Impact Score: 5/10
Deno v0.3.9 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.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Deno v0.3.9. Source highlight: Fix #2033, shared queue push bug (#2158)
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 (6)
- Add Deno.kill(pid, signo) and process.kill(signo) (Unix only) (#2177)
- http: add cookie module (denoland/deno_std#338)
- fs: add getFileInfoType() (denoland/deno_std#341)
- fs: add ensureLink/ensureLinkSync (denoland/deno_std#353)
- fs: add ensureSymlink/ensureSymlinkSync (denoland/deno_std#268)
- fs: add readFileStr, writeFileStr (denoland/deno_std#276, denoland/deno_std#340)
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (3)
- Fix #2033, shared queue push bug (#2158)
- Fix panic handler (#2188)
- core: make Isolate concrete, remove Dispatch trait (#2183)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
### Changes
In deno:
- Fix #2033, shared queue push bug (#2158)
- Fix panic handler (#2188)
- cli: Change "deno --types" to "deno types" and "deno --prefetch" to "deno
prefetch" (#2157)
- Make Deno/Deno.core not deletable/writable (#2153)
- Add Deno.kill(pid, signo) and process.kill(signo) (Unix only) (#2177)
- symlink: Ignore type parameter on non-Windows platforms (#2185)
- upgrade rust crates (#2186)
- core: make Isolate concrete, remove Dispatch trait (#2183)
In deno_std:
- http: add cookie module (denoland/deno_std#338)
- fs: add getFileInfoType() (denoland/deno_std#341)
- fs: add ensureLink/ensureLinkSync (denoland/deno_std#353)
- fs: add ensureSymlink/ensureSymlinkSync (denoland/deno_std#268)
- fs: add readFileStr, writeFileStr (denoland/deno_std#276, denoland/deno_std#340)
- testing: support Sets in asserts.equals (denoland/deno_std#350)
### Install or Upgrade
Shell:
```sh
curl -fsSL https://deno.land/x/install/install.sh | sh -s v0.3.9
```
With PowerShell:
```powershell
iwr https://deno.land/x/install/install.ps1 -useb -outf install.ps1; .\install.ps1 v0.3.9
```