Features

• export * as X from "..." is now supported
• webpack now better understand URLs
  • add support for file: URLs
  • add support for fragments #fragment
  • add new hooks to allow plugins to add custom schemes
• add support for import.meta
  • import.meta.webpackHot is the HMR API for ESM
  • import.meta.webpack is the webpack major version
  • import.meta.url is the file: url of the current file
• Module Federation
  • add complete SemVer ranges support (e. g. >=1 <4 || >5 <=7 || 3.4.X || 3.5.0-beta)
  • choose shared version deterministic by uniqueName for better caching
  • remove ability to pass version or requiredVersion as array (only strings are supported)
  • Container API changed: Share Scope format is different now

Bugfixes

• improve compat layer for MainTemplate and Module.source() to support more webpack 4 plugins
• Module Federation
  • fix a crash when two runtimes try to remove a script tag
  • make bundles more deterministic to avoid random changes