@babel/plugin-transform-runtime version 7.19.6 is a minor release over 7.19.1, primarily offering updates to its development dependencies, indirectly impacting the development environment rather than the core functionality experienced by end-users directly. Both versions share the same description: to externalise references to helpers and builtins, automatically polyfilling code without polluting globals, a crucial feature for modern JavaScript development. They maintain identical core dependencies – semver, @babel/helper-plugin-utils, @babel/helper-module-imports, and the polyfill plugins for core-js 2 & 3 and regenerator.
The significant differences lie in the devDependencies. Version 7.19.6 bumps @babel/core to 7.19.6, @babel/types to 7.19.4, @babel/helpers to 7.19.4, @babel/runtime to 7.19.4, @babel/preset-env to 7.19.4, and @babel/runtime-corejs3 to 7.19.6. These updates likely incorporate bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features within the Babel ecosystem, relevant mainly during the plugin's development and testing phases. Developers directly using the plugin might indirectly benefit from improved stability and compatibility within Babel projects, but it is primarily for those contributing to the plugin itself, allowing for more effective debugging or usage of the latest features exposed by the Babel toolchain. For general users, these updates ensure continued compatibility with the newest tooling.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 7.19.6 of the package @babel/plugin-transform-runtime