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

v5.74.0

Features

• add resolve.extensionAlias option which allows to alias extensions
  • This is useful when you are forced to add the .js extension to imports when the file really has a .ts extension (typescript + "type": "module")
• add support for ES2022 features like static blocks
• add Tree Shaking support for ProvidePlugin

Bugfixes

• fix persistent cache when some build dependencies are on a different windows drive
• make order of evaluation of side-effect-free modules deterministic between concatenated and non-concatenated modules
• remove left-over from debugging in TLA/async modules runtime code
• remove unneeded extra 1s timestamp offset during watching when files are actually untouched
  • This sometimes caused an additional second build which are not really needed
• fix shareScope option for ModuleFederationPlugin
• set "use-credentials" also for same origin scripts

Performance

• Improve memory usage and performance of aggregating needed files/directories for watching
  • This affects rebuild performance

Extensibility

• export HarmonyImportDependency for plugins

v5.73.0

Features

• add options for default dynamicImportMode and prefetch and preload
• add support for import { createRequire } from "module" in source code

Bugfixes

• fix code generation of e. g. return"field"in Module
• fix performance of large JSON modules
• fix performance of async modules evaluation

Developer Experience

• export PathData in typings
• improve error messages with more details

v5.72.1

Bugfixes

• fix __webpack_nonce__ with HMR
• fix in operator in some cases
• fix json parsing error messages
• fix module concatenation with using this.importModule
• upgrade enhanced-resolve