- Total rewrite of the module in C#
- Add HelpInfoUri for platyPS module
- CI changes to exclude build on v2 branch
- Fix issues with module and external help file metadata
- Escape # in output ype
- Allow hyphen in module name
- Make sure for script module .psm1 is added to the external help file metadata for nested module
- New-Yaml help generates YAML for common parameters
- Fix appveyor build script
- Update-Help for selected modules only
- Pin Pester to version 4.10.1
- Add makecab directive to set size limit to
CDROM
- Fix passing
ExcludeDontShow
flag to modules (#459) - Make
CommonParameters
text use proper link format (#449) - Modified
GetSchemaVersion
function to assume2.0.0
if no schema version found (#452) - Fix errors for
New-MarkdownHelp
ps1
input (#450)
- Fix
Update-MarkdownHelp
to not rewrite files if there are not updates (#412) (Thanks @iricigor) - Add
-ModulePagePath
parameter toNew-MarkdownHelp
for better placement of generated file (#416) (Thanks @PrzemyslawKlys) - Remove doubled blank lines and trailing spaces in docs (#425) (Thanks @it-praktyk)
- Add Localized Data support for strings in
platyPS.psm1
(#426) (Thanks @tnieto88) - Add tags to module manifest to improve search on gallery (#428) (Thanks @it-praktyk)
- Fix
Update-MarkdownHelp
to respect order of parameters (#423) (Thanks @it-praktyk) - Fix
Update-MarkdownHelpModule
to respect-Force
parameter (#438) (Thanks @it-praktyk) - Fix for Common and Workflow parameters autowrap (#431) (Thanks @PrzemyslawKlys)
- Do not generate help content for parameters with
DontShow
attribute if-ExlcudeDontShow
switch is used (#445) (Thanks @MiYanni)
- Include proper escaping handing for
\*
and\_
(#398) - Update YamlDotNet dependency to 5.0.0 (CVE-2018-1000210)
- Add New-ExternalHelpCab File Type Check (#403)
- Add
Update-MarkdownHelpModule -ModulePagePath
parameter (#397)
- Fix the incorrect metadata retrieval for the single parameter sets in remote sessions (#399).
- Add default descriptions for paging parameters (#392).
- Fix
yaml
new-line bug (#381). - Add
-UpdateInputOutput
parameter (#383). - Add
-UseFullName
parameter to Update-MarkdownHelpModule (#380)
- Fix remote module support to work correctly with parameter sets with no parameters.
- Fix remote module support for PowerShell version 3.0 and 4.0.
- Avoid doubling
about_
when user provide it in theAboutName
parameter.
- Add basic deduplication for Examples in
Merge-MarkdownHelp
#331 - Support for remote modules. Pass
-Session
parameter in supported cmdlets to retrieve accurate metadata from the remote session. - The ShowProgress parameter was added to the New-ExternalHelp function. By default progress bars are not display to increase speed of files processing.
- platyPS is now cross platform and works on powershell 6.0 as well as previous versions of powershell.
- Clean up trailing whitespace during markdown generation #225
- Preserve line breaks after headers when
Update-MarkdownHelp
is used #319 - MAML generation now pads example titles with dash (-) to improve readability #119
- Fixed issue with
New-MarkdownHelp
preventing CommonParameter being added for advanced functions and workflows #223 #253 - Fixed issue with
Update-MarkdownHelp
removing named info-string from code fence #318
- New-ExternalHelp support 'about' help topics. (Thanks @jazzdelightsme)
- Improve first build experience. (Thanks @jazzdelightsme)
- Fixed spellings and casing in developer notes. (Thanks @DarqueWarrior)
- Added ErrorLogFile parameter to New-ExternalHelp cmdlet. (Thanks @DarqueWarrior)
- Added -MaxAboutWidth parameter to New-ExternalHelp cmdlet. (Thanks @jazzdelightsme)
- Use ToString to get full type name for parameters. (Thanks @yishengjin1413)
- Help content for Merge-MarkdownHelp is updated.
- Added New-YamlHelp cmdlet to convert Markdown help into YAML format.
- New-MarkdownHelp and Update-MarkdownHelp now support -UseFullTypeName parameter.
- MamlRenderer now uses XLinq to serialize MAML rather than a Stack and a StringBuilder.
- Bugfixes for Merge-MarkdownHelp:
- Sort tags alphabetically
- Fix -ExplicitApplicableIfAll to work as expected
- Removing the auto increment of help version #269
- Schema version v1 is not longer supported. Update-MarkdownHelpSchema cmdlet removed.
- Enhanced error reporting for New-ExternalHelp #270
- New schema feature: applicable tag #273
- You can now combine different version / flavours of the same cmdlet into a single markdown file.
- Applicable entry in yaml metadata controls what is applicable for each module on two levels: cmdlet and parameter.
- New cmdlet Merge-MarkdownHelp
- Fix WildcardSupport for -Path parameter for multiply comments in our help.
- Updated artifact name to 0.7.6
- Updated New-ExternalHelpCab.md for removing duplicate word in synopsis.
- Fixed XML_PREAMBULA to have msh namespace, so provider help works.
- Updated the names of the generated cab and zip files so that they have correct case sensitivity.
- Add path to md file to the error message Issue #237
- Allow multiple code snippets in the examples
- Allow schema to have non-yaml codesnippets in the Parameter as part of Description Issue #239
- Fix about topic naming pattern Issue #235
- Enhanced Logging and Error trapping for Update Scenarios Issue #214
- Improve blank-line padding in
New-MarkdownHelp
andUpdate-MarkdownHelp
. Issue #210 - Auto-generate default descriptions for
-Confirm
and-WhatIf
parameters inNew-MarkdownHelp
. Issue #211
- Update markdown parser to handle underscore version of italics and bold Issue #176
- Cab creation the help version metadata is incremented prior to cabbing. IE: 1.0.0.0 -> 1.0.0.1
- Update markdown will now check the external help file name and update to correct value.
- Update-MarkdownHelpModule new switch -RefreshModulePage, update the module page with cmdlet synopsis and preserves the module description field.
- Add -AlphabeticParamsOrder parameter to
New-MarkdownHelp
,Update-MarkdownHelp
andNew-MarkdownHelpModule
. When specified orders parameters alphabetically by name in PARAMETERS section.
- Resolved issue where about topic second header was case sensitive. Now insensitive. Issue #174
- About topics will be named with about_ when converted to txt using New-ExternalHelp. Enhancement suggested in Issue #174
- If PowerShell session is in a non-file system provider, PlatyPS will switch to a file system provider. Preference C: drive. Issue #161
- Updates to Pester-Tests to fix issues occuring when updatable-help changes
- Default parameter values should be 'none' not 'false' Issue #167
- Updated New-MarkdownAboutHelp to name the about file about_.md instead of .md. Issue #177
- Forcing metadata in md files to be sorted alphabetically by key.
- About Topics Support
- New Cmdlet New-MarkdownAboutHelp generates a MD of a blank about topic MD file from a template file.
- The About MD file template can be customized. The template is stored in the templates folder in PlatyPS
- New-ExternalHelp will now transform About MD files into About Txt files.
- Update-MarkdownHelp Log updated to improve readability.
- You can use relative file paths for related links now. #164
This release focuses on stability and usability. Special thanks to @TimShererAtAquent for the thoughful feedback.
- normalize all the things:
- Enhance your help to leverage markdown:
- Default parameter set marker in SYNTAX #107
- Online version (for
Get-Help -Online
) got it's own place in markdown metadata header #123 (
and)
are not escaped in the generated markdown anymore.- If SYNOPSIS not present, generate placeholder for it, instead of a duplicate for SYNTAX #110
Update-MarkdownHelp
doesn't add extra-lines anymore.- Bold or italic doesn't strip spaces anymore #130
platyPS.psm1
doesn't use aliases anymore #126- Parameter
HelpMessage
attribute can be used to generate Parameter description in markdown #115 - No unwanted markdown files for aliases anymore #114
- Schema 2.0.0
- Layout of generated files - one file per cmdlet.
- Cmdlets renamed:
platyPS
prefix removed from the names. - Removed APIs:
Get-ModuleFromMaml
New-MarkdownHelp
always produces one md file per cmdlet in-OutputFolder
.
- New APIs:
New-ExternalHelpCab
- create updatable help Cab files.Get-MarkdownMetadata
- get a hashtable with yaml metadata (new in schema 2.0.0) from the markdown fileUpdate-MarkdownHelp
,Update-MarkdownHelpModule
- update your markdown with actual parameters metadata using reflection.Update-MarkdowhHelpSchema
- migrate from schema version 1.0.0 to schema version 2.0.0Get-HelpPreview
- get preview of help from Maml file. Returns help objects.
- Tab-completion support by @dotps1
- Requires PS v5 or TabExpansionPlusPlus
- Provides complitions for module names in
New-ExternalHelp -Module <Tab>
- Fix issue that cause error in CI scenario #27
- Add Get-PlatyPSTextHelpFromMaml command to simplify resulted help review
- Better support for working with big modules:
Get-PlatyPSMarkdown -OneFilePerCommand -OutputFolder
Get-PlatyPSExternalHelp -MarkdownFolder
- Initial release
- Commands:
Get-PlatyPSExternalHelp
,Get-PlatyPSMarkdown
,Get-ModuleFromMaml
- Schema: Version 1.0.0