Features

• new stats.relatedAssets option to show assets that are related to other assets (like SourceMap, compressed version, etc.)
• removed assets table in favor of assets list in stats text
• assetInfo from emitAsset will now merge when nested objects or arrays are used
• remove experiments.importAsync and enable it by default
• remove experiments.importAwait
• [query] is now a valid placeholder when for paths based on a filename like assets
• output.assetModuleFilename includes [query] now
  • This allows to use querystrings with asset modules, e. g. when using some kind of server-side processing layer for assets

Bugfixes

• fix a problem were context modules misses some items when remove.modules is used
• fixes a problem when multiple webpack runtimes try to load the same script (e. g. as script external with Module Federation)
• fix a problem where shareScope is ignored in ModuleFederationPlugin and SharePlugin
• exclude deprecated --module-rules-options from Cli arguments
• fixes problems with relative paths when using nested or weird entry names (for web, node, webworker)
• fix version comparsion for Module Federation