Impact Score: 5/10
Deno v1.38.3 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.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Deno v1.38.3. Source highlight: feat(unstable): tar up directory with deno.json (#21228)
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
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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.
โจ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- feat(unstable): tar up directory with deno.json (#21228)
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- fix(ext,runtime): add missing custom inspections (#21219)
- fix(ext/http): avoid lockup in graceful shutdown (#21253)
- fix(ext/http): fix crash in dropped Deno.serve requests (#21252)
- fix(ext/node): fix node:stream.Writable (#21297)
- fix(ext/node): handle closing process.stdin more than once (#21267)
- fix(ext/url): add deno_console dependency for bench (#21266)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
### 1.38.3 / 2023.11.24
- feat(unstable): tar up directory with deno.json (#21228)
- fix(ext,runtime): add missing custom inspections (#21219)
- fix(ext/http): avoid lockup in graceful shutdown (#21253)
- fix(ext/http): fix crash in dropped Deno.serve requests (#21252)
- fix(ext/node): fix node:stream.Writable (#21297)
- fix(ext/node): handle closing process.stdin more than once (#21267)
- fix(ext/url): add deno_console dependency for bench (#21266)
- fix(fmt): maintain parens for jsx in member expr (#21280)
- fix(lsp): force shutdown after a timeout (#21251)
- fix(runtime): fix for panic in classic workers (#21300)
- fix(swc): support jsx pragma when hashbang present (#21317)
- fix: 'Promise was collected' error in REPL/jupyter (#21272)
- fix: Deno.noColor should not be true when NO_COLOR is empty string (#21275)