What's Changed

New Features 🎉

• feat: make persistent cache max generations default to 3 by @ahabhgk in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14534

Performance 🚀

• perf: optimize compilation entrypoints getter by @chenjiahan in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14485
• perf: reduce asset wrapper overhead by @chenjiahan in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14487
• perf(deps): bump camino to 1.2.3 by @stormslowly in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14519
• perf(ci): drop debuginfo from the whole ci profile by @stormslowly in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14528

Bug Fixes 🐞

• fix(types): align wasm loading types by @chenjiahan in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14506
• fix(split-chunks): align max size grouping with webpack by @intellild in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14481
• fix(rstest): fallback to automock for missing manual mocks by @9aoy in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14418
• fix(css): preserve undeclared css module idents by @intellild in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14497
• fix(mf): stabilize consume shared runtime output by @2heal1 in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14532
• fix(cache): default context_dependencies snapshot strategy to timestamp by @hardfist in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14490

Refactor 🔨

• refactor: merge webpack api parser plugins by @LingyuCoder in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14529

Document 📖

• docs: fix duplicate createRequire parser docs by @JSerFeng in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14486
• docs: update React Compiler guide by @chenjiahan in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14496
• docs: remove redundant javascript/auto type examples by @chenjiahan in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14499
• docs: update ESM config examples by @chenjiahan in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14505
• docs: fix entry config docs by @chenjiahan in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14514
• docs: fix module config types by @chenjiahan in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14515
• docs: fix resolve config types by @chenjiahan in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14516
• docs: fix stats config types by @chenjiahan in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14518
• docs: document dev server options by @chenjiahan in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14523
• docs: move cache migration guide by @chenjiahan in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14535
• docs: improve cache option documentation by @chenjiahan in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14540

Other Changes

• chore: release v2.1.0-beta.0 by @ahabhgk in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14480
• chore: remove codspeed js bench case by @SyMind in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14489
• test(tree-shaking): lock in pureFunctions innerGraph deferred-pure-check behavior by @JSerFeng in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14488
• chore(ci): pause portable cache check by @stormslowly in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14492
• chore(ci): align hookTimeout with testTimeout to fix flaky afterAll close timeout by @stormslowly in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14498
• chore(deps): update dependency http-proxy-middleware to v4.1.1 [security] by @renovate 🤖 in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14500
• chore(deps): update dependency lint-staged to v17 by @renovate 🤖 in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14504
• chore(deps): update pnpm to v11.8.0 by @renovate 🤖 in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14503
• chore(deps): update dependency @rslib/core to ^0.23.0 by @renovate 🤖 in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14501
• chore(deps): remove unused axios dependency by @chenjiahan in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14507
• chore(deps): update dependency enhanced-resolve to v5.24.0 by @renovate 🤖 in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14512
• chore(deps): update dependency webpack-sources to v3.5.0 by @renovate 🤖 in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14513
• chore(deps): bump rspack_resolver to 0.9.3 by @stormslowly in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14521
• chore(deps): update patch npm dependencies by @renovate 🤖 in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14510
• chore(test): stabilize watch-detection on Windows with synchronous writes by @stormslowly in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14520
• test: replace non_webpack_require in tests by @LingyuCoder in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14530
• chore: bump swc_core from 68 to 71 by @CPunisher in https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/pull/14526
• Release 0.101.0-rc.0 by @LingyuCoder
• chore(release): release 2.1.0-rc.0 by @LingyuCoder

Full Changelog: https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspack/compare/v2.1.0-beta.0...v2.1.0-rc.0