Major release

Bug fixes

New features

Pentagonal Donut!

Provided by Angular's CLI

Tree shaking

Bundle size reduction

Build Optimization

• Dramatically faster incremental rebuilds
• Option to discard whitespaces during build
• More versatile decorators

Improved Compiler

HttpClient is lightweight and powerful

Response objects are JSON by default

New HTTP library

Brand new i18n implementation

No more polyfills

Pipes!

Internationalization

Performance improvements

Forms would update onChange

Now have the option to update onBlur or OnSubmit

Forms

/* Then */


// Template driven form

<input
    name="firstName"
    ngModel
>



// Reactive form

this.f = new FormControl(
    value,
    [],
    [myValidator]
);

/* Now */


// Template driven form

<input
    name="firstName"
    ngModel
    [ngModelOptions]="{updateOn: 'blur'}"
>


// Reactive form

this.f = new FormControl(
    value, {
        updateOn: 'blur',
        asyncValidators: [myValidator]
    }
);

Universal state transfer API

exportAs

New router lifecycle events

Other new features