v0.11.1

Bug fixes and features

Bicep team:

• Improve module path completions (#8560)
• Fixed false positives for use-resourceid-functions (#8445, #8437, #8446)
• Improve decompiler naming of resources: remove trailing "Name" from resources (#8500)

@bjompen

• add support for URL encoded local paths (#8418)

@dciborow

• Update SecretsInParamsMustBeSecureRule.cs (#8420)

@johnthcall

• Reuse indexed types in AzResourceTypeLoader (#8509)

v0.10.61

Bug fixes and features

Bicep Team:

• Allow more build steps to run in parallel (#8273)
• Add validation for ambiguous resource scopes (#8300)
• Use locally cached tpn files (#8330)
• Fixed typo in the trigger for the notice job (#8375)
• Add nested resources to document outline (#2037)
• Fix ArtifactsLocationSasToken MissingMethodException Issue (#8327)
• Fix language configs not found issue (#8338)
• Update bicep visual studio extension name (#8303)
• Update visual studio vsix id (#8341)

@ellismg

• Support @metadata decorator on outputs (#8302)

@SimonWahlin

• Add metadata keyword (#6360)

v0.10.13

Features and bug fixes:

Bicep Team:

• Add fix for locale-independent number conversion (#7829)
• Add appInsights, ability to load quickstart samples to playground (#7832)
• Add ability to generate .bicep file from a Kubernetes manifest (#7812)
• Extensibility - fix namespace completions, make kubernetes a singleton namespace (#7870)
• Fix up support for provider config completions (#7895)
• Enable lambdas in Bicep (#7867)
• Add script & GHA to bump dependency versions (#8225)
• Update use-stable-resource-identifiers linter rule to support multiple violations on the same root (#7910)
• Registry module tool improvements (#8191)
• Preserve underscores in names in decompilation (#8221)
• Linter:
  • Port linter rule secure-params-in-nested-deploy (#7741)
  • Port TTK linter rule: use-recent-api-version (#7612)
  • Port TTK rule use-resourceid-functions (#7907)
  • Fix #8028 (#8040)
  • Fix 8016 ignore artifacts params without underscores (#8067)
  • Fix 8047 (#8048)
  • Fix 8030, modules with use-resource-id-functions (#8143)
  • use-recent-api-versions should check function calls (#8135)

@alexangas

• Fix: Bogus no-unused-existing-resources for nested resources (#7906)

@tonybaloney

• Add flexible servers and private DNS zone fall through switches (#7996)

@johnlokerse

• Added private endpoint Bicep snippet (#7929)

@sammeel

• Add helpful error when builtin function is shadowed by local variable (#6027)

@StefanIvemo

• Changed the tooltip description for uniqueString() to include length (#8007)
• [Snippet] - Azure Firewall Standard SKU for VWAN (#6302)
• [Snippet] - Azure Firewall Standard SKU (#6301)

@iamvighnesh

• Snippet - Service Bus Namespace (#5273)

v0.9.1

Highlights

Bicep team:

• Add a linter to warn on nondeterministic resource names (#7491)
• New linter rule artifacts-parameters (#7583)
  • Documentation coming soon
• Port linter rule: secure-secrets-in-params (#7641)
  • Documentation coming soon
• Bump types to version 0.2.34 (#7762)

@alexangas

• Unused existing resources rule (#7220)

Features and bug fixes

Bicep team:

• Block indexed access into a module/resource collection inside a lambda (#7512)
• fixed exception due to loop-invariant index expression (#7754)
• Handle race condition in visualizer (#7514)

v0.8.9

Bug fixes

Bicep team:

• Fix for issue 7455 (#7483)
• Fix for issue 7482 (#7484)
• Fix default type definition for 'identity' property (#7489)

@NenoLoje

• Fixed typo: "free free" --> "feel free" (#7438)

v0.8.2

Highlights

• Add support for join() function (#7327)
• Add deprecation notice for providers() function (#7365)
• Add support for readonly resource types (i.e. built-in policy definitions) (#7397)
• Remove setting for bicep deploy and make it available by default (#7349)
• Updated types for 0.8 release (#7431)

Features and bug fixes

Bicep team:

• Generate params: ensure parameters file is replaced in full (#7240)
• Update LangServer CodeAction test to account for spans that have multiple proposed code fixes (#7369)
• Add a linter rule to suggest using identifier tokens and property access for object properties when the property name permits it. (#6584)
• Fixed type checking exception with overloaded binary operators and operands of any type (#7337)
• Fixed dependency generation with existing resources (#7433)
• Improve scaffolding experience with new config file (#7250)
• Added default type definitions. (#7174)
• Add validation for parent property (#7254)

@miqm

• LoadJsonContent fix selecting multiple tokens and handling copy object property (#7293)
• Load Functions' path argument completions and navigation (#7237)

@nonik0

• Bicep Source Mapping (map ARM JSON lines back to Bicep source lines) (#6852)

@stan-sz

• Re-enable test case after #4833 (#6254)

Docs and snippets

Bicep team:

• Remove limitation from README (#7299)
• Update contribution guide to mention that we are no longer taking example contributions (#7230)

@johnlokerse

• Add Bicep snippets: res-lock and res-scoped-lock (#7085)

@mgreenegit

• Gc api ver (#7014)

v0.7.4

Highlights

Bicep team:

• Allow single-line array and object declarations, and multi-line function declarations (#5830)
• Various improvements to "Bicep Deploy" command in VS Code
  • Bicep deploy - additional params support (#7030)
  • Bicep deploy - update settings and walkthrough (#7143)
  • Fix duplicate recently used items issue in parameters file selection list (#7121)

@polatengin

• Added Generate parameters file command which can be used in VS Code or via Bicep CLI (#6601)

@miqm

• Added loadJsonContent function (#6563)
  • Will more efficiently generate final ARM Template, resulting in smaller files
  • Allows for JSONPath queries to load only part of the requested JSON file

Bug fixes and features

Bicep team:

• Support name polymorphic discriminator on for-loop resources (#7158)
• Insert Resource: Attempt API-version based lookup with generic fallback (#7163)
• Preserve literal elements in string union types (#6933)
• Update Bicep registry module tool to generate a description section in README (#7039)
• Update types (#7157)
• Create nuget package for bicep language server (#6803)
• Fixed logic when parsing jToken values to handle negative integers. (#6900)
• Improved error message for iterator loop warning. (#7122)

@nilshedstrom

• Provide remove unused parameter/variable as quickfix. Fixes #5613 (#5804)

@stan-sz

• Enforce no unused using with build break (#6978)

Docs and snippets

@johnlokerse

• Added Bicep snippet for role assignment (#7026)

@metaxasa

• Update README.md (#6647)

v0.6.18

Unfortunately, we had one more regression, so this release is primarily to fix #6823.

Bug fixes and features

Bicep team:

• Avoid serializing and deserializing template specs (#6833)
• Proper capitalization of commands (#6813)
• Added changes to allow non-DTC values for name in existing resources. (#6778)

v0.6.11

This release is primarily a hotfix for issue #6762.

Features and bug fixes

Bicep team

• Return a transformed string literal from ARM transformation functions invoked with arguments that are all string literals (#6765)
• Always show active editor first in quickpick (#6759)
• Bicep deploy - put a clickable link to the deployment in the output after it starts (#6654)
• Fix issue while inserting resource (#6808)

@vlahane

• added --allowoverwrite flag to decompile (#6029)

v0.6.1

Highlights

Bicep team:

• Adding managementGroupResourceId function to Bicep (#6625)
• Update types to 0.1.486 (#6729)

@miqm

• File content is loaded into special variables (#6275)
  • will keep ARM Template file size smaller through more efficient code-generation when accessing properties of json(loadTextContent('myStuff.json'))

@slapointe

• Add force modules restore support in CLI and VS Code (#6382)
  • will clear the local module cache and re-pull module registry references for cases where the registry content is different than the locally cached content.
  • In VS Code, search for the command Bicep: Restore Bicep FIle (force)
  • In CLI, run command bicep restore main.bicep --force
    • We do not yet support the --force flag in Az CLI or Azure PowerShell

Features and bug fixes

Bicep team:

• Use function argument declared types (or function declared type signature when available) instead of resolved types (#6592)
• Enforce .bicep extension on Bicep build command (#6609)
• Convert createArray and createObject function calls to array and object literals, respectively. (#6645)
• User-specified paths involving files named con on windows 10 no longer freeze the language server (#6636)
• Fix 6437 Edit config with rule but no 'level' (#6440)
• Add Insert Resource to context menus (#6695)
• Add Scaffold Bicep Config snippet (#6600)