PowerShell 7.5.0 preview 4 released

Engine Updates and Fixes​

• RecommendedAction: Explicitly start and stop ANSI Error Color (#24065) (Thanks @JustinGrote!)
• Improve .NET overload definition of generic methods (#21326) (Thanks @jborean93!)
• Optimize the += operation for a collection when it's an object array (#23901) (Thanks @jborean93!)
• Allow redirecting to a variable as experimental feature PSRedirectToVariable (#20381)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes​

• Change type of LineNumber to ulong in Select-String (#24075) (Thanks @Snowman-25!)
• Fix Invoke-RestMethod to allow -PassThru and -Outfile work together (#24086) (Thanks @jshigetomi!)
• Fix Hyper-V Remoting when the module is imported via implicit remoting (#24032) (Thanks @jborean93!)
• Add ConvertTo-CliXml and ConvertFrom-CliXml cmdlets (#21063) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
• Add OutFile property in WebResponseObject (#24047) (Thanks @jshigetomi!)
• Show filename in Invoke-WebRequest -OutFile -Verbose (#24041) (Thanks @jshigetomi!)
• Set-Acl: Do not fail on untranslatable SID (#21096) (Thanks @jborean93!)
• Fix the extent of the parser error when a number constant is invalid (#24024)
• Fix Move-Item to throw error when moving into itself (#24004)
• Fix up .NET method invocation with Optional argument (#21387) (Thanks @jborean93!)
• Fix progress calculation on Remove-Item (#23869) (Thanks @jborean93!)
• Fix WebCmdlets when -Body is specified but ContentType is not (#23952) (Thanks @CarloToso!)
• Enable -NoRestart to work with Register-PSSessionConfiguration (#23891)
• Add IgnoreComments and AllowTrailingCommas options to Test-Json cmdlet (#23817) (Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!)
• Get-Help may report parameters with ValueFromRemainingArguments attribute as pipeline-able (#23871)

Code Cleanup​

• Minor cleanup on local variable names within a method (#24105)
• Remove explicit IDE1005 suppressions (#21217) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)
• Fix a typo in WebRequestSession.cs (#23963) (Thanks @eltociear!)

Tools​

• devcontainers: mount workspace in /PowerShell (#23857) (Thanks @rzippo!)

Tests​

• Add debugging to the MTU size test (#21463)

Build and Packaging Improvements​

• Update third party notices (Internal 32128)
• Update cgmanifest (#24163)
• Fixes to Azure Public feed usage (#24149)
• Add support for back porting PRs from GitHub or the Private Azure Repos (#20670)
• Move to 9.0.0-preview.6.24327.7 (#24133)
• update path (#24134)
• Update to the latest NOTICES file (#24131)
• Fix semver issue with updating cgmanifest (#24132)
• Add ability to capture MSBuild Binary logs when restore fails (#24128)
• add ability to skip windows stage (#24116)
• chore: Refactor Nuget package source creation to use New-NugetPackageSource function (#24104)
• Make Microsoft feeds the default (#24098)
• Cleanup unused csproj (#23951)
• Add script to update SDK version during release (#24034)
• Enumerate over all signed zip packages (#24063)
• Update metadata.json for PowerShell July releases (#24082)
• Add macos signing for package files (#24015)
• Update install-powershell.sh to support azure-linux (#23955) (Thanks @bosesubham2011!)
• Skip build steps that do not have exe packages (#23945)
• Update metadata.json for PowerShell June releases (#23973)
• Create powershell.config.json for PowerShell.Windows.x64 global tool (#23941)
• Fix error in the vPack release, debug script that blocked release (#23904)
• Add vPack release (#23898)
• Fix exe signing with third party signing for WiX engine (#23878)
• Update wix installation in CI (#23870)
• Add checkout to fix TSA config paths (#23865)
• Merge the v7.5.0-preview.3 release branch to GitHub master branch
• Update metadata.json for the v7.5.0-preview.3 release (#23862)
• Bump PSResourceGet to 1.1.0-preview1 (#24129)
• Bump github/codeql-action from 3.25.8 to 3.26.0 (#23953) (#23999) (#24053) (#24069) (#24095) (#24118)
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4.3.3 to 4.3.6 (#24019) (#24113) (#24119)
• Bump agrc/create-reminder-action from 1.1.13 to 1.1.15 (#24029) (#24043)
• Bump agrc/reminder-action from 1.0.12 to 1.0.14 (#24028) (#24042)
• Bump super-linter/super-linter from 5.7.2 to 6.8.0 (#23809) (#23856) (#23894) (#24030) (#24103)
• Bump ossf/scorecard-action from 2.3.1 to 2.4.0 (#23802) (#24096)
• Bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.3.2 to 4.3.4 (#23897) (#24046)
• Bump actions/checkout from 4.1.5 to 4.1.7 (#23813) (#23947)
• Bump github/codeql-action from 3.25.4 to 3.25.8 (#23801) (#23893)

Documentation and Help Content​

• Update docs sample nuget.config (#24109)
• Update Code of Conduct and Security Policy (#23811)
• Update working-group-definitions.md for the Security WG (#23884)
• Fix up broken links in Markdown files (#23863)
• Update Engine Working Group Members (#23803) (Thanks @kilasuit!)
• Remove outdated and contradictory information from README (#23812)

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