v0.33.13

Highlights

• Paste as BicepParams (#15897) - thanks @miqm !

• Add resourceInput<> and resourceOutput<> utility types (#15825)
  We've added two new utility types (resourceInput<> and resourceOutput<>), which deprecates the existing resource<> utility types. These three utility types are all closely related but differ in which property flags they surface:

  • resource<> has the flags that were originally defined in the RP types artifact. This is generally not what people want.
  • resourceInput<> strips out all WriteOnly flags. This means that template authors can access properties on a resourceInput<>-typed parameter that would have previously raised a BCP077 diagnostic.
  • resourceOutput<> strips out all ReadOnly flags.

• Expose fail function (#15958) This function takes a single string argument, whose value is the message of the error that will be raised.

param storageAccountData object

resource a 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2023-05-01' = {
  name: !empty(storageAccountData.?name) ? toLower(storageAccountData.name) : fail('No storage account name was provided')

Other bugs and features

• extendable param files add a warning when referencing to a non-existent .bicepparam file (#15338)
• adding support for variables, objects and arrays in extended param files (#15834)
• Refactor and simplify handling of single quotes in module completions (#15913)
• use-safe-access linter rule: Expand to check for nullable properties (#15838)
• Fix for WhatIf results not showing up properly in the deploy pane (#16048)
• Support object property name completions in lambda body syntax (#16055)
• MS Graph type provider warns on property mismatch (#15824)
• Fix unhandled exception in import closure calculation (#15833)
• Validate type clauses in UDFs (#15842)
• Allow exports of symbols that share a name with an output (#15899)
• Catch recursion in parameterized type invocations (#15903)
• Use fully qualified symbolic name as copy loop name (#15910)
• Include imported variables in max variables check (#15956)
• Rename Bicep.IO package to Azure.Bicep.IO (#16046)
• Validate that type expressions that will be compiled to ARM schema nodes can be expressed in ARM's type system prior to compilation (#15901)
• SecureOutput Feature Bug Fix (#16108)
• Allow accessing generated module names (#16058)
• Deprecate the term provider (#16107)
• Fix linter discrepancies when optional module name is enabled (#16106)
• Emit symbolic name template when an optional module name is enabled. (#16114)
• Fix BCP159 to check existence of any nested resources (#15988)
• Decompile-params: Resolve bicep file path relative to current directory (#15986)
• Add AdditionalPropertiesDescription property to ObjectType (#15990)

v0.32.4

Highlights

• New deployer() function to retrieve ObjectId of the principal that is deploying the Bicep file (#15340)

resource roleAssignment 'Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments@2022-04-01' = {
  // can be used to help make GUID unique
  name: guid(deployer().objectId, readerRoleDefinitionId, resourceGroup().id)
  properties: {
    principalId: deployer().objectId // easily retrieve objectId
    roleDefinitionId: readerRoleDefinitionId
  }
}

• Support partial public registry completions (#15646). Previously, if typing the entire module reference, you would lose completions after typing a /
  

Other bugs and features

Bicep team:

• Support deploying to other clouds in Deploy Pane (#15635) - thank you @alaskascooter for filing
• Only add an explicit dependency on an existing resource when the deployments engine will use the GET response (#15693) - thank you @AleksandrKomarov for filing
• Move all indexing expressions when calculating dependsOn expressions (#15580) - thank you @slavizh for filing
• Local Deploy: Support null for InnerError field (#15583)
• InsertResource - correctly strip read-only properties (#15689)
• MS Graph type loader accepts resource identifier property flag (#15518)
• Fixed stack overflow when requesting completion in an object literal (#15579)
• Use vscode authentication instead of Azure Account extension (#15403)
• Move deploy-pane to vscode-bicep-ui (#15584)
• Emit type and apiVersion separately for local and v2 ext resources (#15762)

@emmanuel-ferdman

• Update jsonrpc.test.ts reference (#15657)

@GabinL21

• Add case-insensitive equality operators to grammar (#15640)

v0.31.92

Features and bug fixes

• Revert "Only add an explicit dependency on an existing resource when the deployments engine will use the GET response" (#15524)
• Don't collapse scope references or namespaces into objects (#15570)
• allow using none statements in bicepparam files at build-params command (#15107) -- thanks @polatengin!

v0.31.34

Highlights

• Improve ternary type inference (#15399)
• Allow dependsOn for existing resources (#15459)
• Tree-shake existing resources where possible (#15447)
• Sort public registry module version completion items (#15400)
• Refactor: Extract variable, parameter, type (#14701)
• Allow imported variable access from within User Defined Functions (#15142)
• Nameof function (#14704) - Thanks @miqm !

Bugs and Features

• Add deprecation warning for microsoftGraph builtin extension (#15149)
• Add deployment script snippets (#15191)
• Fix reduce() return type signature (#15386)
• Clarify newlines before/after extractions (#15194)
• 15266 Completion for "resource<...>" should include the necessary str… (#15267)
• Allow extracting param as resource-derived type (#15282)
• Fix linter rule: Max variables limit increased from 256 -> 512 (#15464)

v0.30.23

What's Changed

• Support named pipe fallback for IPC in local mode on unsupported platforms (#15046)

New Contributors

• @gerbermarco made their first contribution in #15047

v0.30.3

Highlights

• Bicep error codes for core diagnostics documentation (#14881)
• Allow Variable Symbol Access from within user defined functions (#14531)

Bugs and Features

• Use minutes in VS Code default bicep deployment name (#14764) - thanks @Strandfelt !
• Support completions for import file paths (#14659)
• Handle operator precedence correctly in use-safe-access linter rule codefix (#14710)
• Local mode Bicep issue fixes for #14770 (#14830)
• Support validation & completions for property access on array element (#14846)
• Rename provider -> extension in many places (#14872)
• adding code completion for extends keyword in bicepparam files (#14986)
• adding none in the suggested completions list (#14988)
• Avoid assigning invalid cyclic types to declarations (#14874)
• Trim descriptions in compiled JSON (#14870)
• Deploy pane: link to correct Portal blade for nested deployments (#14880)
• Relax bicepconfig.json validation for extensions, to allow file paths (#14873)
• Add spread & multiline objects + arrays to grammar (#14983)
• Use imported symbol identifiers rather than identity in memory to deduplicate imports when building closure (#14615)
• Enable type narrowing on assignment of non-variable symbols (#14989)
• Fix go to def for template spec modules (#14871)
• Fix obsoletion warnings (#14992)
• What If Short Circuiting Linter Rule (Default Off) (#14910)
• Added Documentation on Extendable Bicep Params (#14865)
• Fix for issue 12800 function arguments with comment before end token (#14699)

v0.29.47

Bugs and Features

• Handle special characters in use-safe-access rule correctly (#14593)
• Fix bug with local-deploy CLI command group when using OCI (#14592)

v0.29.45

Highlights

• [Experimental] Extendable Param Files feature (#13900)
• [Experimental] Support for the local-deploy CLI command (#14243, #14234, #14231, #14237, #14514, #14587, #14438)
• New linter rule: use-recent-module-versions (#14309)
• New linter rule: use-safe-access (#14322)

Breaking Changes

• Replace the provider keyword with the extension keyword (#14379)
• Deprecate provider in Bicep configuration files (#14468)

For more details about the breaking changes, see #14374.

Bugs and Features

• Added info about missing CLI option --outdir (#14188) - thanks @o-l-a-v!
• Add trace log message when failing to find Env Var (#13777) - thanks @SimonWahlin!
• Correctly decompile negative numbers in TLEs (#14317)
• Remove experimental flag for JSONRPC command group (#14368)
• Avoid putting URLs into 'code' field in diagnostics (#14583)
• Escape strings correctly in snippets (#14582)
• Update Microsoft Graph Bicep types (#14382)
• Fix UDT syntax highlighting (#14372)
• Ensure \n is used when emitting template (#14581)
• Fix Intellisense and other features of Bicep in Visual Studio that were broken by VS 17.10 (#14532)

Refactoring

• Use string.Method(char) instead of string.Method(string) when possible (#14255) - thanks @Meir017!
• Use collection expression (#14318) - thanks @Meir017!

v0.28.1

Highlights

Bicep Team

• MS Graph Extensibility is now in Public Preview!
• Support spread completions inside ternary and parenthesized expressions (#14058)
• Allow dot property access on union of objects with undeclared property (#14060)
• Allow importing from Bicep templates with required parameters (#14070)

Bugs and Features

Bicep Team

• Improve BCP395 error message (#14094)
• Fix index out of range for bicep format with --insert-final-newline (#14193)

v0.27.1

Highlights

Bicep Team

• "publishSource" is now GA! (#13899)
• Implement the spread ... operator, other new functions, and indices on lambdas (#13658)
  • Support completions inside object spread (#14000)
• Normalize indenting for multi-line descriptions (#14013)
• Default levels for linting rules finalized (#13847)
• Permit validation for property access on union types (#14017)

Bugs and Features

Bicep Team

• Clarify on JSONRPC format (#13825)
• Support --outdir param with build-params (#13890)
• Create 'use-secure-value-for-secure-inputs' linter rule (#13905)
• Add detailed validation for UDFs with UDTs (#14011)
• Fix for stack overflow issue (#14049)
• Check namespaces in prefer-interpolation linter rule (#14050)
• Support codefix for missing Bicep params (#14012)
• Formatting rule improvements (#13945)
• Recognize common keywords for resource type completions (#13721)
• Show full path of built JSON file so it's clickable in vscode (#13787)
• Try to fix 13333 (#13788)
• Make some minor improvements to resource filter keywords and add filter keyword support for resource snippets (#13731)
• 13842 Bicep linter doesn't recognise managementGroupResourceId as a r… (#13889)