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webpack v5.0.0-beta.31 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-09-17 // over 3 years ago

  • 🔋 Features

    • 🔨 refactor module concatenation to be more flexible
      • support non-namespace exports
      • allow to concatenate externals
      • allow to concatenate json modules
    • ➕ add a breaking change hint when modules can't be resolve because requests are expected to be fully specified
    • ➕ add support for imports field in package.json
    • ➕ add resolve.fallback option and recommend that for polyfilling

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • 🛠 fixes parsing of this when in an arrow IIFE
    • 🛠 fix caching in RealContentHashPlugin when assets contain their own hash
    • 🛠 fix chunk group connections for cases where referenced chunk group is sometimes already included
    • [Module Federation] fix circular references of containers when using async externals
      • fixes a hanging promise
    • [Module Federation] fix circular dependencies of modules between containers
      • fixes another hanging promise
    • [Module Federation] fix crash when no sharing is used in the container at all

    🐎 Performance

    • 👌 improve performance of deprecated needRebuild method

    🗄 Deprecations

    • 🗄 officially deprecate needRebuild in favor of needBuild