v0.29.45

Highlights

• [Experimental] Extendable Param Files feature (#13900)
• [Experimental] Support for the local-deploy CLI command (#14243, #14234, #14231, #14237, #14514, #14587, #14438)
• New linter rule: use-recent-module-versions (#14309)
• New linter rule: use-safe-access (#14322)

Breaking Changes

• Replace the provider keyword with the extension keyword (#14379)
• Deprecate provider in Bicep configuration files (#14468)

For more details about the breaking changes, see #14374.

Bugs and Features

• Added info about missing CLI option --outdir (#14188) - thanks @o-l-a-v!
• Add trace log message when failing to find Env Var (#13777) - thanks @SimonWahlin!
• Correctly decompile negative numbers in TLEs (#14317)
• Remove experimental flag for JSONRPC command group (#14368)
• Avoid putting URLs into 'code' field in diagnostics (#14583)
• Escape strings correctly in snippets (#14582)
• Update Microsoft Graph Bicep types (#14382)
• Fix UDT syntax highlighting (#14372)
• Ensure \n is used when emitting template (#14581)
• Fix Intellisense and other features of Bicep in Visual Studio that were broken by VS 17.10 (#14532)

Refactoring

• Use string.Method(char) instead of string.Method(string) when possible (#14255) - thanks @Meir017!
• Use collection expression (#14318) - thanks @Meir017!