13.1.0-next.3 (2021-12-01)

Deprecations

• The downgradeModule function calls with NgModule factories are deprecated. Please use NgModule class based downgradeModule calls instead.

common

• TestRequest from @angular/common/http/testing no longer
  accepts ErrorEvent when simulating XHR errors. Instead instances of
  ProgressEvent should be passed, matching with the native browser behavior.

Commit	Description
	deprecate factory-based signature of the downgradeModule function (#44090)

common

Commit	Description
	incorrect error type for XHR errors in TestRequest (#36082)

compiler-cli

Commit	Description
	downlevel transform incorrectly extracting constructor parameters for nested classes (#44281)
	interpret string concat calls (#44167)

core

Commit	Description
	add migration to remove entryComponents (#44308)
	add migration to remove entryComponents (#44322)
	support TypeScript 4.5 (#44164)
	add missing info about a component in the "pipe could not be found" error message (#44081)
	destroy hooks not set up for useClass provider using forwardRef (#44281)
	support cyclic metadata in TestBed overrides (#44215)

forms

Commit	Description
	make the FormControlStatus available as a public API (#44183)

language-service

Commit	Description
	Correctly parse inputs and selectors with dollar signs (#44268)

ngcc

Commit	Description
	correctly report error when collecting dependencies of UMD module (#44245)
	ensure that ngcc does not write a lock-file into node_modules package directories (#44228)
	support the UMD wrapper function format emitted by Webpack (#44245)

router

Commit	Description
	prevent componentless routes from being detached (#44240)

Special Thanks

Alan Agius, Alex Rickabaugh, Andrew Kushnir, Andrew Scott, Artur, Christian-E, David Shevitz, Doug Parker, Douglas Parker, Dylan Hunn, George Kalpakas, Jessica Janiuk, Joey Perrott, JoostK, Kristiyan Kostadinov, Marc Redemske, Paul Gschwendtner, Pei Wang, Pete Bacon Darwin, Ramesh Thiruchelvam, Ravi Chandra, Rohan Pednekar, Ruslan Usmanov, dario-piotrowicz, profanis and unknown