14.0.0-next.2 (2022-02-07)

Breaking Changes

core

• Forms [email] input coercion

Forms [email] input value will be considered as true if it is defined with any value rather
than false and 'false'.

forms

• objects with a length key set to zero will no longer validate as empty.

This is technically a breaking change, since objects with a key length and value 0 will no longer validate as empty. This is a very minor change, and any reliance on this behavior is probably a bug anyway.

platform-browser

• This change may cause a breaking change in unit tests that are implicitly depending on a specific
  number and sequence of change detections in order for their assertions to pass.

• This may break invalid calls to TransferState methods.

This tightens parameter types of TransferState usage, and is a minor breaking change which may reveal existing problematic calls.

router

• • The type of initialUrl is set to string|UrlTree but in reality,
    the Router only sets it to a value that will always be UrlTree

• initialUrl is documented as "The target URL passed into the
  Router#navigateByUrl() call before navigation" but the value
  actually gets set to something completely different. It's set to the
  current internal UrlTree of the Router at the time navigation
  occurs.

With this change, there is no exact replacement for the old value of
initialUrl because it was enver intended to be exposed.
Router.url is likely the best replacement for this.
In more specific use-cases, tracking the finalUrl between successful
navigations can also be used as a replacement.

animations

Commit	Description
	implement missing transition delay (#44799)

common

Commit	Description
	support years greater than 9999 (#43622)

compiler

Commit	Description
	allow banana-in-a-box bindings to end with non-null assertion (#37809)

compiler-cli

Commit	Description
	initial implementation of standalone components (#44812)

core

Commit	Description
	input coercion (#42803)

forms

Commit	Description
	Correct empty validator to handle objects with a property length: 0. (#33729)
	incorrectly keeping track of ngModel with ngFor inside a form (#40459)

http

Commit	Description
	remove IE special status handling (#44354)

platform-browser

Commit	Description
	do not run change detection when loading Hammer (#44921)
	Make transfer state key typesafe. (#23020)

router

Commit	Description
	set stricter type for Route.title (#44939)
	Update Navigation#initialUrl to match documentation and reality (#43863)

upgrade

Commit	Description
	Do not trigger duplicate navigation events from Angular Router (#43441)

Special Thanks

Alan Agius, Alex Rickabaugh, Andrew Kushnir, Andrew Scott, Daniel Díaz, Dario Piotrowicz, Doug Parker, Jayson Acosta, Joey Perrott, JoostK, Kristiyan Kostadinov, Olivier Capuozzo, Payam Shahidi, Pusztai Tibor, Ramzan, Ruslan Lekhman, Sergej Grilborzer, Shai Reznik, TANMAY SRIVASTAVA, arturovt, dario-piotrowicz, iRealNirmal, jhonyeduardo, markostanimirovic, mgechev and zuckjet