beta.15

README.md

@@ -423,6 +423,12 @@ The minimum supported node.js version has increased from 6 to 10.13.0(LTS).
 
 MIGRATION: Upgrade to the latest node.js version available.
 
+## Typescript typings
+
+Webpack 5 generates typescript typings from source code and exposes them via the npm package.
+
+MIGRATION: Remove `@types/webpack`. Update references when names differ.
+
 # Changes to the Configuration
 
 ## Changes to the Structure
@@ -734,6 +740,8 @@ The javascript part of HMR runtime has been separated from the core HMR runtime.
 
 MIGRATION: As this is a newly introduced functionality, there is nothing to migrate.
 
+`import.meta.webpackHot` exposes the same API as `module.hot`. This is also usable from strict ESM modules (.mjs, type: "module" in package.json) which do not have access to `module`.
+
 ## Work Queues
 
 webpack used to handle module processing by functions calling functions, and a `semaphore` which limits parallelism. The `Compilation.semaphore` has been removed and async queues now handle work queuing and processing. Each step has a separate queue:
@@ -1145,4 +1153,8 @@ These dependencies are cheaper to process and webpack uses them when possible
 - Logger.getChildLogger added (since beta.3)
 - change the default of entryOnly of the DllPlugin to true (since beta.12)
 - remove special request shortening logic and use single relative paths for readable module names (since beta.12)
-- allow webpack:// urls in SourceMaps to provided paths relative to webpack root context (since beta.12)
+- allow webpack:// urls in SourceMaps to provided paths relative to webpack root context (since beta.12)
+- add API to generate and process CLI arguments targeting webpack configuration (since beta.15)
+- add `__system_context__` as context from System.js when using System.js as libraryTarget (since beta.15)
+- add bigint support for the DefinePlugin (since beta.15)
+- add bigint support for basic evaluations like maths (since beta.15)