Impact Score: 5/10
PocketBase: v0.28.0 Release
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
PocketBase v0.28.0. Source highlight: _To update the prebuilt executable you can run `./pocketbase update`._
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 (1)
- Added new `filesystem.System.GetReuploadableFile(fileKey, preserveName)` method to return an existing blob as a `*filesystem.File` value (#6792).
โก Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Other minor improvements (updated the GitHub release min Go version to 1.23.9, updated npm and Go deps, etc.)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
> _To update the prebuilt executable you can run `./pocketbase update`._
- Write the default response body of `*Request` hooks that are wrapped in a transaction after the related transaction completes to allow propagating the transaction error ([#6462](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/discussions/6462#discussioncomment-12207818)).
- Updated `app.DB()` to automatically routes raw write SQL statements to the nonconcurrent db pool ([#6689](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/discussions/6689)).
_For the rare cases when it is needed users still have the option to explicitly target the specific pool they want using `app.ConcurrentDB()`/`app.NonconcurrentDB()`._
- โ ๏ธ Changed the default `json` field max size to 1MB.
_Users still have the option to adjust the default limit from the collection field options but keep in mind that storing large strings/blobs in the database is known to cause performance issues and should be avoided when possible._
- โ ๏ธ Soft-deprecated and replaced `filesystem.System.GetFile(fileKey)` with `filesystem.System.GetReader(fileKey)` to avoid the confusion with `filesystem.File`.
_The old method will still continue to work for at least until v0.29.0 but you'll get a console warning to replace it with `GetReader`._
- Added new `filesystem.System.GetReuploadableFile(fileKey, preserveName)` method to return an existing blob as a `*filesystem.File` value ([#6792](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/discussions/6792)).
_This method could be useful in case you want to clone an existing Record file and assign it to a new Record (e.g. in a Record duplicate action)._
- Other minor improvements (updated the GitHub release min Go version to 1.23.9, updated npm and Go deps, etc.)