.12-x64.pkg
+[rl-opensuse421]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.4/powershell-6.0.0_beta.4-1.suse.42.1.x86_64.rpm
 
 [installation]: docs/installation
 [in-windows]: docs/installation/windows.md#msi

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-version: 6.0.0-beta.3-{build}
+version: 6.0.0-beta.4-{build}
 
 image: Visual Studio 2015
 

diff --git a/docker/release/fedora24/Dockerfile b/docker/release/fedora24/Dockerfile
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ LABEL description="This Dockerfile will install the latest release of PS."
 # TODO: Until a release of PowerShell for Fedora 24 is available,
 # this Dockerfile installs the CentOS 7 version for compatibility.
 
-ARG POWERSHELL_VERSION=6.0.0-beta.3
-ARG POWERSHELL_RELEASE=v6.0.0-beta.3
-ARG POWERSHELL_PACKAGE=powershell-6.0.0_beta.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
+ARG POWERSHELL_VERSION=6.0.0-beta.4
+ARG POWERSHELL_RELEASE=v6.0.0-beta.4
+ARG POWERSHELL_PACKAGE=powershell-6.0.0_beta.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
 
 # The CentOS 7 release relies on an older version of libicu, so we'll be downloading it
 # from the University of Kent (GB) mirror service.

diff --git a/docker/release/nanoserver-insider/Dockerfile b/docker/release/nanoserver-insider/Dockerfile
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ ARG NanoServerRepo=microsoft/nanoserver-insider
 FROM ${WindowsServerCoreRepo}:$WindowsServerCoreVersion  AS installer-env
 
 # Arguments for installing powershell, must be defined in the container they are used
-ARG PS_VERSION=6.0.0-beta.3
-ARG PS_DOWNLOAD_SHA=FF45FE7D184B50297CA706EFAEA4E37C59807D33577521A715C147BCD5098B01
+ARG PS_VERSION=6.0.0-beta.4
+ARG PS_DOWNLOAD_SHA=DAB8CC377D1BADD91688AEC9277D7696CC8DB2C25CECBCC934BD91AA7C724901
 
 ENV PS_DOWNLOAD_URL https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v$PS_VERSION/PowerShell-$PS_VERSION-win10-win2016-x64.zip
 

diff --git a/docker/release/nanoserver/Dockerfile b/docker/release/nanoserver/Dockerfile
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ LABEL maintainer="PowerShell Team <powershellteam@hotmail.com>"
 LABEL readme.md="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/docker/README.md"
 LABEL description="This Dockerfile will install the latest release of PS."
 
-ARG POWERSHELL_ZIP=https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.3/PowerShell-6.0.0-beta.3-win10-win2016-x64.zip
+ARG POWERSHELL_ZIP=https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.4/PowerShell-6.0.0-beta.4-win10-win2016-x64.zip
 
-RUN setx /M PATH "%PATH%;%ProgramFiles%\PowerShell"
+RUN setx /M PATH "%ProgramFiles%\PowerShell\latest;%PATH%"
 # Setup PowerShell - Log-to > C:\Docker.log
 SHELL ["C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe", "-command"]
 ADD $POWERSHELL_ZIP /powershell-win10-x64.zip
@@ -43,4 +43,4 @@ RUN Start-Transcript -path C:\Dockerfile.log -append -IncludeInvocationHeader ;
 # Persist %PSCORE% ENV variable for user convenience
 ENV PSCORE='"C:\Program Files\PowerShell\latest\PowerShell.exe"'
 
-CMD ["C:\\Program Files\\PowerShell\\latest\\PowerShell.exe"]
+CMD ["PowerShell.exe"]
diff --git a/docker/release/opensuse42.1/Dockerfile b/docker/release/opensuse42.1/Dockerfile
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ LABEL maintainer="PowerShell Team <powershellteam@hotmail.com>"
 LABEL readme.md="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/docker/README.md"
 LABEL description="This Dockerfile will install the latest release of PS."
 
-ARG POWERSHELL_VERSION=6.0.0_beta.3
-ARG POWERSHELL_RELEASE=v6.0.0-beta.3
+ARG POWERSHELL_VERSION=6.0.0_beta.4
+ARG POWERSHELL_RELEASE=v6.0.0-beta.4
 ARG FORK=PowerShell
 ARG POWERSHELL_PACKAGE=powershell-$POWERSHELL_VERSION-1.suse.42.1.x86_64.rpm
 

diff --git a/docker/release/windowsservercore/Dockerfile b/docker/release/windowsservercore/Dockerfile
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ LABEL maintainer="PowerShell Team <powershellteam@hotmail.com>"
 LABEL readme.md="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/docker/README.md"
 LABEL description="This Dockerfile will install the latest release of PS."
 
-ARG POWERSHELL_MSI=https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.3/PowerShell-6.0.0-beta.3-win10-win2016-x64.msi
+ARG POWERSHELL_MSI=https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-beta.4/PowerShell-6.0.0-beta.4-win10-win2016-x64.msi
 
-RUN setx /M PATH "%PATH%;%ProgramFiles%\PowerShell"
+RUN setx /M PATH "%ProgramFiles%\PowerShell\latest;%PATH%"
 # Setup PowerShell - Log-to > C:\Docker.log
 SHELL ["C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe", "-command"]
 ADD $POWERSHELL_MSI /PowerShell-win10-x64.msi
@@ -43,4 +43,4 @@ RUN Start-Transcript -path C:\Dockerfile.log -append -IncludeInvocationHeader ;
 # Persist %PSCORE% ENV variable for user convenience
 ENV PSCORE='"C:\Program Files\PowerShell\latest\PowerShell.exe"'
 
-CMD ["C:\\Program Files\\PowerShell\\latest\\PowerShell.exe"]
+CMD ["PowerShell.exe"]