v2.6.0

v2.6.0

Minor Changes

feat: allow the ignored option to be a mixed array of glob strings and (by @stormslowly in #336) RegExp instances, e.g. ignored: ["**/.cache", /generated/].

Previously an array was assumed to contain only glob strings, so passing a RegExp inside it threw TypeError: Expected a string. This made it awkward for frameworks to append their own glob ignores to a user-supplied RegExp ignore, since the two could not be combined in one value.

Glob strings in the array are still merged into a single RegExp; RegExp items are tested as-is. Behaviour for string-only arrays, single strings, single RegExps and functions is unchanged.

Patch Changes

fix: report a file removed after startTime to a watcher attached later, as a change after startTime already is. (by @alexander-akait in #345)

Previously a watcher attached with a startTime learned of files changed since then ("outdated on attach") but not of files removed since then, so webpack missed a dependency deleted while a build ran.

Suppress Watchpack Error (stats) logging for EACCES, ENODEV, and Windows EINVAL lstat errors in the watch-event path, matching the handling in the scan paths (e.g. pagefile.sys on a watched drive root with Node >= 22.17) (by @danielroe in #326)