# Turborepo v2.8.11 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Turborepo (https://turbo.build)
- **Version:** v2.8.11
- **Released:** Feb 25, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/turborepo/updates/v2.8.11/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Turborepo v2.8.11. Source highlight: chore: Migrate to Ultracite

## New Features
- feat: Remove daemon from `turbo run`, deprecate daemon flags and config
- chore: Add tracing spans to uninstrumented hot path functions
- perf: Add more tracing spans into startup path
- perf: Send engine callback before tracker bookkeeping and add tracing spans

## Improvements
- perf: Defer TLS initialization to a background thread
- perf: Optimize pnpm lockfile transitive closure resolution
- perf: Deduplicate file hashing and parallelize globwalks
- perf: Improve transitive dependency resolution cache sharing across workspaces
- perf: Reduce filesystem syscalls in globwalk, SCM hashing, and task scheduling
- perf: Reduce allocations in SCM hashing, glob preprocessing, and cache lookups

## Bug Fixes
- fix: Add repository field to @turbo/repository package.json
- fix: Get all pnpm lockfile pruning tests passing
- fix: Resolve npm packages in @turbo/gen compiled binary
- fix: Resolve git_root to worktree root in linked worktrees
- perf: Reduce per-task allocations in visitor dispatch loop
- docs: Fix same-page anchor links that don't scroll to target

## Upgrade Command
```bash
npm install --save-dev --save-exact turbo@2.8.11
```