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

• 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• Runtime Environment GA, enabling customers to seamlessly upgrade their outdated scripts to supported runtime versions.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