15.0.0-next.6 (2022-10-12)

Breaking Changes

compiler-cli

• Invalid constructors for DI may now report compilation errors

  When a class inherits its constructor from a base class, the compiler may now
  report an error when that constructor cannot be used for DI purposes. This may
  either be because the base class is missing an Angular decorator such as
  @Injectable() or @Directive(), or because the constructor contains parameters
  which do not have an associated token (such as primitive types like string).
  These situations used to behave unexpectedly at runtime, where the class may be
  constructed without any of its constructor parameters, so this is now reported
  as an error during compilation.

  Any new errors that may be reported because of this change can be resolved either
  by decorating the base class from which the constructor is inherited, or by adding
  an explicit constructor to the class for which the error is reported.

core

• Angular no longer supports Node.js versions 14.[15-19].x and 16.[10-12].x. Current supported versions of Node.js are 14.20.x, 16.13.x and 18.10.x.
• TypeScript versions older than 4.8 are no longer supported.

forms

• setDisabledState will always be called when a ControlValueAccessor is attached. You can opt-out with FormsModule.withConfig or ReactiveFormsModule.withConfig.

router

• relativeLinkResolution is no longer configurable in
  the Router. This option was used as a means to opt out of a bug fix.

Deprecations

common

• The DATE_PIPE_DEFAULT_TIMEZONE token is now deprecated in favor
  of the DATE_PIPE_DEFAULT_OPTIONS token, which accepts an object
  as a value and the timezone can be defined as a field (called timezone)
  on that object.

router

• The RouterLinkWithHref directive is deprecated, use the RouterLink directive instead. The RouterLink contains the code from the RouterLinkWithHref to handle elements with href attributes.

common

Commit	Description
	add provideLocationMocks() function to provide Location mocks (#47674)
	add preload tag on server for priority img (#47343)
	Add automatic srcset generation to ngOptimizedImage (#47547)
	Add fill mode to NgOptimizedImage (#47738)
	add injection token for default DatePipe configuration (#47157)

compiler

Commit	Description
	update element schema (#47552)
	update element schema (#47552)

compiler-cli

Commit	Description
	add missing period to error message (#47744)
	exclude abstract classes from strictInjectionParameters requirement (#44615)
	use @ts-ignore. (#47636)
	minimize filesystem calls when generating shims (#47682)

core

Commit	Description
	add support for Node.js version 18 (#47730)
	drop support for TypeScript 4.6 and 4.7 (#47690)
	enable the new directive composition API (#47642)
	introduce EnvironmentProviders wrapper type (#47669)

forms

Commit	Description
	export forms utility functions: isFormArray, isFormGroup… (#47718)
	call setDisabledState on ControlValueAcessor when control is enabled (#47576)

http

Commit	Description
	allow for child HttpClients to request via parents (#47502)
	introduce provideHttpClientTesting provider function (#47502)
	introduce functional interceptors (#47502)
	introduce the provideHttpClient() API (#47502)
	better handle unexpected undefined XSRF tokens (#47683)

language-service

Commit	Description
	Quick fix to import a component when its selector is used (#47088)

router

Commit	Description
	add a migration to remove relativeLinkResolution usages (#47604)
	merge RouterLinkWithHref into RouterLink (#47630)
	migrate RouterLinkWithHref references to RouterLink (#47599)
	prevent provideRouter() from usage in @component (#47669)
	Remove deprecated relativeLinkResolution (#47623)

Special Thanks

Alan Agius, AleksanderBodurri, Alex Castle, Alex Rickabaugh, Andrew Kushnir, Andrew Scott, Aristeidis Bampakos, Bob Watson, Charles Lyding, Dylan Hunn, Ferdinand Malcher, George Kalpakas, Jessica Janiuk, Joey Perrott, JoostK, Joshua Morony, Kristiyan Kostadinov, Martin Probst, Mathew Berg, Matthias Weiß, Paul Gschwendtner, Peter Dickten, Renan Ferro, Sri Ram, WD Snoeijer, arturovt, jaybell, markostanimirovic and Álvaro Martínez