Impact Score: 5/10
Deno v1.28.1 — 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 v1.28.1. Source highlight: fix(bundle): explicit error when using an npm specifier with deno bundle (#16637)
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)
- perf(runtime/spawn): collect output using `op_read_all` (#16596)
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- fix(bundle): explicit error when using an npm specifier with deno bundle (#16637)
- fix(cli): add a jsdoc tag for `UnstableRunOptions` (#16525)
- fix(ext/webstorage): make web storages re-assignable (#16661)
- fix(install): support npm specifiers (#16634)
- fix(lock): ensure npm dependencies are written with --lock-write (#16668)
- fix(npm): don't fail if conditional exports don't contains types (#16651)
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
### 1.28.1 / 2022.11.16
- fix(bundle): explicit error when using an npm specifier with deno bundle (#16637)
- fix(cli): add a jsdoc tag for `UnstableRunOptions` (#16525)
- fix(ext/webstorage): make web storages re-assignable (#16661)
- fix(install): support npm specifiers (#16634)
- fix(lock): ensure npm dependencies are written with --lock-write (#16668)
- fix(npm): don't fail if conditional exports don't contains types (#16651)
- fix(npm): handle peer dep being resolved without resolved dep higher in tree and then with (#16640)
- fix(npm): probing for files that have a file stem (#16641)
- fix(npm): properly handle getting `@types` package for scoped packages (#16655)
- fix(npm): support dist tags specified in npm package dependencies (#16652)
- fix(npm): support non-all lowercase package names (#16669)
- fix(npm): using types for packages with subpath (#16656)
- perf(runtime/spawn): collect output using `op_read_all` (#16596)