Swan Lake Update 8 (2201.8.7)

Overview of Ballerina Swan Lake Update 8 (2201.8.7)

Swan Lake Update 8 (2201.8.7) is the seventh patch release of Ballerina 2201.8.0 (Swan Lake Update 8) and it includes a new set of bug fixes to the language.

Update Ballerina

Run the command below to update your current Ballerina installation directly to 2201.8.7 by using the Ballerina Update Tool.

$ bal dist pull 2201.8.7

Install Ballerina

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

Language updates

Improvements

Introduced timeout configurations to prevent premature commits of long-running transactions. The following configurations related to transactions can be added to the Config.toml file.

[ballerina.lang.transaction]
transactionAutoCommitTimeout=120
transactionCleanupTimeout=600

Bug fixes

To view bug fixes, see the GitHub milestone for Swan Lake Update 8 (2201.8.7).

Developer tools updates

Improvements

Improved the performance of the VSCode editor.

Bug fixes

To view bug fixes, see the GitHub milestone for Swan Lake Update 8 (2201.8.7) of the repositories below.