# Deno v1.26.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Deno (https://deno.com)
- **Version:** v1.26.2
- **Released:** Oct 17, 2022
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/deno/updates/v1.26.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Deno v1.26.2. Source highlight: feat(core): Reorder extension initialization (#16136)

## New Features
- feat(core): Reorder extension initialization (#16136)
- feat(core): add Deno.core.writeAll(rid, chunk) (#16228)
- feat(core): improve resource read & write traits (#16115)
- feat(unstable): add windowsRawArguments to SpawnOptions (#16319)
- feat(unstable/npm): support providing npm dist-tag in npm package specifier
- feat(unstable/task): add `INIT_CWD` env var (#16110)

## Improvements
- perf(ext/cache): set journal_mode=wal (#16231)
- perf(ext/crypto): optimize `getRandomValues` (#16212)
- perf(ext/web): optimize `op_cancel_handle` (#16318)
- perf(ext/web): optimize timer cancellation (#16316)
- perf(napi): optimize primitive napi functions (#16163)
- perf(npm): parallelize caching of npm specifier package infos (#16323)

## Bug Fixes
- fix sparse array inspection (#16204)
- fix(build) fix linux symbols export list format (#16313)
- fix(cli): allow importMap to be an absolute URL within the deno config file
- fix(cli): skip removing the latter part if `@` appears at the beginning
- fix(cli/bench): skip strace table border (#16310)
- fix(docs): Documentation improvements related to `JsRealm`. (#16247)