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Bun bun-v0.8.1stable Released Aug 25, 2023
Impact Score: 5/10

Bun v0.8.1

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✨ Features 1 🔧 Bug Fixes 6
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Bun bun-v0.8.1. Source highlight: curl https://bun.sh/install | bash

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)

  • Add guides for test runner

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

  • Add Debugger docs and a couple guides
  • Fix performance regression in reading from the request body
  • Fix(node:http): fix URL formatting when using a proxy.
  • [install] fix crash when installing package that uses loose semver pre-release
  • [install] fix stale life-cycle scripts from lockfile
  • Improved support for `debug-adapter-protocol`
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
To install: ```bash curl https://bun.sh/install | bash # or you can use npm # npm install -g bun ``` To upgrade: ```bash bun upgrade ``` **[Read Bun v0.8.1's release notes on Bun's blog](https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v0.8.1)** ## What's Changed * Add Debugger docs and a couple guides by @colinhacks in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4281 * 🚰 drain the microtasks more by @Jarred-Sumner in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4282 * Fix performance regression in reading from the request body by @Jarred-Sumner in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4291 * Update bun-polyfills & bun-wasm by @jhmaster2000 in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4246 * update zig to 0.11.0 by @CGQAQ in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4233 * Don't inline require/import errors at runtime by @Jarred-Sumner in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4306 * Make the server not crash if an error occurs in the dev build. by @Hanaasagi in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4300 * Fix(node:http): fix URL formatting when using a proxy. by @Hanaasagi in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4297 * [install] fix crash when installing package that uses loose semver pre-release by @alexlamsl in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4302 * [install] fix stale life-cycle scripts from lockfile by @alexlamsl in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4307 * Report extra memory more by @Jarred-Sumner in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4289 * Remove conflict option in tsconfig-for-init.json by @codehz in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4284 * Add guides for test runner by @colinhacks in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4308 * Listen on a unix domain socket with Bun.serve() by @Jarred-Sumner in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4311 * Improved support for `debug-adapter-protocol` by @Electroid in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4186 ## New Contributors * @CGQAQ made their first contribution in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/4233 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/compare/bun-v0.8.0...bun-v0.8.1
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