React Test Renderer versions 16.8.5 and 16.8.4 offer developers tools for rendering React components to pure JavaScript objects, simplifying snapshot testing without a browser or DOM environment. The primary function of this package is to enable developers to easily generate consistent and reliable snapshots of their React component's output, which can then be used with testing frameworks like Jest for detecting unexpected UI changes.
Between version 16.8.4, released on March 5, 2019, and version 16.8.5, released on March 22, 2019, several key dependencies were updated subtly impacting projects using the library. Specifically, react-is saw an update from "^16.8.4" to "^16.8.5", and scheduler moved from "^0.13.4" to "^0.13.5". These dependency upgrades likely include bug fixes, performance improvements or compatibility adjustments within those respective modules. The update also contains a minor file size increase, the unpacked size moving from 1226673 to 1231417 likely due to the code changes in the two dependencies.
For developers, these updates ideally introduce no breaking changes, the use case remain the same: it is a good practice to upgrade to the latest patch version to benefit from any fixes incorporated in the library and its dependency tree, ensuring stability and improved performance for the React components they are testing. Both versions share the same peer dependency requirement of "react": "^16.0.0", and license is MIT, indicating compatibility with existing React 16 projects.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 16.8.5 of the package react-test-renderer