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Deno’s team is joining Cloudflare, with Deno’s runtime due to receive security and bug-fix updates for one year before development stops. The deal also points to a new option for enterprises: running Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on their own servers.

What happened A VLT blog post published on 14 October says Cloudflare has acquired Deno and plans to merge Deno’s celld project with its workerd runtime. It says Deno Deploy is due to shut down in six months, while JSR will continue operating with Cloudflare infrastructure. The post describes the acquisition as a way to support enterprise customers that want to run Workers and Durable Objects on their own servers or bare metal. It does not give a detailed migration plan for Deno users. Why it matters This is more than a change of ownership: it sets different futures for Deno’s products. The runtime has a stated one-year security and bug-fix window, Deno Deploy faces a six-month shutdown, and JSR is set to continue. Those distinctions matter to developers deciding what to keep using and where to plan a move.

Discuss: Should Cloudflare prioritise the self-hosting opportunity, or a dependable transition for existing Deno users?

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