Release v3.4.0-preview.2 · PowerShell/DSC

What's Changed

These release notes describe updates to DSC since the 3.4.0-preview.1 release.

This document includes the following sections:

Added for changes that improve or add functionality without breaking existing usage.
Fixed for changes that resolve a bug in existing behavior.
Documentation for changes that only affect documentation.
Maintenance for changes that affect the project or internals without changing the user experience.

Each section has one or more subsections describing the area that the change affects:

CLI for changes that affect the user eperience when invoking dsc itself.
Engine for changes that affect the DSC engine, configuration documents, and manifests.
Resources for changes that affect specific DSC resources.
Server for changes that affect DSC when running as a JSON-RPC/MCP server.
Bicep extension for changes that affect the Bicep extension.

For the full changelog, see v3.3.0-rc.2...v3.3.0

Add environment path variable resource by Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) in #1726
Create missing parent directories for FileContent by Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) in #1730
Add ACL support to Registry resources by Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) in #1752
Add Microsoft.Filesystem/ACL resource by Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) in #1751
Add a Windows Configuration Service Provider adapter by Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) in #1774

(GH-1735) Fix directives version against running dsc version by Gijs Reijn (@Gijsreyn) in #1744
Fix how secureString and secureObject is accessed in an expression by Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) in #1756
Fix secret() function and secret extension to support returning secureObject by Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) in #1757
fix: return validation exit code for schema failures by sean0407 in #1754
(GH-1729) Make nonfunctional secret extension manifests invalid by Gijs Reijn (@Gijsreyn) in #1745

Fix wrapped configuration parameters in DSC server by Brandon Poe (@Bpoe) in #1739

docs: Update shared definitions and Microsoft.DSC metadata reference by Gijs Reijn (@Gijsreyn) in #1704
docs: Refresh configuration function reference by Gijs Reijn (@Gijsreyn) in #1705
docs: Update extension schema reference by Gijs Reijn (@Gijsreyn) in #1706
docs: Add Windows Update resource documentation by Michal Machniak (@mimachniak) in #1733
docs: Update resource schema reference by Gijs Reijn (@Gijsreyn) in #1708
docs: Update output schemas, schema URIs, and dsc function CLI reference by Gijs Reijn (@Gijsreyn) in #1709
Add contribution workflow and synopsis by Gijs Reijn (@Gijsreyn) in #1057
docs: Update configuration document schema reference by Gijs Reijn (@Gijsreyn) in #1707

Update build.ps1 -test -project to be scoped to the project for running tests by Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) in #1742
Bump the github-actions group with 2 updates by Dependabot (@dependabot)[bot] in #1753
Fix debug trace test by Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) in #1762
Split Windows Pester CI jobs to reduce CI time by Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) in #1773
Fix packages.microsoft.com publishing to have different packagename for previews by Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) in #1747
Change from calling exit() to returning ExitCode from Rust executables by Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) in #1743
Add structured handling for settings by Mikey Lombardi (He/Him) (@michaeltlombardi) in #1690
(MAINT) Update PowerShell adapter code for PSSA by Mikey Lombardi (He/Him) (@michaeltlombardi) in #1770
Add Python adapter RFC by Thomas Nieto (@ThomasNieto) in #1643