1.2.1

Overview of jBallerina 1.2.1

The jBallerina 1.2.1 patch release improves upon the 1.2.0 release by introducing the features listed below and addressing a number of bugs and improvements.

You can use the update tool to update to jBallerina 1.2.1 as follows.

For existing users:

If you are already using jBallerina version 1.2.0, you can directly update your distribution to jBallerina 1.2.1 by executing the following command:

ballerina dist update

However, you need to use the following commands instead of the above if you have installed:

  • jBallerina 1.2.0 but switched to a previous version: ballerina dist pull jballerina-1.2.1
  • a jBallerina version below 1.1.0: install via the installers

For new users:

If you have not installed jBallerina, then download the installers to install.

Language

  • Deprecation support for annotations, function parameters, and object fields
  • Runtime validations added to the XML attributes map
  • Support for map to record assignment

Standard library

  • Support for Avro key serialization/deserialization in the ballerina/kafka module
  • Automatic failover support for the WebSocket client
  • Provide the base64-encoded end user certificate along with the mutual SSL status

Dev tools

  • Support for mocking object methods in Testerina
  • Support for subtypes in Java for the bindgen tool
  • Support for formatting of streams
  • Code coverage report

Deployment

  • Default permissions mode support for Kubernetes configmap and secret annotations
  • Node selector support for Kubernetes deployments and job annotations