Bun v1.3.14 | Bun Blog

kept by eddie may 24

Bun v1.3.14 ships a built-in image processing API, 7x faster warm installs, experimental HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 clients and server, rewritten fs.watch(), and many other features and fixes.

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