diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 95514b39..93c267ac 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 - Updated `modernc.org/sqlite` to 1.59.0 _(minor performance improvement by switching to Go's `memmove`)_.
 
-- Other minor changes (godoc typos).
+- Other minor fixes (godoc typos, normalize negative jsvm pool size, etc.).
 
 
 ## v0.40.4
diff --git a/plugins/jsvm/pool.go b/plugins/jsvm/pool.go
index e0174c5e..e330609e 100644
--- a/plugins/jsvm/pool.go
+++ b/plugins/jsvm/pool.go
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ type vmsPool struct {
 
 // newPool creates a new pool with pre-warmed vms generated from the specified factory.
 func newPool(size int, factory func() *goja.Runtime) *vmsPool {
+	if size < 0 {
+		size = 0
+	}
+
 	pool := &vmsPool{
 		factory: factory,
 		items:   make([]*poolItem, size),