Welcome to Deno Newsletter issue #16!

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Releases

Following previous week's announcement regarding change in versioning scheme new minor release is v0.5.0.

Important changes:

• Permission whitelists (#2129, #2317) - now you can specify dirs and hosts you app has access to:

deno run --allow-net=deno.land/ --allow-write=/tmp script.ts

• Progress bar for downloads and compilation (#2309):

[1/1] Compiling https://deno.land/welcome.ts

• Add Deno.chown API (#2292) - for now only works on Unix:

await Deno.chown("./my_file.ts", 1000, 1000);

• Fix for edge case in `toAsyncIterator` (#2335)
• Rust crates upgrade (#2334)

Changes in standard library:

• Benching module now uses `performance.now` (#385)

Full list of changes can be seen here.

Articles

Write AWS Lambda function in Deno - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 — dev.to The guide of writing AWS Lambda function in deno.

Resources

GitHub - axetroy/deno-math

Deno module for high precision computing.

GitHub - zekth/deno-random-interval

Generates random interval.

GitHub - zekth/deno-templates

A template parser for deno

Hope we can hit 200 subscribers before the next release! Thanks for reading and see you next week with more news!

- Bartek