v0.4.1124

Highlights

Bicep team:

• "Insert Resource" command implementation (#4945)

• Implement type completions & validation for resource list*() functions (#5145). You will now get completions for cases like:

  resource stg 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2019-04-01' = { ... }
  
  var keys = stg.

• Updated to .net 6 (#4936)

• Add ability to suppress next line diagnostics inline (#5107). For example:

  #disable-next-line BCP081
  resource stg 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2024-01-01' existing = {
    name: 'foo'
  }

• Visualizer improvements (#5158)

• New linter rules

  • no-unnecessary-dependson (#4838)
  • linter: use-protectedsettings-for-commandtoexecute-secrets (#4925)
  • linter rule: outputs-should-not-contain-secrets (#4716)
  • Linter rule to use stable VM image (#4883)

• Added descriptions for function completions. (#5398)

• removing docs from github repo (#4978)

  • All docs now available at https://aka.ms/bicep

Bug fixes and features

Bicep team:

• Update error message for if() & add if-else snippet (#5302)
• Improve parser handling of single-line array/object (#4956)
• Migrate brew to https://github.com/Azure/homebrew-bicep (#5039)
• Fix highlight.js finding keywords in strings (#5128)
• Add other useful CLI utils to devcontainer (#5137)
• Remove "preview" flag from VSCode extension (#5140)
• Flow declared type information to function arguments (#5188)
• Speed up playground (#5300)
• bicep restore now logs restore failure diagnostics (#4985)
• support digests in br module references (#5024)
• Updated to c# 10 (#5198)
• added win-arm64, linux-arm64, and osx-arm64 targets (#5346)
• Fix an issue where module references are not refreshed when cloud config changes (#4916)
• Allow publishing modules with aliases (#4926)
• Implement go2def for module references with aliases (#4934)
• Add telemetry for all registered commands (#5218)
• RG().location/et al => location param in snippets (#5226)
• Added support for description upon completions (#4999)
• Improve string + string error message (#5075)
• Cleaned up description decorator logic to allow loops (#5160)
• Improve test execution time (#4889)
• Remove light bulb that allows disabling linter rules in the bicep.config (#5314)
• Update disable next line string in light bulb (#5332)
• Add telemetry for linter rule changes in bicepconfig.json (#5312)
• Log telemetry about linter state on bicep file open (#5352)
• Updated linter related telemetry event names (#5369)
• Log telemetry on bicep file open (#5373)

@polatengin

• adding devcontainer support (#4974)

@GKotfis

• Increase exposure of 'Open Visualizer' command in context menus (#4977)

@wedoazure

• updated Networking visualizer icons (#5130)
• Updated Compute and Web visualizer icons (#5168)
• database, security, storage visualizer icons (#5203)
• updated ai, analytics, containers, devops and identity Visualizer icons (#5240)

@miqm

• Allow using parameter as value for a discriminator property (#4887)

@stan-sz

• Update required SDK (#5274)
• Update the PackageProjectUrl (#5235)
• Bicep nuget packages fixes (#5254)
• Fix access to the same test file (#5329)

Docs and snippet updates

@johndowns

• Update Cosmos DB snippets (#5038)

@johnnyreilly

• fix: correct "as" typo to "at" (#5182)

@StefanIvemo

• Added --no-restore to CLI help (#5385)