The Angular team completed a massive "triage" effort, addressing every open issue in their core repositories and committing to a two-week turnaround for all future reports.

Developers can opt-in to Webpack 5 experimental support by adding a "resolutions" field in package.json . This paves the way for persistent disk caching and smaller bundle sizes via improved tree-shaking. Improved Developer Workflow

Initially introduced for Material, harnesses are now available for all components . New APIs like the parallel function and manualChangeDetection provide finer control over asynchronous testing.

TSLint and Codelyzer have been officially deprecated . Angular now recommends migrating to the community-driven angular-eslint stack.