⚠️ Breaking Change
Impact Score: 7/10
PocketBase: v0.18.2 Release
Source available — automated, not human-reviewed
Component: pocketbase · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
Breaking-change evidence from the source
- Prevent breaking the record form in the Admin UI in case the browser's localStorage quota has been exceeded when uploading or storing large `editor` field values ([#3265](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/issues/3265)).
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
PocketBase v0.18.2. Source highlight: _To update the prebuilt executable you can run `./pocketbase update`._
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)
- - Prevent breaking the record form in the Admin UI in case the browser's localStorage quota has been exceeded when uploading or storing large `editor` field values ([#3265](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/issues/3265)).
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
> _To update the prebuilt executable you can run `./pocketbase update`._
- Prevent breaking the record form in the Admin UI in case the browser's localStorage quota has been exceeded when uploading or storing large `editor` field values ([#3265](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/issues/3265)).
- Updated docs and missing JSVM typings.
- Exposed additional crypto primitives under the `$security.*` JSVM namespace ([#3273](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/discussions/3273)):
```js
// HMAC with SHA256
$security.hs256("hello", "secret")
// HMAC with SHA512
$security.hs512("hello", "secret")
// compare 2 strings with a constant time
$security.equal(hash1, hash2)
```