This plan tracks our work towards version 1.0.

We aim a release in the first half of 2026.

Plan Items

Breaking changes

• Drop support for node 16 and 18 feat!: drop support for node 16 and 18 #11382
• Remove all deprecated APIs Remove APIs marked as deprecated in v0.3.0 #11603
• Drop support for old client libraries Drop support for un-maintained/deprecated driver libraries #11692
  • redis older than v5 (remove code handling older versions) feat(redis)!: remove support for legacy redis client versions #12057
  • Remove old sqlite3 client and driver feat(sqlite)!: drop support for sqlite3 and default to better-sqlite3 #11836
  • Remove old mysql client feat(mysql)!: drop support for mysql package and default to mysql2 #11766
  • Remove old Expo driver Remove old Expo driver #11854
• MySQL: Disable legacy spatial support by default MySQL: legacy spatial support disabled by default #12008
• MongoDB: Fix mongo types leaking feat(mongo)!: remove exported internal types #12037
• Rename connection to dataSource in EntityManager, Repository, QueryBuilder, QueryRunner etc. Create deprecated alias for backwards-compatibility. #12082
• Change default for null/undefined handling in FindOptions feat(invalid-where-values-behavior): make throw the default #11710
• Replace glob with tinyglobby refactor!: replace node-glob with tinyglobby, remove rimraf #11699

Features

• Explicit resource management for QueryRunner feat: support explicit resource management in QueryRunner #11701

Technical

• Replace npm with pnpm ci: setup pnpm #11881
• Replace gulp with nx Replace Gulp with Nx for build tasks #11691
• Upgrade to prettier v3 chore: update prettier to v3 #11702
• Replace sha.js with built-in node:crypto and provide fallback for other platforms (needs fixing our own SHA1 hashing function) refactor: remove shajs #11864
• Replace uuid with Crypto WebAPI and provider fallback for non-supported platforms (e.g. ReactNative) Drop dependencies in favour of native crypto functionality #11693

Documentation

• Multi-version documentation: 0.3.x releases, development (master branch), and later for the 1.x releases (published and indexed from GitHub Actions) docs: add version dropdown (stable/dev) to master #11862