5.6.0 (2022-12-09)

Bug Fixes

• core: deprecate type option in favour of driver exports (7180f23), closes #3743
• core: do not mark entities as populated via em.merge() (bfa4962), closes #3812
• core: do not process mapped types twice in em.upsert() (434d417), closes #3787
• core: ensure correct result in ChangeSet.getPrimaryKey(true) (2e74a34), closes #3737
• core: fix query execution inside hooks sometimes hanging (d68b9bd)
• core: make ChangeSet.getPrimaryKey() response stable (d32c956)
• core: remove readonly from properties of FilterQuery (2a2a13d), closes #3836
• core: return Ref & LoadedReference from ref() (c85e507), closes #3840
• core: serialize not managed relations as populated (89b4dab), closes #3788
• core: support hidden flag on primary keys (4935505)
• embeddables: respect explicit null only for object embeddables (6e0bedf), closes #3772
• mysql: ensure bigint columns are mapped to string (d3d50ba), closes #3739
• mysql: respect auto_increment_increment when batch inserting (516db6d), closes #3828
• postgres: quote array literal items containing a comma (5ffa81c), closes #3810
• postgres: use postgres as the management db name + allow override (eab1668), closes #3769
• query-builder: fix cloning QB in some cases (c3b4c20), closes #3720
• query-builder: fix querying for a composite FK when target is joined (dec4c9c), closes #3738
• query-builder: respect case-insensitive regexp flag (1a1d381), closes #3801
• query-build: fix query execution inside hooks sometimes hanging (dba6ce2)
• schema: do not cache knex instance (dc00374), closes #3713
• schema: ensure database exists before dropping schema (fd4c416), closes #3713
• ts: allow string dates in em.create() (d0607d5)

Features

• cli: added option to generate cache via ts-node (#3796) (268bd68), closes #3795
• core: add em.upsertMany (#3825) (83ac12a)
• core: add serialize() helper for explicit serialization (#3728) (f22cd6f)
• core: allow creating entity from PK via rel() and ref() (#3837) (72ca8e7), closes #3835
• core: ensure database exists automatically (#3830) (f92da01)
• core: introduce ORM extensions (#3773) (0f36967)

Performance Improvements

• core: never clone Platform and EntityMetadata instances (9e05104), closes #3720