v5.66.0

Features

• add output.library.type: "commonjs-static" to emit a statically analyse-able commonjs module (for node.js esm interop support)
• add experiments.css (very experimental)
  • see #14893

Bugfixes

• fix CORS headers for experiments.lazyCompilation
• fix [absolute-resource-path] for SourceMap module naming
• avoid stack overflow when accessing many memory cached cache values in series

Performance

• reduce default watchOptions.aggregateTimeout to 20ms

v5.65.0

Features

• static evaluation understands undefined now
• reduce container entry code by a few chars
• use template literals when available and they make sense

Bugfixes

• handle singleton flag without requiredVersion in Module Federation
• upgrade watchpack for context time info bugfix

Performance

• improve RegExp in error message formating for non-quadratic performance

Developer Experience

• automatically insert brackets when output.globalObject contains a non-trival expression
• show error when using script type external with invalid syntax
• expose types for Resolver, StatsOptions and ResolvePluginInstance

Preparations for the future

• hashDigestLength will default to 16 in webpack 6 (experiments.futureDefaults)

v5.64.4

Bugfixes

• fix tagged template literal evaluation
• fix ModuleFederation with ESM
• fix outputModule with intial splitChunks

Performance

• upgrade watchpack for faster watcher updating
• track file and directory timestamps separately in watchpack and webpack

Developer Experience

• show origin of singleton shared module in mismatch warning

v5.64.3

Performance

• allow to use pre-compiled schema when Infinity is used in configuration
• allow to use pre-compiled schema for configuration arrays

v5.64.2

Bugfixes

• avoid double initial compilation due to invalid dependencies with managedPaths

v5.64.1

Bugfixes

• fix regexp in managedPaths to exclude additional slash
• make module.accept errorHandler optional in typings
• correctly create an async chunk when using a require(...).property in require.ensure
• fix cleaning of symlinks in output.clean: true
• fix change detection with unsafeCache within managedPaths (node_modules)
• bump webpack-sources for Stack Overflow bugfix

v5.64.0

Features

• add asyncChunks: boolean option to disable creation of async chunks

Bugfixes

• fix ProfilingPlugin for experiments.backCompat: false

Performance

• avoid running regexp twice over the file list

v5.63.0

Features

• allow passing chunkLoading: false to disable on-demand loading

Bugfixes

• fix import 'single-quote' in esm build dependencies

v5.62.2

Bugfixes

• fix __system_context__ injection when using the library option on entrypoint
• enable exportsPresence: "error" by default in futureDefaults
• fix bad performance for a RegExp in Stats printing (with large error messages)
• fix exportPresence -> exportsPresence typo
• fix a bug with module invalidation when only module id changes with experiments.cacheUnaffected

v5.62.1

Bugfix

• fix invalid generated code when omitting ;