React-dom versions 15.6.1 and 15.6.2 represent incremental updates within the React 15.x ecosystem, focusing on DOM interactions for web applications. Both versions share a core set of dependencies crucial for React's functionality: fbjs for Facebook's JavaScript utilities, prop-types for component validation, loose-envify for environment variable handling, and object-assign for object manipulation. They also have almost the same description and the same repository.
A key difference lies in the peer dependency on React itself. Version 15.6.1 requires react version 15.6.1, while 15.6.2 requires react version 15.6.2. This indicates that each react-dom version is specifically designed to work optimally with its corresponding react counterpart.
Another notable change is the license. While version 15.6.1 uses BSD-3-Clause license, version 15.6.2 uses MIT license.
Finally, the releaseDate field reveals that version 15.6.1 was released on June 15, 2017, while version 15.6.2 was released significantly later on September 26, 2017. This difference in release dates implies that version 15.6.2 likely includes bug fixes, performance improvements, or other enhancements accumulated during the intervening period. Developers should carefully consider this when choosing which version to use, prioritizing the latest version (15.6.2) for its potential stability and improvements unless specific compatibility issues arise with their existing codebase. Although consider this is not the last stable version.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 15.6.2 of the package
node-fetch forwards secure headers to untrusted sites
node-fetch forwards secure headers such as authorization, www-authenticate, cookie, & cookie2 when redirecting to a untrusted site.
