Impact Score: 5/10
Deno v2.5.5 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 v2.5.5. Source highlight: feat(unstable): ability to exclude packages from minimum dependency age
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.
โจ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- feat(unstable): ability to exclude packages from minimum dependency age
- feat(unstable): ability to only install dependencies older than a certain date
- feat(unstable): ability to specify minimum dependency age in deno.json file
- feat(unstable): add `deno audit` subcommand (#30966)
- feat(unstable): add process id to permission broker messages (#31050)
- feat(unstable): dynamic command-line completions for deno task (#30670)
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- fix(audit): handle 'review' actions (#31100)
- fix(check): error when type checking after deduping packages (#31049)
- fix(check): fall back to copying tsgo binary if rename fails (#31074)
- fix(check): respect "compilerOptions.skipLibCheck" for graph errors (#30989)
- fix(check): support isolatedDeclarations (#31061)
- fix(check): support text and bytes imports with --unstable-tsgo (#31084)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
### 2.5.5 / 2025.10.28
- feat(unstable): ability to exclude packages from minimum dependency age
constraint (#31031)
- feat(unstable): ability to only install dependencies older than a certain date
(#30752)
- feat(unstable): ability to specify minimum dependency age in deno.json file
(#31007)
- feat(unstable): add `deno audit` subcommand (#30966)
- feat(unstable): add process id to permission broker messages (#31050)
- feat(unstable): dynamic command-line completions for deno task (#30670)
- feat(unstable): typescript-go integration for deno check (#30920)
- fix(audit): handle 'review' actions (#31100)
- fix(check): error when type checking after deduping packages (#31049)
- fix(check): fall back to copying tsgo binary if rename fails (#31074)
- fix(check): respect "compilerOptions.skipLibCheck" for graph errors (#30989)
- fix(check): support isolatedDeclarations (#31061)
- fix(check): support text and bytes imports with --unstable-tsgo (#31084)
- fix(cli/args): empty permissions in config should not require -P (#31063)
- fix(coverage): don't process coverage for blob: urls (#31035)
- fix(docs): Deno.args example doesn't work (#30969)
- fix(docs): documented allowed subdomain should be gist and not user for
githubusercontent.com (#30913)
- fix(ext/http): display localhost url once on windows (#31088)
- fix(ext/http): make websocket response headers mutable (#31000)
- fix(ext/node): `dns.resolve6` compatibility (#30974)
- fix(ext/node): `fs.read/fs.readSync` and `fs.write/fs.writeSync` compatibility
(#31013)
- fix(ext/node): `path.matchesGlob` compatibility (#30976)
- fix(ext/node): checking `Symbol` in `env` should not ask for permission
(#30965)
- fix(ext/node): cpus() should not error when there's no cpu info (#31097)
- fix(ext/node): false deprecation warning on `crypto.createHmac` (#31025)
- fix(ext/node): handle empty writes in chunked HTTP requests (#31066)
- fix(ext/node): handle multiple calls in inspector.Session.post() (#31067)
- fix(ext/node): impl sqlite 'backup' capability (#29842)
- fix(ext/node): implement FileHandle.readLines() (#31107)
- fix(ext/node): inconsistent error message thrown by AssertionError (#31089)
- fix(ext/node): make `kReinitializeHandle` work for TLS wrap (#31079)
- fix(ext/node): process.moduleLoadList as undefined (#31022)
- fix(ext/node): support option object parameter on `fs.write` and
`fs.writeSync` (#30999)
- fix(ext/web): fix promise chain leak of ReadableStream (#30871)
- fix(fmt/json): support hexadecimal numbers, plus sign on numbers, and words
with underscores (#31057)
- fix(kv): do not error when creating kv db with relative path and `-A` (#31021)
- fix(lockfile): purged package reqs should be removed from the jsr deps when
changing workspace config (#30998)
- fix(lsp): add support for `source.organizeImports` (#31016)
- fix(lsp): refresh configuration when tsconfig.json is changed (#30993)
- fix(napi): Fix misused `napi_callback_info` in `CallbackInfo` (#30983)
- fix(npm): add a deduplication pass and reduce lockfile diffs (#30973)
- fix(npm): handle deno run/install of npm package with only directories.bin
(#30919)
- fix(npm): occasional panic when upgrading npm package constraints (#31006)
- fix(npm): regression resolving npm bin for default when only one entry
(#31055)
- fix(process): case insenstive check for disallowing .bat and .cmd (#30967)
- fix(rt): prevent `Event` to be overwritten on bootstrap (#30971)
- fix(unstable): read npm lazy caching from unstable config in deno.json as well
(#31026)
- fix: Deno.serve correctly passes tcpBacklog option (#30748)
- fix: debug log for package.json being found was incorrect (#31062)
- fix: regex pattern syntax in config-file.v1.json (#31038)
- fix: show referrer range in deno_core loader errors (#30981)