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• Github: Microsot BcContainerHelper / ReleaseNotes

Más información / More information:

• Github: Microsoft BcContainerhelper
• Powershellgallery: BcContainerHelper 6.0.19 (Updated 2024/06/24)

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6.0.19

• Issue #3560 Backup-BcContainerDatabases fails – password must be marked as read only bug
• Issue #3559 ALCops can’t find «Business Foundation» app and doesn’t start because of it
• Support for federated credentials in Azure
• Issue 1093 from AL-Go repo, generateDependencyArtifact doesn’t work when useCompilerFolder is true

6.0.18

• Use altool from prerelease AL Language extension
• Display disk free inside container on error
• Create AppInfo cache on creating a new compiler folder
• Add support for using TestCodeunitRangeFilter field in Run-TestsInBcContainer and Get-TestsFromBcContainer
• Issue 3206 Auto-Consent the Permissions requested after using New-AadAppsForBc
• Issue 3544 Copy-AlSourceFiles.ps1 does not copy RDLC and DOCS Files with the new report layout definition
• Issue 3550 Run-AlValidation is checking wrong runtime version
• Issue 3555 Increase default timeout

6.0.17

• Issue 3518 If WinRm is not running on the host, a container couldn’t be created
• Issue 3519 New-BcContainer fails due to password complexity on some computers
• Issue 3522 The ‘Expand-Archive’ command was found in the module ‘Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive’,…
• Issue 3523 Copy-FileToBcContainer fails for BcContainerHelper 6.0.16 (added resilience)

6.0.16

• Issue 3477 Regression: Error: App filenames must be unique
• Issue 3478 New-bccontainer fails on BC24 using option -UseNewDatabase
• Allow CustomCodeCops to be a URL for just-in-time download instead of a file shared with the container

6.0.15

• Issue 3467 Can’t create a backup of a container with the Backup-BCContainerDatabases commandlet
• Use PowerShell 5 in places where invoke-sqlcmd or other functions from the SqlServer PowerShell module are used

6.0.14

• Issue 3465 Regression: Flush-ContainerHelperCache calculates wrong CacheFolder

6.0.13

• Issue 3452 Error when running Run-AlValidation : Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.
• Issue 3454 DockerDo : Cannot bind argument to parameter ‘imageName’ because it is an empty string.
• Issue 3354 Regression : Compile Folder removal of symbols folder fails: The process cannot access the file
• Issue 3460 Do not install SqlServer PowerShell module

6.0.12

• Issue 3432 New-BcContainerWizard stopped working after generic images with ltsc2016, ltsc2019 and ltsc2022 was introduced
• Make parameters in Copy-AppFilesToFolder mandatory
• Support .zip files in folders in Copy-AppFilesToFolder
• Issue 3431 Run-TestsInBcContainer, Get-TestsFromBcContainer and Run-ConnectionTest doesn’t work if container is using SSL
• Issue 3427 New-BCContainer in version 6.0.11 failed to run completely
• Issue 3444 Container Creation fails at «Installing ASP.NET Core 1.1»

6.0.11

• Issue 3420 New-BcImage uses hyperv even if it is disabled
• Issue 3411 Run-AlPipeline: Exception calling «Parse» with «1» argument(s): «String » was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

6.0.10

• Issue 3415 Use process isolation

6.0.9

• Issue 3404 New-BcContainerBcUser fails with ‘Invoke-SqlCmd’ error when running BC24
• Remove support for pre 1.0.2.15 generic images
• Issue 3406 Regression – Set-BcContainerKeyVaultAadAppAndCertificate only worked when running pwsh in container
• Issue 3407 Export-NavContainerDatabasesAsBacpac fails using PS7x (and with tenants on BC24 altogether)
• Issue 3409 Invoke-RestMethod -SkipCertificateCheck for PowerShell 7
• By default use mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral:ltscXXXX instead of mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral:10.0.osbuild.osrevision as generic image

6.0.8

• Fix error where Publish-BcNuGetPackageToContainer doesn’t work with BC 24

6.0.7

• Issue 3347 Download-BcNuGetPackageToFolder to support package description for app name if title is not specified
• Support dependency version templates on NuGet packages
• Issue 3349 NuGet package files section name is wrong when using azure blob storage direct download url
• Issue 3358 Run-TestsInBcContainer using Windows Authentication doesn’t work if exactly one user exists in the tenant
• Fix error in Get-BcContainerAppInfo in NextMajor
• Check-BcContainerHelperPermissions didn’t work on PS7
• Issue #3379 Adding -installCertificateOnHost to New-BcContainer didn’t work when running PS7 (silently failed)
• Issue #3376 Regression – Download-Artifacts stopped downloading pre-requisites
• Issue 3371 Unable to get companyname from Windows Users when running tests
• Disallow invoking Run-ALPipeline with keepContainer without specifying credentials to use
• Issue 3369 Patch images version 1.0.2.15 with an updated installer
• Add awareness of Windows 11 23H2
• Patch images version 1.0.2.15 with an updated prompt.ps1, which loads PowerShell 7 modules when running pwsh
• Add new setting usePwshForBC24, which is default true to instruct Invoke-ScriptInBcContainer to use pwsh (PS7) instead of powershell (PS5) when invoking scripts in BC 24+ containers
• Add parameter usePwsh to Open-BcContainer and Invoke-ScriptInBcContainer, defaulted to the value of the usePwshForBC24 setting

6.0.6

• Include Microsoft_Business Foundation Test Libraries.app when importing test libraries (and tests)
• Include Microsoft_System Application Test.app and Microsoft_Business Foundation Tests.app when importing tests
• Bug when running Publish-BcContainerApp against a cloud container ($authContext not defined)
• Remove the need for a Container when using Replace-DependenciesInAppFile (containername parameter is now obsolete)
• Two new parameters on Sort-AppFilesByDependencies (includeSystemDependencies and includeDependencyVersion)
• Add Public Microsoft NuGet Feeds as settings constants
• Fix issues in Download-BcNuGetPackageToFolder, where extensive amounts of NuGet searches was performed to locate packages
• Download-BcNuGetPackageToFolder now returns an array of apps downloaded instead of True/False
• JIT install PowerShell 7 in container when using BC version 24 or above (if not already installed in container)
• JIT install ASP.NET Core 1.1 when using BC 15 – 18 on Generic 1.0.2.15 or above

6.0.5

• Proof of concept support for hosting artifacts as Universal Packages
• Add new function Get-BcNuGetPackageId to get a NuGet Package Id based on publisher, name, id and version
• Issue 3301 Run-AlValidation fails running AppsourceCop «Could not load type ‘System.Object’ from assembly ‘System.Private.CoreLib’
• Give better error message if GitHub CLI, GIT or dotnet is not installed
• Issue 3301 Run-AlValidation fails running AppsourceCop «Could not load type ‘System.Object’ from assembly ‘System.Private.CoreLib’ (Regression in 6.0.4)
• Issue 3313 Strange error in Copy-BcEnvironment
• Issue 3318 Download-BcNuGetPackageToFolder fails when no dependencies defined
• Add Stacktrace output to high level functions Download-BcNuGetPackageToFolder and Get-BcNuGetPackage
• Fix for AL-Go issue 913 (https://github.com/microsoft/AL-Go/issues/913)
• Issue 3322 Default country for nextminor and nextmajor should be w1, not whatever country was the last one generated
• Encoding problems when using Invoke-ScriptInBcContainer with PowerShell 7.4.1

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6.0.4

• Rename AppInfoCache.json to cache_AppInfo.json (which by default is covered by .gitignore in AL-Go for GitHub)
• Refactor NuGet feed functionality to use NuGetFeed class
• Add trusted NuGet feeds to settings to allow searching for NuGet packages in all trusted feeds
• Support searching for Earliest, Latest, Exact or Any NuGet package (default is Latest)
• Reset startcount when using Restart-BcContainer
• Issue 3277 Run-ALCops uses wrong CodeAnalysis dll path
• Add support for useDevEndpoint in Run-AlPipeline when importing test toolkit
• New function Get-AppJsonFromAppFile to extract the app.json file from an app (also from a runtime package)
• New function Copy-AppFilesToFolder to copy or download and unpack all apps from an array of .zip or .app files and place them in a folder
• New function Create-SymbolsFileFromAppFile to create a symbols only app file from an app file
• New switch on Run-AlPipeline, enableCodeAnalyzersOnTestApps, to enable CodeCops and other code analyzers on test apps

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Preview 6.0.6

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