v0.34.44

Features and Bug Fixes

• Use languageVersion 2.0 when an existing resource has an explicit dependency (#16670)
• Validate regex patterns against non-backtracking engine (#16687)
• Generate deterministic dependsOn (#16668)
• Add more detailed information about local-deploy (#16677)
• Add more info on implementing extensions for local-deploy (#16678)
• Add name pattern validation for modules (#16680)
• Add Desired State Configuration target scope and experimental feature flag (#16389) - thanks @andyleejordan !

v0.34.1

Highlights

• Optional Module Names GA (#16518)

  module storage 'storageaccount.bicep' = {
  // no need to specify a name here!
    scope: rg
    params: {
      location: location
      sku: skuProd
    }
  }

• Experimental support for typed variables (#16451) using the feature flag "typedVariables"

  // an optional type can be added to a variable declaration statement.
  
  // current syntax
  var foo = 'hello'
  
  // with optional type
  var foo string = 'hello'

• Resource Derived Types GA (#16517)

  param storageSkuName resourceInput<'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2024-01-01'>.sku.name
  
  output storageEndpoints resourceOutput<'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2024-01-01'>.properties.primaryEndpoints = ...

• ACR Private Module Completions (#16051)
• Add Notepad++ Bicep Syntax Highlighting Information (#16506) - thanks @richardsondev !

Bug Fixes and Features

• secure-secrets-in-params: Flag insecure references to secure params (#16251)
• Add code action to suggest multi-line strings (#16296)
• Handle decompilation of variable-defined API version correctly (#16384)
• Support dark + light mode in the Bicep playground (#16388)
• Support for validating inputs in deploy pane (#16442)
• Add the --pattern CLI argument for faster batch operations on multiple files (#16456)

  # build all .bicep files under current path
  bicep build --pattern './**/*.bicep'
  # build all .bicepparam files under current path
  bicep build-params --pattern './**/*.bicepparam'
  # format all .bicep files under current path
  bicep format --pattern './**/*.bicep*'
  # lint all .bicep files under current path
  bicep lint --pattern './**/*.bicep'
  # restore modules for all .bicep files under current path
  bicep restore --pattern './**/*.bicep'

• Fix for completions inside object (#16558)
• Imported functions invoked in .bicepparam files can refer to variables from their source template (#16322)
• Emit an info-level diagnostic on safe access of undeclared property (#16327)
• Forward base-type errors when accessing type properties (#16394)
• Allow duplicated resources (by name) if at most one is unconditional (#15909)
• Index from end operator ([^]) (#16104)

  param foo string[]
  
  var lastElement = foo[^1]
  var secondLastElement = foo[^2]

• Partially parse function calls with no closing paren (#16508)
• Fix 13606, stuck in ext-src loop (#16381)

v0.33.93

Highlights

• Address v0.33.13 language server crash/stack overflow (#16235)
• Address v0.33.13 deployment failures when depending on looped resources in non-symbolic name templates (#16236)
• Release Deployment Pane as a non-experimental feature (#16173)

Other bugs and features

• Offer code fix to fully qualify function call for shadowed decorator functions (#16116)

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)