Browserify enables developers to use Node.js-style require() statements within browser JavaScript, allowing for modular code organization and dependency management familiar to server-side JavaScript developers. Versions 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 offer this core functionality, letting you bundle JavaScript files and npm modules for client-side execution. Examining the package data, the fundamental dependencies remain identical between the two, including "resolve," "detective", and "coffee-script", ensuring consistent dependency resolution and code analysis. The developer tooling specified in devDependencies also mirrors each other, encompassing libraries for testing (expresso, jsdom), server setup (connect), templating (jade), and utility functions (seq, dnode, hashish, traverse). Both rely on the same core components like seq, jade, dnode, jsdom, connect, hashish, backbone, expresso, traverse and jquery-browserify for testing and development workflows. Thus, the upgrade from 1.1.2 to 1.1.3 is likely a very minor patch, perhaps addressing edge cases or minor bug fixes not reflected in the dependency list.
The primary difference lies in the release dates: version 1.1.3 was released a short time after 1.1.2. Users already on 1.1.2 may want to upgrade, while those starting a new project will want to use the newest version. Both are extremely old, but this data can be used for historical analysis or when maintaining old projects. Developers already using version 1.1.2 can anticipate a smooth transition, as the core dependencies and developer tools remain constant, minimizing the risk of breaking changes.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 1.1.3 of the package
Incorrect Handling of Non-Boolean Comparisons During Minification in uglify-js
Versions of uglify-js prior to 2.4.24 are affected by a vulnerability which may cause crafted JavaScript to have altered functionality after minification.
Upgrade UglifyJS to version >= 2.4.24.
Regular Expression Denial of Service in uglify-js
Versions of uglify-js prior to 2.6.0 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when malicious inputs are passed into the parse() method.
var u = require('uglify-js');
var genstr = function (len, chr) {
var result = "";
for (i=0; i<=len; i++) {
result = result + chr;
}
return result;
}
u.parse("var a = " + genstr(process.argv[2], "1") + ".1ee7;");
$ time node test.js 10000
real 0m1.091s
user 0m1.047s
sys 0m0.039s
$ time node test.js 80000
real 0m6.486s
user 0m6.229s
sys 0m0.094s
Update to version 2.6.0 or later.