Version Details and Security Vulnerabilities

@storybook/addon-essentials version 8.5.0 offers developers a refined and cohesive Storybook experience, bundling essential addons crucial for building and showcasing UI components. The headline change from version 8.4.7 is the synchronized versioning across all included addons. Version 8.5.0 updates dependencies like @storybook/addon-docs, @storybook/addon-actions, @storybook/addon-measure, @storybook/addon-outline, @storybook/addon-controls, @storybook/addon-toolbars, @storybook/addon-viewport, @storybook/addon-highlight, and @storybook/addon-backgrounds all to version 8.5.0, ensuring feature parity and compatibility across the Storybook ecosystem.

This unified versioning simplifies dependency management and reduces the risk of version conflicts. Developers benefit from a more stable and predictable development environment. While both versions maintain the same ts-dedent and typescript dependencies and share the MIT license, the core addons have been upgraded in the newer release, offering potential new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements inherent to those individual addon updates. Furthermore, a slightly smaller unpacked size hints at potential optimizations within the addon bundle itself. The peer dependency on storybook is also updated to ^8.5.0, encouraging users to upgrade their core Storybook installation for optimal performance and feature compatibility. The newer release date also signals access to the latest enhancements and refinements added to the addon-essentials package.