Changelog diff from 4.0.0-alpha.0

Big features

• Upgrade uglifyjs-webpack-plugin to v1
  • ES15 support
• optimization.minimize has been added to switch minimizing on/off
  • By default: on in production mode, off in development mode
• optimization.minimizer has been added to configurate minimizers and options
• CLI has been move to webpack-cli, you need to install webpack-cli to use the CLI
• The ProgressPlugin (--progress) now displays plugin names
  • At least for plugins migrated to the new plugin system

Features

• Parser now understand new Foo() expressions
• Parser can now evaluate **, &, |, ^, >>>, >>, << and ~
• Rule.ident is now allowed by schema
• constant replacements now don't need __webpack_require__ and argument is omitted
• The concatenated module now generates a bit less code
• sideEffects can be overriden via module.rules

Bugfixes

• WebAssembly modules are now correctly threaded as ESM modules and export their exports directly instead of wrapping the content in a default export
• Extensions are resolved normally in *.mjs again

Breaking changes for Plugin authors

• Methods on Template are now static
• A new RuntimeTemplate class has been added and outputOptions and requestShortener has been moved to this class
  • Many methods has been updated to use the RuntimeTemplate instead
  • We plan to move code which accesses the runtime to this new class
• Module.meta has been replaced with Module.buildMeta
• Module.buildInfo and Module.factoryMeta have been added
• Some properties of Module have been moved into the new objects

Please comment if you find additional changes not in the changelog