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

v2.1.0-beta.23

Breaking Changes:

removed postLoaders and preLoaders

rules enforce: "left" and enforce: "right" can be used instead.

rules should be used instead of loaders, but the old one still work.

Same syntax + additional options. Allows to configure the parser too. Allows matching by issuer.

configuration is validated against a schema

moved parser instancation into NormalModuleFactory

compiler.parser must no longer be used. Use this instead:

compiler.plugin("compilation", function(compilation, params) {
  params.normalModuleFactory.plugin("parser", function(parser, parserOptions) {
    parser.plugin(/* ... */);
  });
});

Features:

• DllReferencePlugin
  • added extensions option.
  • manifest can be a path to a manifest, which is resolve at compile time.
• Rules
  • parser can be configured. Disable parsing features is now possible.
  • loader options (query) can be any object now. (Before only stringify-able object were possible)
• Loaders
  • loader-runner: loaders can return a Promise.
• Compilation
  • WebWorker: fixed HMR template
  • ChunkModuleIdRangePlugin: added experimental plugin to assign module ids to a chunk. (related to Long Term Caching)
• UglifyJs: version updated.
• MultiCompiler: dependencies parameter added. Allows to specify dependencies with multiple configurations. They are compiled in this order.
• CLI
  • multiple --configs allowed.
  • added --display-provided-exports and --display-used-exports
  • -v prints version
• CI
  • .editorconfig is validated

Fixed Bugs:

• Tree Shaking
• System parsing

Migration Example

Below is an example PR that you can reference to help assist you in migrating from .22 to .23:
https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/pull/2237/files