Babel-polyfill provides an environment that emulates a complete ES2015+ environment, offering crucial support for older browsers and environments lacking modern JavaScript features. Comparing versions 6.8.0 and 6.7.4 reveals a subtle but important shift in dependencies shaping developer experience. Both versions rely on core-js and babel-regenerator-runtime for core polyfilling functionalities, ensuring compatibility across different JavaScript engines.
The key difference lies in the babel-runtime dependency. Version 6.8.0 upgrades this dependency to ^6.0.0, while version 6.7.4 uses ^5.0.0. This seemingly small version bump signifies an update bringing potential performance improvements, bug fixes, and new helper functions related to async/await and other ES2015+ features. It's essential for developers to consider this upgrade, as it can impact the application's runtime behavior and compatibility with other Babel plugins or presets also relying on babel-runtime. For developers integrating Babel-polyfill, this means that upgrading from 6.7.4 to 6.8.0 could introduce minor breaking changes if their code directly relies on the specific API of babel-runtime. Thorough testing post-upgrade is therefore recommended. Considering the widespread use of Babel for transpiling modern JavaScript, keeping babel-polyfill upgraded within the constraints of the other Babel dependencies is important to leveraging the most current code.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 6.8.0 of the package babel-polyfill
