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v4.2.0 Security

This release includes 1 security fix for security teams reviewing exposed deployments.

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This release patches 1 known CVE

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ai clones-detection code-quality coding-agents copy-paste cpd
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detector dry duplicates duplications mcp quality skill skills

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Summary

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Updates New Features, Bug Fixes, and Breaking Changes across a mixed release.

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Breaking Changes

  • Vue SFC tokenization.vue files are no longer tokenized as markup. Each block is now dispatched to its own sub-format: <script>javascript, <script lang="ts">typescript, <template>markup, <style>css, <style lang="scss">scss, <style lang="less">less. Clone reports for .vue files now appear under these resolved sub-format names. Any tooling or configuration that relied on .vue clones being reported under markup must be updated.
  • --formatsExts users — custom mappings that pointed .vue to markup (e.g. "formatsExts": { "markup": ["vue"] }) will no longer take effect because .vue is handled by the dedicated vue format processor. Remove or update such mappings.

New Features

  • Custom tokenizer backend — replaced the prismjs npm package with a self-contained reprism-based grammar engine. ~11.5% faster tokenization on real projects (avg 1126 ms → 997 ms on a 548-file, 223-format scan).
  • Cross-format detection — Vue SFC (.vue), Svelte (.svelte), Astro (.astro), and Markdown files are now tokenized per-block/per-section. A <script> block in a .vue file can match a .ts file; a fenced code block in Markdown can match a .py file.
  • 223 supported formats — Apex, CFML/ColdFusion, GDScript, Svelte, Astro, and 70+ additional languages added (up from 152). See supported_formats.md.
  • Shebang detection — extensionless executable scripts (e.g. /usr/bin/env python3) are auto-detected by their #! shebang line and tokenized in the correct language.
  • --store-path — configure a custom directory for the LevelDB cache, eliminating collisions when multiple jscpd processes run in parallel on the same machine.
  • --skipComments — shorthand flag for --mode weak, which strips comments before detection.
  • --formats-names — map specific filenames (e.g. Makefile, Dockerfile) to a detection format.

Bug Fixes

  • Entire-file duplicates silently dropped (@jscpd/core #728) — RabinKarp flushed the pending clone on a store hit at end-of-file instead of on a miss. Files that are complete copies of each other were undetected. Fixed.
  • ReDoS hang on Lisp/Elisp files (@jscpd/tokenizer #737) — the Lisp string regex /"(?:[^"\\]*|\\.)*"/ could catastrophically backtrack (O(2ⁿ)) on unterminated strings. Replaced with a linear /"(?:[^"\\]|\\[\s\S])*"/ pattern.
  • Process crash on malformed package.json (#739) — readJSONSync threw an unhandled SyntaxError when package.json contained invalid JSON, killing the process. Now emits a warning and continues with an empty config.
  • Vue SFC cross-file detection broken — the detector used the file-level format (vue) as the store namespace for all SFC blocks, preventing a <script> block in one .vue file from ever matching a <script> block in another. The namespace now reflects each block's resolved sub-format.
  • Vue SFC incorrect column numbers — tokens on the first line of a block carried block-relative column 1 instead of file-absolute column numbers. Fixed in @jscpd/tokenizer.
  • 50 dependency security vulnerabilities remediated across the monorepo (Dependabot batches).

Known Limitations

  • Malformed SFC blocks (e.g. unclosed tags, invalid attributes) are silently skipped and do not contribute tokens.

Breaking Changes

  • .vue files are no longer tokenized as `markup`; each block is dispatched to its own sub-format (javascript, typescript, markup, css, scss, less) and clone reports appear under those resolved names.
  • Custom mappings via `--formatsExts` that pointed `.vue` to `markup` will no longer take effect because `.vue` files are now handled by the dedicated `vue` format processor.

Security Fixes

  • Resolved 50 dependency security vulnerabilities across the monorepo via Dependabot updates.

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