Release 0.4.0-alpha

Added

• PSResourceGet dependency type providing first-class support for
  PowerShellGet v3 (Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet) alongside the
  existing PSGalleryModule handler (#179).
• InstallLocal psake task that stages files and installs the module
  to CurrentUser scope from Output\, useful for validating
  pre-release bits locally without publishing (#180).
• Chocolatey dependency type with handler script and Pester
  coverage, enabling Chocolatey packages alongside PowerShell modules
  in requirements.psd1.
• Nuget dependency type for arbitrary NuGet feeds (not just the
  PowerShell Gallery), including custom DLL name support and the
  ability to extract .exe payloads.
• Credential support across PSGalleryModule, PSGalleryNuget, and
  Invoke-PSDepend, including credentialed NuGet feed search and a
  warning when credential configuration looks wrong.
• Core, macOS, and Linux platform tags on Nuget in
  PSDependMap.psd1, enabling cross-platform use.
• SemVer / prerelease handling for module versions, with a PowerShell
  version guard so PSDepend's SemanticVersion does not collide with
  the native System.Management.Automation.SemanticVersion class in
  PS 6+; falls back to System.Version when a version string is not
  SemVer-compatible.
• AcceptLicense parameter on PSRepositoryModule and matching
  AcceptLicense + AllowPrerelease plumbing on PSGalleryModule,
  splatted only when explicitly specified to preserve compatibility
  with older PowerShellGet versions.
• Stale workflow (.github/workflows/stale.yml) for issues and PRs,
  with a workflow_dispatch trigger for on-demand sweeps.
• CONTEXT.md documenting the PSDepend domain lexicon (Dependency,
  DependencyType, Target, Scope, PSDependAction, etc.) for both
  human and AI contributors.

Changed

• Migrated the entire Pester test suite from v4 to v5 (#164),
  including new Pester v5 unit tests for individual dependency-type
  handler scripts and a reviewer checklist documenting the migration
  conventions (#166).
• Build system rewritten on top of PowerShellBuild with GitHub
  Actions replacing the prior AppVeyor pipeline (#163); CI workflow
  actions were updated to current major versions across the board
  (#168).
• Test bootstrap now runs through build.ps1 (Bootstrap / StageFiles
  / Test) rather than ad-hoc setup, so tests always import from
  Output\ and not the source tree (#171). See CLAUDE.md for the
  contract.
• FunctionsToExport in PSDepend.psd1 is now an explicit list of
  the eight public commands instead of *, matching PowerShell module
  guidance and improving discoverability.
• NuGet command-line bootstrap is now lazy: it runs only when a
  Nuget or PSGalleryNuget dependency is actually used, instead of
  on every module import (#175).
• Default branch references updated from master to main across
  README, examples, the manifest's LicenseUri / ProjectUri /
  ReleaseNotes links, and build/CI scripts.
• README and example dependency files updated to reflect the
  PowerShellOrg ownership of the project.
• Github dependency type now allows overriding the imported name
  via the standard Name key, instead of always deriving it from the
  owner/repo slug (#121).
• Github version matching now accepts a vX.Y.Z tag when the
  dependency requests X.Y.Z, so dependencies written without the
  v prefix resolve against the common GitHub release-tag convention
  (#123).
• PSGalleryModule may now be invoked without an explicit
  Repository, in which case PSDepend defers to whatever repositories
  are currently registered via Get-PSRepository rather than forcing
  the PowerShell Gallery.

Fixed

• Get-Dependency operator-precedence bug when DependencyType is
  set inside PSDependOptions: parenthesization was incorrect, so the
  global default failed to apply to dependencies without an explicit
  type (#131, #173).
• Find-PSDependLocally now consults all installed versions of a
  module before querying the remote when an explicit version is
  requested, rather than short-circuiting on the first non-matching
  local copy and re-downloading unnecessarily (#176).
• Import-PSDependModule now sanitizes the version string before
  passing it to Import-Module, preventing failures when prerelease
  segments or vX.Y.Z tags appear in the resolved version (#140).
• Chocolatey install path now passes --yes to choco install
  (previously the script contained the typo --yess), so installs
  no longer hang waiting on confirmation, and the surrounding code
  was tidied for readability (#174).
• Git handler now uses the full Dependency.Target path when the
  target directory doesn't yet exist, fixing a regression where
  relative targets would resolve against the wrong working directory
  (#169).
• Git handler no longer depends on the .exe extension when
  invoking git, so it works on macOS / Linux installations where the
  binary is just git.
• Github downloads suppress Invoke-RestMethod's progress stream,
  yielding a measurable speed-up on large release-asset downloads
  (#122).
• PowerShellGet package handler now forwards -Scope correctly
  when Target=CurrentUser, instead of silently installing to the
  default scope (#167).
• Version comparison logic for 'latest' upgrades in
  PSGalleryModule and Package scripts now compares
  [System.Version] values rather than strings, so 10.0.0 no longer
  sorts below 9.0.0 (#170).
• Empty-string guard added alongside existing $null checks in
  dependency-name handling, preventing silent skips when a malformed
  requirements.psd1 produces a zero-length name (#102).
• Test-Dependency and friends now emit a clearer error message
  when *.depend.psd1 is missing, instead of the previous opaque
  parse failure (#126).
• DotnetSdk install test now mocks Install-Dotnet so the test
  suite no longer attempts a real SDK install on CI runners (#178).

Docs

• Added a note that Save-Module may need to be rerun if a
  dependency's Target directory was removed between invocations
  (#177).
• Credential help and a credential-misconfiguration warning added to
  the relevant handler scripts and Invoke-PSDepend help.