Impact Score: 5/10
PocketBase: v0.19.0 Release
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Component: pocketbase · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
PocketBase v0.19.0. Source highlight: _To update the prebuilt executable you can run `./pocketbase update`._
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- Added Patreon OAuth2 provider (#3323; thanks @ghostdevv).
- Added mailcow OAuth2 provider (#3364; thanks @thisni1s).
- Added support for `:excerpt(max, withEllipsis?)` `fields` modifier that will return a short plain text version of any string value (html tags are stripped).
- Added "Media library" (collection images picker) support for the TinyMCE `editor` field.
- Added support to "pin" collections in the sidebar.
- Added support to manually resize the collections sidebar.
⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Several Admin UI improvements:
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
> _To update the prebuilt executable you can run `./pocketbase update`._
- Added Patreon OAuth2 provider ([#3323](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/pull/3323); thanks @ghostdevv).
- Added mailcow OAuth2 provider ([#3364](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/pull/3364); thanks @thisni1s).
- Added support for `:excerpt(max, withEllipsis?)` `fields` modifier that will return a short plain text version of any string value (html tags are stripped).
This could be used to minimize the downloaded json data when listing records with large `editor` html values.
```js
await pb.collection("example").getList(1, 20, {
"fields": "*,description:excerpt(100)"
})
```
- Several Admin UI improvements:
- Count the total records separately to speed up the query execution for large datasets ([#3344](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/issues/3344)).
- Enclosed the listing scrolling area within the table so that the horizontal scrollbar and table header are always reachable ([#2505](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/issues/2505)).
- Allowed opening the record preview/update form via direct URL ([#2682](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/discussions/2682)).
- Reintroduced the local `date` field tooltip on hover.
- Speed up the listing loading times for records with large `editor` field values by initially fetching only a partial of the records data (the complete record data is loaded on record preview/update).
- Added "Media library" (collection images picker) support for the TinyMCE `editor` field.
- Added support to "pin" collections in the sidebar.
- Added support to manually resize the collections sidebar.
- More clear "Nonempty" field label style.
- Removed the legacy `.woff` and `.ttf` fonts and keep only `.woff2`.
- Removed the explicit `Content-Type` charset from the realtime response due to compatibility issues with IIS ([#3461](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/issues/3461)).
_The `Connection:keep-alive` realtime response header was also removed as it is not really used with HTTP2 anyway._
- Added new JSVM bindings:
- `new Cookie({ ... })` constructor for creating `*http.Cookie` equivalent value.
- `new SubscriptionMessage({ ... })` constructor for creating a custom realtime subscription payload.
- Soft-deprecated `$os.exec()` in favour of `$os.cmd()` to make it more clear that the call only prepares the command and doesn't execute it.
- ⚠️ Bumped the min required Go version to 1.19.