Svelte 5.6.1 is a minor patch release following closely on the heels of Svelte 5.6.0, both iterations focusing on delivering a cybernetically enhanced web app development experience. The core functionality, as indicated by the identical dependencies (acorn, esrap, esm-env, aria-query, zimmerframe, is-reference, magic-string, @types/estree, axobject-query, acorn-typescript, locate-character, @ampproject/remapping, and @jridgewell/sourcemap-codec) and devDependencies (rollup, vitest, esbuild, dts-buddy, tiny-glob, source-map, typescript, @types/node, @playwright/test, @types/aria-query, @rollup/plugin-terser, @rollup/plugin-virtual, @rollup/plugin-commonjs, @jridgewell/trace-mapping, and @rollup/plugin-node-resolve), remains consistent.
The primary distinction lies in the dist metadata. Svelte 5.6.1 has a slightly larger unpacked size of 2,365,468 bytes compared to Svelte 5.6.0's 2,363,411 bytes and was released 1 hour and 40 minutes later. Both versions share the same fileCount of 374, suggesting that the patch likely involves minor bug fixes, performance tweaks, or internal adjustments rather than significant feature additions.
For developers, this means upgrading from 5.6.0 to 5.6.1 should be a seamless process. The core APIs and development workflow remain unchanged with potentially some very small internal changes.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 5.6.1 of the package svelte