v3.238.0

[iwahbe]

3.238.0 (2026-05-13)

Features

• [cli] Add a --language flag to pulumi package add to run outside a Pulumi project or plugin
  #22791

• [cli] Add --output json to pulumi up for a structured JSON summary of the operation result
  #22870

• [cli] Recommend pulumi cloud api describe in pulumi cloud api --help to verify operation parameters before calling
  #22881

• [cli] Add pulumi stack webhook list to list all webhooks configured for a stack
  #23082

• [cli/cloud] Rename pulumi cloud api to pulumi api
  #22970

• [cli/cloud] Add pulumi insights resource get to look up a single resource discovered by Pulumi Insights
  #23077

• [cli/cloud] Add pulumi template list to list registry-backed templates
  #23074

• [cli/cloud] Rename the --format flag to --output on pulumi api and its subcommands
  #23072

• [cli/cloud] Add pulumi insights resource search to search for resources discovered by Pulumi Insights
  #23087

• [cli/engine] Add --skip-plugin-pre-install to skip up-front plugin installation

• [engine] Fail the deployment when an after hook fails
  #22935

• [cli/neo] Render the agent's TODO list in the pulumi neo TUI
  #22864

• [cli/neo] Add --approval-mode and --permission-mode flags to pulumi neo, with Ctrl+A and Ctrl+R hotkeys to switch modes mid-session
  #22950

• [cli/package] When invoked by an AI coding agent, print pulumi api pointers after pulumi package add and pulumi package gen-sdk
  #22904

• [pkg/testing] Recognize the hcl and pcl runtimes in integration.ProgramTest
  #23018

• [pkg/testing] Add l1-config-types-optional conformance test for PCL's optional type constructor
  #23108

Bug Fixes

• [backend/diy] Minify JSON persisted by the DIY backend for checkpoints, history, and stack tags
  #22245

• [cli/import] Ignore property values that do not conform to the schema in maps
  #23076

• [cli/import] Stop dropping map values whose element type is a union of Input-wrapped types during HCL2 import

• [cli/neo] Use the selected stack's organization when starting a pulumi neo task instead of the user's default organization
  #22951

• [cli/neo] Include the failure reason in pulumi_preview and pulumi_up tool results when they fail, so the agent can react instead of seeing a blank error
  #22948

• [cli/neo] Retry pulumi neo task creation without the attached stack when the backend rejects it with an "invalid entities" error
  #22945

• [cli/neo] Surface the failure reason when a filesystem tool call fails, instead of returning an empty result to the agent
  #23019

• [cli/package] Use --output=markdown (not the renamed-away --format=markdown) in the pulumi api pointers printed by pulumi package add and pulumi package gen-sdk
  #23098

• [programgen/pcl] Stop reporting spurious circular references when an ignoreChanges, hideDiffs, replaceOnChanges, or additionalSecretOutputs entry shares a name with a top-level node
  #22931

• [sdk/python] Speed up python program resolution by using a set instead of deque to track outputs
  #22946

Miscellaneous

• [cli/neo] Tag Neo tasks created from the CLI with a cli source so the service can attribute their origin
  #23099

• [sdk/nodejs] Add registerPackage helper to cache package references per deployment
  #23014

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