Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See standard-version for commit guidelines.

4.5.2 (2021-02-18)

Bug Fixes

• more robust variable value extraction to add support for webpack >= 5.22.0 (1aabaf9)

4.5.1 (2021-01-03)

Bug Fixes

• inject javascripts in the tag for inject:true and scriptLoading:'defer' (4f7064e)

4.5.0 (2020-09-21)

Features

• Add publicPath option to overrule the default path generation (#1516) (19b5122)
• update webpack dependency range to allow installing webpack 5 beta (f3ccdd5), closes #1504

4.4.1 (2020-08-30)

Bug Fixes

• broken typings.d.ts in v4.4.0 (#1503) (98ad756)

4.4.0 (2020-08-30)

Bug Fixes

• fix typos in comments (#1484) (6b0711e)

Features

• added v5 compilation support and deleted depreciation warnings (4ae7be8), closes #1454

4.3.0 (2020-04-30)

Features

• Allow to use console.log inside templates (c3f2fdc)

4.2.2 (2020-04-30)

Bug Fixes

• Prevent "cannot read property info of undefined" when reading meta information from assets (253ce30)
• use modern icon tag rel attribute for favicons (c40dd85)

4.2.1 (2020-04-28)

Bug Fixes

• don't add dependencies twice to the webpack 5 watcher api (ceafe14)
• prevent scripts marked as hotModuleReplacement from being added to the html file (119252a)

4.2.0 (2020-04-09)

Features

• Add template content (#1401) (4740bf7)

4.1.0 (2020-04-09)

Features

• Add webpack 5 support (39c38a4)
• Allow webpack 5 as peer dependency (9c571e2)

4.0.4 (2020-04-01)

Bug Fixes

• Fix querystring encoding (#1386) (4f48a39), closes #1355

4.0.3 (2020-03-28)

Bug Fixes

• add webpack, tapable and html-minifier-terser as dependencies because of types.d.ts (238da81)

4.0.2 (2020-03-26)

Bug Fixes

• don't remove trailing slashes from self closing tags by default (2281e4b)

4.0.1 (2020-03-23)

Bug Fixes

• update typedefs to match with html-minifier-terser (2698c7e)

4.0.0 (2020-03-23)

The summary can be found in the release blog post.

Bug Fixes

• Add dependencies from the child compilation to the main compilation (27c3e72)
• Add typing for assets(Close jantimon#1243) (9fef060)
• allow contenthash along with templatehash (049d4d3), closes #1033
• Catch and ignore pretty-error errors (2056139), closes #921
• Drop @types/webpack dependency (d4eb1c7)
• Ignore foreign child compilers (1422664)
• Improve perfomance for appcache files (b94e043)
• load script files before style files files in defer script loading mode (97f9fb9)
• Prevent chunks from beeing added multiple times (d65b37d)
• Prevent lodash from being inlined to work around a babel-loader incompatibility (7f21910), closes #1223
• Remove compilation.getStats() call for performance reasons (7005a55)
• remove useless links for options (#1153) (267e0e0)
• Update references to html-minifier (24bf1b5), closes #1311
• typings.d.ts: added apply method type to HtmlWwbpackPlugin class definitoin (8b7255f), closes jantimon#1244
• rename contenthash to templatehash (4c11c5d)
• Repair typings (#1166) (f4cb241)
• small type. minifcation instead of minification (#1154) (56037a6)
• Use src/index.ejs by default if present (#1167) (c27e5e4)
• chunksorter: Don't sort chunks by default (22fb03f)
• loader: switch to loaderUtils.getOptions (a0a0f0d)
• README: adds a link to template option documentation (f40aeae)
• tests: Upgrade webpack-recompilation-simulator (dfe1d10)
• Update lodash to 4.17.10 (cc3bf49)

Code Refactoring

• Change the structure of the internal assets object (37db086)
• Changed hook names and arguments - the hook order is 'beforeAssetTagGeneration', 'alterAssetTags', 'alterAssetTagGroups', 'afterTemplateExecution', 'beforeEmit', 'afterEmit' (14b4456)
• Use Webpack 4 APIs (47efdea)

Features

• add .toString implementation to htmlTags to allow easier rendering (34d8aa5)
• Add default viewport meta tag for default template (302e39e), closes #897 #978
• Add defer script loading (de315eb)
• Add support for relative publicPath (dbbdd81)
• Add support for tag (#1160) (c5d4b86)
• Add support for minifying inline ES6 inside html templates (c66766c), closes #1262
• Add support for the [contenthash] placeholder inside htm file names (ae8233a)
• Add typings to package.json (a524e8f), closes #1132
• Allow to return async template parameters (99f9362)
• drop workaround for "Uncaught TypeError: webpack_require(...) is not a function" to be compatible with webpack 5 (15ad0d2)
• Export major version of this plugin (6ae6f48)
• merge templateParameters with default template parameters (1d66e53)
• Provide a verbose error message if html minification failed (7df269f)
• compiler: Add file dependencies (bbc07a3)
• compiler: Use a single compiler for multiple plugin instances (f29ae88)
• compiler: Use timestamps to verify cache validity (0ebcd17)
• Remove selfClosingTag (5d3d8e4)
• Remove type="text/javascript" from injected script tags (b46bf67)
• Replace jade with pug in examples (d7ec407)
• Switch from jasmine to jest (ae1f435)
• hooks: Add a helper for easier hook access (b6dec4b)
• hooks: Provide static getHook method for access to all html-webpack-plugin hooks (#995) (82b34a1)
• Simplify element and charset attribute (55313be)
• support ES6 template string in default loader (d6b65dd), closes #950
• Use jsdoc for static typing (a6b8d2d)
• Use webpack 4 entries api to extract asset information (342867e)
• html-tags: Add a helper to create html-tags (ee6a165)

BREAKING CHANGES

• defaults: Use src/index.ejs if no template option is set.
• defaults: The default template has now a predefined viewport meta tag
• defaults: The default meta utf-8 declaration was changed to
• hooks: Renamed beforeHtmlGeneration hook to beforeAssetTagGeneration
• hooks: Renamed beforeHtmlProcessing hook to alterAssetTags
• hooks: Renamed afterHtmlProcessing hook to beforeEmit
• hooks: The html-webpack-plugin doesn't add its hooks to the compilation object anymore
• The assets object which is used for the template parameters and inside hooks was changed. The chunks property was removed and the js and css property was converted from a string into an object { entryName: string, path: string}
• The mimetype information "text/javascript" is removed from all generated script tags
• Remove selfClosingTag attribute
• Template strings inside templates are now disabled by default
• Dropped support for Webpack 1 - 3
• Template variable webpack was removed
• chunksorter: Chunks aren't sorted anymore by default

3.2.0 (2018-04-03)

Bug Fixes

• loader: Allow to add new template parameters (f7eac19), closes #915
• loader: Use lodash inside the loader directly (7b4eb7f), closes #786

Features

• Add meta tag option (a7d37ca)
• Support node 6.9 (74a22c4), closes #918

3.1.0 (2018-03-22)

Features

• Allow to overwrite the templateParameter #830 (c5e32d3)

3.0.8 (2018-03-22)

Bug Fixes

• compiler: Fallback to 3.0.7 because of #900 (05ee29b)

3.0.7 (2018-03-19)

Bug Fixes

• compiler: Set single entry name #895 (26dcb98)

3.0.6 (2018-03-06)

Bug Fixes

• hooks: Call tapable.apply directly #879 (bcbb036)

3.0.5 (2018-03-06)

Bug Fixes

• entries: do not ignore JS if there is also CSS (020b714)
• entries: Don't add css entries twice (0348d6b)
• hooks: Remove deprecated tapable calls #879 (2288f20)

3.0.4 (2018-03-01)

Bug Fixes

• entries: Don't add css entries twice (e890f23)

3.0.3 (2018-03-01)

Refactor

• performance: Reduce the amount of chunk information gathered based on #825 (06c59a7)

3.0.2 (2018-03-01)

Bug Fixes

• query-loader: In case no query is provided, return an empty object. This fixes #727 (7587754)

3.0.1 (2018-03-01)

Bug Fixes

• package: Remove the extract-text-webpack-plugin peer dependency (57411a9)

3.0.0 (2018-28-02)

Features

• Add support for the new webpack tapable to be compatible with webpack 4.x
• Remove bluebird dependency

BREAKING CHANGES

• Similar to webpack 4.x the support for node versions older than 6 are no longer supported

2.30.1

• Revert part the performance optimization (#723) because of #753.

2.30.0

• Add manual sort
• Performance improvements (#723)

2.29.0

• Add support for Webpack 3

2.28.0

• Backport 3.x void tag for plugin authors

2.27.1

• Revert 2.25.0 loader resolving

2.27.0

• Fix a chunksorter webpack 2 issue (#569)
• Fix template path resolving (#542)

2.26.0

• Allow plugins to add attributes without values to the <script> and <link> tags

2.25.0

• Clearer loader output
• Add basic support for webpack 2

2.24.1

• Hide event deprecated warning of 'applyPluginsAsyncWaterfall' for html-webpack-plugin-after-emit and improve the warning message.

2.24.0

• Update dependencies
• Add deprecate warning for plugins not returning a result
• Add [path] for favicons

2.23.0

• Update dependencies
• Stop automated tests for webpack 2 beta because of #401

2.22.0

• Update dependencies

2.21.1

• Better error handling (#354)

2.21.0

• Add html-webpack-plugin-alter-asset-tags event to allow plugins to adjust the script/link tags

2.20.0

• Exclude chunks works now even if combined with dependency sort

2.19.0

• Add html-webpack-plugin-alter-chunks event for custom chunk sorting and interpolation

2.18.0

• Updated all dependencies

2.17.0

• Add type attribute to script element to prevent issues in Safari 9.1.1

2.16.2

• Fix bug introduced by 2.16.2. Fixes #315

2.16.1

• Fix hot module replacement for webpack 2.x

2.16.0

• Add support for dynamic filenames like index[hash].html

2.15.0

• Add full unit test coverage for the webpack 2 beta version
• For webpack 2 the default sort will be 'dependency' instead of 'id'
• Upgrade dependencies

2.14.0

• Export publicPath to the template
• Add example for inlining css and js

2.13.0

• Add support for absolute output file names
• Add support for relative file names outside the output path

2.12.0

• Basic Webpack 2.x support #225

2.11.0

• Add xhtml option which is turned of by default. When activated it will inject self closed <link href=".." /> tags instead of unclosed <link href=".."> tags. (#255)
• Add support for webpack placeholders inside the public path e.g. '/dist/[hash]/'. (#249)

2.10.0

• Add hash field to the chunk object
• Add compilation field to the templateParam object (#237)
• Add html-webpack-plugin-before-html-generation event
• Improve error messages

2.9.0

• Fix favicon path (#185, #208, #215)

2.8.2

• Support relative URLs on Windows (#205)

2.8.1

• Caching improvements (#204)

2.8.0

• Add dependency mode for chunksSortMode to sort chunks based on their dependencies with each other

2.7.2

• Add support for require in js templates

2.7.1

• Refactoring
• Fix relative windows path

2.6.5

• Minor refactoring

2.6.4

• Fix for "Uncaught TypeError: __webpack_require__(...) is not a function"
• Fix incomplete cache modules causing "HtmlWebpackPlugin Error: No source available"
• Fix some issues on Windows

2.6.3

• Prevent parsing the base template with the html-loader

2.6.2

• Fix lodash resolve error (#172)

2.6.1

• Fix missing module (#164)

2.6.0

• Move compiler to its own file
• Improve error messages
• Fix global HTML_WEBPACK_PLUGIN variable

2.5.0

• Support lodash template's HTML "escape" delimiter (<%- %>)
• Fix bluebird warning (#130)
• Fix an issue where incomplete cache modules were used

2.4.0

• Don't recompile if the assets didn't change

2.3.0

• Add events html-webpack-plugin-before-html-processing, html-webpack-plugin-after-html-processing, html-webpack-plugin-after-emit to allow other plugins to alter the html this plugin executes

2.2.0

• Inject css and js even if the html file is incomplete (#135)
• Update dependencies

2.1.0

• Synchronize with the stable @1 version

2.0.4

• Fix minify option
• Fix missing hash interpolation in publicPath

2.0.3

• Add support for webpack.BannerPlugin

2.0.2

• Add support for loaders in templates (#41)
• Remove templateContent option from configuration
• Better error messages
• Update dependencies

1.7.0

• Add chunksSortMode option to configuration to control how chunks should be sorted before they are included to the html
• Don't insert async chunks into html (#95)
• Update dependencies

1.6.2

• Fix paths on Windows
• Fix missing hash interpolation in publicPath
• Allow only false or object in minify configuration option

1.6.1

• Add size field to the chunk object
• Fix stylesheet <link>s being discarded when used with "inject: 'head'"
• Update dependencies

1.6.0

• Support placing templates in subfolders
• Don't include chunks with undefined name (#60)
• Don't include async chunks

1.5.2

• Update dependencies (lodash)

1.5.1

• Fix error when manifest is specified (#56)

1.5.0

• Allow to inject javascript files into the head of the html page
• Fix error reporting

1.4.0

• Add favicon.ico option
• Add html minifcation

1.2.0

• Set charset using HTML5 meta attribute
• Reload upon change when using webpack watch mode
• Generate manifest attribute when using appcache-webpack-plugin
• Optionally add webpack hash as a query string to resources included in the HTML (hash: true) for cache busting
• CSS files generated using webpack (for example, by using the extract-text-webpack-plugin) are now automatically included into the generated HTML
• More detailed information about the files generated by webpack is now available to templates in the o.htmlWebpackPlugin.files attribute. See readme for more details. This new attribute deprecates the old o.htmlWebpackPlugin.assets attribute.
• The templateContent option can now be a function that returns the template string to use
• Expose webpack configuration to templates (o.webpackConfig)
• Sort chunks to honour dependencies between them (useful for use with CommonsChunkPlugin).