v4.46.0

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Bugfixes

• fix behavior of defaults for resolve.roots to be backward-compatible

v4.45.0

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Features

• resolve server-relative requests relative to project context by default

Bugfixes

• fix a bug where splitChunk minSize is not handled correctly
• fix a bug where the order of splitChunk cacheGroups is not handled correctly

v4.44.2

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Bugfixes

• make sure to generate correct chunk connection for blocks that are only connected in some runtimes
  • fixes a bug where filename contains undefined hash at runtime

v4.44.1

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Bugfixes

• fix bug in sideEffects optimization when using export * from "non-esm" and a default export.
• add missing optional peerDependencies for webpack-cli and webpack-command to support Yarn 2

v4.44.0

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Features

• Improve sideEffects flag behavior when dynamic modules are part of the tree
  • Fixes a bug which causes empty modules (or type-only modules) to "break" Tree Shaking
• add splitChunks.enforceSizeThreshold to allow enfore splitting larger chunks unrelated from other limiations
  • Not set by default to avoid breaking change
  • It will be set by default to 50k in webpack 5
  • It's recommended to set it in webpack 4 too
• add support for resolve.roots and default resolve.roots: [context]
  • This allows to resolve server-relative urls (e.g. /src/abc) to the project root (or other locations when configured)
  • This allows to use loaders that rely on that behavior

Bugfixes

• fix bug where splitChunks produced non-optimal results when minSize is set to 0
  • This lead to NaNs in some places which breaks ordering
• Fix bug which lead to HMR not working for splitChunks in entrypoints
• force update watchpack and chokidar for chokidar bugfix which causes files to stop being watched

v4.43.0

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Features

• add module.hot.invalidate() to HMR API

Dependencies

• push versions for forced security updates

v4.42.1

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Bugfixes

• update webassemblyjs dependencies for instruction update
• update mkdirp dependency for security reasons

v4.42.0

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Bugfixes

• Disable constant replacements in "use asm" scope
• Update schema to disallow functions for output.hotUpdateChunkFilename as this doesn't work
• Hoist exports in concatenated module to handle circular references with non-concatenated modules correctly
• Flag all modules as used in DLLs to fix missing exports

v4.41.6

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Bugfixes

• Windows network paths are considered as absolute paths
• fix hanging of FlagDependencyExportsPlugin when using export * in a circular matter

v4.41.5

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Bugfixes

• handle relative paths with webpack:// prefix in SourceMaps correctly
• fixes a non-determinism about providedExports with export * which caused changing module hashes and unnecessary HMR invalidation

v4.41.4

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Bugfixes

• fix case where __webpack_require__.e is not a function when using module concatenation
• fix incorrect imported module when using sideEffects in a certain constellation of export names

Performance

• lazy-require Webassembly related modules for improved startup performance

v4.41.3

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Security

• force upgrade terser-webpack-plugin dependency for security fix (not affecting webpack)

Funding

• add npm funding field to package.json