Browserify is a powerful tool that allows developers to use Node.js-style require() statements in browser-side JavaScript. This means you can organize your code into modules and easily manage dependencies, just like you would in a server-side Node.js project. Versions 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 are very similar, sharing the same core functionality and dependencies like nub, resolve, optimist, commondir, detective, and coffee-script. These dependencies are crucial for Browserify's core tasks: resolving module paths, parsing arguments, and handling CoffeeScript files.
The most significant difference between the two versions is the release date, with version 1.6.1 being released a week after 1.6.0. This suggests that version 1.6.1 likely contains minor bug fixes or very small improvements over the previous release. Both versions also depend on the same set ofdevDependencies during development, including testing frameworks like tap and seq, templating engines such as jade, tools like dnode and jsdom for testing browser environments, and miscellaneous libraries like connect,hashish,backbone, traverse and jquery-browserify.For developers considering using Browserify, the choice between these two versions is probably inconsequential, as the feature set and API are essentially identical. It is always advisable to use the last stable version unless specific issues are known with that particular release.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 1.6.1 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.