Impact Score: 5/10
Deno v1.40.4 โ Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Deno v1.40.4. Source highlight: feat(unstable): `Deno.FsFile.lock[Sync]()` and `Deno.FsFile.unlock[Sync]()`
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๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
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๐ Product & Engineering Leads
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โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
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โจ New Features & Capabilities (2)
- feat(unstable): `Deno.FsFile.lock[Sync]()` and `Deno.FsFile.unlock[Sync]()`
- feat: ARM64 builds (#22298)
โก Performance & Enhancements (1)
- perf: remove duplicate `env::current_dir` call in package.json search (#22255)
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- fix(cli): Add IP address support to DENO_AUTH_TOKEN (#22297)
- fix(ext/node): Ensure os.cpus() works on arm64 linux (#22302)
- fix(ext/node): fix timeout param validation in cp.execFile (#22262)
- fix(jupyter): ensure op is available (#22240)
- fix(lint): point to migration docs in deprecated APIs rule (#22338)
- fix(lsp): disable no-cache diagnostics for jsr specifiers (#22284)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
### 1.40.4 / 2024.02.08
- feat(unstable): `Deno.FsFile.lock[Sync]()` and `Deno.FsFile.unlock[Sync]()`
(#22235)
- feat: ARM64 builds (#22298)
- fix(cli): Add IP address support to DENO_AUTH_TOKEN (#22297)
- fix(ext/node): Ensure os.cpus() works on arm64 linux (#22302)
- fix(ext/node): fix timeout param validation in cp.execFile (#22262)
- fix(jupyter): ensure op is available (#22240)
- fix(lint): point to migration docs in deprecated APIs rule (#22338)
- fix(lsp): disable no-cache diagnostics for jsr specifiers (#22284)
- fix(node): add `cp` to fs/promises (#22263)
- fix(node): handle brotli compression end chunk sizes (#22322)
- fix(os): total and free memory in bytes (#22247)
- fix(publish): 'explit' typo (#22296)
- fix(publish): handle diagnostic outside graph (#22310)
- fix(publish): lazily parse sources (#22301)
- fix(publish): use lighter crate for opening browser (#22224)
- fix(test/regression): handle CLI arg directory using `../` in path (#22244)
- fix(unstable): validate kv list selector (#22265)
- fix: Fix segmentation fault in tests on CPUs with PKU support (#22152)
- fix: Support Symbol.metadata (#22282)
- fix: enable "--allow-sys=cpus" for "deno run" (#22260)
- perf: remove duplicate `env::current_dir` call in package.json search (#22255)