Features

automatically switch to an ESM compatible environment when enabling ESM output mode
handle multiple alternative directories (e. g. due to resolve.alias or resolve.modules) when creating an context module
add util/types to node.js built-in modules
add __webpack_exports_info__.<name>.canMangle api

Bugfixes

fix bug in chunk graph generation which leads to modules being included in chunk desprite them being already included in parent chunks
avoid writing more than 2GB at once during cache serialization (as workaround for node.js/libuv bug on MacOS)
fix handling of whitespaces in semver ranges when using Module Federation
avoid generating hashes which contain only numbers as they likely conflict with module ids
fix resource name based placeholders for data uris
fix cache serialization for context elements
fix passing of stage option when instrumenting plugins for the ProfilingPlugin
fix tracking of declarations in concatenated modules to avoid conflicts
fix unstable mangling of exports
fix handling of # in paths of loaders
avoid unnecessary cache update when using experiments.buildHttp