Version Details and Security Vulnerabilities

This data describes two adjacent versions of the @types/yargs npm package, specifically versions 0.0.28 and 0.0.29. This package provides TypeScript definitions for the popular yargs command-line argument parsing library, enabling enhanced type safety and improved developer experience when using yargs in TypeScript projects. Both versions share the same core metadata: the same description, MIT license, origin from the DefinitelyTyped repository on GitHub, and authorship by Martin Poelstra. They also both do not list any explicit dependencies of their own.

The primary difference lies solely in the version number and the release date. Version 0.0.28 was released on August 2nd, 2016, while version 0.0.29 followed relatively quickly on August 11th, 2016, approximately nine days later. This suggests that the update was likely to address a bug fix, a minor enhancement to the type definitions, or perhaps an update to align with changes in the underlying yargs library itself.

For developers using yargs in TypeScript projects, these @types/yargs definitions are valuable. The quick succession of releases indicates active maintenance, which is a positive signal. If a project currently uses version 0.0.28, upgrading to 0.0.29 to potentially benefit from the incremental improvements included. However, given the minor version numbers and short time between releases, the changes are most certainly small and incremental, meaning they are unlikely to introduce breaking changes.