Deno v1.2.0stable Released Jul 13, 2020
โš ๏ธ Breaking Change Impact Score: 7/10

Deno v1.2.0 โ€” Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.

Breaking-change evidence from the source

  • - BREAKING(std/encoding/hex): Simplify API (#6690)
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โšก Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Deno v1.2.0. Source highlight: feat(cli): Add --cert option to "deno upgrade" (#6609)

Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)

๐Ÿ’ป Software Engineers & Devs

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๐Ÿ“Š Product & Engineering Leads

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โš™๏ธ DevOps & Security

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โš ๏ธ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)

  • - BREAKING(std/encoding/hex): Simplify API (#6690)

โœจ New Features & Capabilities (6)

  • feat(cli): Add --cert option to "deno upgrade" (#6609)
  • feat(cli): Add --config flag to "deno install" (#6204)
  • feat(cli): Add --json option to "deno info" (#6372)
  • feat(cli): Add --no-check option (#6456)
  • feat(cli): Add --output option to "deno upgrade" (#6352)
  • feat(cli): Add DENO_CERT environment variable (#6370)

โšก Performance & Enhancements (1)

  • perf(cli): Improve .arrayBuffer() speed in fetch API (#6669)

๐Ÿ”ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

  • fix(cli): Don't panic when no "HOME" env var is set (#6728)
  • fix(cli): Harden pragma and reference parsing in module analysis (#6702)
  • fix(cli): Panic when stdio is null on windows (#6528)
  • fix(cli): Parsing of --allow-net flag (#6698)
  • fix(cli/js): Allow Buffer to store MAX_SIZE bytes (#6570)
  • fix(cli/js): Definition of URL constructor (#6653)
๐Ÿ“„ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
### 1.2.0 / 2020.07.13 Changes in the CLI: - feat(cli): Add --cert option to "deno upgrade" (#6609) - feat(cli): Add --config flag to "deno install" (#6204) - feat(cli): Add --json option to "deno info" (#6372) - feat(cli): Add --no-check option (#6456) - feat(cli): Add --output option to "deno upgrade" (#6352) - feat(cli): Add DENO_CERT environment variable (#6370) - feat(cli): Add lockfile support to bundle (#6624) - feat(cli/js): Add WriteFileOptions to writeTextFile & writeTextFileSync (#6280) - feat(cli/js): Add copy argument to Buffer.bytes (#6697) - feat(cli/js): Add performance user timing APIs (#6421) - feat(cli/js): Add sorted, trailingComma, compact and iterableLimit to InspectOptions (#6591) - feat(cli/js): Deno.chown() make uid, gid args optional (#4612) - feat(doc): Improve terminal printer (#6594) - feat(test): Add support for regex in filter flag (#6343) - feat(unstable): Add Deno.consoleSize() (#6520) - feat(unstable): Add Deno.ppid (#6539, #6717) - fix(cli): Don't panic when no "HOME" env var is set (#6728) - fix(cli): Harden pragma and reference parsing in module analysis (#6702) - fix(cli): Panic when stdio is null on windows (#6528) - fix(cli): Parsing of --allow-net flag (#6698) - fix(cli/js): Allow Buffer to store MAX_SIZE bytes (#6570) - fix(cli/js): Definition of URL constructor (#6653) - fix(cli/js): Deno.setRaw shouldn't panic on ENOTTY (#6630) - fix(cli/js): Fix process socket types (#6676) - fix(cli/js): Fix relative redirect in fetch API (#6715) - fix(cli/js): Implement IPv4 hostname parsing in URL (#6707) - fix(cli/js): Implement spec-compliant host parsing for URL (#6689) - fix(cli/js): Response constructor default properties in fetch API (#6650) - fix(cli/js): Update timers to ignore Date Override (#6552) - perf(cli): Improve .arrayBuffer() speed in fetch API (#6669) - refactor(core): Remove control slice from ops (#6048) Changes in std version 0.61.0: - BREAKING(std/encoding/hex): Simplify API (#6690) - feat(std/datetime): Add weekOfYear (#6659) - feat(std/log): Expose Logger type and improve public interface for get & set log levels (#6617) - feat(std/node): Add buf.equals() (#6640) - feat(std/wasi): Implement fd_readdir (#6631) - fix(std): base64 in workers (#6681) - fix(std): md5 in workers (#6662) - fix(std/http): Properly return port 80 in \_parseAddrFromStr (#6635) - fix(std/mime): Boundary random hex values (#6646) - fix(std/node): Add encoding argument to Buffer.byteLength (#6639) - fix(std/tesing/asserts): AssertEquals/NotEquals should use milliseconds in Date (#6644) - fix(std/wasi): Return errno::success from fd_tell (#6636) ### Install / Upgrade **Using Deno:** ```sh deno upgrade --version 1.2.0 ``` **With Shell:** ```sh curl -fsSL https://deno.land/x/install/install.sh | sh -s v1.2.0 ``` **With PowerShell:** ```powershell $v="1.2.0"; iwr https://deno.land/x/install/install.ps1 -useb | iex ```