@types/react-dom versions 15.5.4 and 15.5.3 offer TypeScript definitions for React's react-dom library, crucial for developers using React with TypeScript. Both versions share the same MIT license and source code repository on DefinitelyTyped, ensuring a consistently permissive and collaboratively maintained codebase. The core functionality described as providing TypeScript definitions for React (react-dom) remains the same between the two versions.
The key difference lies in their release dates and the presence of peer dependencies. Version 15.5.4 was released on August 21, 2017, a few days after version 15.5.3 released on August 15, 2017. More significantly, version 15.5.3 declares peerDependencies:{} which means it declares no peer dependecies, whereas version 15.5.4 doesn't explicitly declare them. This implies that version 15.5.4 might have introduced or implicitly relied on peer dependencies that developers need to be aware of for compatibility. Both versions depend on "@types/react":"*", but version 15.5.3 explicitly indicating an expectation regarding peer dependencies provides clarity that is lacking in the subsequent version. Developers upgrading from 15.5.3 to 15.5.4 should verify if these subtle dependency changes introduce any conflicts within their projects. Consider the update a minor patch improving type definitions.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 15.5.4 of the package @types/react-dom