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<issue_title>[ssh] az ssh prints warning to upgrade to >=2.0.4 but 2.0.9 already installed</issue_title>
<issue_description>Source: Azure/azure-cli#33539 (by @phillies)
Affected extension: ssh (src/ssh/)

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Issue Azure/azure-cli-extensions#33539 (by @phillies)

Title

az ssh prints warning to upgrade to >=2.0.4 but 2.0.9 already installed

Body

Describe the bug

I freshly installed az cli with ssh on a Mac 26.5.1 but every time I run az ssh arc/config I get
'''
[08:58:45]❯ az ssh config --subscription xxxx--resource-group xxxx --name xxxx --local-user xxxx -f xxx --keys-dest-folder xxxx
On May 21st 2025, any ssh commands connecting to ARC machines on versions <2.0.4 will no longer work. Please upgrade to az ssh version >=2.0.4
Generated relay information xxxx is valid until 2026-06-12 09:54:37 AM in local time.
xxxx contains sensitive information. Please delete it once you no longer need this config file.
'''
Latest version is installed:
'''
[08:58:36]❯ az extension update --name ssh
Latest version of 'ssh' is already installed.

Use --debug for more information
'''

Related command

az ssh arc / config

Errors

On May 21st 2025, any ssh commands connecting to ARC machines on versions <2.0.4 will no longer work. Please upgrade to az ssh version >=2.0.4

Issue script & Debug output

az ssh arc --subscription xxxxx --resource-group xxxx --name xxxx --local-user xxxx

Expected behavior

No warning

Environment Summary

'''
azure-cli 2.87.0

core 2.87.0
telemetry 1.1.0

Extensions:
ssh 2.0.9

Dependencies:
msal 1.36.0
azure-mgmt-resource 24.0.0

Python location '/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.87.0/libexec/bin/python'
Config directory '/Users/xxxx/.azure'
Extensions directory '/Users/xxxxx/.azure/cliextensions'

Python (Darwin) 3.13.13 (main, Apr 7 2026, 18:19:01) [Clang 21.0.0 (clang-2100.0.123.102)]

Legal docs and information: aka.ms/AzureCliLegal

Your CLI is up-to-date.
'''

Additional context

No response

Comments

Comment by @yonzhan

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

Comment by @Klaas-

I can independently confirm the issue with azure-cli on Windows 11.
'''
az --version
azure-cli 2.87.0

core 2.87.0
telemetry 1.1.0

Extensions:
connectedmachine 1.0.0
resource-graph 2.1.1
serial-console 1.0.0b3
ssh 2.0.9

Dependencies:
msal 1.36.0
azure-mgmt-resource 24.0.0

Python location 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\python.exe'
Config directory 'C:\Users\xxx.azure'
Extensions directory 'C:\Users\xxx.azure\cliextensions'

Python (Windows) 3.13.13 (tags/v3.13.13:01104ce, Apr 7 2026, 19:25:48) [MSC v.1944 64 bit (AMD64)]

Legal docs and information: aka.ms/AzureCliLegal

Your CLI is up-to-date.
'''

Comment by @Klaas-

so I flew over the code, the warning is coming from here: be61a0f added by @StevenBucher98 -- if I read docs correctly this is by design and it the announcement should have been removed when they pushed release 2.0.4 of ssh ...
<<END:issue-33539>></issue_description>

• Closes [ssh] az ssh prints warning to upgrade to >=2.0.4 but 2.0.9 already installed #9949

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

@azclibot This bug was reported in Azure/azure-cli#33539.

Summary: The az ssh extension (v2.0.9) incorrectly prints a warning message saying to upgrade to >=2.0.4, even though a version higher than that (2.0.9) is already installed.

Affected command: az ssh config / az ssh arc

Error message shown:

On May 21st 2025, any ssh commands connecting to ARC machines on versions <2.0.4 will no longer work. Please upgrade to az ssh version >=2.0.4

Environment:

• azure-cli: 2.87.0
• ssh extension: 2.0.9
• Python 3.13.13 on macOS (Darwin)

Root cause hypothesis: The version comparison logic in the ssh extension is likely doing a string comparison instead of a semantic version comparison, causing 2.0.9 to be incorrectly considered less than 2.0.4 (since '9' < '4' is false but perhaps the comparison is checking against a hardcoded string or using incorrect logic).

Expected behavior: No warning should be shown when the installed version (2.0.9) is already >= 2.0.4.

Please investigate the version check in the ssh extension and fix the comparison to use proper semantic versioning.

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[azure-client-tools-bot-prd]

️✔️Azure CLI Extensions Breaking Change Test

️✔️Non Breaking Changes

[azure-client-tools-bot-prd]

Hi @copilot,
Please write the description of changes which can be perceived by customers into HISTORY.rst.
If you want to release a new extension version, please update the version in setup.py as well.

[Klaas-]

this is fixed in #9937

[yonzhan]

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