Overview of jBallerina 1.2.18

The jBallerina 1.2.18 patch release improves upon the 1.2.17 release by introducing the features listed below and addressing an issue.

You can use the update tool to update to jBallerina 1.2.18 as follows.

For existing users: If you are already using jBallerina version 1.2.0, or above, you can directly update your distribution to jBallerina 1.2.18 by executing the following command:

ballerina dist update

However, if you are using

• jBallerina 1.2.0 but being switched to a previous version, run ballerina dist pull jballerina-1.2.18 to update
• 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.

Standard library

http package

Introduced a configuration to disable the http.url observability metric of an HTTP client (--b7a.observability.metrics.client.http.url.disabled=true).