Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
We've re-added WebGPU, added new deno coverage reporters, made substantial Node.js compatibility improvements, and more.
A drop-in JavaScript runtime with built-in TypeScript, npm support, and security by default. Run your existing Node project on Deno with no setup.
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We've re-added WebGPU, added new deno coverage reporters, made substantial Node.js compatibility improvements, and more.
Oracle is holding the JavaScript trademark hostage, and we’re pursuing legal means to #FreeJavaScript. Here’s a brief update.
Deno Deploy is a multi-tenant distributed JavaScript VM running in 25 data centers across the world.
Deno 1.20 increases performance, auto-compresses http responses, adds 'deno task', adds 'deno bench', allows import maps in deno.json, and more
Our next major version of Deno combines the simplicity, security, and performance of Deno 1 with full Node and npm backwards compatibility, and much more.
Deno bundle is back, alongside the addition of bytes and text imports, stabilized built-in OpenTelemetry, a new --preload flag, simplified dependency management with deno update, and more.
How CommonJS became Node's module system, ESM solved modules for the browser, and why supporting both slows down the JavaScript ecosystem.
`deno desktop` for building native desktop apps from web tech, first-class migration from npm/pnpm/yarn/Bun, CSS module imports, snapshot and parameterized testing, smaller `deno compile --bundle` binaries, and Node.js 26 compatibility.
Deno 1.22 changes default type-checking behavior, removes Deno.emit() API, adds Response.json() API, adds Deno namespace to workers by default, and more
Deno 1.13 stabilizes the native HTTP server, and introduces FFI, a streaming WebSocket API, the new self.structuredClone() function and more.
You can now use Node.js built-in modules like `node:http` on Deno Deploy, allowing you to run existing Node.js apps at the edge.
Deno KV, the easiest way to add a strongly consistent database to your app, is now in open beta.
We'll create and load a snapshot of our custom JavaScript runtime to optimize startup time.
Deno 1.31 adds support for package.json, stabilizes Node-API, Deno.Command API, adds `node:v8` module, and more.
Deno 1.26 adds Cache Web API; improves permission system, experimental npm support, Node.js compatibility; ships with TypeScript 4.8, and more.
Post-mortem report for the outage on July 13th and 14th 2022