webpack 5.112.1

v5.112.1

on Node.js NPM

Patch Changes

• Rebuild a lazy barrel in watch when what it defers changes, and keep the imports and re-exports it still runs. (by @aryanraj45 in #22699)

• Rebuild under cacheUnaffected a module whose re-export target goes or returns. (by @aryanraj45 in #22749)

• Fix "Self-reference dependency has unused export name" for CommonJS namespace re-exports. (by @alexander-akait in #22791)

• Fix exportType: "style" CSS modules throwing outside the runtime chunk. (by @lazerg in #22833)

• Fix crash when a CSS module with exportType: "style" imports an ignored stylesheet. (by @codeXsidd in #22846)

• Keep empty process environment variables that .env files don't define in DotenvPlugin. (by @alexander-akait in #22794)

• Rehash an ESM entry chunk when a chunk it imports by file name changes. (by @alexander-akait in #22804)

• Handle a NUL inside an HTML CDATA section the way the parsing spec does. (by @dependabot in #22811)

• Keep module exports live across chunks, runtimes, HMR and eval, sparing globals. (by @alexander-akait in #22733)

• Await asynchronous modules that ProvidePlugin injects into ES modules. (by @alexander-akait in #22728)

• Keep a resolve that ends after the compiler closed from throwing. (by @alexander-akait in #22795)

• Preserve string names passed to SharedWorker constructors. (by @bjohansebas in #22770)

• Preserve string contents when extracting source map comments. (by @bjohansebas in #22768)

• Scope strict-mode, async and generator block function declarations to their block. (by @alexander-akait in #22800)

• Preserve raw dotenv values when reusing cached environment files. (by @Eshiv-Pandey in #22787)

• Preserve assigned or patched built-ins, conversions and pattern targets. (by @aryanraj45 in #22761)

• Keep globals a globalThis write replaces, and slice on a patched array. (by @alexander-akait in #22862)

• Skip HTML script tags for shared chunks that emit no JavaScript. (by @bjohansebas in #22779)

• Keep the digits Firefox lays out a minified CSS percentage with. (by @alexander-akait in #22718)

• Reject a second srcset descriptor after a 0x density descriptor. (by @alexander-akait in #22741)

• Minify JavaScript faster, folding string methods on constants and x -= 1. (by @alexander-akait in #22823)

• Shorten minified JavaScript, and keep it running like its source. (by @alexander-akait in #22717)

• Drop more unused functions, arguments, calls, global reads and variable copies when minifying JavaScript. (by @alexander-akait in #22789)

• Minify JavaScript smaller where swc does, and fold a function's length right. (by @alexander-akait in #22826)

• Reduce JavaScript output size where oxc or swc produce smaller output. (by @alexander-akait in #22829)

• Update watchpack to 2.6.3 and rebuild on a node_modules created mid-build. (by @alexander-akait in #22743)

• Support concatenateModules with cacheUnaffected. (by @alexander-akait in #22746)

• Update schema-utils to 4.8.1. (by @alexander-akait in #22774)

• Keep CSS fallbacks, vendor overrides, oklch() hues and HTML elements. (by @alexander-akait in #22753)

• Validate CleanPlugin and DotenvPlugin options with a precompiled check, so valid options no longer compile their schema at startup. (by @alexander-akait in #22758)

• Speed up startup and CSS minification, sharing the compile cache with workers. (by @xiaoxiaojx in #22706)

• Use precise, generic types for modules, parsers, generators, stats and loaders. (by @alexander-akait in #22731)