v2.8.0

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Features

• Add support for Secret Management, using the SecretMangement module and custom logic #980: Adds support for Secret Management, either via the SecretManagement module or using custom logic
• New File Watcher logic, to run logic on file events #1063: Adds support for File Watchers, allowing you to run logic on file events
• Enhance threading capabilities with support for Mutexes and Semaphores #1067: Adds support for Mutexes and Semaphores

Enhancements

• Merging Timers and Schedules #647: Adds a new helper function, New-PodeCron, to help with creating cron expressions for schedules
• Invoking "Use-PodeRoutes" as schedule #964: Adds a new -IfExists parameter for Routes, letting you now specify if Pode should overwrite a Route if it already exists
• Multiple Methods support on Routes #996: Multiple -Method values can now be passed for Routes
• Add a way to Reset and Retrieve a current sessions expiry #1036: Adds functions to reset and retrieve the current session's expiry
• Add support for the "CONNECT" HTTP method #1071: Adds support for the CONNECT HTTP method

Bugs

• PodeListener not appropriately responding to smtp 'QUIT' command #1028: Fixes the QUIT command on the SMTP server to also return a "221 OK" response
• A drive with this name already exists #1029: Resolves the "A drive with this name already exists" message
• Update UploadFile docs to reference using curl for CLI file upload #1041: Fixes a parsing error when sending form data from Invoke-WebRequest
• Pode seemingly cannot handle HTML5 Multiple Attribute  #1044: Fixes a duplicate key error when using the multiple attribute on HTML file inputs
• Pode imports modules fail if modules use RequiredModules dependency (Pode.Web) #1046: Fixes the version of Pode within its runspaces, so it's no "0.0"
• Query parsing error 400 #1065: Fixes query string parsing when key is null (thanks @ili101!)

Documentation

• HTTP 500 Authenticating via HTTP basic auth, using a users file, causing error "Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Value'" #1009: Adds clarification around password formats when using a file to store user authentication details (thanks @fatherofinvention!)
• Write-PodeHtmlResponse documentation example 1 wrong #1054: Fixes rendering issue with Write-PodeHtmlResponse example
• Update Errors.md #1056: Fixes typo in logging documentation (thanks @fatherofinvention!)

Packaging

• Bump Dockerfiles to PS7.3 #1050: Bump Dockerfiles to use PS7.3
• Bump the PodeListener to use .NET7 #1051: Bump the PodeListener to use .NET7
• Bump the versions of MkDocs and the Material theme #1052: Bump version of mkdocs and material theme