fix: Refactor GetModifiedSettingsContent for PS5 compatibility

Actions/CheckForUpdates/CheckForUpdates.HelperFunctions.ps1

@@ -727,7 +727,10 @@ function GetModifiedSettingsContent {
             $dstSettings | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "$schemaKey" -Value $schemaValue -Force
 
             # Make sure the $schema property is the first property in the object
-            $dstSettings = $dstSettings | Select-Object @{ Name = '$schema'; Expression = { $_.'$schema' } }, * -ExcludeProperty '$schema'
+            # PS5-safe: explicitly list properties instead of using wildcard to avoid literal '*' being added
+            $otherProperties = @($dstSettings.PSObject.Properties.Name | Where-Object { $_ -ne '$schema' })
+            $selectProperties = @('$schema') + $otherProperties
+            $dstSettings = $dstSettings | Select-Object $selectProperties
         }
     }
 

RELEASENOTES.md

@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ The `DownloadProjectDependencies` action now downloads only artifacts from depen
 ### Issues
 
 - Issue 2277 Auto-exclude the `copilot` GitHub environment from CI/CD deployments. When the GitHub Copilot coding agent is enabled on a repository, GitHub auto-creates an environment named `copilot`. AL-Go now treats it the same way as `github-pages` and never attempts to deploy to it.
+- Issue 2285 - CheckForUpdates now handles settings file `$schema` reordering in a PowerShell 5-safe way to avoid writing invalid entries like `"*": null` to settings JSON files.
 - Issue 2236 - `GetDependencies` `buildMode` prefix leaks across dependency iterations, causing incorrect artifact mask names when multiple `appDependencyProbingPaths` entries use different build modes
 - Incremental builds (`modifiedApps` mode) now correctly identify unmodified apps for projects whose `appFolders` reference paths outside the project directory (e.g. using `../`)
 - Issue 2204 - Workspace compilation ignores vsixFile setting