Generally Available: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.6 runbooks and Runtime environment

Azure Automation is pleased to announce:

• General Availability of in-support PowerShell 7.6 runbooks
• Runtime Environment GA, enabling customers to seamlessly upgrade their outdated scripts to supported runtime versions.
• Support for Azure CLI commands in PowerShell 7.6 runbooks GA

Benefits:

• Stay current – Access to new language versions for improved security and performance.
• Faster Runbook upgrade – Easy portability of runbooks across different versions to keep pace with PowerShell and Python releases.
• Granular control – Complete control to configure the script execution environment, without worrying about conflicting module versions.
• Efficient Code organization – Eliminate the need to create multiple Automation accounts to segregate different versions of modules or conflicting modules.

Learn more:

• Azure Automation runbook types | Microsoft Learn
• Upgrade runbook to latest language version
• Create PowerShell runbooks with Azure CLI commands
• Language runtime support and retirement policy for Azure Automation | Microsoft Learn