fix(html): drop the JS asset an extracted HTML entry leaves behind - #22008

webpack/webpack#22008 gives a page's extracted scripts the entry's
filename now that the page emits no JavaScript of its own, so the guides
stop showing generated identifiers. output-management and development list
main.bundle.js and main1.bundle.js for the two scripts the page pulls in,
the PWA listing follows in the same format, and caching is back to
main.<contenthash>.js beside runtime and vendors — its note about generated
chunk names is gone and the prose names the main bundle again.

Every listing was regenerated against that branch (84c1155): a page with
two scripts emits main.bundle.js and main1.bundle.js, and the caching setup
emits main.<hash>.js, vendors.<hash>.js and runtime.<hash>.js.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NuWDbcF2jvq7q1r8aEY5V9

…d the CSS loaders (#8355)

* docs: drop html-webpack-plugin from the guides and reference

The guide series taught HtmlWebpackPlugin and each page carried a note
explaining why it had not moved to the built-in HTML support yet. Webpack
builds pages itself, so the guides now use it and the plugin is no longer
named anywhere outside the migration guide.

output-management makes src/index.html the entry point: the page lists the
scripts it needs, webpack rewrites their URLs to the emitted bundles, and
there is no second list of entry points to keep in sync. development, HMR
and PWA follow that config through, and caching uses output.html since it
keeps a single JavaScript entry. Every build listing in those guides was
regenerated against webpack 5.110.3.

Scripts a page references become chunks of that page, so their names are
generated (__html_<hash>_<n>) rather than taken from entry. That is what
the listings show now, with a note in output-management and caching saying
where the names come from.

/plugins/html-webpack-plugin is removed and redirects to the Native HTML
guide, which documents the plugin's options and their built-in equivalents.
The plugins index links there instead of to the deleted page.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NuWDbcF2jvq7q1r8aEY5V9

* docs: build the front page example with native HTML and CSS

The splash example bundled one JavaScript file and asked the reader to
write the page by hand, pointing a <script> tag at dist/bundle.js. Webpack
handles all three now, so the example starts from src/index.html: the page
links a stylesheet and a script, entry points at the page, and the emitted
document is shown next to the config with its URLs rewritten to the hashed
assets. Verified against webpack 5.110.3 — an HTML entry turns on the html
and css support on its own, and htmlFilename keeps the page's name out of
the contenthash pattern.

The migration guide's companion-plugin table now covers the popular
html-webpack-plugin ecosystem rather than five entries, and a new section
maps its six hooks onto HtmlModulesPlugin's, with a plugin rewritten
through transformTags and injectTags as the worked example.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NuWDbcF2jvq7q1r8aEY5V9

* docs: drop css-loader, style-loader and MiniCssExtractPlugin from the docs

Webpack handles CSS itself, so the three packages are no longer named
outside the migration guide, and their pages are gone: css-loader and
style-loader join the excluded loaders, MiniCssExtractPlugin the excluded
plugins, and /loaders/css-loader, /loaders/style-loader and
/plugins/mini-css-extract-plugin redirect to the Native CSS guide. The
exclusion entries carry the webpack/ prefix the repositories actually
have; the older webpack-contrib/ spellings around them no longer match
anything the fetcher lists.

The HMR guide stops installing style-loader and css-loader for its
stylesheet section: experiments.css defaults to 'auto', so importing a
stylesheet needs no rule at all — webpack bundles it and links it into the
page, verified against webpack 5.110.3. The remaining mentions were
reference asides (a filter option, an ident-hash comment, an exports
convention, the CSS extraction bullet) and now describe the behavior
without naming a package, linking the guide where a reader needs more.

Left alone: the Native CSS migration guide, which has to name what it
migrates from, and the release posts and the v1-to-v2 migration guide,
where the loaders are part of the record.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NuWDbcF2jvq7q1r8aEY5V9

* docs: name a page's bundles after its entry in the build listings

webpack/webpack#22008 gives a page's extracted scripts the entry's
filename now that the page emits no JavaScript of its own, so the guides
stop showing generated identifiers. output-management and development list
main.bundle.js and main1.bundle.js for the two scripts the page pulls in,
the PWA listing follows in the same format, and caching is back to
main.<contenthash>.js beside runtime and vendors — its note about generated
chunk names is gone and the prose names the main bundle again.

Every listing was regenerated against that branch (84c1155): a page with
two scripts emits main.bundle.js and main1.bundle.js, and the caching setup
emits main.<hash>.js, vendors.<hash>.js and runtime.<hash>.js.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NuWDbcF2jvq7q1r8aEY5V9

* test: use postcss-loader as the package the site has a page for

The two owner-rename tests used css-loader as their example, and this
branch stops building a css-loader page, so the "has a page" assertion
no longer holds. postcss-loader is the same shape — a webpack-owned
loader the site still builds a page for — and keeps both tests testing
what they were written for.

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* docs(config): document the validate option

diagnostics-webpack-plugin's README links to
/configuration/other-options/#validate, and the anchor did not exist:
webpack has had a top-level `validate` option since 5.106.0, and this
page never covered it. That dead fragment fails the link check on any
build, this branch included.

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---------

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| datasource | package | from    | to      |
| ---------- | ------- | ------- | ------- |
| npm        | webpack | 5.110.3 | 5.111.0 |


## [v5.111.0](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md#51110)

##### Minor Changes

- Enable `output.module` by default with `futureDefaults` on ESM-capable targets. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22088](webpack/webpack#22088))

- Remove `experiments.outputModule`, set `output.module` to emit ESM instead. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22011](webpack/webpack#22011))

- Add `output.copy` to copy files and directories into the output directory. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21938](webpack/webpack#21938))

- Accept a file URL in any spelling Node reads where an absolute path is taken. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22012](webpack/webpack#22012))

- Minify inline CSS and JSON via `renderEmbeddedSource`, exporting webpack's own. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21993](webpack/webpack#21993))

- Export `cssMinify` and `htmlMinify` on `css.syntax` and `html.syntax`. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21953](webpack/webpack#21953))

- Make `processResult` async and let a tap rename the asset it rewrote. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21854](webpack/webpack#21854))

- Lower a CSS spelling a target cannot read and write a color fallback before one. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21926](webpack/webpack#21926))

- Allow optional filesystem cache build dependencies. (by [@xiaoxiaojx](https://github.com/xiaoxiaojx) in [#21849](webpack/webpack#21849))

- Add `output.environment.topLevelAwait` and await every async ESM entry. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21915](webpack/webpack#21915))

- Add `unusedSymbols` and `pseudoClasses`, and evaluate a CSS color function. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21927](webpack/webpack#21927))

- Drop an implied shorthand slot, fold a math function, tighten color conversion. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21929](webpack/webpack#21929))

- Add `module.parser.javascript.specNamespaceObject` for spec namespace objects. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22049](webpack/webpack#22049))

- Drop what is already said or only a gone engine reads, add `lowerUnsupported`. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21931](webpack/webpack#21931))

- Add `normalizeUrlAttributes`, `mergeScripts`, boolean and token switches. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21960](webpack/webpack#21960))

- Minify an event handler attribute, and name the production each script body is. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21968](webpack/webpack#21968))

- Add source-map, asset, module, bailout, federation hints; group config checks. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21961](webpack/webpack#21961))

- Lower CSS nesting, `:dir()` and custom at-rules; gate case folding and escapes. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21950](webpack/webpack#21950))

- Add `optimization.minimize.css.mergeDistantRules` to join rules across a gap. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21969](webpack/webpack#21969))

##### Patch Changes

- Minify an embedded body through the embedded path, dropping three html options. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21936](webpack/webpack#21936))

- Take a minified `style` attribute's answer whatever quoting it needs. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21936](webpack/webpack#21936))

- Name chunk imports in the chunk loader, not at each import site. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22076](webpack/webpack#22076))

- Repair hashed names; under HMR bake hashed url maps and reload moved css names. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21916](webpack/webpack#21916))

- Enable `output.module` for `module` and `modern-module` library types. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22071](webpack/webpack#22071))

- Name an anonymous `export default class` before its static initializers run. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21910](webpack/webpack#21910))

- Throw on a non-optional read past an undefined `DefinePlugin` member. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22017](webpack/webpack#22017))

- Reject a fulfilled async cycle member with the cycle's evaluation error. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21921](webpack/webpack#21921))

- Escape external requests in generated ESM imports and star reexports. (by [@bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#22078](webpack/webpack#22078))

- Fix stack overflows in ESM library star reexport cycles with externals. (by [@bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#22080](webpack/webpack#22080))

- Preserve live bindings when reexporting external ESM exports. (by [@bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#22082](webpack/webpack#22082))

- Use configured external requests in ESM star reexports; reject property paths. (by [@bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#22079](webpack/webpack#22079))

- Preserve import attributes on ESM library star reexports of externals. (by [@bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#22081](webpack/webpack#22081))

- Fail the build when a runtime module's code generation throws while hashing. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22034](webpack/webpack#22034))

- Settle a css chunk load without a DOM where its stylesheet cannot be read. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21970](webpack/webpack#21970))

- Await a deferred import's async dependency that is evaluating-async. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21934](webpack/webpack#21934))

- Keep a color the CSS minifier would round where its channels are read back. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21923](webpack/webpack#21923))

- Refresh a cached module's `resolveOptions` from the factory, not the pack. (by [@hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#21945](webpack/webpack#21945))

- Read a `<script type>` decoded, so a reference-spelled type is minified. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21933](webpack/webpack#21933))

- Read the extension out of a path-scoped rule's alternation, class or braces. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21946](webpack/webpack#21946))

- Keep an HTML attribute name or list token holding a foreign template delimiter. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22018](webpack/webpack#22018))

- Answer a name a module does not export from the spec namespace. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22092](webpack/webpack#22092))

- Give a deferred namespace the spec's exotic shape when the exports are known. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21939](webpack/webpack#21939))

- Give a JSON, text or CommonJS namespace the spec's exotic shape and identity. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22087](webpack/webpack#22087))

- Report a missing asset instead of a code generation deadlock. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21992](webpack/webpack#21992))

- Keep a concatenated CommonJS reference a separate statement, guarding it once. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21962](webpack/webpack#21962))

- Keep CSS module exports for a direct loader `importModule()` call. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22047](webpack/webpack#22047))

- Fix `import.meta` and `require.main`, and scope-hoist `import.meta.main`. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21973](webpack/webpack#21973))

- Honor `resolve.fileSystem` and say where `module.exprContextCritical` moved. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22091](webpack/webpack#22091))

- Release stale compilation data from nested children and idle watch builds. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22096](webpack/webpack#22096))

- Resolve a `@value` once and then localize it, wherever it names an identifier. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22036](webpack/webpack#22036))

- Release the printed-text store's text when the CSS printer drops it. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21958](webpack/webpack#21958))

- Skip a foreign dependency whose `isLazy` is a flag when walking a lazy barrel. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21998](webpack/webpack#21998))

- Move diagnostics to `buildInfo.diagnostics`, persisting parse-time bailouts. (by [@hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#22055](webpack/webpack#22055))

- Invalidate consumer codegen when an inlined export value changes. (by [@xiaoxiaojx](https://github.com/xiaoxiaojx) in [#22020](webpack/webpack#22020))

- Rebuild DelegatedModule when DLL manifest metadata changes. (by [@xiaoxiaojx](https://github.com/xiaoxiaojx) in [#22028](webpack/webpack#22028))

- Keep a CSS layer's blocks in order where one of them streams. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22044](webpack/webpack#22044))

- Refuse inlining const exports across sync cycles with binding reads. (by [@xiaoxiaojx](https://github.com/xiaoxiaojx) in [#22085](webpack/webpack#22085))

- Escape a text run ending in `</`, which the tag after it made a comment of. (by [@aryanraj45](https://github.com/aryanraj45) in [#22086](webpack/webpack#22086))

- Skip JS render sentinel scans on chunks without HTML. (by [@xiaoxiaojx](https://github.com/xiaoxiaojx) in [#21974](webpack/webpack#21974))

- Minify an attribute by what its value says, not by how the source spelled it. (by [@aryanraj45](https://github.com/aryanraj45) in [#22095](webpack/webpack#22095))

- Cut allocation and scanning in the CSS and HTML printers, output unchanged. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21997](webpack/webpack#21997))

- Emit less chunk-loading runtime. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22094](webpack/webpack#22094))

- Recognize the reflected attributes of `frame`, `frameset`, `marquee` and `dir`. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22003](webpack/webpack#22003))

- Drop the `neo-async` dependency in favor of a faster built-in async helper. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21959](webpack/webpack#21959))

- Speed up cache serialization by cutting per-object lookups and call frames. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21994](webpack/webpack#21994))

- Update dependencies and match the `ReadFileSync` type to Node.js typings. (by [@dependabot](https://github.com/apps/dependabot) in [#21919](webpack/webpack#21919))

- Match acorn on `**` arrows, LS/PS cooking, string export names, `program` reuse. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21666](webpack/webpack#21666))

- Parse a regexp literal the running engine cannot build, and keep locations. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22009](webpack/webpack#22009))

- Parse without acorn, serialize parse-error locations, trim walker allocations. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#21667](webpack/webpack#21667))

- Drop the `acorn` dependency in favor of webpack's own JavaScript parser. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22042](webpack/webpack#22042))

- Name HTML chunks after their tags' urls, drop the JS copy, type `text/html`. (by [@alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#22008](webpack/webpack#22008))

This PR contains the following updates:

| Package | Change | [Age](https://docs.renovatebot.com/merge-confidence/) | [Confidence](https://docs.renovatebot.com/merge-confidence/) |
|---|---|---|---|
| [webpack](https://github.com/webpack/webpack) | [`5.108.4` → `5.111.1`](https://renovatebot.com/diffs/npm/webpack/5.108.4/5.111.1) | ![age](https://developer.mend.io/api/mc/badges/age/npm/webpack/5.111.1?slim=true) | ![confidence](https://developer.mend.io/api/mc/badges/confidence/npm/webpack/5.108.4/5.111.1?slim=true) |

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### Release Notes

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<summary>webpack/webpack (webpack)</summary>

### [`v5.111.1`](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md#51111)

[Compare Source](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/compare/v5.111.0...v5.111.1)

##### Patch Changes

- Throw on a write to an imported binding without losing concatenation. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22141](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22141))

- Keep the `</html>` a page was written with, whatever opened the element. (by [@&#8203;aryanraj45](https://github.com/aryanraj45) in [#&#8203;22103](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22103))

- Look an attribute up by what its value decodes to, not how it was spelled. (by [@&#8203;aryanraj45](https://github.com/aryanraj45) in [#&#8203;22107](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22107))

- Minify HTML by what a value says rather than how it was spelled. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22154](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22154))

- Follow HTML template form and frameset rules during tree construction. (by [@&#8203;dependabot](https://github.com/apps/dependabot) in [#&#8203;22129](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22129))

- Keep the whitespace `calc()` needs around `+` and `-` in a custom property. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22150](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22150))

- Keep an attribute's delimiter and spell its value back where quoting is frozen. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22119](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22119))

- Rewrite an attribute value the source spelled with character references. (by [@&#8203;aryanraj45](https://github.com/aryanraj45) in [#&#8203;22110](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22110))

- Unquote an HTML attribute value carrying a vertical tab. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22162](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22162))

- Keep a shadow's spread and canonicalize a merged selector list. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22101](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22101))

- Leave out an implied tag and merge adjacent runs on the first pass. (by [@&#8203;aryanraj45](https://github.com/aryanraj45) in [#&#8203;22121](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22121))

- Minify in one pass what a second pass of the CSS minifier used to find. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22106](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22106))

- Cover the CSS lookup tables no stylesheet in the corpus reaches. (by [@&#8203;aryanraj45](https://github.com/aryanraj45) in [#&#8203;22126](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22126))

- Keep `initial` where an engine reads the property's initial keyword apart. (by [@&#8203;aryanraj45](https://github.com/aryanraj45) in [#&#8203;22128](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22128))

- Join the CSS rules a cut leaves adjacent, and keep a value an escape ate. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22108](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22108))

- Drop the dead CSS a cut leaves, and join more of the blocks that print alike. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22111](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22111))

- Run the printer equivalence suite against Firefox as well as Chrome. (by [@&#8203;aryanraj45](https://github.com/aryanraj45) in [#&#8203;22151](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22151))

- Finish in one CSS pass the joins, drops and collapses left to a second. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22117](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22117))

- Move the context module sources into `lib/context/`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22115](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22115))

- Declare loader context types in JSDoc instead of hand-written `.d.ts` files. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22116](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22116))

- Emit a failing module's stack relative, and name what a tap failed with. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22122](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22122))

- Finish in one CSS pass the drops, layer gathers and joins left to a second. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22120](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22120))

- Speed up CSS parsing by stepping over dropped selector preludes in bytes. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22142](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22142))

- Record hoisted, module and block declarations while parsing, not by re-walking. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22147](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22147))

- Fold more enumerated attribute values and drop those naming no keyword. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22148](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22148))

- Halve the CSS minifier's browser-version tables by narrowing their element type. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22140](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22140))

- Make each `optimization.minimize.css` switch govern its own rewrite alone. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22140](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22140))

- Join the rules a top-level `@layer` gather leaves meeting at the seam. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22140](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22140))

- Gather a CSS layer past a rule that writes only a different one. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22154](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22154))

- Order HTML attributes by what reaches the output, and read values decoded. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22146](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22146))

- Drop a fallback declaration every `browserslist` target reads past. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22158](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22158))

- Fix module library exports lost under cache or missing behind a re-export. (by [@&#8203;hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#&#8203;22114](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22114))

### [`v5.111.0`](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md#51110)

[Compare Source](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/compare/v5.110.3...v5.111.0)

##### Minor Changes

- Enable `output.module` by default with `futureDefaults` on ESM-capable targets. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22088](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22088))

- Remove `experiments.outputModule`, set `output.module` to emit ESM instead. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22011](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22011))

- Add `output.copy` to copy files and directories into the output directory. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21938](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21938))

- Accept a file URL in any spelling Node reads where an absolute path is taken. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22012](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22012))

- Minify inline CSS and JSON via `renderEmbeddedSource`, exporting webpack's own. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21993](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21993))

- Export `cssMinify` and `htmlMinify` on `css.syntax` and `html.syntax`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21953](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21953))

- Make `processResult` async and let a tap rename the asset it rewrote. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21854](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21854))

- Lower a CSS spelling a target cannot read and write a color fallback before one. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21926](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21926))

- Allow optional filesystem cache build dependencies. (by [@&#8203;xiaoxiaojx](https://github.com/xiaoxiaojx) in [#&#8203;21849](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21849))

- Add `output.environment.topLevelAwait` and await every async ESM entry. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21915](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21915))

- Add `unusedSymbols` and `pseudoClasses`, and evaluate a CSS color function. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21927](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21927))

- Drop an implied shorthand slot, fold a math function, tighten color conversion. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21929](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21929))

- Add `module.parser.javascript.specNamespaceObject` for spec namespace objects. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22049](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22049))

- Drop what is already said or only a gone engine reads, add `lowerUnsupported`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21931](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21931))

- Add `normalizeUrlAttributes`, `mergeScripts`, boolean and token switches. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21960](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21960))

- Minify an event handler attribute, and name the production each script body is. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21968](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21968))

- Add source-map, asset, module, bailout, federation hints; group config checks. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21961](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21961))

- Lower CSS nesting, `:dir()` and custom at-rules; gate case folding and escapes. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21950](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21950))

- Add `optimization.minimize.css.mergeDistantRules` to join rules across a gap. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21969](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21969))

##### Patch Changes

- Minify an embedded body through the embedded path, dropping three html options. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21936](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21936))

- Take a minified `style` attribute's answer whatever quoting it needs. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21936](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21936))

- Name chunk imports in the chunk loader, not at each import site. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22076](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22076))

- Repair hashed names; under HMR bake hashed url maps and reload moved css names. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21916](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21916))

- Enable `output.module` for `module` and `modern-module` library types. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22071](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22071))

- Name an anonymous `export default class` before its static initializers run. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21910](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21910))

- Throw on a non-optional read past an undefined `DefinePlugin` member. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22017](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22017))

- Reject a fulfilled async cycle member with the cycle's evaluation error. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21921](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21921))

- Escape external requests in generated ESM imports and star reexports. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;22078](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22078))

- Fix stack overflows in ESM library star reexport cycles with externals. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;22080](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22080))

- Preserve live bindings when reexporting external ESM exports. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;22082](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22082))

- Use configured external requests in ESM star reexports; reject property paths. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;22079](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22079))

- Preserve import attributes on ESM library star reexports of externals. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;22081](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22081))

- Fail the build when a runtime module's code generation throws while hashing. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22034](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22034))

- Settle a css chunk load without a DOM where its stylesheet cannot be read. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21970](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21970))

- Await a deferred import's async dependency that is evaluating-async. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21934](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21934))

- Keep a color the CSS minifier would round where its channels are read back. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21923](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21923))

- Refresh a cached module's `resolveOptions` from the factory, not the pack. (by [@&#8203;hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#&#8203;21945](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21945))

- Read a `<script type>` decoded, so a reference-spelled type is minified. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21933](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21933))

- Read the extension out of a path-scoped rule's alternation, class or braces. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21946](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21946))

- Keep an HTML attribute name or list token holding a foreign template delimiter. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22018](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22018))

- Answer a name a module does not export from the spec namespace. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22092](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22092))

- Give a deferred namespace the spec's exotic shape when the exports are known. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21939](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21939))

- Give a JSON, text or CommonJS namespace the spec's exotic shape and identity. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22087](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22087))

- Report a missing asset instead of a code generation deadlock. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21992](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21992))

- Keep a concatenated CommonJS reference a separate statement, guarding it once. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21962](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21962))

- Keep CSS module exports for a direct loader `importModule()` call. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22047](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22047))

- Fix `import.meta` and `require.main`, and scope-hoist `import.meta.main`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21973](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21973))

- Honor `resolve.fileSystem` and say where `module.exprContextCritical` moved. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22091](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22091))

- Release stale compilation data from nested children and idle watch builds. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22096](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22096))

- Resolve a `@value` once and then localize it, wherever it names an identifier. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22036](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22036))

- Release the printed-text store's text when the CSS printer drops it. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21958](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21958))

- Skip a foreign dependency whose `isLazy` is a flag when walking a lazy barrel. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21998](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21998))

- Move diagnostics to `buildInfo.diagnostics`, persisting parse-time bailouts. (by [@&#8203;hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#&#8203;22055](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22055))

- Invalidate consumer codegen when an inlined export value changes. (by [@&#8203;xiaoxiaojx](https://github.com/xiaoxiaojx) in [#&#8203;22020](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22020))

- Rebuild DelegatedModule when DLL manifest metadata changes. (by [@&#8203;xiaoxiaojx](https://github.com/xiaoxiaojx) in [#&#8203;22028](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22028))

- Keep a CSS layer's blocks in order where one of them streams. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22044](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22044))

- Refuse inlining const exports across sync cycles with binding reads. (by [@&#8203;xiaoxiaojx](https://github.com/xiaoxiaojx) in [#&#8203;22085](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22085))

- Escape a text run ending in `</`, which the tag after it made a comment of. (by [@&#8203;aryanraj45](https://github.com/aryanraj45) in [#&#8203;22086](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22086))

- Skip JS render sentinel scans on chunks without HTML. (by [@&#8203;xiaoxiaojx](https://github.com/xiaoxiaojx) in [#&#8203;21974](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21974))

- Minify an attribute by what its value says, not by how the source spelled it. (by [@&#8203;aryanraj45](https://github.com/aryanraj45) in [#&#8203;22095](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22095))

- Cut allocation and scanning in the CSS and HTML printers, output unchanged. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21997](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21997))

- Emit less chunk-loading runtime. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22094](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22094))

- Recognize the reflected attributes of `frame`, `frameset`, `marquee` and `dir`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22003](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22003))

- Drop the `neo-async` dependency in favor of a faster built-in async helper. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21959](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21959))

- Speed up cache serialization by cutting per-object lookups and call frames. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21994](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21994))

- Update dependencies and match the `ReadFileSync` type to Node.js typings. (by [@&#8203;dependabot](https://github.com/apps/dependabot) in [#&#8203;21919](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21919))

- Match acorn on `**` arrows, LS/PS cooking, string export names, `program` reuse. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21666](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21666))

- Parse a regexp literal the running engine cannot build, and keep locations. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22009](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22009))

- Parse without acorn, serialize parse-error locations, trim walker allocations. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21667](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21667))

- Drop the `acorn` dependency in favor of webpack's own JavaScript parser. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22042](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22042))

- Name HTML chunks after their tags' urls, drop the JS copy, type `text/html`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22008](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/22008))

### [`v5.110.3`](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md#51103)

[Compare Source](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/compare/v5.110.2...v5.110.3)

##### Patch Changes

- Fix `import()` options, circular reexport severity and namespace writes. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21867](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21867))

- Skip ESM interop when require() targets a module outside the concatenation. (by [@&#8203;hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#&#8203;21884](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21884))

- Fix concatenated `require()` in a `require.ensure` callback or a computed request. (by [@&#8203;hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#&#8203;21907](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21907))

- Keep `optimization.minimize` a boolean; its options move to `minimizeOptions`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21886](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21886))

- Fix mangled exports read through require() and a leaked internal reference. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21905](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21905))

- Fix `new` on a default import of a wrapped CommonJS module. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21876](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21876))

- Throw when a deferred namespace of an async module is forced while it evaluates. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21871](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21871))

- Do not report a missing export for a name a side-effect-free barrel defers. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21874](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21874))

- Fix queue, URL scheme, dotenv, HTTP module and persistent cache edge cases. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21901](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21901))

- Evaluate a deferred import's async dependencies where the import sits. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21902](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21902))

- Omit ambiguous `export *` names from the module namespace. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21878](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21878))

### [`v5.110.2`](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md#51102)

[Compare Source](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/compare/v5.110.1...v5.110.2)

##### Patch Changes

- Fix analyzable ESM baking around cycles, mixed-served wasm and style url maps. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21851](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21851))

- Minify more HTML and CSS shorthands, and cut two costs off printing. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21842](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21842))

- Report a named import that is never read when it names a missing export. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21856](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21856))

- Fix ESM circular reexports, cyclic const TDZ, and defer evaluation order. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21852](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21852))

- Stop `output.html` emitting an unused JS chunk for each generated page. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21859](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21859))

- Stop emitting the CSS chunk loading runtime when every CSS chunk is initial. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21862](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21862))

- Strip a BOM a loader put on a string, and shift a source map that counted it. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21857](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21857))

### [`v5.110.1`](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md#51101)

[Compare Source](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/compare/v5.110.0...v5.110.1)

##### Patch Changes

- Fix a capture-group-less `snapshot.managedPaths` RegExp; speed up cache writes. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21843](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21843))

- Throw `SyntaxError`, or `WebAssembly.CompileError`, from an unparsable module. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21847](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21847))

- Accept the `optimization.minimize: true` shorthand set by a plugin in `apply()`. (by [@&#8203;AgentEnder](https://github.com/AgentEnder) in [#&#8203;21845](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21845))

### [`v5.110.0`](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md#51100)

[Compare Source](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/compare/v5.109.2...v5.110.0)

##### Minor Changes

- Wrap concatenated modules in lazy `__webpack_require__.cw` accessors and inline `require()`, keeping a wrapped body's names and side effects intact. (by [@&#8203;hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#&#8203;21519](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21519))

- Add performance hints reporting what a build costs: duplicate packages and modules, circular dependencies, broad contexts, large modules and chunks, hotspots, `eval`, missing PURE annotations, polyfills, redundant dynamic imports, OS-dependent rules, cache effectiveness, how chunks load, what splitting refused, why an optimization was skipped, and rules, defines, externals, aliases and barrel reexports nothing uses. An oversized asset names its largest modules, and an entrypoint carrying the runtime recommends `optimization.runtimeChunk`. Enable every check not set individually with `performance.all`, report hints in stats only with `performance.hints: "stats"`, and get them in a stable order that leaves the build hashes unchanged. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21841](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21841))

- Add the `descriptionRelativePath` module rule condition. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21705](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21705))

- Add OS-independent `glob` matching to module rules. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21771](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21771))

- Report inner-graph, AMD and bare `module` bailouts in `optimizationBailout`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21740](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21740))

- Allow marking externals as side-effect-free with a `sideEffects` flag. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21712](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21712))

- Give externals the original request of a context module element. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21780](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21780))

- Add the `externalsPresets.nodeModules` preset with an `allowlist` option to externalize installed packages, replacing the `webpack-node-externals` plugin. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21569](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21569))

- Add `output.library.umdAmdContainer` for an AMD-style loader branch in UMD. (by [@&#8203;hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#&#8203;21770](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21770))

- Resolve `@custom-media` values that are `true` / `false` or name another custom media. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21624](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21624))

- Add the `__webpack_css_server_styles__` module variable to read the CSS collected while rendering without a DOM, and keep that CSS in the order the styles were applied. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21576](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21576))

- Patch the HTML `<head>` in place on hot update instead of forcing a full reload, including when a `<script>` that never executed is removed. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21624](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21624))

- Scope counter names in CSS modules; fix the `counter()` counter-style and `animation` timeline keywords. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21600](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21600))

- Derive `import defer` / `import source` from the target and fix the source phase. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21810](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21810))

- Emit analyzable ESM urls for chunks, assets, styles, workers and wasm. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21788](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21788))

- Tree shake CommonJS: `module.exports` object literals, exports destructured from a `require()` binding, unused method requires, and unused side-effect-free `require()` calls and reexports. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21841](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21841))

- Resolve relative entry `baseUri` values and bake one side of a hash cycle. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21750](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21750))

- Minify CSS further, only where the document is unchanged: shorthands and box longhands, `font-weight`, `<position>` and `font-stretch` keywords, colors (polar, Lab and `hsl()` converted to hex), numbers, times, zero units, `calc()` and every math function the spec names folded over constants, selector lists, An+B, keyframe selectors, media-feature ranges, `unicode-range`, `transition` layers, `display`, transforms, gradients, font families, identical repeated declarations, and rules an identical later one makes dead. Abilities are read off the target browsers, `vendorPrefixes` adds and drops vendor prefixes for them, and `rewriteCustomProperties` shortens custom property values. Minification never changes whether a declaration parses, and beautifying keeps every rule. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21841](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21841))

- Safely minify CSS (with source maps) and HTML assets when `optimization.minimize` is enabled, unless a minimizer is already configured for them, making only transformations an engine cannot tell apart. Every rewrite is named as an option, so it can be switched off. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21841](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21841))

- Minify HTML further where the parsed document is unchanged: drop redundant quotes, whitespace nothing renders, escapes text does not need, implied tags, optional end tags nothing prints behind, empty attributes and nested empty elements; fold enumerated values and casing; normalize each attribute against the element it is on; and rewrite `style`, token lists, `srcset`, `sizes`, URL, integer and boolean attributes, viewport `content`, inline `<style>` and a JSON `<script>` body through their own grammars. Adds the `optimization.minimize.html` options `collapseWhitespace`, `mergeStyles`, `minifyConditionalComments`, `minifySrcdoc`, `preserveComments`, `removeEmptyAttributes`, `removeEmptyElements`, `removeImpliedTags`, `removeRedundantAttributes`, `sortAttributes` and `sortTokenLists`, and keeps an end tag the parent, the next element or the adoption agency would otherwise restructure the tree over. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21841](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21841))

- Suggest the closest name or a casing fix anywhere in a failed request. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21727](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21727))

- Add aggregated `shutdown` hook to `MultiCompiler`. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;21578](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21578))

- Report which compilers changed on the MultiCompiler `done` hook. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;21580](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21580))

- Add `[containedpath]`/`[containedfile]` placeholders, used for `[path]`/`[file]` of asset and html modules with `experiments.futureDefaults`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21592](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21592))

- Support an object for an entry's `html` that overrides `output.html` per option. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21574](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21574))

- Configure or exclude each asset type's minifier via `optimization.minimize`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21663](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21663))

- Support printing CSS and HTML beautified as well as minified. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21660](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21660))

- Add `renderEmbeddedSource`, and minify what it offers out of the box. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21830](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21830))

- Report bindings named `eval`, `arguments` or reserved words in ES module output. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21567](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21567))

- Emit no development source map for module libraries, or any with futureDefaults. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21839](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21839))

- Speed up builds and cut memory: faster CSS, HTML and JavaScript parsing and minification, a built-in scope analyzer replacing `eslint-scope`, faster dependency hot paths, module diagnostics, CommonJS export scanning and concatenated module renaming, runtime modules, parsers, generators and dependencies loaded only when used, one file watcher pool shared between MultiCompiler children, and lower parser, graph and startup memory. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21841](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21841))

- Improve tree-shaking for a namespace reexported as default, and fix `import d from "./mod"; d.member` reading `undefined` in that case. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21841](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21841))

- Warn on cross-kind CSS module export conflicts and let the class win. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21538](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21538))

- Add `output.resourceHints.dedupe` to skip prefetch links for already preloaded/prefetched chunks. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21386](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21386))

##### Patch Changes

- Let a memory-cache etag mismatch fall through to the file cache instead of reporting a miss. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21624](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21624))

- Determine provided exports in dependency order, so a build's module hashes no longer depend on what the persistent cache held. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21630](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21630))

- Emit no dead module and no failing require for an `asset-url` external. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21713](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21713))

- Fix names, hidden devtools and cache reuse for CSS maps inlined into JS. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21558](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21558))

- Follow the HTML spec more closely when parsing and printing: frameset content, quirks paragraphs and selects, `<![CDATA[` outside foreign content as a bogus comment, `<?target data?>` as a processing instruction, `</>` dropped, comment data and DOCTYPE identifiers read from the tokenizer states, attributes merged from a repeated `<html>`/`<body>` tag, legacy JavaScript script types, void `keygen` and font format detection — and hand back the tree a parsed document was built from when printing it. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21841](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21841))

- Clear a `Watching`'s `blocked` flag when its build starts, so it reports only a child actually waiting for its MultiCompiler parent. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;21639](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21639))

- Fix AMD `define()` output using the wrong module and exports argument names. (by [@&#8203;hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#&#8203;21814](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21814))

- Fix `ReferenceError` from `import.meta.main` using the wrong module argument. (by [@&#8203;hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#&#8203;21620](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21620))

- Leave a `@namespace` URI alone instead of resolving and rewriting it as an asset. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21658](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21658))

- Resolve escaped CSS names, and scope a grid area cell name as one name. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21665](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21665))

- Track exports usage of side-effect-free modules an active import() evaluates. (by [@&#8203;hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#&#8203;21623](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21623))

- Resolve absolute symlink targets and treat an unreadable context as missing. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21647](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21647))

- Fix corrupted icon URLs in a `.webmanifest` with a BOM or non-ASCII text. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21655](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21655))

- Respect `strictThisContextOnImports` for `require()` member calls. (by [@&#8203;hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#&#8203;21601](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21601))

- Fix `import.meta`, `[object Object]` asset urls and crashes in build-time executed modules. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21841](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21841))

- Inherit sideEffects past a type-only nested package.json for files under node_modules. (by [@&#8203;xiaoxiaojx](https://github.com/xiaoxiaojx) in [#&#8203;21686](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21686))

- Do not fail directory creation when the file system reports it already exists. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21698](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21698))

- Fix top-level `using` and `await using` declarations in modules. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21557](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21557))

- Fix `DefinePlugin` optional chains reading an undefined object member. (by [@&#8203;lazerg](https://github.com/lazerg) in [#&#8203;21823](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21823))

- Fix MultiCompiler: compute the common `outputPath` by whole path segments, run again after a dependency validation failure, and recover watch mode from a fatal child error without leaking watchings. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21841](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21841))

- Keep a nested bundle's runtime tables separate when bundling webpack output. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21568](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21568))

- Keep the runtime out of strict mode when `output.globalObject` reads `this`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21715](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21715))

- Run an even-priority `__webpack_require__.O` handler without waiting. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21803](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21803))

- Treat top-level `this` in a classic worker entry as its global scope. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21720](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21720))

- Rehash runtime modules whose code changes under a content-named filename. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21828](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21828))

- Fix namespace object reexports and string export names in module library output and emit a CommonJS entry's default as `export default`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21589](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21589))

- Keep tree-shaken JSON arrays as arrays when a prototype property is read. (by [@&#8203;hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#&#8203;21599](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21599))

- Generate every CSS and HTML lookup table into `lib/{css,html}/data.js` from `mdn-data`, `color-name` and the spec IDL — including the value-type facts read out of the CSS value-definition grammars — leaving both `syntax.js` files algorithm only. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21841](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21841))

- Support UNC paths in module and context replacement plugins. (by [@&#8203;avivkeller](https://github.com/avivkeller) in [#&#8203;21645](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21645))

- Emit less runtime code: shorter syntax where `output.environment` allows, no IIFE for a `RuntimeModule` without locals, no unread `__webpack_esm_id__` and `exports.id` chunk exports, and an ESM entry chunk installing its own modules from its local bindings instead of importing itself. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21841](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21841))

- Release the compilation and file system caches retained after `compiler.close()`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21603](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21603))

### [`v5.109.2`](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md#51092)

[Compare Source](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/compare/v5.109.1...v5.109.2)

##### Patch Changes

- Resolve aliases pointing at a package directory whose name ends with `.js` again. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21542](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21542))

- Name CSS sources in source maps by their resource path, without the `css ` prefix. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;21536](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21536))

- Delete no longer referenced files from the filesystem cache directory after storing the cache, age them by recorded time so restored caches are cleaned too, and collect every fully expired pack in one store instead of one per build. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;21528](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21528))

- Report `"universal"` as the loader context target for the universal target. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21540](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21540))

- Skip `require().prop` in dead branches gated by inlined imported constants. (by [@&#8203;hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#&#8203;21517](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21517))

- Annotate configuration options and public hooks in the generated types with the `@since` JSDoc tag. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;21473](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21473))

### [`v5.109.1`](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md#51091)

[Compare Source](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/compare/v5.109.0...v5.109.1)

##### Patch Changes

- Fix stray semicolon emitted before an imported call following a parenthesized sequence element. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21533](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21533))

- Make `require(esm)` `module.exports` re-export analysis independent of module processing order. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21521](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21521))

- Ignore ERR_SERVER_NOT_RUNNING on lazy-compilation backend dispose so `compiler.close()` succeeds on Bun. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21521](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21521))

- Name the failing key when DefinePlugin fails to evaluate a `typeof` value. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21503](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21503))

- Improve Deno compatibility: guard `setNoDelay` and force-close connections on lazy-compilation backend dispose, and return a real `ArrayBuffer` from the Node async/sync wasm loader so `WebAssembly.instantiate` accepts it. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21524](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21524))

- Speed up the HTML parser and cut its peak memory: module-scope helpers/state and tokenizer callbacks, plus exact AST column pre-sizing. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21492](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21492))

- Track CommonJS build dependencies by parsing sources when `require.cache` children are unavailable (e.g. Bun). (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21531](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21531))

- Cook common string-literal escapes on the JS parser fast path and own the tokenizer's cold-path readers. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21500](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21500))

- Build the CSS `parseA*` AST on the SoA store instead of node classes, cutting parse memory and time. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21498](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21498))

- Speed up and cut memory of the experimental CSS and HTML parsers: drop two derivable AST node columns, and scan long string, url, comment, and plaintext token bodies natively. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21504](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21504))

- Speed up non-modules CSS parsing: skip redundant token re-reads, drop selector-prelude tokens without materializing nodes, allocate rule preludes lazily, and fast-path empty list seals. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21511](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21511))

- Speed up stats generation and cut its peak memory: reuse cached sort comparators instead of thrashing the comparator caches on every sort, and drop redundant module-graph lookups and allocations in the extractors. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21506](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21506))

- Speed up CSS parsing: byte-range function-name checks, indexed sibling lookahead. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;21520](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21520))

- Reduce allocations and redundant work across the code-generation, module-concatenation, exports/usage-analysis, hashing, and chunk-splitting hot paths. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21516](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21516))

- Enable the Node.js compile cache in the webpack CLI entry point. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;21523](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21523))

- Encode the persistent cache with V8's value serializer. (by [@&#8203;avivkeller](https://github.com/avivkeller) in [#&#8203;21514](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21514))

- Speed up SplitChunksPlugin: reject non-subset chunk sets with 64-bit signatures, cache unnamed entry keys, and drop per-module closures. (by [@&#8203;avivkeller](https://github.com/avivkeller) in [#&#8203;21529](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21529))

- Initialize `NormalModule._ast` in the constructor so each instance keeps a single hidden-class shape. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21515](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21515))

- Reduce allocations in the binary serialization hot paths. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21526](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21526))

- Deduplicate and simplify several lib modules and speed up AggressiveMergingPlugin. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21525](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21525))

- Rename nested `const`/`let __webpack_require__` and `__webpack_exports__` declarations in bundled webpack output. (by [@&#8203;hai-x](https://github.com/hai-x) in [#&#8203;21508](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21508))

### [`v5.109.0`](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md#51090)

[Compare Source](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/compare/v5.108.4...v5.109.0)

##### Minor Changes

- Default `experiments.typescript` to `"auto"`, enabling built-in TypeScript support on Node.js >= 22.6 when no TypeScript loader is registered. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21398](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21398))

- Default `experiments.css`, `experiments.html` and `experiments.asyncWebAssembly` to `"auto"`, enabling built-in support unless a loader is registered for those files; modules with inline or hook-injected loaders (e.g. html-webpack-plugin templates) keep being parsed as JavaScript. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21365](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21365))

- Add `output.resourceHints` to emit resource hints (`preload`/`prefetch`/`modulepreload`/`preconnect`), on by default for ESM output, plus `module.parser.<type>.urlHints`, `css.fontPreload` and `javascript.dynamicImportCssPreload`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21408](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21408))

- Add built-in build progress via `infrastructureLogging.progress`, plus `estimatedTime`, `phaseTimings`, progress bar `width` and `progressBar: "auto"` on `ProgressPlugin`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21352](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21352))

- Concatenate CommonJS modules with statically analyzable exports; opt out via `optimization.concatenateModules: { commonjs: false }`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21417](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21417))

- Wrap "weird" CommonJS modules into module concatenation instead of bailing out. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21436](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21436))

- Add `output.html.inline` (`true | "script" | "style"`) and the `webpackInline` magic comment to inline chunk content into HTML. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21260](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21260))

- Add `output.html.inject` to control where chunk tags are injected. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21383](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21383))

- Add `output.html.title`, `output.html.meta` and `output.html.base` options for head generation. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21394](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21394))

- Support per-icon link attributes (`sizes`, `media`, `color`, `type`, `crossorigin`) and arrays in `output.html.favicon`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21487](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21487))

- Add `output.html.manifest` to generate and link a web app manifest with hashed icons. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21487](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21487))

- Add `output.html.csp` to inject a Content-Security-Policy meta with inline-content hashes and an optional nonce. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21487](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21487))

- Add the `output.html` `injectTags` compilation hook to inject tags (script/link/meta/…) with `injectTo` placement. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21487](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21487))

- Add the `output.html` `transformTags` compilation hook to mutate, remove, or move (between `<head>` and `<body>`) a page's existing `<script>`/`<link>`/`<style>`/`<meta>` tags. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21487](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21487))

- Extend the HTML pipeline with `html` link sources (bundled as their own emitted page) and `rel="preload"`/`"prefetch"` links bundled as chunks. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21346](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21346))

- Recognize more asset-bearing HTML sources: the `twitter:player:stream` meta, legacy SVG references, and Web App Manifest `icons`/`screenshots`/`shortcuts` URLs. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21355](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21355))

- Add `module.parser.html.as` to parse HTML as a document or an element fragment. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21441](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21441))

- Allow disabling a built-in HTML parser source via `type: false` in `sources`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21441](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21441))

- Export `webpack.html.HtmlModulesPlugin` with `transformHtml`/`htmlEmitted` compilation hooks. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21487](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21487))

- Resolve `@custom-media` (including media-type values) and `@custom-selector` in native CSS. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21442](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21442))

- Scope `view-transition-name`/`-group`/`-class` names and `::view-transition-*()` pseudo references in CSS modules under `customIdents`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21486](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21486))

- Add `import.meta.glob` support, with a `caseSensitive` option and consistent hidden/`node_modules` matching. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21385](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21385))

- Resolve `import.meta.resolve("./asset")` to the emitted asset URL via the `importMeta.resolve` parser option. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21415](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21415))

- Add `import.meta.env` defaults: `MODE`, `DEV`, `PROD`, `SSR` and `BASE_URL`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21440](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21440))

- Add fine-grained `import.meta` parser options. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21327](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21327))

- Deprecate the `importMetaContext` parser option in favor of `importMeta.webpackContext`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21360](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21360))

- Emit analyzable `new URL(…, import.meta.url)`, worker/worklet URL and `import()` references with literal specifiers for ESM module output. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21194](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21194))

- Compile async modules to generators for targets without async/await. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21410](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21410))

- Evaluate and validate the second argument of dynamic `import(specifier, options)`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21446](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21446))

- Add `module.parser.javascript.worklet` to bundle Worklet `addModule()` entries. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21384](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21384))

- Add `?raw`, `?url`, `?inline` and `?no-inline` asset query suffixes under `experiments.futureDefaults`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21379](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21379))

- Add an `interop` (`"default" | "esModule"`) hint for object externals to control default-export interop. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21371](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21371))

- Add an `amd-async` externals type that loads AMD externals without an AMD library wrapper. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21340](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21340))

- Support `cache.compression: "zstd"` for the filesystem cache. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21438](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21438))

- Warn on strict-mode-only syntax and semantic hazards in ES module output, configurable via the `strictModeViolations` parser option. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21387](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21387))

- Support parsers without location APIs: locations derive from node offsets and AST nodes no longer carry `loc`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21451](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21451))

- Attach the original DOM event to `ChunkLoadError` and `ScriptExternalLoadError` as `error.event`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21388](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21388))

- Add `output.wasmStreamingFallback` for wasm fallback on a wrong MIME type. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21299](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21299))

- Show why a module was marked as not cacheable in stats output. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21403](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21403))

- Expose the active `MultiWatching` on `MultiCompiler.watching`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21469](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21469))

- Resolve git merge conflicts when parsing the build-http lockfile. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21397](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21397))

##### Patch Changes

- Fix broken HMR with `output.module` and non-`import` chunk loading by emitting a plain-JSON hot-update manifest. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21460](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21460))

- Fix unused CSS module exports leaking into the JS wrapper. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21301](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21301))

- Fix deferred import evaluation: re-throw cached errors, guard forcing a still-evaluating module, keep re-exported deferred namespaces identical, and evaluate initial-chunk deferred context imports lazily. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21446](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21446))

- Keep ESM live bindings for a module library's entry exports, including when the runtime is emitted as a separate chunk. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21349](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21349))

- Fix SplitChunks merging undersized modules into the wrong result group. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21356](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21356))

- Fix named id assignment reusing an already-used numbered suffix, which could produce duplicate module/chunk ids. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21406](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21406))

- Fix inlined non-binary asset modules with `encoding: false` emitting "undefined" instead of their content. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21406](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21406))

- Decode non-base64 data URIs as UTF-8 so multi-byte characters are preserved. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21366](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21366))

- Keep required JSON data intact when a prototype method (e.g. `arr.includes()`) is called on it. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21433](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21433))

- Recognize modern RegExp flags (`d`, `s`, `u`, `v`) when statically evaluating `new RegExp(...)`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21366](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21366))

- Merge object-form and dotted DefinePlugin definitions so `import.meta.env`/`process.env` are consistent across direct, whole-object and destructured access. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;21419](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/21419))

- Emit an error when an object external has no entry for the used externals type. (by [@&…