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title: February 2023
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# Release Notes February 2023 (2023-02-07)

:::danger
This release contains **breaking changes**
:::

## New Features

### Emitter Framework

The new emitter framework makes it simpler to build emitters from Cadl to other assets. It provides an easy way to handle Cadl types and provides a template for asset emitters to spell out the emitter tasks. It provides helpers to solve many difficult problems, including:

- Constructing references between types
- Handling circular references
- Propagating type context based on containers or references
- Class-based inheritance to encourage reuse and specialization of existing emitters

Details are available on the documentation website or in the [repository documentation] (https://github.com/microsoft/cadl/blob/main/docs/extending-cadl/emitter-framework.md).

### Cli support for emitters in development

Use the path to the emitter to specify emitter options, rather than the emitter name.

### Allow `@autoroute` and `@route` to be used together

Provide standard rules for combining `@route` and `@autoroute` decorators

- Allow `@route` applied to an operation to override route settings from the interface
- Allow `@route` on an operation to prepend the paths provided by `@autoroute`

### Simplified versioning dependencies

Introduced the `@useDependency` decorator to replace `@versionedDependency` decorator. Simplify dependencies between versioned namespaces, by allowing each version to be decorated with the appropriate versioned dependency, rather than requiring the user to construct a dependency map.

## Breaking Changes

Breaking changes in this release resulted from removal of previously decorated types and functions, including:

- `uri` scalar removed. Use the `url` scalar instead.
- Removed deprecated metadata types with the 'type' suffix.
  - Use `Enum` instead of `EnumType`
  - Use `EnumMember` instead of `EnumMemberType`
  - Use `Interface` instead of `InterfaceType`
  - Use `Model` instead of `ModelType`
  - Use `ModelProperty` instead of `ModelTypeProperty`
  - Use `Namespace` instead of `NamespaceType`
  - Use `Operation` instead of `OperationType`
  - Use `Tuple` instead of `TupleType`
  - Use `Union` instead of `UnionType`
- Removed `Map<K, V>` type, use `Record<V>` instead
- Removed `@serviceTitle` and `@serviceVersion` decorators. Use the `@service` decorator instead.
- Removed helper and accessor functions associated with `@serviceTitle` and `@serviceVersion` decorators
  - Replace `getServiceNamespace`, `getServiceTitle`, `getServiceVersion`, and `getServiceNamespaceString` with `getService` or `listServices`
  - Replace `setServiceNamespace` with `addService`
- Removed `@segmentSeparator`, use `@actionSeparator` instead
- Removed `@produces` and `@consumes` decorators. Use `@header contentType: <ContentType>` instead in the operation return type
- Removed `getSegmentSeparator` function. Use `getActionSeparator` instead
- Removed `getProduces` and `getConsumes` functions. Use `getContentTypes` instead

## Deprecations

### Deprecates the `@versionedDependency` decorator in favor of the `@useDependency` decorator

For versioned libraries, `@useDependency` is applied to the version enum members

#### Before (versioned namespace)

```cadl
@armProviderNamespace
@service({
  title: "Microsoft.Observability",
})
@versionedDependency(
  [
    [Microsoft.Observability.Versions.v2021_06_13_preview, Azure.Core.Versions.v1_0_Preview_2],
    [Microsoft.Observability.Versions.v2022_04_30_preview, Azure.Core.Versions.v1_0_Preview_2]
  ]
)
@versionedDependency(
  [
    [
      Microsoft.Observability.Versions.v2021_06_13_preview,
      Azure.ResourceManager.Versions.v1_0_Preview_1
    ],
    [
      Microsoft.Observability.Versions.v2022_04_30_preview,
      Azure.ResourceManager.Versions.v1_0_Preview_1
    ]
  ]
)
@versioned(Versions)
namespace Microsoft.Observability;

interface Operations extends Azure.ResourceManager.Operations {}

enum Versions {
  v2021_06_13_preview: "2021-06-13-preview",
  v2022_04_30_preview: "2022-04-30-preview",
}
```

#### After (Versioned namespace)

```cadl
@armProviderNamespace
@service({
  title: "Microsoft.Observability",
})
@versioned(Versions)
namespace Microsoft.Observability;

interface Operations extends Azure.ResourceManager.Operations {}

enum Versions {
  @useDependency(Azure.Core.Versions.v1_0_Preview_2, Azure.ResourceManager.Versions.v1_0_Preview_1)
  v2021_06_13_preview: "2021-06-13-preview",

  @useDependency(Azure.Core.Versions.v1_0_Preview_2, Azure.ResourceManager.Versions.v1_0_Preview_1)
  v2022_04_30_preview: "2022-04-30-preview",
}
```

For unversioned libraries that reference versioned libraries, simply replace `@versionedDependency` with `@useDependency`

#### Before (unversioned namespace using versioned library)

```cadl
@service({
  title: "Microsoft.EnvelopeTest",
  version: "2021-09-21-preview",
})
@versionedDependency(Azure.ResourceManager.Versions.v1_0_Preview_1)
@armProviderNamespace
namespace Microsoft.EnvelopeTest;
```

#### After (unversioned namespace using versioned library)

```cadl
@service({
  title: "Microsoft.EnvelopeTest",
  version: "2021-09-21-preview",
})
@useDependency(Azure.ResourceManager.Versions.v1_0_Preview_1)
@armProviderNamespace
namespace Microsoft.EnvelopeTest;
```
