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Update release notes for 7.6-rc1 (#12779)
* Update release notes for 7.6-rc1 * Update PSReadLine release notes for 2.4.5 * Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: Copilot <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Copilot <[email protected]>
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‎reference/7.6/PSReadLine/About/about_PSReadLine.md‎

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description: PSReadLine provides an improved command-line editing experience in the PowerShell console.
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Locale: en-US
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online version: https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/module/psreadline/about/about_psreadline?view=powershell-7.6&WT.mc_id=ps-gethelp
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schema: 2.0.0
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title: about_PSReadLine
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‎reference/7.6/PSReadLine/About/about_PSReadLine_Release_Notes.md‎

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description: This article contains the list of changes for each released version of PSReadLine.
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online version: https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/module/psreadline/about/about_psreadline_release_notes?view=powershell-7.6&WT.mc_id=ps-gethelp
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This is a summary of changes to the **PSReadLine** module. For a full list of
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### 2.4.5 - 2025-10-22
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- Replace `DOTNET_SKIP_FIRST_TIME_EXPERIENCE` with `DOTNET_NOLOGO`
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# Install PowerShell on Alpine Linux
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- `https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.6.0-rc1/powershell-preview_7.6.0-rc1-1.deb_amd64.deb`
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