Need Confirmation: Azure Functions Flex Consumption PowerShell 7.6 Status (GA vs Preview) in East US

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Need Confirmation: Azure Functions Flex Consumption PowerShell 7.6 Status (GA vs Preview) in East US

Arun Kumar Singh 0

Can Microsoft confirm whether Azure Functions Flex Consumption support for PowerShell 7.6 is GA or Preview?

In East US, the following command returns PowerShell 7.6 as the default runtime:

az functionapp list-flexconsumption-runtimes --runtime powershell --location eastus

The output shows:

{

"version": "7.6",

"default": true

}

while PowerShell 7.4 is returned with:

{

"version": "7.4",

"default": false

}

Could Microsoft confirm:

Whether PowerShell 7.6 for Azure Functions Flex Consumption is GA or Preview?
Whether an official announcement or Learn article exists?
Whether this status applies globally or only in certain regions?

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Hello @Arun Kumar Singh

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q & A !

As of September 18, 2026, the published Microsoft Learn documentation lists PowerShell 7.6 as Preview for Azure Functions. The PowerShell developer guide specifically states that PowerShell 7.6 requires .NET 10 and is Windows only.

This distinction is important for Flex Consumption because Flex Consumption is a Linux-based hosting plan. The currently published Flex Consumption supported language stack table lists PowerShell 7.4 as the supported PowerShell version.

Therefore, the general PowerShell 7.6 Preview documentation should not by itself be interpreted as confirming PowerShell 7.6 Preview or GA support on Flex Consumption.

Regarding the East US result:

az functionapp list-flexconsumption-runtimes --runtime powershell --location eastus

If this command returns PowerShell 7.6 with "default": true, it shows that the regional runtime-discovery API is returning 7.6 as the default for East US. However, "default": true should not by itself be treated as confirmation that PowerShell 7.6 is GA on Flex Consumption.

The currently published Microsoft documentation therefore shows:

Azure Functions PowerShell 7.6: Preview, Windows only, requires .NET 10.
Flex Consumption: Linux based.
PowerShell version documented for Flex Consumption: PowerShell 7.4.
East US: The reported CLI result exposes PowerShell 7.6 as the default, but the published Learn documentation does not currently explain this discrepancy or establish PowerShell 7.6 as a supported GA version for Flex Consumption.

For other regions, the runtime-discovery command should be run with the specific region rather than assuming the East US result applies globally.

References:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-reference-powershell?tabs=portal
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/flex-consumption-plan
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/flex-consumption-how-to?tabs=azure-cli%2Cazure-cli-publish%2Cmanaged-cert&pivots=programming-language-csharp
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