Ballerina 0.961.0 Released!

What’s new in Ballerina 0.961.0

Ballerina Language improvements

• Concurrency management / Isolation support
• Functional iteration support
• Foreach statement for tables and constrained table type support
• Subtype polymorphism for structs

Ballerina Runtime improvements

• URL length validation with HTTP 413 response
• HTTP request entity body size validation with HTTP 414 response
• Support for HTTP 1.0 request/response on server/client connector
• Make server/client connectors more resilient to remote host misbehaviours (i.e. abruptly ending the inbound request/response)  

Ballerina Standard Library improvements

• New Vector collection type with support for list operations
• Matrix parameter support for HTTP
• Introduce the URL encode/decode functionalities
• Add Query Param Support for WebSockets
• Introduce support function to extract value and parameters of HTTP headers

Ballerina Composer improvements

• Transaction block layout changed to match flow diagram
• Zoom In / Out option to the diagram
• Fit to page width option for diagram
• More compact layout for services
• In split view source editor will be displayed to left

Ballerina Language Server improvements

• Improvements for signature help
• Hover support for Fork Join, Worker Receiver and Sender and string template literals
• Completion support for forEach construct
• Completion Support improvements for Top Level constructs
• Go to definition support for Connector, Action, Enum and Variables.
• Bug Fixes

Getting started

You can download the Ballerina distributions, try samples, and read the documentation at http://ballerinalang.org.