Webpack Encore Files

Hey packagers!

A new major release is here! 🎉

This version brings significant changes to modernize Webpack Encore:

• Node.js 22.13.0 is now the minimum required version, to prepare ESM-support for next major version
• Major loaders have been upgraded to their latest versions
• Deprecated options and unmaintained dependencies have been removed
• Vue 2 support leftovers have been completely cleaned up

BC Breaks

• Remove support of Node.js <22.13.0 by @Kocal in https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore/pull/1395
• Remove support of babel-loader@^9.1.3, see possible BC breaks in 10.0.0 release notes by @Kocal in https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore/pull/1395
• Remove support of style-loader@^3.3.0, see possible BC breaks in 4.0.0 release notes by @Kocal in https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore/pull/1395
• Remove support of less-loader@^11.0.0, see possible BC breaks in 12.0.0 release notes by @Kocal in https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore/pull/1395
• Remove support of postcss-loader@^7.0.0, see possible BC breaks in 8.0.0 release notes by @Kocal in https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore/pull/1395
• Remove support of stylus-loader@^7.0.0, see possible BC breaks in 8.0.0 release notes by @Kocal in https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore/pull/1395
• Remove support of webpack-cli@^5.0.0, see possible BC breaks in 6.0.0 release notes
• Remove unmaintained file-loader dependency by @Kocal in https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore/pull/1398 The [N] placeholder (regex capture groups in filename patterns) is no longer supported. If you were using patterns like [1] or [2] in your Encore.copyFiles() filename option, you will need to restructure your file organization or use a different naming strategy.
• Remove deprecated --https flag and devServerConfig.https option for webpack-dev-server by @Kocal in https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore/pull/1400 Use --server-type https or configureDevServerOptions() with server: 'https' instead

Features

• Update @nuxt/friendly-errors-webpack-plugin to @kocal/friendly-errors-webpack-plugin, a maintained fork of the original plugin
• Update webpack from ^5.74.0 to ^5.82.0 by @Kocal in https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore/pull/1395
• Update css-minimizer-webpack-plugin to ^8.0.0, see release notes
• Finish removing Vue 2 support leftovers (JSX code path, vue-jsx feature, version: 2 option, Vue 2 peer dependencies), which was forgotten during v5.0.0 by @Kocal in https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore/pull/1399

Internal

• Cleanup useStimulusBridge and stimulus from features by @Kocal in https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore/pull/1394
• Add AGENTS.md by @Kocal in https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore/pull/1397
• Follow-up [#1400] (fix URLs generation) by @Kocal in https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore/pull/1401

Upgrading

Run:

:::shell
npm install "@symfony/webpack-encore@^6.0.0" --save-dev

or:

:::shell
yarn add "@symfony/webpack-encore@^6.0.0" --dev

or:

:::shell
pnpm install "@symfony/webpack-encore@^6.0.0" --save-dev

Full Changelog: https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore/compare/v5.3.1...v6.0.0