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Releases: ballerina-attic/tools-distribution
Releases · ballerina-attic/tools-distribution
Ballerina 0.96.0 Released!
What’s new in Ballerina 0.96.0
Ballerina Language improvements
- Next/Break statements support in Foreach Statement.
Ballerina Runtime improvements
- Improved HTTP server connector
- Introduce server connector connection at resource level.
- Specialize request and response according to their inbound/outbound behaviour.
- Introduce MIME package
- Provide multipart/form-data support to inbound and outbound request.
Ballerina Composer improvements
- Diagram Changes
- New foreach implementation with flow control
- Diagram changes to reflect the server connector connection
- Language Server
- Completion support for import packages
- Hover support for Try Catch, Transformer, Connectors and Actions
- Composer back-end server revamp
- Introduce the ability to dynamically plug-in backend services
- Aggregate lang-server communication to a single websocket
- Restructure services
Bug Fixes
Language fixes
Language server fixes
Composer fixes
Getting started
You can download the Ballerina distributions, try samples, and read the documentation at http://ballerinalang.org.
Ballerina 0.95.8 Released!
What’s new in Ballerina 0.95.8
Ballerina Runtime improvements
- A circuit breaker implementation for the HTTP client connector
- Debug support for Ballerina workers
Ballerina Composer improvements
- Design view improvements
- New try-catch design to reflect flow diagrams
- Set flow view as the default view
Ballerina 0.95.7 Released!
What’s new in Ballerina 0.95.7
Ballerina Language improvements
- Foreach statement for collections
- Foreach is a looping construct for traversing items in a collection such as arrays, maps, json, xml, and an integer range.
Ballerina Runtime improvements
- Improved HTTP server and client connectors
- Added support for configuring the maximum number of active connections that can be created by the client connector.
- Improved chunking behaviour for both server/client connector.
Ballerina Composer improvements
- Design View Improvements.
- Enable new connector and action creation from search
- Improved error handling when design view fails to render diagram.
- Language server improvements
- Go to definition support
Ballerina Tools improvements
- User Repository support
Getting started
You can download the Ballerina distributions, try samples, and read the documentation at http://ballerinalang.org.
Ballerina 0.95.6 Released!
What’s new in Ballerina 0.95.6
Ballerina Runtime improvements
- Improved JSON casting. Now a JSON can be casted to a constrained JSON, using the casting syntax.
- Added support for configuring protocol version to HTTP client connector.
- Enrich HTTP request struct with rest-uri-post-fix.
- Improvements on SQL UDT data retrieval via structs
Ballerina Composer improvements.
- Graphical view has been redesigned to make the diagram more comprehensible. Following are some of the design changes.
- Conditional statements are represented with flow diagram notations.
- Tool Palette was replaced by context aware menus.
- Client line was introduced in to the diagram to draw the complete flow.
- Source editor now uses Monaco Editor with full language server integration.
- Language Server Improvements
- Refactor packaging to be aware of the ballerina system libraries
- Auto completion improvements to be aware of the new language constructs
- Signature help improvements to aware of ballerina system libraries
- Hover support improvements
- Error handling improvements
Getting started
You can download the Ballerina distributions, try samples, and read the documentation at http://ballerinalang.org.
Ballerina 0.95.5 Released!
What’s new in Ballerina 0.95.5
Ballerina Language improvements
- Allow commenting anywhere in a ballerina file
- Introduce ternary expression
- Improvements on transaction and retry syntax
Ballerina Runtime improvements
- HTTP
- Request and Response structs enriched with headers and other metadata
- Built-in support for handling ‘Expect:100-continue’ requests
- Support for setting binary payloads in requests/responses
- WebSocket
- Path param support
- SQL
- Improvements on SQL array data retrieval
- JSON
- Custom JSON parser/generator implementation
Ballerina Composer improvements
- Language Server
- Signature Help support
- Hover support
- Text Document Symbol Support
- Refactoring helpers for package declaration - fix package name or move to correct path
- Automatic package declaration generation for new files
Bug Fixes
Getting started
You can download the Ballerina distributions, try samples, and read the documentation at http://ballerinalang.org.
Ballerina 0.95.4 Released!
What’s new in Ballerina 0.95.4
Built-in APIs
- Improved SQL connector API for select and call actions to support flexible struct based data retrieval via datatables.
- SQL parameters and datatables for date/time types are supported via builtin Time type.
- New crypto package with support for hashing functions.
Bug Fixes
Getting started
You can download the Ballerina distributions, try samples, and read the documentation at http://ballerinalang.org.
Ballerina 0.95.3 Released!
What’s new in Ballerina 0.95.3
Ballerina Runtime improvements
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Introduce null support for string type. Null values can be assigned to string type variables, and the default value of a string is null.
Ballerina Composer improvements.
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Added program file Outline panel
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Standalone Language Server which can be used by other editors
Getting started
You can download the Ballerina distributions, try samples, and read the documentation at http://ballerinalang.org.
Ballerina 0.95.2 Released!
What’s new in Ballerina 0.95.2
Ballerina Runtime improvements
- Improved HTTP server connector with I/O connection status.
- Added support for configuring connection termination to both HTTP server and HTTP client connectors.
Ballerina APIs
- Improved SQL Connector API using enum types for constants.
- Ballerina Composer improvements.
- Enum support for properties view
- Conversions will be highlighted in transform view
Getting started
You can download the Ballerina distributions, try samples, and read the documentation at http://ballerinalang.org.
Ballerina 0.95.1 Released!
What’s new in Ballerina 0.95.1
Ballerina Runtime improvements
- Connectors
- Support for configuring proxy connections for client connectors
Ballerina Composer improvements.
- Enum support in graphical editor
- Support for struct binding in graphical editor
Getting started
You can download the Ballerina distributions, try samples, and read the documentation at http://ballerinalang.org.
Ballerina 0.95.0 Released!
What’s new in Ballerina 0.95.0
Ballerina Language improvements
- Introducing new endpoint concept
- Endpoints are logical entities that represent remote services (e.g: HTTP service, database etc)
- An Endpoint may have one or more connections (connector instances) created from Ballerina connectors. Introduced Bind syntax allows associating a connection created from Ballerina connector to an endpoint.
- Introducing enum support
- Introducing anonymous struct support
- Improved data transformer
- With this release of Ballerina, data transformation/mapping semantics have been aligned with the type conversion semantics.
- Custom data transformers can be defined and can be invoked, similar to how a type is converted to another.
Ballerina Runtime improvements
- Improved HTTP client connector resiliency with timeout and retry
Ballerina APIs
- HTTP client improvements
- Introducing resiliency features with retry and timeout
- Improved task API
- Appointment support
- Improved log API
- Log level configurable for the log API
- Supports log level configuration per package
- New config API
- Configuration file format introduced
- Supports configuration through CLI parameters
- Configuration lookup hierarchy introduced
Ballerina Composer improvements.
- Language changes
- Support for new endpoint and connector syntax
- Support for connector library loading
- Show semantic errors in design view
- Anonymous struct creation
- Transformer
- Supporting new transformer syntax
- Structs as function parameters
Getting started
You can download the Ballerina distributions, try samples, and read the documentation at http://ballerinalang.org.