KineticjS: Why was Kinetic.Text verticalAlign property removed? Alternatives?

Question

I'm using the KineticJS text objects with gradient fills etc to act as buttons. But now that the verticalAlign property was recently removed, how do I vertically align my text in its bounding box? Why was the property removed if there are no alternatives?

Answer 1

According to this, support has been temporarily dropped, and will hopefully be added in the near future.