Ballerina 0.8.0 Milestone 3

WSO2 team is please to announce the third milestone release of Ballerina development environment.

Supported language features

• Type System
• Implicit/Explicit casting
• Type convertors (native/ballerina)
• Struct Support
• Non-OSGI Distribution
• File explorer (Editor)
• Open/Edit existing ballerina file(Editor)

How to get ballerina

You can download the ballerina M3 distribution[1] or build from the source[2] as mentioned below.

[1] https://github.com/wso2/ballerina/releases/tag/v0.8.0-M3
[2] https://github.com/wso2/ballerina#build-from-the-source

How to run ballerina

Once you extracted the ballerina distribution, startup scripts can be found under /bin directory. There are 2 main startup scripts.

1. ballerina - to execute a main function of a ballerina program or start a ballerina service.

Usage:
    ballerina [options] ballerina-file [args...]

Examples:
   ballerina run hello-world.bal - to execute main function
   ballerina service passthrough.bal - to start a ballerina service

Available Option:
    --help     Print this help message.

2. editor - to start the ballerina visual editor.

Running the editor.sh will print the URL of the micro-service which hosts the editor. You can click on the URL and access the editor.

Fixed issues

This release fixes the following issues
https://github.com/wso2/ballerina/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aclosed%20updated%3A2017-01-17..2017-01-28%20

Open issues and reporting bugs

You can find the known issues in the following link and report any bugs in the same link.
https://github.com/wso2/ballerina/issues

How to contribute to ballerina

You can contribute to the ballerina development by forking the github repository and sending your pull requests to https://github.com/wso2/ballerina

Thank you,
WSO2 Team