Upgrade webpack: 5.52.0 → 5.58.1 (minor)

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What changed?

✳️ webpack (5.52.0 → 5.58.1) · Repo

Release Notes

5.58.1

Bugfixes

• fix .webpack[] suffix to not execute rules
• revert performance optimization that has too large memory usage in large builds

5.58.0

Features

• add hook for readResource
• add diagnostics_channel to node builtins

Performance

• improve chunk graph creation performance
  • add cacheUnaffected cache support
• remove some caching that makes not difference
• improve splitChunks performance
• improve chunk conditions performance

5.57.1

Bugfix

• fix experiments.cacheUnaffected which broke by last release

5.57.0

Performance

• reduce number of hash.update calls
• allow ExternalModules to be unsafe cached
• improve hashing performance of module lists (StringXor)

Bugfixes

• experiments.cacheUnaffected
  • handle module/chunk id changes correctly
  • cache modules with async blocks
  • show errors when using incompatible options

5.56.1

Bugfix

• DefinePlugin: fix conflict with older variants of the plugin

5.56.0

Performance

• make DefinePlugin rebuild check more efficient performance and memory wise

5.55.1

Bugfixes

• fixes for experiments.cacheUnaffected
  • fix accidentically shared mem caches
  • avoid RuntimeSpecMap in favor of directly setting on memCache
  • compare references modules when restoring mem cache

5.55.0

Performance

• experiments.cacheUnaffected
  • reduce cache memory usage
  • make memCache per module
  • cache ESM reexport computation
• module.unsafeCache
  • make it faster by moving it to Compilation-level instead of in NormalModuleFactory
  • omit tracking resolve dependencies since they are not used when unsafe cache is enabled
• module graph
  • lazy assign ModuleGraphConnections to Dependencies since that is only accessed when uncached

5.54.0

Features

• improve constant folding to allow to skip more branches for && || and ??
• allow all hashing using in webpack to be configured with output.hashFunction
• no longer bailout completely from inner graph analysis when eval is used in a module

Bugfixes

• force bump enhanced-resolve for bugfixes

Performance

• reduce number of allocation when creating snapshots
• add output.hashFunction: "xxhash64" for a super fast wasm based hash function
• improve utf-8 conversion when serializing short strings
• improve hashing performance for dependencies
• add experiments.cacheUnaffected which caches computations for modules that are unchanged and reference only unchanged modules

5.53.0

Features

• add node.__dirname/__filename: "warn-mock" which warns on usage (will be enabled in webpack 6 by default)

Bugfixes

• add stream/web to Node.js externals
• fix IgnorePluginSchema
• fix builds with persistent caching taking 1 minute to build at least

Experiments

• add experiments.futureDefaults to enable defaults for webpack 6

5.52.1

Performance

• split fresh created persistent cache files by time to avoid creating very large files

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Commits

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