Update PowerShell to 7.3

[krokofant]

Tool name

PowerShell

Tool license

N/A

Add or update?

• Add
• Update

Desired version

7.3

Approximate size

No response

Brief description of tool

No response

URL for tool's homepage

No response

Provide a basic test case to validate the tool's functionality.

No response

Platforms where you need the tool

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions

Runner images where you need the tool

• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• macOS 11
• macOS 12
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Can this tool be installed during the build?

No response

Tool installation time in runtime

No response

Are you willing to submit a PR?

No response

[krokofant]

Currently there is no way to utilize the newer features of PowerShell 7.3 like $PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing. The 7.3 version did cause an unexpected issue (#6586) before so the version was downgraded.

Can it be installed again in a safer way? It would be great to start a discussion around this because at some point the need to update will increase and there needs to be an upgrade path.

[sergei-pyshnoi]

Hello @krokofant . We do not plan to update PowerShell to version 7.3 for two reasons:

1. PowerShell 7.3 have changes that can broke existing pipelines.
2. During our policy we support only latest LTS version (for now it`s 7.2)

You can try installing a specific version of powershell in runtime if you need that.