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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"SMA SemanticVersion not SemVer 2 compliant","articleBody":"\r\nFirst: System.Management.Automation.SemanticVersion is not SemVer v2 compliant\r\n\r\nSecond: PowerShell releases are using SemVer v2 syntax\r\n\r\nTherefore: `$PSVersionTable.PSVersion` is truncated and thus *broken*, as pre-release versions cannot be compared to each other (the only useful assertion possible is that the PSVersion is `-lt \"6.0.0\"`)\r\n\r\nYou should be using (an implementation like) Nuget.Core's Nuget.SemanticVersion which handles `-prerelease` and `+patch` as well as dotted versions like your `6.0.0-beta.7`\r\n\r\nNote that both the tests below return TRUE if $SemVer is Nuget.SemanticVersion:\r\n\r\nSteps to reproduce\r\n------------------\r\n\r\n```powershell\r\n$SemVer = [System.Management.Automation.SemanticVersion]\r\n(\"6.0.0-beta.10\" -as $SemVer) -gt (\"6.0.0-beta.7\" -as $SemVer)\r\n(\"6.0.0+fixes\" -as $SemVer) -gt (\"6.0.0-beta\" -as $SemVer)\r\n```\r\n\r\nExpected behavior\r\n-----------------\r\n\r\n```none\r\nTrue\r\nTrue\r\n```\r\n\r\nActual behavior\r\n---------------\r\n\r\n```none\r\nFalse\r\nFalse\r\n```\r\n\r\nEnvironment data\r\n----------------\r\n\r\n\u003c!-- provide the output of $PSVersionTable --\u003e\r\n\r\n```powershell\r\n\u003e $PSVersionTable\r\nName                           Value\r\n----                           -----\r\nPSVersion                      6.0.0-beta\r\nPSEdition                      Core\r\nGitCommitId                    v6.0.0-beta.7\r\nOS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.15063\r\nPlatform                       Win32NT\r\nPSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}\r\nPSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3\r\nSerializationVersion           1.1.0.1\r\nWSManStackVersion              3.0\r\n```\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/Jaykul","@type":"Person","name":"Jaykul"},"datePublished":"2017-10-04T19:07:56.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/5004/PowerShell/issues/5004"}