6.0.1 (2024-12-20)

Bug Fixes

• update peer dependencies (#4356) (7a7e5d9)

6.0.0 (2024-12-19)

BREAKING CHANGES

• the minimum required Node.js version is 18.12.0
• removed init, loader and plugin commands in favor create-webpack-app
• dropped support for webpack-dev-server@v4
• minimum supported webpack version is 5.82.0
• The --define-process-env-node-env option was renamed to --config-node-env

Bug Fixes

• allow to require webpack.config.js in ESM format (#4346) (5106684)
• correct the minimum help output (#4057) (c727c4f)
• gracefully shutting down (#4145) (90720e2)
• improve help output for possible values (#4316) (4cd5aef)
• no serve when dev-server is false (#2947) (a93e860)

Features

• output pnpm version with info/version command (#3906) (38f3c6f)

5.1.4 (2023-06-07)

Bug Fixes

• multi compiler progress output (f659624)

5.1.3 (2023-06-04)

Bug Fixes

• regression for custom configurations (#3834) (bb4f8eb)

5.1.2 (2023-06-04)

Bug Fixes

• improve check for custom webpack and webpack-dev-server package existance (0931ab6)
• improve help for some flags (f468614)
• improved support for .cts and .mts extensions (a77daf2)

5.1.1 (2023-05-09)

Bug Fixes

• false positive warning when --watch used (#3783) (c0436ba)

5.1.0 (2023-05-07)

Features

• shareable webpack configs using extends (#3738) (d04d0b9)

Performance Improvements

• simplify logic, reduce extra loops and perf (#3767) (6afe1d3)

5.0.2 (2023-04-21)

Bug Fixes

• error message for missing default export in configuration (#3685) (e0a4a09)
• perf: reduced startup time (3b79059)

5.0.1 (2022-12-05)

Bug Fixes

• make define-process-env-node-env alias node-env (#3514) (346a518)

5.0.0 (2022-11-17)

Bug Fixes

• improve description of the --disable-interpret option (#3364) (bdb7e20)
• remove the redundant utils export (#3343) (a9ce5d0)
• respect NODE_PATH env variable (#3411) (83d1f58)
• show all CLI specific flags in the minimum help output (#3354) (35843e8)

Features

• failOnWarnings option (#3317) (c48c848)
• update commander to v9 (#3460) (6621c02)
• added the --define-process-env-node-env option
• update interpret to v3 and rechoir to v0.8
• add an option for preventing interpret (#3329) (c737383)

BREAKING CHANGES

• the minimum supported webpack version is v5.0.0 (#3342) (b1af0dc), closes #3342
• webpack-cli no longer supports webpack v4, the minimum supported version is webpack v5.0.0
• webpack-cli no longer supports webpack-dev-server v3, the minimum supported version is webpack-dev-server v4.0.0
• remove the migrate command (#3291) (56b43e4), closes #3291
• remove the --prefetch option in favor the PrefetchPlugin plugin
• remove the --node-env option in favor --define-process-env-node-env
• remove the --hot option in favor of directly using the HotModuleReplacement plugin (only for build command, for serve it will work)
• the behavior logic of the --entry option has been changed - previously it replaced your entries, now the option adds a specified entry, if you want to return the previous behavior please use webpack --entry-reset --entry './src/my-entry.js'