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** v6.0.0-beta.4 - 2017-07-12

- Add Windows PowerShell `PSModulePath` by default on Windows. (#4132)
- Move PowerShell to `2.0.0-preview3-25426-01` and using the .NET CLI version `2.0.0-preview2-006502`. (#4144)

*** Engine updates and fixes

- Performance improvement in PSReadline by minimizing writing ANSI escape sequences. (#4110)
- Implement Unicode escape parsing so that users can use Unicode characters as arguments, strings or variable names. (#3958) (Thanks to @rkeithhill!)
- Script names or full paths can have commas. (#4136) (Thanks to @TimCurwick!)
- Added `semver` as a type accelerator for `System.Management.Automation.SemanticVersion`. (#4142) (Thanks to @oising!)
- Close `eventLogSession` and `EventLogReader` to unlock an ETL log. (#4034) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)

*** General cmdlet updates and fixes

- `Move-Item` cmdlet honors `-Include`, `-Exclude`, and `-Filter` parameters. (#3878)
- Add a parameter to `Get-ChildItem` called `-FollowSymlink` that traverses symlinks on demand, with checks for link loops. (#4020)
- Change `New-ModuleManifest` encoding to UTF8NoBOM on non-Windows platforms. (#3940)
- `Get-AuthenticodeSignature` cmdlets can now get file signature timestamp. (#4061)
- Add tab completion for `Export-Counter` `-FileFormat` parameter. (#3856)
- Fixed `Import-Module` on non-Windows platforms so that users can import modules with `NestedModules` and `RootModules`. (#4010)
- Close `FileStream` opened by `Get-FileHash`. (#4175) (Thanks to @rkeithhill!)

*** Remoting

- Fixed hang when the SSH client abruptly terminates. (#4123)

*** Documentation

- Added recommended settings for VS Code. (#4054) (Thanks to @iSazonov!)