Impact Score: 5/10
PocketBase: v0.37.0 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 v0.37.0. 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 (1)
- Added optional `no_ui` build tag to exclude the UI from bundling with the executable (#7548).
⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Basic responsive/mobile support _(it is far from perfect but certainly more usable than before)_.
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
> _To update the prebuilt executable you can run `./pocketbase update`._
- New UI rewritten from scratch and with support for external customization in mind.
> Note that as explained in [#7612](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/discussions/7612) the new UI kit and extensions APIs will intentionally remain undocumented until "Stage 2" completion _(**there no ETAs**)_.
The new UI also introduced several other small improvements:
- ~2MB smaller bundle size.
- Dark mode and theming support.
- Basic responsive/mobile support _(it is far from perfect but certainly more usable than before)_.
- Help text option for the collection fields.
- Lifted the max nested level restriction of presentable relations _(children are lazy loaded)_.
- Lighter rules autocomplete.
- Live view query preview.
- Insert of an audio/video embed tag in the richtext editor from a collection file.
- Option to bulk export records as JSON.
- Local search history for all searchbars.
- API rules overview across all collections.
- Very basic ERD-like visualization for the collections structure and relations.
- New stepped logs chart visualization with panning support.
- `listAuthMethods()` (aka. `/api/collection/{col}/auth-methods`) now returns the OAuth2 provider logo for each provider as inlined SVG string in its response data.
_⚠️ Note that if your app for whatever reason rely on the dashboard OAuth2 logos available under `/_/images/oauth2/*` they are still available for now but will be removed in future versions and it is recommended to use the new inline SVGs!_
- Added optional `no_ui` build tag to exclude the UI from bundling with the executable ([#7548](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/issues/7548)).
```sh
go build -tags no_ui
```
- Exported the internal JSVM bind functions ([#7600](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/discussions/7600)).
```go
jsvm.BindCore(vm)
jsvm.BindDbx(vm)
jsvm.BindSecurity(vm)
jsvm.BindOS(vm)
jsvm.BindFilepath(vm)
jsvm.BindHTTP(vm)
jsvm.BindFilesystem(vm)
jsvm.BindForms(vm)
jsvm.BindMails(vm)
jsvm.BindApis(vm)
```
- Updated `modernc.org/sqlite` to v1.49.1 (SQLite 3.53.0).