Lint-staged is a popular npm package designed to streamline development workflows by running linters against staged files in Git. Versions 4.1.2 and 4.1.1 share the same core functionality, dependencies and development dependencies for linting, testing and keeping the project clean. Both versions utilize tools like chalk for terminal styling, execa for executing commands, listr for creating task lists, and various linting and formatting tools such as eslint, prettier, and jsonlint, ensuring code quality and consistency.. Consequently, upgrading from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 is likely a maintenance release, potentially addressing minor bugs or improvements without introducing significant new features or breaking changes.
The key difference lies in their release dates: version 4.1.2 was published on September 6, 2017, at 15:30:12 UTC, approximately 3 hours after version 4.1.1, which was released at 12:26:30 UTC on the same day. The author remains Andrey Okonetchnikov. For developers, this suggests a quick iterative approach to development. If a developer is on version 4.1.1, upgrading to 4.1.2 is advisable to benefit from any potential bug fixes or minor enhancements implemented in the later release. Given the short time frame between releases, the impact on the development workflow will be minimal but ensures that the team is using a fresh version of the same package.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 4.1.2 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.
