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Bun, January 2026 new features

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Bun v1.3.8

Fixes 8 issues (addressing 6 ๐Ÿ‘). Bun.markdown is a builtin CommonMark-compliant Markdown parser written in Zig. Bun's bundler gets bun build --metafile-md to write LLM-friendly module graph metadata. Fixes a regression in 'npm install -g bun' on Windows.

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Bun v1.3.7

Fixes 91 issues (addressing 243 ๐Ÿ‘). 50% faster `Buffer.from(array)`, 35% faster async/await, 3x faster `array.flat()`, 90% faster `padStart`/`padEnd` via JSC upgrade. New: `Bun.JSON5`, `Bun.JSONL`, `Bun.wrapAnsi()` (33-88x faster than wrap-ansi npm), `--heap-prof-md`, `--cpu-prof-md`, `node:inspector` Profiler API, `replMode` for `Bun.Transpiler`.

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Bun v1.3.6

Fixes 45 issues (addressing 125 ๐Ÿ‘). Bun.Archive API for creating & extracting tarballs with gzip compression, Bun.JSONC for parsing JSON with comments, metafile & files options in Bun.build for bundle analysis and virtual files, Response.json() 3.5x faster, 15% faster async/await, 30% faster Promise.race, 20x faster Bun.hash.crc32, faster...

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