6.0.0-alpha1

[nohwnd]

What's Changed

If you have ideas for breaking (and other changes) that should happen in Pester 6 and that are not in Pester 6 milestone, please let us know in discussion, in the issue you want to link, or in a new issue 🙏

Assert assertions are becoming part of Pester

Assert assertions were migrated to Pester, and we will continue improving them here. They are published as Should-Be and similar aliases (no space) from the Pester module, as well as Assert-Equal functions. (Because of the naming limitations we cannot use Should-* directly.

The assertions are split into 4 categories, generic, type specific, collection, and equivalency. See this doc for the initial documentation. There will be more I promise.

• Add Assert assertions to Pester by @nohwnd in Add Assert assertions to Pester #2428

Pester supports only 5.1 and 7

We've dropped support for PowerShell 3, 4, 6 and early 7. All of those versions are officially out of support by Microsoft. This will help us modernize the code base and further improve performance.

• Drop support of PowerShell 3, 4, 6.2, and unsupported 7 Drop support of PowerShell 3, 4, 6.2, and unsupported 7 #2432 by @nohwnd

More changes:

• Set profiler based CodeCoverage as default by @nohwnd in Set profiler based CodeCoverage as default #2456
• Remove Pending status by @nohwnd in Remove Pending status #2457
• Ignore PassThru when run fail while using Run.Exit by @fflaten in Ignore PassThru when run fail while using Run.Exit #2303
• Shorten TestDrive directory name by @splatteredbits in Shorten TestDrive directory name #2239
• Add null check for $host.UI and its properties to avoid race condition (Pester throws an exception when run inside runspace #2383) by @kborowinski in Add null check for $host.UI and its properties to avoid race condition (#2383) #2468
• Hide legacy-only parameters in Invoke-Pester by @fflaten in Hide legacy-only parameters in Invoke-Pester #2446
• Remove Should legacy syntax error by @fflaten in Remove Should legacy syntax error #2445
• Fix NRE in mock debug log for native commands by @fflaten in Fix NRE in mock debug log for native commands #2480

Internal and Infrastructure changes:

• Remove blank output in PesterThrow.Tests.ps1 by @fflaten in Remove blank output in PesterThrow.Tests.ps1 #2460
• Hide failing output that always scares me by @nohwnd in Hide failing output that always scares me #2461
• Replace New-Object calls with ::new() by @fflaten in Replace New-Object calls with ::new() #2469
• Replace deprecated macOS 11 image with 13 in CI by @fflaten in Replace deprecated macOS 11 image with 13 in CI #2482
• Report code coverage that includes P tests by @nohwnd in Report code coverage that includes P tests #2478

New Contributors

• @kborowinski made their first contribution in Add null check for $host.UI and its properties to avoid race condition (#2383) #2468

Full Changelog: 5.6.0-rc1...6.0.0-alpha1

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This discussion was created from the release 6.0.0-alpha1.

[nohwnd]

Allowed to do what?