Bun v1.1.22 – Bun Blog
Bun v1.1.22 enhances performance, making Express three times faster than Node.js, improves ES module loading on Windows, reduces memory usage, adds new Uint8Array methods, and fixes various bugs.
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Bun v1.1.22 has been released, introducing significant performance improvements and bug fixes. The update resolves 79 bugs and enhances the speed of Express, making it three times faster in Bun compared to Node.js. ES modules now load up to four times faster on Windows due to concurrent transpilation support. Additionally, Bun.serve() sees a 10% increase in throughput for POST requests that do not read the request body. Memory usage has been optimized, with bun --hot using half the memory compared to the previous version. The release also includes new features such as Uint8Array.toBase64() and Uint8Array.toHex() for encoding and decoding, as well as improved compatibility with Node.js functions. Other enhancements include better stack traces, support for the NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS environment variable, and fixes for various bugs affecting module imports and error handling. The Bun team is actively hiring systems engineers to further develop JavaScript capabilities.
- Bun v1.1.22 improves Express performance, making it three times faster than Node.js.
- ES modules load up to four times faster on Windows with new concurrent transpilation support.
- Memory usage is reduced significantly, especially with the bun --hot command.
- New features include Uint8Array methods for base64 and hex encoding.
- The update fixes numerous bugs and enhances compatibility with Node.js functions.
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5 commentsSo well in fact that I forgot that the lack of stack traces was due to Bun. I forgot NextJS even gives you stack traces in the browser, it’s been that long.
I’m going to upgrade ASAP just for that feature.
I still have to run npm run build for nextjs to ensure it’ll work in Vercel because there are the occasional errors that were only caught during a deploy.
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