Impact Score: 5/10
Deno v0.28.0 โ Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Component: deno ยท Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Deno v0.28.0. Source highlight: feat: Add Deno.dir("executable") (#3526)
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
๐ Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
โจ New Features & Capabilities (2)
- feat: Add Deno.dir("executable") (#3526)
- feat: Add missing mod.ts files in std (#3509)
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- fix(repl): Do not crash on async op reject (#3527)
- fix(std/encoding/yaml): support document separator in parseAll (#3535)
- fix: Allow reading into a 0-length array (#3329)
- fix: Drop unnecessary Object.assign from createResolvable() (#3548)
- fix: Expose shutdown() and ShutdownMode TS def (#3558, #3560)
- fix: Remove wildcard export in uuid module (#3540)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
### Changes
- feat: Add Deno.dir("executable") (#3526)
- feat: Add missing mod.ts files in std (#3509)
- fix(repl): Do not crash on async op reject (#3527)
- fix(std/encoding/yaml): support document separator in parseAll (#3535)
- fix: Allow reading into a 0-length array (#3329)
- fix: Drop unnecessary Object.assign from createResolvable() (#3548)
- fix: Expose shutdown() and ShutdownMode TS def (#3558, #3560)
- fix: Remove wildcard export in uuid module (#3540)
- fix: Return null on error in Deno.dir() (#3531)
- fix: Use shared HTTP client (#3563)
- fix: Use sync ops when clearing the console (#3533)
- refactor: Move HttpBody to cli/http_util.rs (#3569)
- upgrade: Reqwest to 0.10.0 (#3567)
- upgrade: Rust to 1.40.0 (#3542)
- upgrade: Tokio 0.2 (#3418, #3571)
### Install / Upgrade
**With Shell:**
```sh
curl -fsSL https://deno.land/x/install/install.sh | sh -s v0.28.0
```
**With PowerShell:**
```powershell
iwr https://deno.land/x/install/install.ps1 -useb -outf install.ps1; .\install.ps1 v0.28.0
```