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.