# PocketBase v0.40.5 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** PocketBase (https://pocketbase.io)
- **Version:** v0.40.5
- **Released:** Oct 08, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/pocketbase/updates/v0.40.5/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
PocketBase v0.40.5. Source highlight: _To update the prebuilt executable you can run `./pocketbase update`._

## Improvements
- Minor improvements for the JSVM migration error handling:
- Updated `modernc.org/sqlite` to 1.60.1 _(minor performance improvements for queries with large text fields and/or many params)_.

## Bug Fixes
- Bumped the min Go GitHub action version to 1.27.2 as it includes several `net/http` security fixes.
- Other minor fixes _(godoc typos, normalized negative jsvm pool size, extra CORS wildcard subdomain checks to prevent misuse, support `Promise` as autocomplete suggestions return, autoexpand textarea scrollbar-gutter fix, etc.)_.