Husky, a popular tool for managing Git hooks, released version 4.0.6 shortly after its predecessor, 4.0.5, both on January 10th, 2020. Both versions serve the same core purpose: preventing bad commits and pushes by leveraging Git hooks like pre-commit, pre-push, and post-merge. This helps developers enforce code quality standards, run tests, and perform other checks before changes are integrated into the codebase.
Looking at the package metadata, the core functionality and dependencies remain largely consistent between the two versions. Both rely on the same set of packages like chalk for colorful console output, slash for cross-platform path handling, and cosmiconfig for configuration file management, among others. The developer dependencies are also identical, indicating the same tooling is used for development, testing, and linting.
The most noticeable difference resides in the dist section. While both versions contain 19 files, version 4.0.6 has a slightly smaller unpacked size of 48380 bytes compared to 4.0.5's 48410 bytes. While the reason for this change would require further investigation of the actual code differences it is an indication that there might have been some minor cleanup or optimization on the code or distribution process. The releases happened within a few hours which means a possible quick fix or a small tweeks, however without additional information is impossible to tell the exact reasons of the release. For developers the changes appear minimal, suggesting low impact.
Users upgrading from versions prior to 4.0.5 should review release notes for previous versions in that major releases, as all releases in the 4 are expected to be API compatible. Otherwise, migrating from 4.0.5 to 4.0.6 should be a seamless update.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 4.0.6 of the package husky
