v0.8.1

Refer to the README for this release for detailed instructions.

Known Issues

• The CDK toolkit requires the presence of the ~/.aws/credentials file #540

Features

• aws-cdk: Support --profile in command-line toolkit (@rix0rrr in #517)
• @aws-cdk/cdk: Introduce Default construct id (@rix0rrr in #496)
• @aws-cdk/aws-lambda: Add LambdaRuntime.DotNetCore21 (@Mortifera in #507)
• @aws-cdk/runtime-values (BREAKING): rename 'rtv' to 'runtime-values' (@rix0rrr in #494)
• @aws-cdk/aws-ec2: Combine Connections and DefaultConnections classes (@rix0rrr in #453)
• @aws-cdk/aws-codebuild: allow buildSpec parameter to take a filename (@rix0rrr in #470)
• @aws-cdk/aws-cloudformation-codepipeline: add support for CloudFormation CodePipeline actions (@mindstorms6 and @rix0rrr in #525).
• docs: Improvements to Getting Started (@eladb in #462)
• docs: Updates to README (@Doug-AWS in #456)
• docs: Upgraded jsii-pacmak to 0.6.4, which includes "language-native" type names and package coordinates (@RomainMuller in awslabs/jsii#130)

Bug fixes

• aws-cdk (toolkit): Fix java cdk init template (@RomainMuller in #490)
• @aws-cdk/cdk (BREAKING): Align FnJoin signature to CloudFormation (@RomainMuller in #516)
• @aws-cdk/aws-cloudfront: Fix origin error (@mindstorms6 in #514)
• @aws-cdk/aws-lambda: Invalid cast for inline LambdaRuntime members in Java (@eladb in #505)
• examples: Fixed java examples (@RomainMuller in #498)