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webpack v4.39.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-08-01 // almost 5 years ago

  • 🔋 Features

    • Infrastructure logger for node.js has now colors + symbols to mark different kind of messages
    • Logger API has now a status method which allows to write temporary status messages
    • 0️⃣ ProgressPlugin default handler uses the Infrastructure Logger status message to output messages
    • Placeholders in paths can now be escaped with i. e. [\id\]
    • 🍱 Compiler.hooks.assetEmitted have been added to get byte content of emitted assets

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • 🌲 Logging output is now aligned to have space for symbols
    • 📇 renamed Compiler.hooks.infrastructurelog to Compiler.hooks.infrastructureLog
    • Properties that are defined on the Object.prototype can now be chunk ids (i. e. constructor)
    • 👍 library.name now supports placeholders in libraryTarget: "system"
    • 🛠 2 places were module profiles were incorrectly captured were fixed

    Dependencies

    • ⬆️ Forced upgrade of all direct dependencies
    • 🔌 webpack-sources + terser-webpack-plugin comes with quality optimizations for SourceMaps