โ ๏ธ Breaking Change
Impact Score: 7/10
Deno v0.29.0 โ Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Source available โ automated, not human-reviewed
Component: deno ยท Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
Breaking-change evidence from the source
- BREAKING CHANGE Remove xeval subcommand (#3630)
- BREAKING CHANGE script arguments should come after '--' (#3621)
- BREAKING CHANGE Deno.mkdir should conform to style guide
- BREAKING CHANGE Deno.args only includes script args (#3628)
- BREAKING CHANGE Rename crates: 'deno' to 'deno_core' and 'deno_cli' to 'deno'
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Deno v0.29.0. Source highlight: BREAKING CHANGE Remove xeval subcommand (#3630)
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.
โ ๏ธ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (5)
- - BREAKING CHANGE Remove xeval subcommand (#3630)
- - BREAKING CHANGE script arguments should come after '--' (#3621)
- - BREAKING CHANGE Deno.mkdir should conform to style guide
- - BREAKING CHANGE Deno.args only includes script args (#3628)
- - BREAKING CHANGE Rename crates: 'deno' to 'deno_core' and 'deno_cli' to 'deno'
โจ New Features & Capabilities (2)
- feat: Add Deno.create (#3629)
- feat: Add compiler API (#3442)
โก Performance & Enhancements (1)
- perf: TextEncoder.encode improvement (#3596, #3589)
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (2)
- fix(ws): Handshake with correctly empty search string (#3587)
- fix(yaml): Export parseAll (#3592)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
### Changes
- BREAKING CHANGE Remove xeval subcommand (#3630)
- BREAKING CHANGE script arguments should come after '--' (#3621)
- BREAKING CHANGE Deno.mkdir should conform to style guide
(#3617)
- BREAKING CHANGE Deno.args only includes script args (#3628)
- BREAKING CHANGE Rename crates: 'deno' to 'deno_core' and 'deno_cli' to 'deno'
(#3600)
- feat: Add Deno.create (#3629)
- feat: Add compiler API (#3442)
- fix(ws): Handshake with correctly empty search string (#3587)
- fix(yaml): Export parseAll (#3592)
- perf: TextEncoder.encode improvement (#3596, #3589)
- refactor: Replace libdeno with rusty_v8 (#3556, #3601, #3602, #3605, #3611,
#3613, #3615)
- upgrade: V8 8.1.108 (#3623)
### Install / Upgrade
**With Shell:**
```sh
curl -fsSL https://deno.land/x/install/install.sh | sh -s v0.29.0
```
**With PowerShell:**
```powershell
iwr https://deno.land/x/install/install.ps1 -useb -outf install.ps1; .\install.ps1 v0.29.0
```