v5.81.0

New Features

• [CSS] - Increased CSS import support and new hooks included for CSS module creation by @alexander-akait in #17057
• Logging now added to DefinePlugin by @alexander-akait in #17048
• New ignoreBrowserWarnings option to ignore browser console warnings in ModuleFederation by @indeediansbrett in #16388

Bug Fixes

• [CSS] - Fix issue where vendor prefixed keyframes and animation was not supported in CSS modules by @alexander-akait in #16975
• Fix bug where AST was not properly handled by @quanru in #17032
• Fix automatic publicPath detection logic by @alexander-akait in #17047

Tests & Contributor Experience

• Rename provide to getOrInsert in MapHelpers and document it better by @TheLarkInn in #17060
• Increase test reliability for DefinePlugin @alexander-akait in #17062
• Add additional CI Pipeline to test main branches of first-party webpack dependencies by @alexander-akait in #17020
• Refactor tests to no longer use deprecated or legacy dependencies and APIs by @alexander-akait in #17033

Developer Experience

• Increase type coverage/documentation for ModuleFilenameHelpers by @TheLarkInn in #17045
• Increase type coverage/documentation for CommonJsExportsParserPlugin by @TheLarkInn in #17046
• Increase type coverage/documentation for binarySearchBounds.js by @TheLarkInn in #17058
• Export MemoryCacheOptions types by @romulof in #17055

Dependencies & Maintenance

• Add NodeJS v20 to CI Matrix by @alexander-akait in #17019
• Update Typescript to v5 by @alexander-akait in #16957
• Bump @types/estree from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 by @dependabot in #17026
• Bump @types/node from 18.15.11 to 18.15.13 by @dependabot in #17038
• Bump assemblyscript from 0.27.2 to 0.27.3 by @dependabot in #17051
• Bump memfs from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1 by @dependabot in #17039
• Bump prettier from 2.8.7 to 2.8.8 by @dependabot in #17050
• Bump simple-git from 3.17.0 to 3.18.0 by @dependabot in #17066

New Contributors

• @quanru made their first contribution in #17032
• @romulof made their first contribution in #17055
• @indeediansbrett made their first contribution in #16388

Full Changelog: v5.80.0...v5.81.0

v5.80.0

New Features

• Support destructuring assignment in import.meta by @vankop in #16996
• Support treeshaking for destructuring assignment with AwaitExpression by @vankop in #16995
• Introduce errorsSpace, warningsSpace for more readable traces in stats by @vankop in #15450

Bug Fixes

• [CSS] - Fix runtime generation bug for merged CSS Chunks by @janlent1 in #16903
• [CSS] - Properly handle url()/src()/image-set()/image() by @alexander-akait in #16978
• ES Module webpack loaders are now supported @stefanprobst in #15198
• Fix spelling error for statement.finalizer in parser by @xiaoboost in #17016
• Fix non-deterministic moduleId assignment due to encountering NaN in sort function by @scameron in #16933
• [enhanced-resolve]: Support wildcards pattern with common suffix in package maps & imports/exports field by @bvanjoi in webpack/enhanced-resolve#353

Tests & Contributor Experience

• [CSS] - Added test case for @supports field by @alexander-akait in #17011
• Add test for include option in BannerPlugin by @jeffin143 in #10736
• Remove finializer from cspell.json by @snitin315 in #17022

Developer Experience

• Adds the twitter badge by @yadunandanbhat in #15667
• Add wasm-bindgen example to example by @gthb in #14313
• Update grammar mistakes in examples by @ersachin3112 in #16988

Dependencies & Maintenance

• Bump core-js from 3.30.0 to 3.30.1 by @dependabot in #16983
• Bump @webassemblyjs by @alexander-akait in #17003
• Bump assemblyscript from 0.25.2 to 0.27.2 by @dependabot in #16959
• Bump enhanced-resolve to 5.13.0 by @TheLarkInn in #17024
• Included githubactions in the dependabot config by @neilnaveen in #15618
• Fix prettier by @alexander-akait in #16976

New Contributors

• @neilnaveen made their first contribution in #15618
• @yadunandanbhat made their first contribution in #15667
• @ersachin3112 made their first contribution in #16988
• @stefanprobst made their first contribution in #15198
• @xiaoboost made their first contribution in #17016
• @scameron made their first contribution in #16933

Full Changelog: v5.79.0...v5.80.0

v5.79.0

New Features

• webpack will now support simple destructuring scenarios for treeshaking namespaced imports and DefinePlugin by @vankop in #16941

Bugfixes

• Truncate extremely long module names in DefaultStatsPrinter by @snitin315 in #16882
• Add [contenthash] template support in DllPlugin's name option by @snitin315 in #16935
• Fixed a bug where readRecords compiler hook was causing hangs in conjunction with the ReadRecordsPlugin by @snitin315 & @zookatron in #16944
• webpack can now consume ESM bundles generated by webpack's esm output support by @vankop in #15608
• [CSS] - webpack now respects CSS's case-insensitivity with atTags like @MEDIA by @alexander-akait in #16915
• [CSS] - Fixes a bug where crossOriginLoading anonymous would not work when loading styles by @chenjiahan in #16925

Developer Experience

• Fix broken links and typos found in examples by @snitin315 in #16937
• Export more Externals Option types by @snitin315 in #12774

Contributor Experience

• Add new test case for ModuleFederationPlugin usage with shareScope option by @snitin315 in #16943
• Bump core-js from 3.20.3 to 3.30.0 by @dependabot in #16905
• Update all applicable local dependencies and devDependencies by @alexander-akait in #16919, #16924, #16936, #16968
• Update to Jest 29 by @alexander-akait in #16947

New Contributors

• @chenjiahan made their first contribution in #16925
• @karlhorky made their first contribution in #16419
• @zookatron made their first contribution in #16301

Full Changelog: v5.78.0...v5.79.0

v5.78.0

Features

• Implement amdContainer support for AMD libraries (Fixes #16561) by @long76 in #16562

Bugfixes

• [CSS] - Nested atRule's @media or @supports now properly are replaced with unique identifiers by @noreiller in #15812
• [CSS] - Fix bug where closing parenthesis in CSS were not properly parsed and compiled by @janlent1 in #16864
• Fix an issue where oneOf rule has been picked multiple times by @xiaoxiaojx in #16477
• Add createRequire support for node:module prefix by @alexander-akait in #16904
• Fix bug where self-referencing a package in a shared module failed by @weareoutman in #16685

Performance

• Make ErrorHelpers named functions; Add types by @TheLarkInn in #16893
• Introduce ModuleTypeConstants for plugins by @TheLarkInn in #16896
• Refactor memory footprint in string usages for multiple plugins by @TheLarkInn in #16894
• Add more module type constants, use them across codebase by @TheLarkInn in #16898

Contributor Experience

• Implement default PR Template to use GitHub Copilot for PR's integration and fix template name usage by @geromegrignon in #16890
• ci: update actions/cache to v3 by @armujahid in #16462
• webpack org Collaborators and Members now have funded GitHub Codespaces!

New Contributors

• @geromegrignon made their first contribution in #16890
• @armujahid made their first contribution in #16462
• @long76 made their first contribution in #16562
• @weareoutman made their first contribution in #16685

Full Changelog: v5.77.0...v5.78.0

v5.77.0

New Features

• Add a new output option, output.workerPublicPath by @thomastay in #16671

Developer Experience

• Improve resolve.extensions error message to suggest when "." is missing before the extension by @snitin315 in #16807

Contributor Experience

• Enable GitHub Copilot for PR's into default Pull Request Template by @TheLarkInn in #16881

New Contributors

• @thomastay made their first contribution in #16671

Full Changelog: v5.76.3...v5.77.0

v5.76.3

Bugfixes

• Non-javascript files will correctly not be imported when using experiments.outputModule (ES Module Output) by @snitin315 in #16809
• Limit console output progress bar length to 40 when no columns provided by @snitin315 in #16810
• Add missing NodeJS Builtin Modules support for inspector/promises, readline/promises, and stream/consumers by @ShenHongFei in #16841
• webpack bin/cli now properly respects NODE_PATH env variable by @snitin315 in #16808
• Improve typos in resolveResourceErrorHints by @snitin315 in #16806
• Add missing loaders token support to moduleFilenameTemplate function call by @pgoldberg in #16756
• Add gaurd condition for enabledLibraryTypes in internal ContainerPlugin by @PengBoUESTC in #16635

New Contributors

• @ShenHongFei made their first contribution in #16841
• @pgoldberg made their first contribution in #16756
• @PengBoUESTC made their first contribution in #16635

Full Changelog: v5.76.2...v5.76.3

v5.76.2

Bugfixes

• Fix bug where a missing semicolon in generated bundle output for publicPathRuntime would cause concatenated runtime errors by @snitin315 in #16811
• Remove redundant semicolons generated in bundle runtime code after onScriptComplete function by @ahaoboy in #16347
• Fix bug where RealContentHashPlugin was not respecting output.hashSalt's ability to cause a force recalculation of [contenthash] for emitted assets by @dmichon-msft #16789

Performance

• Improve memory and runtime performance of sourcemaps via hoisting Regular Expression literals to stored variables by @TheLarkInn in #15722
• Correct v8 deoptimization in ModuleGraph due to instance property declarations occurring outside of constructor by @snitin315 in #16830

Developer Experience

• Improved internal typings to match webpack-sources typings for Source instances by @snitin315 in #16805
• Update repo examples to include missing quotation by @snitin315 in #16812

New Contributors

• @ahaoboy made their first contribution in #16347

Full Changelog: v5.76.1...v5.76.2

v5.76.1

Fixed

• Added assert/strict built-in to NodeTargetPlugin

Revert

• Improve performance of hashRegExp lookup by @ryanwilsonperkin in #16759

v5.76.0

Bugfixes

• Avoid cross-realm object access by @Jack-Works in #16500
• Improve hash performance via conditional initialization by @lvivski in #16491
• Serialize generatedCode info to fix bug in asset module cache restoration by @ryanwilsonperkin in #16703
• Improve performance of hashRegExp lookup by @ryanwilsonperkin in #16759

Features

• add target to LoaderContext type by @askoufis in #16781

Security

• CVE-2022-37603 fixed by @akhilgkrishnan in #16446

Repo Changes

• Fix HTML5 logo in README by @jakebailey in #16614
• Replace TypeScript logo in README by @jakebailey in #16613
• Update actions/cache dependencies by @piwysocki in #16493

New Contributors

• @Jack-Works made their first contribution in #16500
• @lvivski made their first contribution in #16491
• @jakebailey made their first contribution in #16614
• @akhilgkrishnan made their first contribution in #16446
• @ryanwilsonperkin made their first contribution in #16703
• @piwysocki made their first contribution in #16493
• @askoufis made their first contribution in #16781

Full Changelog: v5.75.0...v5.76.0

v5.75.0

Bugfixes

• experiments.* normalize to false when opt-out
• avoid NaN%
• show the correct error when using a conflicting chunk name in code
• HMR code tests existance of window before trying to access it
• fix eval-nosources-* actually exclude sources
• fix race condition where no module is returned from processing module
• fix position of standalong semicolon in runtime code

Features

• add support for @import to extenal CSS when using experimental CSS in node
• add i64 support to the deprecated WASM implementation

Developer Experience

• expose EnableWasmLoadingPlugin
• add more typings
• generate getters instead of readonly properties in typings to allow overriding them