webpack 5.111.0

v5.111.0

on Node.js Yarn

Minor Changes

• Enable output.module by default with futureDefaults on ESM-capable targets. (by @alexander-akait in #22088)

• Remove experiments.outputModule, set output.module to emit ESM instead. (by @alexander-akait in #22011)

• Add output.copy to copy files and directories into the output directory. (by @alexander-akait in #21938)

• Accept a file URL in any spelling Node reads where an absolute path is taken. (by @alexander-akait in #22012)

• Minify inline CSS and JSON via renderEmbeddedSource, exporting webpack's own. (by @alexander-akait in #21993)

• Export cssMinify and htmlMinify on css.syntax and html.syntax. (by @alexander-akait in #21953)

• Make processResult async and let a tap rename the asset it rewrote. (by @alexander-akait in #21854)

• Lower a CSS spelling a target cannot read and write a color fallback before one. (by @alexander-akait in #21926)

• Allow optional filesystem cache build dependencies. (by @xiaoxiaojx in #21849)

• Add output.environment.topLevelAwait and await every async ESM entry. (by @alexander-akait in #21915)

• Add unusedSymbols and pseudoClasses, and evaluate a CSS color function. (by @alexander-akait in #21927)

• Drop an implied shorthand slot, fold a math function, tighten color conversion. (by @alexander-akait in #21929)

• Add module.parser.javascript.specNamespaceObject for spec namespace objects. (by @alexander-akait in #22049)

• Drop what is already said or only a gone engine reads, add lowerUnsupported. (by @alexander-akait in #21931)

• Add normalizeUrlAttributes, mergeScripts, boolean and token switches. (by @alexander-akait in #21960)

• Minify an event handler attribute, and name the production each script body is. (by @alexander-akait in #21968)

• Add source-map, asset, module, bailout, federation hints; group config checks. (by @alexander-akait in #21961)

• Lower CSS nesting, :dir() and custom at-rules; gate case folding and escapes. (by @alexander-akait in #21950)

• Add optimization.minimize.css.mergeDistantRules to join rules across a gap. (by @alexander-akait in #21969)

Patch Changes

• Minify an embedded body through the embedded path, dropping three html options. (by @alexander-akait in #21936)

• Take a minified style attribute's answer whatever quoting it needs. (by @alexander-akait in #21936)

• Name chunk imports in the chunk loader, not at each import site. (by @alexander-akait in #22076)

• Repair hashed names; under HMR bake hashed url maps and reload moved css names. (by @alexander-akait in #21916)

• Enable output.module for module and modern-module library types. (by @alexander-akait in #22071)

• Name an anonymous export default class before its static initializers run. (by @alexander-akait in #21910)

• Throw on a non-optional read past an undefined DefinePlugin member. (by @alexander-akait in #22017)

• Reject a fulfilled async cycle member with the cycle's evaluation error. (by @alexander-akait in #21921)

• Escape external requests in generated ESM imports and star reexports. (by @bjohansebas in #22078)

• Fix stack overflows in ESM library star reexport cycles with externals. (by @bjohansebas in #22080)

• Preserve live bindings when reexporting external ESM exports. (by @bjohansebas in #22082)

• Use configured external requests in ESM star reexports; reject property paths. (by @bjohansebas in #22079)

• Preserve import attributes on ESM library star reexports of externals. (by @bjohansebas in #22081)

• Fail the build when a runtime module's code generation throws while hashing. (by @alexander-akait in #22034)

• Settle a css chunk load without a DOM where its stylesheet cannot be read. (by @alexander-akait in #21970)

• Await a deferred import's async dependency that is evaluating-async. (by @alexander-akait in #21934)

• Keep a color the CSS minifier would round where its channels are read back. (by @alexander-akait in #21923)

• Refresh a cached module's resolveOptions from the factory, not the pack. (by @hai-x in #21945)

• Read a <script type> decoded, so a reference-spelled type is minified. (by @alexander-akait in #21933)

• Read the extension out of a path-scoped rule's alternation, class or braces. (by @alexander-akait in #21946)

• Keep an HTML attribute name or list token holding a foreign template delimiter. (by @alexander-akait in #22018)

• Answer a name a module does not export from the spec namespace. (by @alexander-akait in #22092)

• Give a deferred namespace the spec's exotic shape when the exports are known. (by @alexander-akait in #21939)

• Give a JSON, text or CommonJS namespace the spec's exotic shape and identity. (by @alexander-akait in #22087)

• Report a missing asset instead of a code generation deadlock. (by @alexander-akait in #21992)

• Keep a concatenated CommonJS reference a separate statement, guarding it once. (by @alexander-akait in #21962)

• Keep CSS module exports for a direct loader importModule() call. (by @alexander-akait in #22047)

• Fix import.meta and require.main, and scope-hoist import.meta.main. (by @alexander-akait in #21973)

• Honor resolve.fileSystem and say where module.exprContextCritical moved. (by @alexander-akait in #22091)

• Release stale compilation data from nested children and idle watch builds. (by @alexander-akait in #22096)

• Resolve a @value once and then localize it, wherever it names an identifier. (by @alexander-akait in #22036)

• Release the printed-text store's text when the CSS printer drops it. (by @alexander-akait in #21958)

• Skip a foreign dependency whose isLazy is a flag when walking a lazy barrel. (by @alexander-akait in #21998)

• Move diagnostics to buildInfo.diagnostics, persisting parse-time bailouts. (by @hai-x in #22055)

• Invalidate consumer codegen when an inlined export value changes. (by @xiaoxiaojx in #22020)

• Rebuild DelegatedModule when DLL manifest metadata changes. (by @xiaoxiaojx in #22028)

• Keep a CSS layer's blocks in order where one of them streams. (by @alexander-akait in #22044)

• Refuse inlining const exports across sync cycles with binding reads. (by @xiaoxiaojx in #22085)

• Escape a text run ending in </, which the tag after it made a comment of. (by @aryanraj45 in #22086)

• Skip JS render sentinel scans on chunks without HTML. (by @xiaoxiaojx in #21974)

• Minify an attribute by what its value says, not by how the source spelled it. (by @aryanraj45 in #22095)

• Cut allocation and scanning in the CSS and HTML printers, output unchanged. (by @alexander-akait in #21997)

• Emit less chunk-loading runtime. (by @alexander-akait in #22094)

• Recognize the reflected attributes of frame, frameset, marquee and dir. (by @alexander-akait in #22003)

• Drop the neo-async dependency in favor of a faster built-in async helper. (by @alexander-akait in #21959)

• Speed up cache serialization by cutting per-object lookups and call frames. (by @alexander-akait in #21994)

• Update dependencies and match the ReadFileSync type to Node.js typings. (by @dependabot in #21919)

• Match acorn on ** arrows, LS/PS cooking, string export names, program reuse. (by @alexander-akait in #21666)

• Parse a regexp literal the running engine cannot build, and keep locations. (by @alexander-akait in #22009)

• Parse without acorn, serialize parse-error locations, trim walker allocations. (by @alexander-akait in #21667)

• Drop the acorn dependency in favor of webpack's own JavaScript parser. (by @alexander-akait in #22042)

• Name HTML chunks after their tags' urls, drop the JS copy, type text/html. (by @alexander-akait in #22008)