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What's changed

These release notes describe updates to DSC since the v3.3.0-rc.2 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

(GH-1393) Rename --version to --required-version for resource commands by @michaeltlombardi in #1610

Add support to pass resource version to adapter by @SteveL-MSFT in #1645
feat: remove experimental flag format() by @Gijsreyn in #1648
feat: implement export filter functionality for resource exports by @Gijsreyn in #1621
Use JSON Schema defaults in synthetic test get_diff by @SteveL-MSFT in #1670
Ignore write-only properties in schema-aware diffs by @SteveL-MSFT in #1674
Add support for adapted resource manifests to indicate required security context by @SteveL-MSFT in #1701

feat: Add --what-if for Microsoft.Windows/UpdateList by @Gijsreyn in #1616
(GH-1563) Enhance the PSScript resources by @michaeltlombardi in #1657
Add scoped unspecified firewall rule handling and allow empty rules by @SteveL-MSFT in #1671
Update Firewall manifest to declare implementsPretest by @SteveL-MSFT in #1682
Add Group Policy template adapter by @SteveL-MSFT in #1686
Add Windows environment variable resource by @SteveL-MSFT in #1675
Add Microsoft.Filesystem.File/Content resource by @SteveL-MSFT in #1676

Fix bicep extension to require transport to be specified otherwise return error by @SteveL-MSFT in #1721

fix: add support for preserving quoted group names in sshd_config by @Gijsreyn in #1639
Fix registry resource what-if for non-existing key by @SteveL-MSFT in #1692

docs: add Microsoft.DSC/Include reference documentation by @Gijsreyn in #1649
(DOCS) Update changelog for 3.2.* releases by @michaeltlombardi in #1578
docs: Add reference documentation for Microsoft.OpenSSH.SSHD/Windows by @Gijsreyn in #934
docs: Add extensions reference documentation by @Gijsreyn in #1661
docs: Sync fixes from Microsoft Learn by @Gijsreyn in #1664
docs: Sync fixes from Microsoft Learn (part two) by @Gijsreyn in #1677

Add code review instructions derived from PR feedback patterns by @SteveL-MSFT in #1646
Fix clippy rule violation by @SteveL-MSFT in #1688
Update dsc.exe to have single process exit point by @SteveL-MSFT in #1693
(GH-538) Enhance schema export functionality and add error handling for duplicate paths by @Gijsreyn in #1672
(GH-538) Define transforms for Option<T> by @michaeltlombardi in #1702
Pin GitHub Actions to full-length commit SHAs by @danfiedler-msft in #1710
Localize dsc-lib tracing and standardize builds by @SteveL-MSFT in #1720
Change copilot code review from instruciton to skill by @SteveL-MSFT in #1718
(MAINT) Always rebuild for updated translations by @michaeltlombardi in #1711
(AI) Update schema guidance for code review by @michaeltlombardi in #1715
Update code coverage report to always add comment even if failures by @SteveL-MSFT in #1714
(CI) Update Rust workflow for PR events by @michaeltlombardi in #1719
(GH-538) Set URI and docs keywords for DscRepoSchema types by @michaeltlombardi in #1699