v0.21.1

Highlights

Bicep Team:

• User-Defined Types are no longer experimental!
  • Usage documentation is available here.
• Add support for defining and emitting user defined discriminated object union types. (#11222)
• Support variables in .bicepparam files (#11438)
• Added validate-params command to .bicepparams (#11476)
• [EXPERIMENTAL] Compile-time type imports (#11298)
• [EXPERIMENTAL] Test Framework:
  • Evaluate Assertions And Display Test Results On CLI (#11370)
  • Added Type Validation and Autocomplete Snippets (#11477)

Features and Bug Fixes

Bicep Team:

• Support for user-defined types and inline type declarations in user defined functions (#11571)
• Fix bicepparam decompiler date handling (#11675)
• Symbolic names: Generate dependsOn for "existing" resources (#11478)
• Fix 10427 trigger next module completions (#11573)
• Fix pretty-printing for safe dereference operators (#11575)
• Allow param assignments to use null values (#11532)
• Catch case-insensitive clashes of type property names (#11457)

@johan-lindqvist

• Bicep lint command (#10819)

@pragone

• Fixed typos in class names in BannedSymbols.txt (#11473)

@petertrr

• Update grammar.md: double-colon is used for nested resource access (#11468)