v0.18.4

Highlights

Bicep team:

• Support for .bicepparam parameters files (bicep-style parameters file). This includes support for:
  • support for expressions using any functions in the sys namespace (i.e. uniqueString())
  • supported natively by Az CLI and Azure PowerShell (i.e. az deployment group create -f ./main.bicep -p params.bicepparam ...)
  • CLI command to generate bicepparam file from given Bicep file (#10595)
  • Buildparams command vscode extension (#10738)
  • LoadEnvironmentVariable to enable using env variables in .bicepparam files (#10726)
  • Support bicepparam files for VS Code deploy bicep file action (#10593)
  • Bicepparam decompiler (#10785)
  • Bicep param decompile vscode action (#10921)
• Provide help text when consuming modules from ACR (#10747)
• Bicep build command linter provides a structured output (#10672)

Bug fixes and features

Bicep team:

• Mark overload matches as PotentialMatches if any argument is of type 'any' (#10659)
• Provide completions for unknown keys on dictionaries (#10927)
• Fix CLI restore --force (9580) (#10817 and #10829)
• Remove metadata from symbol resolution logic (#10626)
• Derive operation return type from operands (#10545)
• [Bicep Public Registry] Allow specifying metadata in bicep in addition to metadata.json (#10860)
• Add intellisense support for param and output values (#10680)
• MAINT: Run tests in parallel to speed up CI by 0.5x (#10716)
• Mark overload matches as PotentialMatches if any argument is of type 'any' (#10659)
• Provide completions for unknown keys on dictionaries (#10927)
• Fix CLI restore --force (9580) (#10817)

@dciborow

• Fixes to BRM README Generation (#10471)