v0.36.1

Highlights

• GA release for optional types in variables (#17055)

  // current variable syntax
  var foo = 'hello'
  
  // new variable syntax with optional type
  var foo string = 'hello'

• Add userPrincipalName to deployer() function return type (#17099)
  Example usage:

  var myUser = deployer().userPrincipalName

• [Experimental] New CLI command group bicep snapshot for snapshot validation. See Using the snapshot command for usage information.
  • Video demo available here
• [Experimental] Local Deploy: Various improvements to support end-to-end scenarios (#17048, #17195, #17234, #17235, #17095)
  • Video demo available here
• [Requires the moduleIdentity Experimental feature] Support identity assignments on modules (#17150, #17233)
  Example usage:

  param identityId string
  
  module mod './module.bicep' = {
    identity: {
      type: 'UserAssigned'
      userAssignedIdentities: {
        '${identityId}': {}
      }
    }
  }

  Note that this is introduced for future capabilities, and is not currently supported by the backend service.
• Bicep Extensibility feature flag has been removed (#17094)
  Documentation available at Use Bicep Extensions

Fixes

• Fix completions for function arguments (#17146)
• Enable decompilation of KV reference in parameters json (#17196)
• Allow outer variable completions in user-defined functions (#17198)
• Handle case insensitive name clashes for imported variable, func, and type symbols (#17200)
• Add value bounds to loop index variable (#17201)
• Raise error diagnostic on ambiguous scope (#17202)
• Fix F12 for imported symbols from oci modules (#16941)
• use-secure-value-for-secure-inputs linter rule: Remove some false positives (#17107)
• adding cases to handle user defined typed params (#16864)
• adding completion support for 'extends' keyword (#17194)
• Fix F12 for imported symbols from oci modules (#16941)

Community Contributions

• Add linter rule to warn on unused compile-time imports (#16990) - thanks @GABRIELNGBTUC !
• Disable linter rule "Maximum number of variables used" when the file does not contain declarations used in files meant to deployed and variables are exported (#17149) - thanks @GABRIELNGBTUC !