Type-Fest version 4.8.2 is a minor release over 4.8.1, part of a popular collection of essential TypeScript types highly valued by developers. Both versions maintain the core promise of providing utility types to enhance TypeScript development, offering solutions for common type manipulation needs. Key developer dependencies like xo for linting, tsd for type definition testing, and the TypeScript compiler itself remain consistent, ensuring a stable development environment across both versions. The license remains a flexible dual license of MIT OR CC0-1.0. The author and funding remain the same too, meaning no changes in the maintenance status.
The primary difference lies in the dist metadata. While both versions include 120 files in the package, the "unpackedSize" sees a very tiny change: 4.8.2 has a size of 309411 bytes, compared to 4.8.1's 309592 bytes which suggests mostly trivial changes to the source code of some types, the build process or the documentation. More importantly, version 4.8.2 was released on November 21, 2023, after 4.8.1 which was released on November 17, 2023, indicating that version 4.8.2 contains the latest bug fixes and improvements made in those few days. Developers should update to version 4.8.2 to get the most up-to-date and potentially refined type definitions, though the impact of such a small change is probably small. This package is used to improve type safety and productivity in TypeScript projects.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 4.8.2 of the package type-fest