React Hook Form is a popular library for building performant and flexible forms in React applications using React Hooks. Versions 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 are very similar, representing a minor patch release focusing on stability and potential bug fixes rather than significant feature additions.
Developers considering the update from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1 should anticipate a seamless transition with minimal code adjustments required. Both versions share the same core dependencies and peer dependencies, ensuring compatibility with existing React projects using version 16.8.0 or higher. The development environment setup also remains consistent. It includes tools such as TypeScript for type checking, ESLint for code linting, and Jest for testing, so the upgrading doesn't impact anything related to the developer tooling.
The key difference lies in the dist object, unpackedSize is slightly different, suggesting potentially minor adjustments to the bundled code, which will result in some slightly reduced unpacked size. Although the file count remains the same. Furthermore, the releaseDate indicates that version 5.0.1 was released shortly after 5.0.0, likely to address any immediate issues identified in the initial 5.0.0 release. So developers can upgrade with no impact to their code, while potentially fixing bugs
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 5.0.1 of the package react-hook-form