Here are the major changes:
* Breaking changes
- Remove the `*-Counter` cmdlets in `Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics` due to the use of unsupported APIs until a better solution is found. (#4303)
- Remove the `Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts` due to the use of unsupported APIs until a better solution is found. (#4302)
* Engine updates and fixes
- Fix the issue where PowerShell Core wasn't working on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2/2012 (non-R2). (#4463)
- `ValidateSetAttribute` enhancement: support set values to be dynamically generated from a custom `ValidateSetValueGenerator`. (#3784) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)
- Disable breaking into debugger on Ctrl+Break when running non-interactively. (#4283) (Thanks to @mwrock!)
- Give error instead of crashing if WSMan client library is not available. (#4387)
- Allow passing `$true`/`$false` as a parameter to scripts using `powershell.exe -File`. (#4178)
- Enable `DataRow`/`DataRowView` adapters in PowerShell Core to fix an issue with `DataTable` usage. (#4258)
- Fix an issue where PowerShell class static methods were being shared across `Runspace`s/`SessionState`s. (#4209)
- Fix array expression to not return null or throw error. (#4296)
- Fixes a CIM deserialization bug where corrupted CIM classes were instantiating non-CIM types. (#4234)
- Improve error message when `HelpMessage` property of `ParameterAttribute` is set to empty string. (#4334)
- Make `ShellExecuteEx` run in a STA thread. (#4362)
* General cmdlet updates and fixes
- Add `-SkipHeaderValidation` switch to `Invoke-WebRequest` and `Invoke-RestMethod` to support adding headers without validating the header value. (#4085)
- Add support for `Invoke-Item -Path <folder>`. (#4262)
- Fix `ConvertTo-Html` output when using a single column header. (#4276)
- Fix output of `Length` for `FileInfo` when using `Format-List`. (#4437)
- Fix an issue in implicit remoting where restricted sessions couldn't use `Get-FormatData –PowerShellVersion`. (#4222)
- Fix an issue where `Register-PSSessionConfiguration` fails if `SessionConfig` folder doesn't exist. (#4271)
* Installer updates
- Create script to install latest PowerShell from Microsoft package repositories (or Homebrew) on non-Windows platforms. (#3608) (Thanks to @DarwinJS!)
- Enable MSI upgrades rather than a side-by-side install. (#4259)
- Add a checkbox to open PowerShell after the Windows MSI installer has finished. (#4203) (Thanks to @bergmeister!)
- Add Amazon Linux compatibility to `install-powershell.sh`. (#4360) (Thanks to @DarwinJS!)
- Add ability to package PowerShell Core as a NuGet package. (#4363)
* Build/test and code cleanup
- Add build check for MFC for Visual C++ during Windows builds.
This fixes a long-standing (and very frustrating!) issue with missing build dependencies! (#4185) (Thanks to @KirkMunro!)
- Move building Windows PSRP binary out of `Start-PSBuild`.
Now `Start-PSBuild` doesn't build PSRP binary on windows. Instead, we consume the PSRP binary from a NuGet package. (#4335)
- Add tests for built-in type accelerators. (#4230) (Thanks to @dchristian3188!)
- Increase code coverage of `Get-ChildItem` on file system. (#4342) (Thanks to @jeffbi!)
- Increase test coverage for `Rename-Item` and `Move-Item`. (#4329) (Thanks to @jeffbi!)
- Add test coverage for Registry provider. (#4354) (Thanks to @jeffbi!)
- Fix warnings and errors thrown by PSScriptAnalyzer. (#4261) (Thanks to @bergmeister!)
- Fix regressions that cause implicit remoting tests to fail. (#4326)
- Disable legacy UTC and SQM Windows telemetry by enclosing the code in '#if LEGACYTELEMETRY'. (#4190)
* Cleanup `#if CORECLR` code
PowerShell 6.0 will be exclusively built on top of CoreCLR,
so we are removing a large amount of code that's built only for FullCLR.
To read more about this, check out [this blog post](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2017/07/14/powershell-6-0-roadmap-coreclr-backwards-compatibility-and-more/).
