This beta release differs a lot with the earlier alpha versions.

The previous alpha versions dropped a lot of features and supported less browsers, in an effort to get webpack-dev-server back to its core.
These efforts have been moved to webpack-serve, and instead this major version of webpack-dev-version will focus on webpack v4 compatibility.

The changelog below is compared to the latest v2 version of webpack-dev-server:

• Support for webpack v4.
• webpack-dev-middleware updated to v2 (see changes).
• Drops support for Node.js v4, going forward we only support v6+ (same as webpack).

We need your feedback! Please test this release. 🐛 🐞 👀

Our third attempt to fix compatibility with old browsers (#1273), this time we'll get it right.

Version 2.11.0 adds the transpilation of the client scripts via babel to ES5 which restores backwards compatibility (that was removed in 2.8.0) to very old or out of date browsers.

Version 2.10.0 adds the transpilation of the client scripts via babel to ES5 which restores backwards compatibility (that was removed in 2.8.0) to very old or out of date browsers.

Important webpack-dev-server has entered a maintenance-only mode. We won't be accepting any new features or major modifications. We'll still welcome pull requests for fixes however, and will continue to address any bugs that arise. Announcement with specifics pending.

Bugfixes

• iOS Safari 10 bug where SockJS couldn't be found (#1238)
• reportTime option (#1209)
• don't mutate stats configuration (#1174)
• enable progress from config (#1181)

Updates

• transpile client bundles with babel (#1242)
• dependency updates (ce30460)
• Increase minimum marked version for ReDos vuln (#1255)
• Update sockjs dependency to fix auditjs security vulnerability warning

Bugfixes

• fixes #1208: watchOptions not passed to chokidar in wds

Updates

• fixes #1198: bump express for security (6b2d7a0)

Bugfixes

• assert ssl certs aren't published. fixes #1171
• fixes #860: failure to exit on SIGINT race condition (#1157)

Bugfixes

• Fixes #1082, #1142. bin file correctly prefers local module, uses it, and bails if local module detected.
• Use dist/build sockjs-client instead of module source (#1148)

Bugfixes

Changed property descriptor for Array.includes polyfill (#1134)

Updates

Remove header additional property validation (#1115)
Allow explicitly setting the protocol from the public option (#1117)
Updates readme with support, usage, and caveats (outlines no support for old IE)

Patch release to resolve an errant log message in setup