Version Details and Security Vulnerabilities

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yargs

16.0.1

Comparision Betweeen 16.0.1 and 16.0.0

Identify the differences between the current version of the package and the previous one.

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Dependencies

Dev Dependencies

Peer Dependencies

Distributed Files

Unpacked Size

287.62 KB

287.32 KB

Version 16.0.1 Details

Yargs versions 16.0.0 and 16.0.1 represent minor iterations of this popular command-line argument parsing library for Node.js. Both versions share the same core dependencies like y18n for internationalization, cliui for building command-line interfaces, escalade for traversing file systems, string-width for calculating string lengths in terminals, yargs-parser for parsing arguments, get-caller-file for determining the calling file, and require-directory for loading modules from directories. The development dependencies also remain consistent, including tools for testing (mocha, chai, c8), linting (eslint, @typescript-eslint/parser, @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin), building (rollup, typescript), and code quality (standardx).

The key difference lies in the "dist" section. The unpackedSize for version 16.0.1 is slightly larger at 294523 compared to 294217 for 16.0.0, a difference of 306 bytes. The releaseDate shows the newer version 16.0.1 was released about 12 hours later than version 16.0.0, which indicates that 16.0.1 is likely a patch release addressing a minor bug or improvement identified shortly after the initial 16.0.0 release. For developers using Yargs, this implies a quick follow-up to address something in the original new version. The impact of the increased size will be basically nonexistent. Unless you're experiencing a bug in 16.0.0, there's no specific feature driving an upgrade, but staying on the latest patch version is recommended for stability and bug fixes.

Security Vulnerabilities

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