Version of PowerShell

Programming PowerShell
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What version of PowerShell is being run on your servers? The current version is 7.5.1. I was doing the Simple Cipher exercise, and was I using the Get-SecureRandom function. This was passing locally, but when I submitted the exercise, it failed with this error:

Message: CommandNotFoundException: The term
'Get-SecureRandom' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet,
function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify
that the path is correct and try again.

It looks like that function was added in PowerShell 7.4.

2

The test runner looks to be Powershell 7.3, running on Alpine.

3

OK, that explains it. Any chance of upgrading this to a newer version?

4

7.3 has been EOL for a year now. 7.4 is a LTS and supported for another year and a half so my inclination is the maintainers may want to consider upgrading if it’s not a hassle. I suspect 7.6 will be a LTS as well, but it’s in preview right now so that’s not a good candidate yet in my opinion.