Vue Template Compiler versions 2.2.5 and 2.2.6, both designed for Vue 2.0, offer developers essential tools for pre-compiling Vue templates into render functions, optimizing performance within Vue applications. Both versions share core characteristics: they depend on "he" for HTML entity encoding/decoding and "de-indent" for code indentation cleaning, are licensed under MIT, have a repository hosted on GitHub under Vuejs. This ensures compatibility across various environments and contribution to a consistent coding style.
The primary difference between these versions lies in their release dates and potentially, the bug fixes and minor enhancements incorporated in the newer version. Version 2.2.6 was released on March 27, 2017, shortly after version 2.2.5 released on March 24, 2017. Developers should prefer version 2.2.6, assuming it includes the latest bug fixes and optimizations, as is a common practice in semantic versioning.
For developers, using the Vue Template Compiler allows for offline template compilation, improving runtime performance by reducing the workload on the client-side. If you're working with Vue 2.0, using versions 2.2.6 ensures you benefit from the most recent improvements and potentially higher stability. Always check the official Vue.js changelog and/or GitHub releases pages for a complete list of specific bug fixes, features introduced, and potential breaking changes between minor versions like 2.2.5 and 2.2.6.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 2.2.6 of the package
vue-template-compiler vulnerable to client-side Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
A vulnerability has been discovered in vue-template-compiler, that allows an attacker to perform XSS via prototype pollution. The attacker could change the prototype chain of some properties such as Object.prototype.staticClass or Object.prototype.staticStyle to execute arbitrary JavaScript code. Vue 2 has reached End-of-Life. This vulnerability has been patched in Vue 3.
