Browserify is a powerful tool for JavaScript developers allowing them to use Node.js-style require() statements in browser-based applications. Both versions 1.11.0 and 1.10.17 share the same core functionality: enabling developers to bundle JavaScript files and npm modules for use in web browsers. This allows for code reuse and organization familiar to Node.js developers, bringing server-side module management to the client-side. Key dependencies like resolve (for module resolution), optimist (for command-line argument parsing), coffee-script (for CoffeeScript support), vm-browserify (for emulating Node.js's vm module), http-browserify, and crypto-browserify remain consistent, ensuring core features remain stable between the two versions.
The primary difference lies in their release dates, with version 1.11.0 being released on May 31, 2012, and version 1.10.17 released a day prior. This suggests that version 1.11.0 likely contains bug fixes, minor improvements, or dependency updates compared to the previous version. While the specific changes aren't explicitly detailed in the provided data, developers should generally opt for the newer version (1.11.0) to benefit from any potential enhancements or resolutions to known issues in version 1.10.17. Both versions support features such as transforming modules, defining entry points, and generating browser-compatible bundles, making Browserify a solid choice for managing JavaScript dependencies in web projects. The devDependencies sections show that both versions use the same testing and development frameworks such as tap , jade and others.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 1.11.0 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.