Microsoft has released the first release candidate of PowerShell Core 7

Breaking Changes

• Make update notification support LTS and default channels (#11132)

Engine Updates and Fixes

• Improvements in breakpoint APIs for remote scenarios (#11312)
• Fix PowerShell class definition leaking into another Runspace (#11273)
• Fix a regression in formatting caused by the FirstOrDefault primitive added in 7.0.0-Preview1 (#11258)
• Additional Microsoft Modules to track in PS7 Telemetry (#10751)
• Make approved features non-experimental (#11303)
• Update ConciseView to use TargetObject if applicable (#11075)
• Fix NullReferenceException in CompletionCompleters public methods (#11274)
• Fix apartment thread state check on non-Windows platforms (#11301)
• Update setting PSModulePath to concatenate the process and machine environment variables (#11276)
• Bump .NET Core to 3.1.0 (#11260)
• Fix detection of $PSHOME in front of $env:PATH (#11141)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

• Fix for issue on Raspbian for setting date of file changes in UnixStat Experimental Feature (#11313)
• Add -AsPlainText to ConvertFrom-SecureString (#11142)
• Added WindowsPS version check for WinCompat (#11148)
• Fix error-reporting in some WinCompat scenarios (#11259)
• Add native binary resolver (#11032) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Update calculation of char width to respect CJK chars correctly (#11262)
• Add Unblock-File for macOS (#11137)
• Fix regression in Get-PSCallStack (#11210) (Thanks @iSazonov!)
• Remove autoloading of the ScheduledJob module when using Job cmdlets (#11194)
• Add OutputType to Get-Error cmdlet and preserve original typenames (#10856)
• Fix null reference in SupportsVirtualTerminal property (#11105)

Code Cleanup

• Change comment and element text to meet Microsoft standards (#11304)

Tests

• Make unreliable DSC test pending (#11131)

Build and Packaging Improvements

• Fix Nuget package signing for Coordinated Package build (#11316)
• Update dependencies from PowerShell Gallery and NuGet (#11323)
• Bump Microsoft.ApplicationInsights from 2.11.0 to 2.12.0 (#11305)
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp from 3.3.1 to 3.4.0 (#11265)
• Updates packages for Debian 10 and 11 (#11236)
• Only enable experimental features prior to RC (#11162)
• Update macOS minimum version (#11163)
• Bump NJsonSchema from 10.0.27 to 10.0.28 (#11170)

Documentation and Help Content

• Refactor change logs into one log per release (#11165)
• Fix FWLinks for PowerShell 7 online help documents (#11071)

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts

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• powershell-7.0.0-rc.1-osx-x64.pkg
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