Claim PowerShell 7.4+ support instead of 7.2+#2811
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Pester 6 ships a net8.0 assembly for PowerShell 7, which cannot load on the .NET 6/.NET 7 runtimes of PowerShell 7.2/7.3. Those versions are also out of support from Microsoft. The oldest supported PowerShell is 7.4 (LTS, .NET 8), matching what the csproj already documents. Update the README and the 6.0.0 release notes to claim 7.4+ instead of 7.2+. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
Pester 6 ships a
net8.0assembly for PowerShell 7 (plusnet462for Windows PowerShell 5.1). Anet8.0assembly cannot load on the .NET 6 / .NET 7 runtimes used by PowerShell 7.2 / 7.3, so claiming support for those versions is inaccurate. They are also both out of support from Microsoft per the PowerShell support lifecycle — the oldest supported release is 7.4 (LTS, .NET 8).This already matches what
src/csharp/Pester/Pester.csprojdocuments ("PowerShell 7.4.x is the oldest supported PowerShell version"). This PR fixes the user-facing claims to match.Changes
README.md— "PowerShell 7.2 and newer" → "PowerShell 7.4 and newer".docs/6.0.0.md— three "PowerShell 7.2+" support claims → "PowerShell 7.4+".The
.psd1manifest floor stays at5.1(Windows PowerShell 5.1 is served by thenet462assembly). The "PowerShell 7+" references for the parallel runner feature are left unchanged, as they describe a feature requirement, not the support floor.A matching docs-site update is being opened against pester/docs.