โ ๏ธ Breaking Change
Impact Score: 7/10
Deno v1.2.0 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.
Breaking-change evidence from the source
- BREAKING(std/encoding/hex): Simplify API (#6690)
โก 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)
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 (1)
- - BREAKING(std/encoding/hex): Simplify API (#6690)
โจ 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)
โก Performance & Enhancements (1)
- perf(cli): Improve .arrayBuffer() speed in fetch API (#6669)
๐ง 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)
๐ 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
```