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chore(deps): update dependency webpack to v5 - autoclosed

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This MR contains the following updates:

Package Type Update Change
webpack devDependencies major 4.46.0 -> 5.74.0

Release Notes

webpack/webpack

v5.74.0

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Features

  • add resolve.extensionAlias option which allows to alias extensions
    • This is useful when you are forced to add the .js extension to imports when the file really has a .ts extension (typescript + "type": "module")
  • add support for ES2022 features like static blocks
  • add Tree Shaking support for ProvidePlugin

Bugfixes

  • fix persistent cache when some build dependencies are on a different windows drive
  • make order of evaluation of side-effect-free modules deterministic between concatenated and non-concatenated modules
  • remove left-over from debugging in TLA/async modules runtime code
  • remove unneeded extra 1s timestamp offset during watching when files are actually untouched
    • This sometimes caused an additional second build which are not really needed
  • fix shareScope option for ModuleFederationPlugin
  • set "use-credentials" also for same origin scripts

Performance

  • Improve memory usage and performance of aggregating needed files/directories for watching
    • This affects rebuild performance

Extensibility

  • export HarmonyImportDependency for plugins

v5.73.0

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Features

  • add options for default dynamicImportMode and prefetch and preload
  • add support for import { createRequire } from "module" in source code

Bugfixes

  • fix code generation of e. g. return"field"in Module
  • fix performance of large JSON modules
  • fix performance of async modules evaluation

Developer Experience

  • export PathData in typings
  • improve error messages with more details

v5.72.1

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Bugfixes

  • fix __webpack_nonce__ with HMR
  • fix in operator in some cases
  • fix json parsing error messages
  • fix module concatenation with using this.importModule
  • upgrade enhanced-resolve

v5.72.0

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Features

  • make cache warnings caused by build errors less verbose
  • Allow banner to be placed as a footer with the BannerPlugin
  • allow to concatenate asset modules

Bugfixes

  • fix RemoteModules when using HMR (Module Federation + HMR)
  • throw error when using module concatenation and cacheUnaffected
  • fix in operator with nested exports

v5.71.0

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Features

  • choose smarter default for uniqueName when using a output.library which includes placeholders
  • add support for expressions with in of a imported binding
  • generate UMD code with arrow functions when possible

Bugfixes

  • fix source map source names for ContextModule to be relative
  • fix chunkLoading option in module module
  • fix edge case where evaluateExpression returns null
  • retain optional chaining in imported bindings
  • include runtime code for the base URI even if not using chunk loading
  • don't throw errors in persistent caching when importing node.js builtin modules via ESM
  • fix crash when using lazy-once Context modules
  • improve handling of context modules with multiple contexts
  • fix race condition HMR chunk loading when importing chunks during HMR updating
  • handle errors in runAsChild callback

v5.70.0

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Features

  • update node.js version constraints for ESM support
  • add baseUri to entry options to configure a static base uri (the base of new URL())
  • alphabetically sort exports in namespace objects when possible
  • add __webpack_exports_info__.name.canMangle
  • add proxy support to experiments.buildHttp
  • import.meta.webpackContext as ESM alternative to require.context
  • handle multiple alternative directories (e. g. due to resolve.alias or resolve.modules) when creating an context module

Bugfixes

  • fix problem when assigning global to a variable
  • fix crash when using experiments.outputModule and loaderContext.importModule with multiple chunks
  • avoid generating progress output before the compilation has started (ProgressPlugin)
  • fix handling of non-static-ESM dependencies with using TLA and HMR in the same module
  • include the asset module filename in hashing
  • output.clean will keep HMR assets for at least 10s to allow HMR to access them even when compilation is faster then the browser

Performance

  • fix asset caching when using the BannerPlugin

Developer Experience

  • improve typings

Contributing

  • capture caching errors when running the test suite

v5.69.1

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Revert

  • revert "handle multiple alternative directories (e. g. due to resolve.alias or resolve.modules) when creating an context module"

v5.69.0

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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

Contributing

  • update typescript and jest

Developer Experience

  • expose some additional typings for usage in webpack-cli

v5.68.0

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Features

  • allow to disable compile time evaluation of import.meta.url
  • add __webpack_module__ and __webpack_module__.id to the api

Bugfixes

  • fix handling of errors thrown in async modules

v5.67.0

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Features

  • add 'outputPath' configuration option for resource asset modules
  • support Trusted Types in eval source maps
  • experiments.css
    • allow to generate only exports for css in node
    • add SyncModuleIdsPlugin to sync module ids between server and client compilation
    • add more options to the DeterministicModuleIdsPlugin to allow to generate equal ids

Developer Experience

  • limit data url module name in stats printer
  • allow specific description for CLI options
  • improve space limiting algorithm in stats printing to show partial lists
  • add null to errors in callbacks
  • fix call signature types of addChunkInGroup

Bugfixes

  • avoid reporting non-existant package.jsons as dependencies
  • experiments.css
    • fix missing css runtime when only initial css is used
    • fix css hmr support
    • bugfixes to css modules
  • fix cache serialization for CreateScriptUrlDependency
  • fix data url content when processed by a loader
  • fix regexp in identifiers that include |
  • fix ProfilingPlugin for watch scenarios
  • add layer to module names and identifiers
    • this avoid random module id changes when additional modules are added to another layer
  • provide hashFunction parameter to DependencyTemplates to allow customizing it there
  • fix HMR when experiments.lazyCompilation is enabled
  • store url as Buffer to avoid serialization warnings
  • exclude webpack-hot-middleware/client from lazy compilation

Contributing

  • remove travis configuration
  • improve spell checking

v5.66.0

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Features

  • add output.library.type: "commonjs-static" to emit a statically analyse-able commonjs module (for node.js esm interop support)
  • add experiments.css (very experimental)

Bugfixes

  • fix CORS headers for experiments.lazyCompilation
  • fix [absolute-resource-path] for SourceMap module naming
  • avoid stack overflow when accessing many memory cached cache values in series

Performance

  • reduce default watchOptions.aggregateTimeout to 20ms

v5.65.0

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Features

  • static evaluation understands undefined now
  • reduce container entry code by a few chars
  • use template literals when available and they make sense

Bugfixes

  • handle singleton flag without requiredVersion in Module Federation
  • upgrade watchpack for context time info bugfix

Performance

  • improve RegExp in error message formating for non-quadratic performance

Developer Experience

  • automatically insert brackets when output.globalObject contains a non-trival expression
  • show error when using script type external with invalid syntax
  • expose types for Resolver, StatsOptions and ResolvePluginInstance

Preparations for the future

  • hashDigestLength will default to 16 in webpack 6 (experiments.futureDefaults)

v5.64.4

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Bugfixes

  • fix tagged template literal evaluation
  • fix ModuleFederation with ESM
  • fix outputModule with intial splitChunks

Performance

  • upgrade watchpack for faster watcher updating
  • track file and directory timestamps separately in watchpack and webpack

Developer Experience

  • show origin of singleton shared module in mismatch warning

v5.64.3

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Performance

  • allow to use pre-compiled schema when Infinity is used in configuration
  • allow to use pre-compiled schema for configuration arrays

v5.64.2

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Bugfixes

  • avoid double initial compilation due to invalid dependencies with managedPaths

v5.64.1

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Bugfixes

  • fix regexp in managedPaths to exclude additional slash
  • make module.accept errorHandler optional in typings
  • correctly create an async chunk when using a require(...).property in require.ensure
  • fix cleaning of symlinks in output.clean: true
  • fix change detection with unsafeCache within managedPaths (node_modules)
  • bump webpack-sources for Stack Overflow bugfix

v5.64.0

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Features

  • add asyncChunks: boolean option to disable creation of async chunks

Bugfixes

  • fix ProfilingPlugin for experiments.backCompat: false

Performance

  • avoid running regexp twice over the file list

v5.63.0

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Features

  • allow passing chunkLoading: false to disable on-demand loading

Bugfixes

  • fix import 'single-quote' in esm build dependencies

v5.62.2

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Bugfixes

  • fix __system_context__ injection when using the library option on entrypoint
  • enable exportsPresence: "error" by default in futureDefaults
  • fix bad performance for a RegExp in Stats printing (with large error messages)
  • fix exportPresence -> exportsPresence typo
  • fix a bug with module invalidation when only module id changes with experiments.cacheUnaffected

v5.62.1

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Bugfix

  • fix invalid generated code when omitting ;

v5.62.0

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Features

  • add options to configure export presence checking
    • parser.javascript.reexportExportsPresence: false allows to disable warnings for non-existing exports during the migration from export ... from "..." to export type ... from "..." for type reexports in TypeScript
  • add experiments.backCompat: false to disable some expensive deprecations for better performance

Bugfixes

  • use ['catch'] instead of .catch for better ES3 support
  • fix removed parentheses when using new (require("...")).Something()
  • fix { require } object literals
  • splitChunks.chunks option is now correctly used for splitChunks.fallbackCacheGroup.maxSize too
  • fix schema of listen option, allow to omit port
  • add better support for Promises from different isolates

Developer Experience

  • add typings for the webpack API that is available within modules
    • use /// <reference types="webpack/module" /> to use the typings in typescript modules
    • or "types": [..., "webpack/module"] in tsconfig

v5.61.0

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Bugfixes

  • use a wasm md4 implementation for node 17 support
  • include the path submodules in the node.js default externals

Performance

  • improve string to binary conversion performance for hashing

Contribution

  • CI runs on node.js 17

v5.60.0

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Features

  • Allow to pass more options to experiments.lazyCompilation. e. g. port, https stuff

Bugfixes

  • fix output.hashFunction used to persistent caching too
  • Initialize buildDependencies Set correctly when loaders are added in beforeLoaders hook

v5.59.1

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Bugfixes

  • fix regexp in managedPaths
  • fix hanging when trying to write lockfile for experiments.buildHttp

v5.59.0

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Features

  • add /*#__PURE__*/ for Object() in generated code
  • add RegExp and function support for managed/immutablePaths
  • add hooks for multiple phases in module build
  • improvements to experiments.buildHttp
    • allow to share cache
    • add allowlist
  • add splitChunks.minSizeReduction option

Bugfixes

  • fix memory caching for Data URLs
  • fix crash in waitFor when modules are unsafe cached
  • fix bug in build cycle detection

v5.58.2

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Bugfixes

  • fix serialization context passed
  • fix a bug which caused module duplication when using persistent caching, unsafe cache and memory cache with GC
  • fix validation of snapshots of non-existing directories

Performance

v5.58.1

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Bugfixes

  • fix .webpack[] suffix to not execute rules
  • revert performance optimization that has too large memory usage in large builds

v5.58.0

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Features

  • add hook for readResource
  • add diagnostics_channel to node builtins

Performance

  • improve chunk graph creation performance
    • add cacheUnaffected cache support
  • remove some caching that makes not difference
  • improve splitChunks performance
  • improve chunk conditions performance

v5.57.1

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Bugfix

  • fix experiments.cacheUnaffected which broke by last release

v5.57.0

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Performance

  • reduce number of hash.update calls
  • allow ExternalModules to be unsafe cached
  • improve hashing performance of module lists (StringXor)

Bugfixes

  • experiments.cacheUnaffected
    • handle module/chunk id changes correctly
    • cache modules with async blocks
    • show errors when using incompatible options

v5.56.1

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Bugfix

  • DefinePlugin: fix conflict with older variants of the plugin

v5.56.0

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Performance

  • make DefinePlugin rebuild check more efficient performance and memory wise

v5.55.1

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Bugfixes

  • fixes for experiments.cacheUnaffected
    • fix accidentically shared mem caches
    • avoid RuntimeSpecMap in favor of directly setting on memCache
    • compare references modules when restoring mem cache

v5.55.0

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Performance

  • experiments.cacheUnaffected
    • reduce cache memory usage
    • make memCache per module
    • cache ESM reexport computation
  • module.unsafeCache
    • make it faster by moving it to Compilation-level instead of in NormalModuleFactory
    • omit tracking resolve dependencies since they are not used when unsafe cache is enabled
  • module graph
    • lazy assign ModuleGraphConnections to Dependencies since that is only accessed when uncached

v5.54.0

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Features

  • improve constant folding to allow to skip more branches for && || and ??
  • allow all hashing using in webpack to be configured with output.hashFunction
  • no longer bailout completely from inner graph analysis when eval is used in a module

Bugfixes

  • force bump enhanced-resolve for bugfixes

Performance

  • reduce number of allocation when creating snapshots
  • add output.hashFunction: "xxhash64" for a super fast wasm based hash function
  • improve utf-8 conversion when serializing short strings
  • improve hashing performance for dependencies
  • add experiments.cacheUnaffected which caches computations for modules that are unchanged and reference only unchanged modules

v5.53.0

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Features

  • add node.__dirname/__filename: "warn-mock" which warns on usage (will be enabled in webpack 6 by default)

Bugfixes

  • add stream/web to Node.js externals
  • fix IgnorePluginSchema
  • fix builds with persistent caching taking 1 minute to build at least

Experiments

  • add experiments.futureDefaults to enable defaults for webpack 6

v5.52.1

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Performance

  • split fresh created persistent cache files by time to avoid creating very large files

v5.52.0

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Feature

  • experiments.executeModule is enabled by default and the option is removed
    • loaders are now free to use this.importModule

Bugfixes

  • fix generated __WEBPACK_EXTERNAL_MODULE_null__, which leads to merged externals
  • .webpack[...] extension is not part of matching and module name

v5.51.2

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Bugfixes

  • fix crash in FileSystemInfo when errors occur
  • avoid property access of reserved properties
  • fix reexports from async modules
  • automatically close an active watching when closing the compiler
  • when filenames of other runtimes are referenced that need a full hash, upgrade referencing runtime moduel to full hash mode too
    • fixes a bug where [contenthash] is undefined when using new Worker

v5.51.1

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Bugfixes

  • library: "module" propages top-level-await correctly
  • fix crash in filesystem snapshotting when trying to snapshot a non-existing directory
  • fix some context-dependent logic in concatenated modules and source url handling

v5.51.0

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Bugfixes

  • correctly keep chunk loading state when the chunk loading logic is HMR updated
    • This fixes some edge cases that e. g. occur when using lazy compilation for entrypoints. It is now able to HMR update that instead of needing a manual reload. Also see fixes in webpack-dev-server@4.
  • track and resolve symlinks for filesystem snapshotting
    • This fixes some cases of circular yarn linking of dependencies.
    • It also fixes some problems when using package managers that use symlinks to deduplicate (e. g. cnpm or pnpm)
  • pass the resulting module in the callbacks of `Compilation.addModuleCha

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