5.7.0 (2023-04-23)

Bug Fixes

• core: clean up bidirectional references after removal of entity (bfd3840), closes #4234
• core: detect JsonType based on columnType (#4252) (2e01622), closes #4229
• core: do not try to propagate changes to mapToPk relations (7028890), closes #4254
• core: fix mapping of joined relations with buffer PKs (8e9e7ee), closes #4219
• core: merge env vars with explicit configuration recursively (392a623), closes #4235
• core: prevent tuple type properties from being converted to array when serializing entities (#4205) (04ad72e)
• core: propagate changes from extra updates back to the original changeset (77f5c14), closes #4245
• core: rework JSON value processing (#4194) (5594c46), closes #4193
• mariadb: use json_extract when querying JSON fields (ca96acc)
• query-builder: fix pagination when PK uses BigIntType (b789031), closes #4227
• query-builder: support onConflict().ignore() without parameters (3a3b0bd), closes #4224
• schema: fix comparing default value of JSON properties (41277a1), closes #4212

Features

• core: allow disabling transactions (#4260) (8e8bc38), closes #3747 #3992
• core: deprecate persist/flush/remove methods from EntityRepository (#4259) (eba4563), closes #3989
• core: validate repository type in repo.populate() and repo.assign() (301bdf8), closes #3989
• core: validate unique tableName (0693029), closes #4149
• migrations: add support for custom migration names (#4250) (fb2879e)
• mongo: allow setting weights on index (299b188), closes #4172

Performance Improvements

• core: fix eager loading of multiple properties causing cycles (ecbecfc), closes #4213