generated: '2026-09-04'
method: searched
source: >-
  registry metadata queried 2026-09-04 — hub.docker.com/v2, marketplace.visualstudio.com
  extensionquery, api.github.com releases, formulae.brew.sh, registry.npmjs.org and the
  Ballerina Central registry API itself
provider: Ballerina
providerId: ballerina
description: >-
  First-party distribution for Ballerina. There is no client SDK for the Ballerina Central
  REST API in any language registry — the supported client of that API is the `bal` CLI, which
  ships inside the distribution (see cli/ballerina-cli.yml). What Ballerina does publish, and
  keeps current, is the language distribution itself plus the standard library on its own
  registry. Every version and date below was read from the registry's metadata endpoint on
  2026-09-04.
packages:
  - name: ballerina/ballerina
    registry: docker
    url: https://hub.docker.com/r/ballerina/ballerina
    official: true
    language: n/a
    kind: runtime-image
    version: 2201.13.5
    published: '2026-07-27'
    note: >-
      656 tags published. Latest GA tag 2201.13.5 (2026-07-27); a 2201.13.6-rc1 prerelease tag
      followed on 2026-09-02.
  - name: WSO2.ballerina
    registry: vscode-marketplace
    url: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=WSO2.ballerina
    official: true
    language: typescript
    kind: ide-extension
    version: 5.12.226070705
    published: '2026-07-08'
    note: Published by WSO2; the low-code/diagram editor and language client for .bal files.
  - name: ballerina-distribution
    registry: github-releases
    url: https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-distribution/releases
    official: true
    language: java
    kind: distribution
    version: 2201.13.5
    published: '2026-07-27'
    note: >-
      The installers (macOS pkg, Windows msi, Linux deb/rpm, zip) are attached to GitHub
      releases and linked from ballerina.io/downloads. A nightly channel is published daily.
  - name: ballerina
    registry: homebrew
    url: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ballerina
    official: false
    language: n/a
    kind: installer
    version: 2201.13.5
    published: null
    note: >-
      Homebrew formula, community-maintained in homebrew-core but tracking the GA distribution
      exactly (2201.13.5 as of 2026-09-04). Ballerina's own docs recommend `brew install
      ballerina`, which is why it is recorded here; brew's API does not expose a release date,
      so `published` is null rather than guessed.
  - name: 'ballerina/* (standard library)'
    registry: ballerina-central
    url: https://central.ballerina.io/
    official: true
    language: ballerina
    kind: standard-library
    version: null
    published: null
    note: >-
      84 packages under the `ballerina` organization on Ballerina Central as of 2026-09-04
      (GET /2.0/registry/packages?org=ballerina&limit=1). Each package versions independently
      — e.g. ballerina/http 2.17.0 — so a single version for the set would be a fiction;
      resolve a specific one with GET /2.0/registry/packages/ballerina/{name}.
  - name: 'ballerinax/* (connectors)'
    registry: ballerina-central
    url: https://central.ballerina.io/
    official: true
    language: ballerina
    kind: connectors
    version: null
    published: null
    note: >-
      727 packages under the `ballerinax` organization as of 2026-09-04 — the WSO2-maintained
      connector library (clients generated against third-party APIs). Same per-package
      versioning caveat as the standard library.
  - name: '@ballerina/highlightjs-ballerina'
    registry: npm
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ballerina/highlightjs-ballerina
    official: true
    language: javascript
    kind: syntax-highlighting
    version: 1.0.1
    published: '2023-08-28'
    note: >-
      The only currently-maintained package in the `@ballerina` npm scope; a syntax
      highlighting grammar, not a client library. `@ballerina/syntax-tree` (1.0.5, 2021-08-18)
      is the other scope member and has not been released in five years. Recorded for
      completeness, and because an agent searching npm for "ballerina" will find these and
      should not mistake them for an SDK.
sdk_summary:
  client_sdk_count: 0
  note: >-
    No first-party client SDK exists for the Ballerina Central REST API in npm, PyPI, Maven
    Central, NuGet, pkg.go.dev, RubyGems, Packagist or crates.io. repo1.maven.org has no
    org/ballerinalang group (404 on 2026-09-04) — the JVM artifacts are published to GitHub
    Packages, not Maven Central. This is why no `SDKs` pointer is emitted for this provider:
    claiming one would credit Ballerina with a client library it does not ship.