preactjs/preact 7.2.0

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⚛️ Preact 7.2.0 is now available as a regular release!

npm install --save preact

Bugs Squashed

• Fix IE issues from 7.1 and update test cases (huge thanks to @mkxml for the hard work on this 🙇)
• Fix TextNode duplication in IE (#430, thanks also to @mkxml)
• Fix unnececssary diff when swapping from dangerouslySetInnerHTML to children (thanks @harish2704)
• Fix issue in 7.x with <select> sometimes not applying value prop (#446)
• Don't stringify true children, instead skip them (#468, thanks @jxodwyer)
• Fix issue where unmount could be skipped on a top-level component (#493, discovered by @insin)
• (DevTools Integration) Fix multiple root element issue

New Features

• Use a shared empty Array for props.children when there are no children. Fixes simple shallow equality-based shouldComponentUpdate for leaf nodes 🎉
• Remove instanceof SVGElement check in favor of duck typing. Fixes JSDOM compatibility and improves diff performance (#423, thanks @nhunzaker)
• Better TypeScript Definitions: Component lifecycle methods, setState callback, etc