Top PowerShell issues

PowerShell hangs when exiting having used a PowerShell runspace pool/runspace

Issue-Bug WG-Engine

Invoke-WebRequest includes byte order mark in content for files encoded as UTF-8-BOM (a la ISE)

Area-Cmdlets-Utility Resolution-Answered

Enhance PowerShell full command line help

Issue-Enhancement Resolution-Fixed WG-Interactive-Console

Asynchronous behavior of implicit Format-Table use can have surprising side effects - console output may appear out of order

WG-Engine

@() (array-subexpression operator) should not be optimized away when a cast to an array type is involved

Issue-Discussion Resolution-Answered WG-Language

Unix: A script without .ps1 extension passed to the powershell binary lacks invocation information ($PSCommandPath, $MyInvocation), such as when invoked via a shebang line.

Issue-Bug OS-Linux OS-macOS WG-Engine

Executing powershell script with bool parameter doesnt work

Breaking-Change Committee-Reviewed Resolution-Fixed WG-Interactive-Console

Command line arguments with a dollar sign

Breaking-Change Committee-Reviewed Resolution-By Design WG-Interactive-Console

-whatif behavior inconsistent, suggesting unification or alignment.

Up-for-Grabs WG-Engine

globbing for native commands is too agressive

Issue-Bug Resolution-Fixed WG-Language