cty now guarantees that sets of primitive values will iterate in a
reasonable order. Previously it was the caller's responsibility to deal
with that, but we invariably neglected to do so, causing inconsistent
ordering. Since cty prioritizes consistent behavior over performance, it
now imposes its own sort on set elements as part of iterating over them so
that calling applications don't have to worry so much about it.
This change also causes cty to consistently push unknown and null values
in sets to the end of iteration, where before that was undefined. This
means that our diff output will now consistently list additions before
removals when showing sets, rather than the ordering being undefined as
before.
The ordering of known, non-null, non-primitive values is still not
contractually fixed but remains consistent for a particular version of
cty.
This is largely minor bugfixes for issues found since we last updated the
vendoring. There are some new features here that Terraform is not yet
using and thus present little risk.
In particular this includes the HCL-JSON spec change where arrays can now
be used at any level in a block label structure, to allow for preserving
the relative order of blocks.
Kristin Laemmert