Migrating from Microsoft PowerShell 5.1 to 7.5 or 7.4 (LTS) and what is 1.22?

[blueicehaller]

Hi,
every time I start a PowerShell Window (Terminal) on Windows 11, it shows the following info and link:

Windows PowerShell
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Install the latest PowerShell for new features and improvements! https://aka.ms/PSWindows

PS C:\>

The link redirects to Installing PowerShell on Windows - PowerShell | Microsoft Learn.
Nice, that it shows a procedure for winget: Install PowerShell using WinGet (recommended)

This means I have Version 5.1 installed and shows how to update to 7.5.
When I use the Version dropdown list, it shows that 7.4 (LTS) exists.
Is there a winget parameter to follow the LTS branch instead of 7.5?

What I don't understand, that winget shows that I have 1.22 installed.
Maybe the Versioning has changed and 1 has been declared as 5.1?

C:\>winget list powershell
Name             ID                        Version      Source
---------------------------------------------------------------
Windows-Terminal Microsoft.WindowsTerminal 1.22.12111.0 winget

When I search Microsoft.PowerShell it finds 7.5 and 7.6 (Preview):

C:\>winget search Microsoft.PowerShell
Name               ID                           Version Source
---------------------------------------------------------------
PowerShell         Microsoft.PowerShell         7.5.2.0 winget
PowerShell Preview Microsoft.PowerShell.Preview 7.6.0.4 winget

C:\>winget search powershell
Name                         ID                                          Version       Match           Source
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PowerShell                   9MZ1SNWT0N5D                                Unknown                       msstore
PowerShell Preview           9P95ZZKTNRN4                                Unknown                       msstore
PowerShell                   Microsoft.PowerShell                        7.5.2.0                       winget
...
PowerShell Preview           Microsoft.PowerShell.Preview                7.6.0.4       Tag: powershell winget
...

Thank you in advance.

[Trenly]

Windows Terminal and PowerShell are two separate packages. I assume the reason that PowerShell 5 isn’t showing up for you in winget list is because it is a system component, and the reason that Windows Terminal is showing up is because that package is tagged as being related to PowerShell here in the community repository.

To install a specific version of an application (such as PowerShell LTS) you can use winget show Microsoft.PowerShell --versions and then winget install Microsoft.PowerShell -v <version>. Afterwards, though, it will still be upgraded with winget upgrade --all, so if you want to stay on the LTS version, you will need to use the winget pin command to pin the application to a specific version or to exclude it from winget upgrade --all