Lint-staged is a popular npm package designed to streamline development workflows by running linters against staged files in Git. Comparing version 3.4.2 with its predecessor, 3.4.1, reveals subtle but potentially impactful changes primarily concentrated in the development dependencies. Notably, jest and babel-jest, testing and JavaScript transpilation tools respectively, have been upgraded from versions 19.0.2 and 19.0.0 to 20.0.1 and 20.0.0. This update likely brings improvements in test performance, updated features for JavaScript transformation, and enhanced compatibility with newer JavaScript syntax. For developers, this means potentially faster and more reliable testing cycles.
While the core dependencies remain the same, indicating no significant alterations to the fundamental functionality of lint-staged, these dev dependency upgrades are crucial for maintaining a modern and robust development environment. Lint-staged continues to leverage tools such as execa, listr, minimatch, and cosmiconfig for executing commands, providing a task list interface, matching file patterns, and handling configuration files, respectively. The upgrade ensures that lint-staged benefits from the latest advancements in testing and build tooling, facilitating a smoother and more efficient development experience for users seeking to automate code quality checks within their Git workflow. These improvements make the package more maintainable and allow external contributors to contribute in a standard and updated environment.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 3.4.2 of the package
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in cross-spawn
Versions of the package cross-spawn before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.
