Terraform Version not updating in new windows terminal tab

[spellingb]

After setting the active version of terraform in a powershell session running in Windows Terminal, and then opening a new windows terminal tab in the same window, the Terraform version setting does not carry over.

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When setting the active version, this sets three variables; PATH TFSWITCH_VERSION TFSWITCH_PATH

These variables are set in the current session and are persisted using the [system.environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable Method. When a new tab is opened in an existing Windows Terminal window, the Environment Variables are pulled from the existing Windows Terminal Parent, instead of loading the most current.

This issue is tracked here

Workaround is to:

• Open a new window instead of a new tab
• If you need to open a new tab then rerun tfswitch to set the version

[kvendingoldo]

btw. you can also use tenv that support Terraform as well as OpenTofu (and Terragrunt :) ) in one tool. It allow you to simplify version management and can do much more, than tfswitch.