Browserify is a powerful tool that allows developers to use Node.js-style modules within a web browser, enabling code reuse and better organization for front-end projects. Comparing versions 1.11.1 and 1.12.0, we see subtle but important updates. The core dependencies remain identical, ensuring compatibility and a consistent experience for users relying on features like require() in the browser, resolution of modules via resolve, option parsing with optimist, and core browser polyfills through vm-browserify, http-browserify, and crypto-browserify.
The developer dependencies also stay the same, meaning no changes in the tooling leveraged for testing or development workflows. This points towards the upgrade primarily focusing on internal improvements, bug fixes, or small enhancements, rather than a major feature overhaul. Both versions offer the familiar set of testing tools (tap, seq), templating with jade, asynchronous utilities (lazy, dnode), server functionalities through connect and tools to create static servers using ecstatic.
Switching from 1.11.1 to 1.12.0 ensures the latest bug fixes and possibly some performance improvements. While the changelog isn't embedded, upgrading is generally recommended for increased stability and taking advantage of any under-the-hood optimizations. Both versions are licensed under MIT/X11, making them free and open-source, ideal for a wide range of projects and available via npm.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 1.12.0 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.