Ballerina 0.86

We are pleased to announce the 0.86 release of Ballerina.

This release contains following improvements.

• Ability to use null literal and perform null checks in Ballerina
• Remove long and double data types from Ballerina type system.
• Now int data type in Ballerina is a 64-bit two's complement integer and the float data type is a double-precision 64-bit IEEE 754 floating point.
• Default value support in Struct definitions
• Concurrent consumer support in JMS Server connector.

Getting started

You can download the Ballerina distributions, try samples, and read the documentation at http://ballerinalang.org.

Thanks,
Ballerina Team