For maintainers only:

• This need to be documented (issue in webpack/webpack.js.org will be filed when merged)

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@sokra Please review the new changes.

friendly bump

Thanks

With --progress, I now have an output of thousands of lines (instead of just the progress line being constantly updated).

@kinke please open an issue if you think this caused a bug, closed PRs are not good for visibility. Also please mention the webpack version you're on.

Well it's not a bug IMO, just a major inconvenience - I downgraded from v4.35.2 to v4.34 because of this.

@kinke ok, well please open an issue or comment on this issue #9221, preferably with a reproducible example.

also it would be nice to log process.stderr.columns and post that with the issue. it may be a problem when that's not set

IMO falling back to Infinity is not a good idea here.
It breaks use cases like the Vue CLI UI, where the stderr stream is piped thus not having the columns property vuejs/vue-cli#4557.
Such problems won't occur with the old 40 max length.