Shkarko Bicep CLI 0.36.1

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 !