v2.2.0-rc.3

Bugfixes:

• fixes chunk loading in old IEs
• fixes error which prevented using arrow functions in require.ensure (ccfc608)
• fixes bug when passing function to rules.use (44baa7c)
• fixes bug for --progress output (0636e7c)
• fixes bug with export * and non-harmony modules (ee3d53c)
• fixes bug when removing assets from the compilation (cb4c209)

v2.2.0-rc.2

Features:

• Stats output now disables only 15 modules by default (see new option stats.maxModules, --display-max-modules)
• Stats for modules now includes a depth for modules which is the distance to the entry point.
• add --display-depth for CLI to display the module depth in stats

Bugfixes:

• Cached modules now correctly reset meta information
• arrow functions in require.ensure now work correctly

v2.2.0-rc.1

Bugfixes:

• webpack was not able to recover after an error in a file occured in watch mode
• It was not possible to set UglifyJs screw_ie8 option

v2.2.0-rc.0

This is the first RC for webpack 2. We will try to avoid breaking changes now until webpack 3.

Bugfixes:

• id in generated code of a context module is correctly escaped
• context modules are now affected by NamedModulesPlugin, HashedModuleIdsPlugin, DllPlugin
• performance hints ignore SourceMaps now
• don't include multiple use stricts
• imports also mark the module as ES2015 module like exports
• exit the process correctly when watching and a critical error happens
• externals are no longer moved by the commons chunk plugin

Features:

• entrypoints are flagged with [big] if they are over the limit
• improve validation errors
• allow to alias loaders to a value with query
• performance improvements

v2.1.0-beta.28

Major changes:

• add import() as Code Splitting construct. It should be used instead of System.import when possible. System.import will be deprecated in webpack 2 release (removed in webpack 3) as it's behavior is incorrect according to the spec.
• *.json files are now supported without the json-loader. You may still use it. It's not a breaking change.
• webpack will now show performance warnings when bundle size is too big. You can disable them with performance.hints = false. It recommended to disable them in development but leave them enabled in production.

Bugfixes:

• Generate equal code on each platform when using node.js modules, module, process, global, etc.
• CLI: Fixes --module-bind for the -loader change
• Validation: externals now allows boolean values
• Loaders: Complex options are now correctly passed when using remainingRequest like with the style-loader
• Fixes a event leak when using watch mode
• Stats: exclude now only tests resource and not complete identifier
• Fixes bug related to export * from ...
• CLI: Fix behavior of --cache and --no-cache
• It's now possible to combine webpack ES2015 modules with babel ES2015 modules

Features:

• add output.strictModuleExceptionHandling option which handles exceptions in modules correctly, but with less performance. The more performant variant is enabled by default.
• Template strings are now allowed at locations where expressions are allowed. import(./template/${template})
• Allow to match rules on resourceQuery
• add __webpack_nonce__ to set nonce for chunk loading script tags
• Improve tree shaking for import *

Performance:

• Cache some expensive stuff

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v1.14.0

Bugfixes:

• fix this context for AMD require when combined with async commons chunk
• update core dependency, which fixes a SourceMap bug
• update node.js core libs

v2.1.0-beta.27

Bugfixes:

• fixed indexed access to imported namespace object import * as X; X["abc"]
• Deprecated DedupePlugin
• Display an additional message for the breaking change in beta.26 to hint the user
• fixed schema validation problem with noParse

v2.1.0-beta.26

Breaking Changes:

-loader is no longer automatically added when resolving loaders

This was removed because it often lead to problems.

You can still opt-in to the old behavior with the resolveLoader.moduleExtensions configuration option.

Node.js 0.10 is no longer supported

Node.js LTS for this version is expired. You won't miss it.

Note: 0.12 will expire in December 2017. We will remove it soon too.

Features:

• AMD require now supports an error callback as 3rd argument

Bugfixes:

• Declarations from destruction now hides imports
• The parser now detects identifiers in destruction and default arguments
• The parser no longer crashes on empty patterns [, a]
• The schema now validates more stuff correctly
• --version now works correctly

v2.1.0-beta.25

Features:

• better error message for debug and custom properties.

Fixed Bugs:

• node configuration also accepts "empty"
• fixed a Testcase

v2.1.0-beta.24

Breaking changes:

• renamed enforce: "left"/"right" to enforce: "pre"/"post", because it's easier to understand and makes migration simpler

Fixed bugs:

• Validation
  • added special error message which points to the LoaderOptionsPlugin
• Schema
  • sort alphabetically
  • fixes issues with oneOf schema type
• CI
  • fixed build