Angular dev team is certainly taking its time to release the fifth major installment of their amazing client-side framework monster, that's for sure: the 5.0.0 was originally scheduled for September 18 2017, but the team unexpectedly delayed the release a couple days before and set the new date more than a month later, on October 23. During that time, the project hit several RC, yet the updated schedule passed without a major version.

Although there are no official info about a new temptative release date, the Angular team is defintely working hard on the project, with a new Release Candidate coming out each day: the latest one, Angular 5.0.0-rc.7, was released on October 26.

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Here are the relevant changes from the Angular 5.0.0-rc.0 to the 5.0.0-rc.7:

5.0.0-rc.7 (2017-10-27)

Bug Fixes

• compiler: don’t store invalid state when using
  listLazyRoutes (#19953) (4a23df3)
• compiler: make watch mode work on windows (#19953) (f4d5729), closes #19951
• compiler: recover from structural errors in watch mode (#19953) (d343bf7)
• compiler: translate emit diagnostics with
  noEmitOnError: true . (#19953) (9ce7f0e), closes #19935
• service-worker: don't block initialization on registration (#19936) (47caebf)
• service-worker: fix improper call of Observable.merge (#19962) (14016c7)
• service-worker: listen for messages on the right event source (#19954) (5cfd9c6)

5.0.0-rc.6 (2017-10-25)

Bug Fixes

• compiler: automatically set
  emitDecoratorMetadata when
  "annotationsAs": "static fields” (#19927) (ef08330), closes #19916
• compiler: don’t type check templates with
  skipTemplateCodegen (#19909) (18bce59)
• compiler-cli: only use error collector when needed. (#19912) (9b26455)
• compiler-cli: produce correct paths for windows output (#19915) (6cc042e)

5.0.0-rc.5 (2017-10-24)

Bug Fixes

• compiler-cli: report all diagnostic error messages (#19886) (a82f863)

5.0.0-rc.4 (2017-10-24)

Bug Fixes

• bazel: don't console.error from the compile helper (#19879) (5da96c7)
• compiler: correctly calculate the outDir if it repeats a parts of the
  rootDir . (#19836) (fc0b1d5), closes #19718
• service-worker: include versionedFiles in the manifest hashTable (#19837) (90d1423)

5.0.0-rc.3 (2017-10-18)

Bug Fixes

• animations: always fire inner trigger callbacks even if blocked by parent animations (#19753) (5a9ed2d), closes #19100
• animations: ensure animateChild() works with all inner leave animations (#19006) (#19532) (#19693) (f42d317)
• animations: ensure inner :leave animations do not remove node when skipped (#19532) (#19693) (d035175)
• bazel: fix the output directory for extractor to be genfiles/ instead of bin/ (#19716) (405ccc7)
• common: attempt to JSON.parse errors for JSON responses (#19773) (04ab9f1)
• compiler: generate correct imports for type check blocks (#19582) (60bdcd6)
• compiler: prepare for future Bazel semantics of += (#19717) (836c889)
• compiler-cli: diagnostics file paths relative to cwd, not tsconfig (#19748) (56774df)
• compiler-cli: do not add references to files outside of
  rootDir (#19770) (25cbc98)
• router: RouterLinkActive should update its state right after checking the children (#19449) (6f2939d), closes #18983
• service-worker: add missing annotation for SwPush (#19721) (15a8429)
• service-worker: freshness strategy should clone response for cache (#19764) (396c241)
• service-worker: PushEvent.data has to be decoded (#19764) (3bcf0cf)
• service-worker: use posix path resolution for generation of ngsw.json (#19527) (621f87b)

5.0.0-rc.2 (2017-10-12)

Bug Fixes

• animations: properly support boolean-based transitions and state changes (#19279) (a8920eb), closes #9396 #12337
• compiler: correctly calculate the out path on windows (#19601) (d30ce19), closes #19543
• compiler-cli: produce smaller source maps for templates (#19578) (f83989b)

Performance Improvements

• animations: reduce size of bundle by removing AST classes (#19539) (d5c9c5f)
• compiler: only type check input files when using bazel (#19581) (0b06ea1)
• compiler: skip type check and emit in bazel in some cases. (#19646) (a22121d)
• compiler: speed up loading of summaries for bazel. (#19581) (81167d9)

5.0.0-rc.1 (2017-10-06)

Bug Fixes

• compiler: always emit summaries for jit with ng_module bazel rule. (1058b2a)
• don’t rely on
  goog.DEBUG but on
  COMPILED instead (db74f44)
• compiler: add typings for
  COMPILED . (0038712)
• compiler: also count generated files to determine whether to use single file emit (7c5ecb5)
• compiler: disallow references for select and index evaluation (f3f4c3d)
• compiler: don’t use
  ng:// in AOT source maps, and never point to the original source file (01f7112), closes #19538
• compiler: only don’t emit already emitted files in incremental compilation (caa5195)
• compiler: properly work on windows (696af79), closes #19492
• compiler: set
  emitSkipped to false for incremental compilation (c412913)
• service-worker: several misc fixes for corner cases (f10f8db)
• upgrade: call
  ngOnInit() after
  ngOnChanges() (on components with inputs) (eef7d8a), closes #18913
• upgrade: correctly run change detection when
  propagateDigest is false (617b3d2)
• upgrade: ensure downgraded components are destroyed in the Angular zone (4e6aa9c)

Performance Improvements

• compiler: don’t emit summaries for jit by default (b086891)
• compiler: fix perf issue in loading aot summaries in jit compiler (fbc9537)
• compiler: only emit changed files for incremental compilation (745b59f)

5.0.0-rc.0 (2017-09-28)

Bug Fixes

• animations: properly support the query limit option value (b54368b), closes #19232
• common: use correct pipe name in error messages (#19403) (f9b0863), closes #19373
• compiler: add parens around binary / ternary expressions (3799f43)
• compiler: allow to use flat modules and summaries (ec2be5d)
• compiler: allow to use lowering with
  export * . (e31a76c)
• compiler: also create
  .ngfactory.js files in non obvious cases (#19301) (1a647c3)
• compiler: collect non exported symbols in d.ts files (#19301) (62602b9)
• compiler: correctly derive
  fileExists for generated files (#19301) (f2bad19)
• compiler: correctly map error message locations (#19424) (ff5b050)
• compiler: do not consider a reference with members as a reference (#19454) (b3db3f8)
• compiler: don’t lower property accesses of exported symbols (#19301) (45747ed)
• compiler: don’t type check property access of literal maps (#19301) (04997c8)
• compiler: implement i18n with new compiler (627f048), closes #19429
• compiler: make sure our out path calculation is correct (2f6ae52)
• compiler: make sure to detect paths that start with
  rootDir correctly (bb1665c), closes #19362
• compiler: make watch mode work with
  declaration: false (7c1d3e0), closes #19464
• compiler: remove deprecated
  Compiler.ngGetContentSelectors() (#19347) (f57b7df)
• compiler: skip   when trimming / removing whitespaces (#19310) (13613d4), closes #19304
• compiler: support
  noResolve (#19301) (c76da27)
• compiler: various squashed fixes for the new ngc (a8a9660)
• compiler: work well with
  forwardRef with
  useValue /
  useFactory (1dacae2)
• compiler-cli: do not validate metadata from declaration files (#19324) (4767902), closes #18867
• compiler-cli: don't join errors with comma (#19331) (e889c68)
• compiler-cli: don't rewrite imports when annotating for closure (#19444) (f24ea59)
• create proper externs so that closure does not clobber e.g.
  ng for internal variables (#19423) (b21a1d1)
• compiler-cli: set source file ranges in node emitter (#19348) (27c6638)
• compiler-cli: update ngtools2 EmitFlags (#19375) (e224e3d)
• core: make dynamic & inline code checking behave the same (#19189) (473a577)
• http: introduce named type for HttpParams options (#19360) (8a0e458)
• language-service: do not report errors for
  OpaqueToken (#19427) (c1b029a)
• router: fix activation events toString and docs (#19147) (2c4107c)
• router: resolve and guards should be able to reject with null and undefined (#19418) (a9d32a3), closes #17148
• tsc-wrapped: deduplicate metadata only when the module is the same (#19249) (b6b18c1), closes #19219
• don’t use the global
  ng at all with closure enhanced optimizations (a7798f2)

Features

• animations: support negative query limit values (86ffacf), closes #19259
• compiler: enabled strict checking of parameters to an
  @Injectable (#19412) (dfb8d21)
• compiler: reuse the TypeScript typecheck for template typechecking. (#19152) (996c7c2)
• core: support for bootstrap with custom zone (#17672) (344a5ca)
• platform-server: add an API to transfer state from server (#19134) (cfd9ca0)
• service-worker: introduce the @angular/service-worker package (#19274) (d442b68)

Performance Improvements

• compiler: make the creation of
  ts.Program faster. (#19275) (edd5f5a)
• compiler: only use tsickle if needed (#19275) (8f95b75)
• compiler: speed up watch mode (#19275) (6665d76)

BREAKING CHANGES

• compiler: The method
  ngGetContentSelectors() , deprecated in Angular 4.0, has been removed. Use
  ComponentFactory.ngContentSelectors instead.

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