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Hono

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Velocity5.0

Ultrafast web framework for the edge

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Hono runs a tight security-and-fix cadence, hardening its middleware release by release.

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◆Current state
Hono is in mature-framework maintenance mode: frequent point releases that pair small correctness fixes and build/CI housekeeping with a steady drip of security patches. The recent stretch has been dominated by security work — per-request context isolation in the JSX/SSR path, a CORS credentials-with-wildcard fix, and mount-prefix path-decoding — alongside routine middleware polish.
◆Where it's heading
The direction is hardening rather than expansion: Hono is tightening the edge cases in its middleware (serve-static, compress, CORS, bearer-auth) and its multi-runtime story (Deno, Bun, Lambda edge) while shipping the occasional small API addition like a public Context export. The security-fix frequency suggests active bug-bounty or audit attention, and the team is prioritizing correctness of the request lifecycle over new surface area.
◆Prediction
Expect the same rhythm — frequent patch releases weighted toward middleware fixes and security disclosures, with incremental feature flags rather than large new subsystems.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3d ago

    v4.12.28: serve-static and Content-Type matching fixes

    v4.12.28 is a fixes-and-chores release: serve-static empty-string handling, case-insensitive Content-Type matching, docs and packaging tweaks — routine polish in the ongoing maintenance cadence.

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  2. 16d ago

    v4.12.27: fix cross-request context leak in hono/jsx SSR

    v4.12.27 fixes a real SSR correctness bug where hono/jsx stored context process-wide instead of per request, so useContext after an await could return another request's value — a meaningful security-and-correctness fix consistent with the recent hardening push.

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  3. 21d ago

    v4.12.26: CI/build housekeeping and Lambda-edge type fix

    v4.12.26 is infrastructure and cleanup: Lambda-edge Deno type fix, OIDC trusted publishing from CI, and swapping build-script deps for Bun-native APIs — no user-facing change.

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  4. 1mo ago

    v4.12.25: fix CORS wildcard origin reflecting credentials

    v4.12.25 closes a CORS vulnerability where the wildcard-origin default reflected the request Origin and sent Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true — a genuine security fix in a widely used middleware.

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  5. 1mo ago

    v4.12.24: docs, tests, and small middleware fixes

    v4.12.24 bundles docs, dependency cleanup, a bearer-auth error-message tweak, language-middleware tests, and an IPv6 parsing fix — small maintenance items.

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  6. 1mo ago

    v4.12.23: public Context export and compress filter option

    v4.12.23 adds two real API touches — a public Context class export and a compress contentTypeFilter option — on top of a serve-static path-normalization fix, modestly widening the framework's surface.

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