Browserify is a powerful tool for JavaScript developers enabling them to use Node.js-style modules in the browser. Versions 1.16.0 and 1.15.6 offer the same core functionality: simplifying dependency management for client-side JavaScript. Both versions allow you to require() modules that are organized in directories and even those pulled directly from npm, streamlining the process of building complex web applications. They share the same key dependencies like nub, deputy, resolve, and optimist, ensuring that core features operate consistently across both. Critically, the dependencies of both versions are identical, indicating no functional change in their core module resolution capabilities when upgrading between minor versions.
The difference appears in the timing of the releases, with version 1.16.0 released shortly after 1.15.6, suggesting a very minor patch or update. Both versions rely on a consistent set of development dependencies that included tools such as seq, tap, jade or lazy for testing, templating, and asynchronism. For developers already using Browserify, upgrading from 1.15.6 to 1.16.0 should be seamless due to the absence of changes in listed dependencies. It is safe to assume that any update would pertain to bug fixes or potentially performance enhancements. Both versions are licensed under the permissive MIT/X11 license, allowing for broad usage and modification, and maintained by James Halliday, also known as substack.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 1.16.0 of the package
Potential for Script Injection in syntax-error
Versions of syntax-error prior to 1.1.1 are affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability which may allow a malicious file to execute code when browserified.
Update to version 1.1.1 or later.
