Versioning?

[rtm]

The changelog shows 4.0.0-rc.1 as the latest version, dated 2017-06-02.

However, I also see a tag for 4.0.0-rc.2.

The current head version of package.json shows a version of 5.0.0-rc.0. There is no tag I can see corresponding to this.

I'm having a hard time understanding what the latest version really is. If there is a 5.0.0-rc.0, this would seem to imply to me that 4.0.0 should have been officially released as 4.0.0 with no -rc1 suffix.

What is the current status of latest releases?

[davideast]

Hi @rtm! We went in to RC for the 4.0 version but we realized there could be improvements before releasing. We made breaking changes with #1158, which required a major version change. The 5.0 version is not officially released yet but we plan on doing so today.

Does that answer your questions?

[davideast]

Our latest is out on npm!

[rtm]

I'm curious why this was treated as a breaking change. Instead, a new method and/or type could have been introduced. This approach prevents me from migrating my code incrementally.

[davideast]

The old API is still in angularfire2/database-deprecated.

We opted to not add in new methods or types to decrease the size of the library. We were able to drop 55% of the library while adding more features than before. If we kept everything around the library would have been much larger.