Azure Bicep Monthly Updates — February 2024

Welcome back to the world of Azure Bicep. In this blog post, we’ll explore the latest Bicep CLI version released in February by the Bicep team.

Figure 1 — Bicep v0.26.54

Just a heads up, there’s a small tweak between the January and February versions. Check out v0.25.53 to see what bugs got squashed!

Pretty Printing Formatter updates

During the Bicep community call, feedback was gathered on the v2 Pretty Printing formatter.

The following enhancements have taken place:

• The default width for formatting is now set to 120
• Arrays have been refined to accommodate a newline character

The prettyPrinting feature flag is now gone. Instead, v2 formatter is now the default setting, and you can opt for the v1 by setting legacyFormatter if needed.

Figure 2 — Legacy formatter feature flag under experimental features

Function Imports in .bicepparam Files

For those who gave compiling a shot with a .bicepparam file linked to a user-defined function brought in during compilation, this error message popped up: