v5.92.0

Bug Fixes

• Correct tidle range's comutation for module federation
• Consider runtime for pure expression dependency update hash
• Return value in the subtractRuntime function for runtime logic
• Fixed failed to resolve promise when eager import a dynamic cjs
• Avoid generation extra code for external modules when remapping is not required
• The css/global type now handles the exports name
• Avoid hashing for @keyframe and @property at-rules in css/global type
• Fixed mangle with destructuring for JSON modules
• The stats.hasWarnings() method now respects the ignoreWarnings option
• Fixed ArrayQueue iterator
• Correct behavior of __webpack_exports_info__.a.b.canMangle
• Changed to the correct plugin name for the CommonJsChunkFormatPlugin plugin
• Set the chunkLoading option to the import when environment is unknown and output is module
• Fixed when runtimeChunk has no exports when module chunkFormat used
• [CSS] Fixed parsing minimized CSS import
• [CSS] URLs in CSS files now have correct public path
• [CSS] The css module type should not allow parser to switch mode
• [Types] Improved context module types

New Features

• Added platform target properties to compiler
• Improved multi compiler cache location and validating it
• Support import attributes spec (with keyword)
• Support node: prefix for Node.js core modules in runtime code
• Support prefetch/preload for module chunk format
• Support "..." in the importsFields option for resolver
• Root module is less prone to be wrapped in IIFE
• Export InitFragment class for plugins
• Export compileBooleanMatcher util for plugins
• Export InputFileSystem and OutputFileSystem types
• [CSS] Support the esModule generator option for CSS modules
• [CSS] Support CSS when chunk format is module

v5.91.0

Bug Fixes

• Deserializer for ignored modules doesn't crash
• Allow the unsafeCache option to be a proxy object
• Normalize the snapshot.unmanagedPaths option
• Fixed fs types
• Fixed resolve's plugins types
• Fixed wrongly calculate postOrderIndex
• Fixed watching types
• Output import attrbiutes/import assertions for external JS imports
• Throw an error when DllPlugin needs to generate multiple manifest files, but the path is the same
• [CSS] Output layer/supports/media for external CSS imports

New Features

• Allow to customize the stage of BannerPlugin
• [CSS] Support CSS exports convention
• [CSS] support CSS local ident name
• [CSS] Support __webpack_nonce__ for CSS chunks
• [CSS] Support fetchPriority for CSS chunks
• [CSS] Allow to use LZW to compress css head meta (enabled in the production mode by default)
• [CSS] Support prefetch/preload for CSS chunks

v5.90.3

Bug Fixes

• don't mangle when destructuring a reexport
• types for Stats.toJson() and Stats.toString()
• many internal types
• [CSS] clean up export css local vars

Perf

• simplify and optimize chunk graph creation

v5.90.2

Bug Fixes

• use Math.imul in fnv1a32 to avoid loss of precision, directly hash UTF16 values
• the setStatus() of the HMR module should not return an array, which may cause infinite recursion
• __webpack_exports_info__.xxx.canMangle shouldn't always same as default
• mangle export with destructuring
• use new runtime to reconsider skipped connections activeState
• make dynamic import optional in try/catch
• improve auto publicPath detection

Dependencies & Maintenance

• improve CI setup and include Node.js@21

v5.90.1

Bug Fixes

• set unmanagedPaths in defaults
• correct preOrderIndex and postOrderIndex
• add fallback for MIME mismatch error in async wasm loading
• browsers versions of ECMA features

Performance

• optimize compareStringsNumeric
• optimize numberHash using 32-bit FNV1a for small ranges, 64-bit for larger
• reuse VM context across webpack magic comments

v5.90.0

Bug Fixes

• Fixed inner graph for classes
• Optimized RemoveParentModulesPlugin via bigint arithmetic
• Fixed worklet detection in production mode
• Fixed an error for cyclic importModule
• Fixed types for Server and Dirent
• Added the fetchPriority to hmr runtime's ensureChunk function
• Don't warn about dynamic import for build dependencies
• External module generation respects the output.environment.arrowFunction option
• Fixed consumimng shared runtime module logic
• Fixed a runtime logic of multiple chunks
• Fixed destructing assignment of dynamic import json file
• Passing errors array for a module hash
• Added /*#__PURE__*/ to generated JSON.parse()
• Generated a library manifest after clean plugin
• Fixed non amd externals and amd library
• Fixed a bug in SideEffectsFlagPlugin with namespace re-exports
• Fixed an error message for condition or
• The strictModuleErrorHandling is now working
• Clean up child compilation chunk graph to avoid memory leak
• [CSS] - Fixed CSS import prefer relative resolution
• [CSS] - Fixed CSS runtime chunk loading error message

New Features

• Allow to set false for dev server in webpack.config.js
• Added a warning for async external when not supported
• Added a warning for async module when not supported
• Added the node-module option for the node.__filename/__dirname and enable it by default for ESM target
• Added the snapshot.unmanagedPaths option
• Exposed the MultiCompilerOptions type
• [CSS] - Added CSS parser options to enable/disable named exports
• [CSS] - Moved CSS the exportsOnly option to CSS generator options

Dependencies & Maintenance

• use node.js LTS version for lint
• bump actions/cache from 3 to 4
• bump prettier from 3.2.1 to 3.2.3
• bump assemblyscript
• bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4

Full Changelog: v5.89.0...v5.90.0

v5.89.0

New Features

• Make CommonJS import preserve chained expressions by @bworline in #17718

Dependencies & Maintenance

• chore(deps-dev): bump @types/node from 20.3.1 to 20.4.8 by @dependabot in #17568
• docs: add example for stats detailed output by @ersachin3112 in #17420
• docs: add example for stats normal output by @ersachin3112 in #17426
• chore(deps-dev): bump core-js from 3.31.0 to 3.32.0 by @dependabot in #17539
• chore(deps-dev): bump pretty-format from 29.5.0 to 29.6.2 by @dependabot in #17536
• chore(deps-dev): bump @types/node from 20.4.8 to 20.4.9 by @dependabot in #17583
• chore(deps-dev): bump less from 4.1.3 to 4.2.0 by @dependabot in #17580
• chore(deps): bump semver from 5.7.1 to 5.7.2 by @dependabot in #17483
• chore(deps-dev): bump simple-git from 3.19.0 to 3.19.1 by @dependabot in #17427
• chore(deps-dev): bump @types/node from 20.4.9 to 20.6.0 by @dependabot in #17666

Full Changelog: v5.88.2...v5.89.0

v4.47.0

New Features

• [Security] - Add support for md4 in Node >=18. by @iclanton in #17628

New Contributors

• @iclanton made their first contribution in #17628

Full Changelog: v4.46.0...v4.47.0

v5.88.2

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where unused identifiers should retain names when using css modules by @burhanuday in #17444

Full Changelog: v5.88.1...v5.88.2

v5.88.1

Developer Experience

• Significantly improve TypeScript coverage for Library Plugins by @alexander-akait in #17414

Full Changelog: v5.88.0...v5.88.1