Impact Score: 5/10
Deno v0.5.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Component: deno · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Deno v0.5.0. Source highlight: Add progress bar (#2309)
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)
- Add progress bar (#2309)
- Add Deno.chown (#2292)
⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)
- benching: use performance.now (denoland/deno_std#385)
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (2)
- fix: edge case in toAsyncIterator (#2335)
- bytes fix bytesFindIndex and bytesFindLastIndex (denoland/deno_std#381)
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
### Changes
In deno:
- Add progress bar (#2309)
- fix: edge case in toAsyncIterator (#2335)
- Upgrade rust crates (#2334)
- white listed permissions (#2129 #2317)
- Add Deno.chown (#2292)
In deno_std:
- benching: use performance.now (denoland/deno_std#385)
- bytes fix bytesFindIndex and bytesFindLastIndex (denoland/deno_std#381)
### Install / Upgrade
**With Shell:**
```sh
curl -fsSL https://deno.land/x/install/install.sh | sh -s v0.5.0
```
**With PowerShell:**
```powershell
iwr https://deno.land/x/install/install.ps1 -useb -outf install.ps1; .\install.ps1 v0.5.0
```