Browserify versions 1.2.5 and 1.2.6 represent incremental updates to this essential tool for client-side JavaScript development. Both versions share identical core functionality, enabling developers to utilize Node.js-style require() statements within browser environments, facilitating modular code organization and dependency management. Key to this functionality are core dependencies like nub, resolve, commondir, detective, and coffee-script, which remain consistent between the two versions, assuring stability in the fundamental build process.
The devDependencies, tools used for development and testing of Browserify itself, are also identical between versions. This reinforces that the changes likely didn’t introduce alterations on these internal processes..
For developers, this suggests a very minor update. If you're using browserify this information suggests is safe to update browserify without expect major changes or breaking problems. This is especially important in continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines. These versions of Browserify are old but well tested. Browserify is a cornerstone for many legacy web projects, and knowing the detailed changes between minor versions is vital to prevent breaking changes. The release dates, separated by less than an hour, hints that the update could contain bug fixes.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 1.2.6 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.