Impact Score: 5/10
PocketBase: v0.28.4 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 v0.28.4. 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.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- Added global JSVM `toBytes()` helper to return the bytes slice representation of a value such as io.Reader or string, _other types are first serialized to Go string_ (#6935).
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (2)
- Fixed `security.RandomStringByRegex` random distribution (#6947; thanks @yerTools).
- Minor docs and typos fixes.
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
> _To update the prebuilt executable you can run `./pocketbase update`._
- Added global JSVM `toBytes()` helper to return the bytes slice representation of a value such as io.Reader or string, _other types are first serialized to Go string_ ([#6935](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/issues/6935)).
- Fixed `security.RandomStringByRegex` random distribution ([#6947](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/pull/6947); thanks @yerTools).
- Minor docs and typos fixes.