v5.102.0

Features

• Added static analyze for dynamic imports
• Added support for import file from "./file.ext" with { type: "bytes" } to get the content as Uint8Array (look at example)
• Added support for import file from "./file.ext" with { type: "text" } to get the content as text (look at example)
• Added the snapshot.contextModule to configure snapshots options for context modules
• Added the extractSourceMap option to implement the capabilities of loading source maps by comment, you don't need source-map-loader (look at example)
• The topLevelAwait experiment is now stable (you can remove experiments.topLevelAwait from your webpack.config.js)
• The layers experiment is now stable (you can remove experiments.layers from your webpack.config.js)
• Added function matcher support in rule options

Fixes

• Fixed conflicts caused by multiple concatenate modules
• Ignore import failure during HMR update with ES modules output
• Keep render module order consistent
• Prevent inlining modules that have this exports
• Removed unused timeout attribute of script tag
• Supported UMD chunk format to work in web workers
• Improved CommonJs bundle to ES module library
• Use es-lexer for mjs files for build dependencies
• Fixed support __non_webpack_require__ for ES modules
• Properly handle external modules for CSS
• AssetsByChunkName included assets from chunk.auxiliaryFiles
• Use createRequire only when output is ES module and target is node
• Typescript types

Performance Improvements

• Avoid extra calls for snapshot
• A avoid extra jobs for build dependencies
• Move import attributes to own dependencies