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+title: July 2023
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+# Release Notes July 2023 (2023-07-11)
+
+:::danger
+This release contains **breaking changes**
+:::
+
+## New Features
+
+### `@typespec/compiler` and core language
+
+- New built-in linter system. Typespec libraries are able to define linting rules which can be configured in `tspconfig.yaml`. See documentation for [configuring a linter](https://microsoft.github.io/typespec/introduction/configuration#linter---configuring-linters) and [writing a linter](https://microsoft.github.io/typespec/extending-typespec/linters)
+- Allow decorators, directives and doc comments to be specified in any order
+- Format doc comments above decorators and directives
+- Improve formatting for properties with comments and decorators
+- Support for new Unicode 15.0 identifier characters
+
+### Emitter framework
+
+- Add `writeOutput` to TypeEmitter for additional customization in writing generated files
+- Add `meta` property to source files and declarations to store arbitrary metadata
+- Add support for emitting enum member references
+- Add new `TypeEmitter` methods for scalar instantiation
+
+### `@typespec/http` library
+
+- Add documentation on automatic header name resolution from property name for `@header` decorator
+
+### `@typespec/json-schema` emitter
+
+- Support `@extension` for adding arbitrary vendor extensions into the output
+- Add support for `Record<T>`
+- Support templates instantiated with intrinsic types and type expressions
+- Export emitter and related types from the npm package
+- By default, types that are not marked with `@jsonSchema` or are within a namespace with `@jsonSchema` are bundled into the schemas that reference them. Set the `emitAllRefs` option to true to get the previous behavior of emitting all types referenced as JSON Schema
+
+### `@typespec/openapi3` emitter
+
+- Omit `x-typespec-name` extension by default from openapi3 output. A new configuration and command line option `include-x-typespec-name: \"inline-only\" | \"never\"` has been added to get previous behavior
+
+### `@typespec/rest` library
+
+- Add `isListOperation` function migrated from `@typespec/compiler`
+
+## Bug Fixes
+
+### `@typespec/compiler` and core language bug fixes
+
+- Add support for `UTF-8 with bom` for other files loaded by typespec compiler. `.tsp` files already had support, this make it more available for any library/emitter using the compiler api to load a file.
+- Fix signature help after comment with no closing parenthesis or angle bracket
+- Doc comment `/** */` should override base type doc in `model is` or `op is`
+- Formatter incorrectly formatting `::` to `.`
+- Fix formatting issue with comment between decorator and scalar or interface
+- Fix stack overflow when a circular reference with `op is` exists inside an interface.
+- Clean up handling of non-standard entrypoints in language server
+- Fix stack overflow when referencing decorator target in checker and projections
+
+### `@typespec/openapi3` emitter bug fixes
+
+- OpenAPI emitters: treat union namespaces like namespaces for other types
+
+### Emitter framework bug fixes
+
+- Fix that some context methods were not being passed the expected parameters
+- Fix that context was set incorrectly for some `TypeEmitter` methods, and add missing context methods for model properties, enum members, and union variants
+
+### `@typespec/json-schema` emitter bug fixes
+
+- Fix a bug that could result in a schema being bundled more than once
+
+## Breaking Changes
+
+### For Specification Authors
+
+- Update tsp init template schema for future extensibility. Older tsp version will fail validation when trying to initialize a project with a new template definition.
+- Json Schema Emitter: the namespace has been corrected to TypeSpec.JsonSchema. Update any using statements from `JsonSchema` to `TypeSpec.JsonSchema`, and any references from `JsonSchema.[Type]` to `TypeSpec.JsonSchema.[Type]`.
+
+### For Emitters and Libraries
+
+- Minimum version of TypeScript updated to 5.0. TypeSpec is using new features available in TypeScript 5.0 which result in a definition file not parsable by older version. Note that this only affect compiling TypeScript code and is not breaking any JS or TypeSpec code. [See more information on typescript 5.0](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-5-0/)
+- Emitter Framework: Add support for templates instantiated with types without declared names. In such cases, `TypeEmitter`'s declarationName method may return `undefined`, and so the various `*Instantiation` methods might be called with an undefined name, and `AssetEmitter`'s `emitDeclarationName` method might return undefined.
+- Make internal `@resourceTypeForKeyParam` decorator in `@typespec/rest` library private
+
+## Deprecations
+
+- `@list` decorator from TypeSpec core is deprecated. Use `@listsResource` from `@typespec/http` instead
+- `isListOperation` function from TypeSpec core is deprecated. Use `isListOperation` from `@typespec/http` instead
+- `getListOperationType` from TypeSpec core is deprecated
+- `@typespec/linter` Package is deprecated in favor of built-in linter system