chore: Update dependency webpack to v5.73.0

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
webpack	5.68.0 -> 5.73.0

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Release Notes

webpack/webpack

v5.73.0

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Features

• add options for default dynamicImportMode and prefetch and preload
• add support for import { createRequire } from "module" in source code

Bugfixes

• fix code generation of e. g. return"field"in Module
• fix performance of large JSON modules
• fix performance of async modules evaluation

Developer Experience

• export PathData in typings
• improve error messages with more details

v5.72.1

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Bugfixes

• fix __webpack_nonce__ with HMR
• fix in operator in some cases
• fix json parsing error messages
• fix module concatenation with using this.importModule
• upgrade enhanced-resolve

v5.72.0

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Features

• make cache warnings caused by build errors less verbose
• Allow banner to be placed as a footer with the BannerPlugin
• allow to concatenate asset modules

Bugfixes

• fix RemoteModules when using HMR (Module Federation + HMR)
• throw error when using module concatenation and cacheUnaffected
• fix in operator with nested exports

v5.71.0

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Features

• choose smarter default for uniqueName when using a output.library which includes placeholders
• add support for expressions with in of a imported binding
• generate UMD code with arrow functions when possible

Bugfixes

• fix source map source names for ContextModule to be relative
• fix chunkLoading option in module module
• fix edge case where evaluateExpression returns null
• retain optional chaining in imported bindings
• include runtime code for the base URI even if not using chunk loading
• don't throw errors in persistent caching when importing node.js builtin modules via ESM
• fix crash when using lazy-once Context modules
• improve handling of context modules with multiple contexts
• fix race condition HMR chunk loading when importing chunks during HMR updating
• handle errors in runAsChild callback

v5.70.0

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Features

• update node.js version constraints for ESM support
• add baseUri to entry options to configure a static base uri (the base of new URL())
• alphabetically sort exports in namespace objects when possible
• add __webpack_exports_info__.name.canMangle
• add proxy support to experiments.buildHttp
• import.meta.webpackContext as ESM alternative to require.context
• handle multiple alternative directories (e. g. due to resolve.alias or resolve.modules) when creating an context module

Bugfixes

• fix problem when assigning global to a variable
• fix crash when using experiments.outputModule and loaderContext.importModule with multiple chunks
• avoid generating progress output before the compilation has started (ProgressPlugin)
• fix handling of non-static-ESM dependencies with using TLA and HMR in the same module
• include the asset module filename in hashing
• output.clean will keep HMR assets for at least 10s to allow HMR to access them even when compilation is faster then the browser

Performance

• fix asset caching when using the BannerPlugin

Developer Experience

• improve typings

Contributing

• capture caching errors when running the test suite

v5.69.1

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Revert

• revert "handle multiple alternative directories (e. g. due to resolve.alias or resolve.modules) when creating an context module"

v5.69.0

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Features

• automatically switch to an ESM compatible environment when enabling ESM output mode
• handle multiple alternative directories (e. g. due to resolve.alias or resolve.modules) when creating an context module
• add util/types to node.js built-in modules
• add __webpack_exports_info__.<name>.canMangle api

Bugfixes

• fix bug in chunk graph generation which leads to modules being included in chunk desprite them being already included in parent chunks
• avoid writing more than 2GB at once during cache serialization (as workaround for node.js/libuv bug on MacOS)
• fix handling of whitespaces in semver ranges when using Module Federation
• avoid generating hashes which contain only numbers as they likely conflict with module ids
• fix resource name based placeholders for data uris
• fix cache serialization for context elements
• fix passing of stage option when instrumenting plugins for the ProfilingPlugin
• fix tracking of declarations in concatenated modules to avoid conflicts
• fix unstable mangling of exports
• fix handling of # in paths of loaders
• avoid unnecessary cache update when using experiments.buildHttp

Contributing

• update typescript and jest

Developer Experience

• expose some additional typings for usage in webpack-cli

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