Jest Image Snapshot is a powerful tool for visual regression testing in Jest environments, enabling developers to ensure UI consistency across updates. Comparing versions 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 reveals subtle yet important changes. Both versions share core dependencies like pixelmatch for image comparison, pngjs for PNG handling, and lodash for utility functions. They also share the same development dependencies, suggesting a consistent development environment and testing strategy using jest, eslint, and related tools. The peer dependency on jest remains the same, requiring a version between 20 and 23, ensuring compatibility with existing Jest projects.
The critical difference lies in the dist section, specifically the fileCount and unpackedSize. Version 2.8.0 has a fileCount of 42 and an unpackedSize of 3160977, while 2.7.0 has a fileCount of 40 and an unpackedSize of 3151851. This suggests that version 2.8.0 includes two additional files and a slightly larger overall size, possibly indicating bug fixes, enhanced features, or updated documentation. The significant difference between the two versions is the release date of 2.8.0 which is "2019-02-04T17:47:10.514Z" almost 3 months after the prior version 2.7.0 released on "2018-11-09T18:14:11.807Z". For developers, upgrading to version 2.8.0 could provide stability improvements and potentially new functionalities.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 2.8.0 of the package jest-image-snapshot