webpack 5.97.0

on Node.js Yarn

Bug Fixes

• Don't crash with filesystem cache and unknown scheme
• Generate a valid code when output.iife is true and output.library.type is umd
• Fixed conflict variable name with concatenate modules and runtime code
• Merge duplicate chunks before
• Collisions in ESM library
• Use recursive search for versions of shared dependencies
• [WASM] Don't crash WebAssembly with Reference Types (sync and async)
• [WASM] Fixed wasm loading for sync and async webassembly
• [CSS] Don't add [uniqueName] to localIdentName when it is empty
• [CSS] Parsing strings on Windows
• [CSS] Fixed CSS local escaping

New Features

• Added support for injecting debug IDs
• Export the MergeDuplicateChunks plugin
• Added universal loading for JS chunks and JS worker chunks (only ES modules)
• [WASM] Added universal loading for WebAssembly chunks (only for async WebAssembly)
• [CSS] Allow initial CSS chunks to be placed anywhere - the output.cssHeadDataCompression option was deleted
• [CSS] Added universal loading for CSS chunks
• [CSS] Parse ICSS @value at-rules in CSS modules
• [CSS] Parse ICSS :import rules in CSS modules
• [CSS] Added the url and import options for CSS
• [CSS] Allow to import custom properties in CSS modules

Performance

• Faster Queue implementation, also fixed queue iterator state in dequeue method to ensure correct behavior after item removal