# PocketBase v0.28.4 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** PocketBase (https://pocketbase.io)
- **Version:** v0.28.4
- **Released:** Jun 21, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/pocketbase/updates/v0.28.4/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
PocketBase v0.28.4. Source highlight: _To update the prebuilt executable you can run `./pocketbase update`._

## New Features
- 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
- Fixed `security.RandomStringByRegex` random distribution (#6947; thanks @yerTools).
- Minor docs and typos fixes.