v5.11.0

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Features

• update typings to include undefined/null types (for strict type)
• export WebpackError
• export Asset and AssetInfo types
• allow error configuration for validateSchema function

Bugfixes

• fix typings for SourceMapSource
• allow custom properties in AssetInfo
• handle undefined values for rule conditions like empty strings

v5.10.3

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Bugfixes

• errors in initial cache no longer cause build dependencies to be ignored
• manual side effects flagging should override automatic analysis
• modules in dlls without entryOnly will no longer be dropped because of no side effects

v5.10.2

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Bugfixes

• add a few missing node.js libraries as externals in target: "node"
• improve cache (de)serialization to allow larger cache files (>2GB) and increase performance for them

v5.10.1

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Bugfixes

• avoid duplicating chunk info in chunk loading global
• allow executing chunks before runtime is loaded
• avoid error when emitting assets with different query string but identical filename and content
• fix duplicated asset name in processAssets with additionalAssets
• add missing \ in module info header comment

v5.10.0

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Bugfixes

• Multiple fixes regarding the side effects optimization ("sideEffects": false) when reexports and concatenated modules are combined

Contributing

• Typescript major 4
  • Improved internal structure of our typings

Performance

• output.pathinfo: true (default in development) adds less verbose information (and is faster)
• output.pathinfo: "verbose" adds more verbose information
• output.pathinfo: true is cached
• avoid assets and module stats information generation when they are cached and cached assets/modules are not shown

v5.9.0

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Features

• improve side effects analysis to report imported and reexported symbols as side-effect-free

Bugfixes

• fix problem when HMR and different runtimes (e. g. with Workers)
  • caused crash with ... has no hash info for runtime ...

v5.8.0

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Features

• add the ability to process assets generated in later stages during processAssets
• new processAssets stage: PROCESS_ASSETS_STAGE_OPTIMIZE_INLINE
• add hooks to the RealContentHashPlugin to allow to process custom hashes (e. g. SRI)

Bugfixes

• fix typing for child compiler plugins
• SourceMapPlugin will process assets added in later stages during asset processing

v5.7.0

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Features

• CLI supports installing webpack-cli via pnpm

Bugfixes

• fix problem with ASI detection, causing semicolons inserted after if(...) etc.

v5.6.0

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Bugfixes

• emit warnings/errors for exports in commonjs modules for which we know that they don't exist

v5.5.1

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Bugfixes

• fix crash when __esModule is defined with defineProperty without value

v5.5.0

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Bugfixes

• fix ASI issues that occur between concatenated modules
• fix incorrect handling of [id] and etc. in SourceMap sources
• fix side-effect-free handling of exports for concatenated modules that causes an unused export
• make ESM-CJS interop handling consistent
  • make __esModule flag consistent exposed
  • handle non enumerable exports
  • handle inherited exports
  • handle exported Promises

v5.4.0

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Bugfixes

• fix renaming in super class expression in nested scopes
• fix parsing and handling of browserlist queries
• fix a few edge cases with ESM-CJS interop and .mjs
• fix ASI edge cases

v5.3.2

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Bugfixes

• runtime-dependent concatenated modules can generate code for runtime-dependent execution order of concatenated modules

v5.3.1

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Bugfixes

• fix incorrect concatenation of modules when multiple runtimes are involved
  • fixes a "This should not happen" error
  • fixes a __webpack_require__(null) problem
• run CLI correctly after installing
• fixes a huge performance issue when processing minimized code with SourceMap
• Use string[] types instead of [string, ...string[]] for arrays that must not be empty
  • this is more convinient to use

Performance

• avoid incorrect store of counts in the ProgressPlugin, which causes unneeded serialization of the Persistent Cache
• upgrade terser-webpack-plugin for performance improvements
• upgrade webpack-sources for performance improvements

v5.3.0

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Features and Bugfixes

• generate runtime conditional code when modules are forcefully merged from multiple runtimes
  • This fixes a Cannot read property 'call' of undefined error in webpack runtime, because modules are used that are not in the graph in one runtime
• disabled source code analysis for side effects in non-production modes
  • this causes unnecessary changes to parent modules in development
  • add optimization.sideEffects: "flag" as option for this

v5.2.1

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Bugfixes

• add watchOptions.followSymlinks option to schema
• fix hard crash when calling resolve with undefined value
• fix emit problem when files have hash in query string
• fix unneeded generation of SourceMaps when no devtool is used
  • fixes a huge performance regression with terser-webpack-plugin

v5.2.0

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Features

• add sourceFilename and javascriptModule to asset info for plugins

Bugfixes

• fix variable name collision when using module concatenation
• fix arrow functions in ie 11
• fix this externals with module concatenation
• force update for enhanced-resolve for critical bugfixes (see changelog)

v5.1.3

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Bugfixes

• omit unused modules from chunks when modules are only unused in some runtimes
  • fixes Self-reference dependency has unused export name error
• fix order of asset optimization to fix conflict between compression-plugin and real hash plugin

v5.1.2

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Bugfixes

• revert: omit unused modules from chunk when modules are only unused in some runtimes
  • caused issues with mini-css modules

v5.1.1

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Bugfixes

• fix order of chunk hashing to allow to uses hashes in WebWorkers
• update to terser-webpack-plugin 5
  • reduces number of dependencies by dropping webpack 4 support
• omit unused modules from chunk when modules are only unused in some runtimes
  • fixes Self-reference dependency has unused export name error
• fix hanging production builds because of infinite loop in inner graph optimization
• Compilation.deleteAsset updates chunk to file mappings

v5.1.0

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Features

• expose webpack property from Compiler
• expose cleverMerge, EntryOptionPlugin, DynamicEntryPlugin

Bugfixes

• missing require("..").xxx in try-catch produces a warning instead of an error now
• handle reexports in concatenated modules correctly when they are side-effect-free
• fix incorrect deprecation message for ModuleTemplate.hooks.hash

v5.0.0

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Announcement and changelog