Features

• automatically switch to an ESM compatible environment when enabling ESM output mode
• handle multiple alternative directories (e. g. due to resolve.alias or resolve.modules) when creating an context module
• add util/types to node.js built-in modules
• add __webpack_exports_info__.<name>.canMangle api

Bugfixes

• fix bug in chunk graph generation which leads to modules being included in chunk desprite them being already included in parent chunks
• avoid writing more than 2GB at once during cache serialization (as workaround for node.js/libuv bug on MacOS)
• fix handling of whitespaces in semver ranges when using Module Federation
• avoid generating hashes which contain only numbers as they likely conflict with module ids
• fix resource name based placeholders for data uris
• fix cache serialization for context elements
• fix passing of stage option when instrumenting plugins for the ProfilingPlugin
• fix tracking of declarations in concatenated modules to avoid conflicts
• fix unstable mangling of exports
• fix handling of # in paths of loaders
• avoid unnecessary cache update when using experiments.buildHttp

Contributing

• update typescript and jest

Developer Experience

• expose some additional typings for usage in webpack-cli