Overview of Ballerina Swan Lake 2201.3.1

Swan Lake 2201.3.1 is the first patch release of Ballerina 2201.3.0 (Swan Lake Update 3) and it includes a new set of bug fixes to the language, language server, and developer tooling.

Update Ballerina

If you are already using Ballerina 2201.0.0 (Swan Lake), run either of the commands below to directly update to 2201.3.1 using the Ballerina Update Tool.

bal dist update (or bal dist pull 2201.3.1)

If you are using a version below 2201.0.0 (Swan Lake), run the commands below to update to 2201.3.1.

1. Run bal update to get the latest version of the Update Tool.

2. Run bal dist update ( or bal dist pull 2201.3.1) to update your Ballerina version to 2201.3.1.

However, if you are using a version below 2201.0.0 (Swan Lake) and if you already ran bal dist update (or bal dist pull 2201.3.1) before bal update, see Troubleshooting to recover your installation.

Install Ballerina

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

Language updates

Bug fixes

• JSON to Record converter does not generate parent record with user defined name
• Config-schema is generated with unused configurables
• Config schema generator maps byte values to float instead of integer

Standard library updates

Bug fixes

• Fix trivy vulnerability scan failure in email module
• HTTP trace logs are not working with a mysql client
• Binary payload retrieved from the http:Request has different content-length than the original payload

Developer tools updates

New features

• New LS extension endpoint for fetching type information of parameters and the return type desc of a given function

Improvements

• Implement a compiler plugin to generate component model

Bug fixes

• JSON to Record converter does not generate parent record with user defined name
• Config-schema is generated with unused configurables
• Config schema generator maps byte values to float instead of integer