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title: "Bun v0.4"
description: Introducing bunx. Install and run an executable from npm, 100x faster than npx.
date: "2022-12-23T07:00:00Z"
author: ashcon
thumbText: v0.4.0
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**Note** — We're [hiring](/careers) C/C++ and Zig engineers to build the future of JavaScript!
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Happy Holidays! We're excited to release Bun v0.4.0 with support for more Node.js APIs, increased stability, lots of bug fixes, and a new command: `bunx`.
## Introducing `bunx`
This version introduces `bunx`, Bun's equivalent of `npx` with 100x faster startup times. It runs [executables](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v9/configuring-npm/package-json#bin) from local or remote npm packages.
```bash
$ bunx esbuild --version
```
As with `npx`, it will check for a locally installed package first, then fall back to auto-installing from npm into a shared global cache. With Bun's fast startup times, it's roughly 100x faster than `npx` for locally installed packages.
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## The `--bun` flag
By default, Bun respects the `#!/usr/bin/env node` shebang at the top of scripts or executables that are run with `bun run