Version 5

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Breaking changes

• Drop support for Angular12-14, more info in the docs
• The library used for the context menu is deprecated, we need to migrate to this library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ngx-float-ui
• All Angular libs should be peer dependencies, instead of regular dependencies (we can't have multiple different versions of an Angular library in an Angular app) Problems with Angular 12 and 13 #410
• Remove the deprecated theme-v1 Remove theme-v1 #541
• Remove the deprecated ImageLoadService #358
• Remove all deprecated code
• Match the default reaction set to React's Message reactions consolidation #310
• Remove size and color attributes from the avatar, icon and loading indicator components. All these should be configurable from CSS Remove size and color attributes from SDK components stream-chat-css#84 - solves Allow controlling avatar sizes through CSS variables #569
• Make icons customizable from CSS (Icon color customization #575 )
• Create new message menu UI to solve mobile usability issues Mobile usability issues stream-chat-css#141 -> this will require reorganizing the reaction components, the new UI:
  
• Update dependencies to the latest version
• By default if an error occurs during channel load, the Observable will emit an error, which will close the stream. Users will have to reload the page to be able to reinitialize the ChannelService. If you don't want the streams to be closed, you can pass options.keepAliveChannels$OnError = true to the init method. In that case the channelQueryState$ stream will emit the status of the latest channel load request. We should remove the keepAliveChannels$OnError option, and make it the default behavior, as it's more logical then sending an error to channels$

Major UI changes (that are not breaking)

• Update the edit message UI, the new UI: Edit message layout stream-chat-css#125

Nice to haves

These probably won't make it to v5 as the release is already quite packed, if nothing else, they can be a good starting point for v6

• Evaluate: Separating ChannelService into ChannelListService, ActiveChannelService and ThreadService
• Check if Angular Material's customization syntax is something we could use in the future: Global idea for customization #572

[szuperaz]

V5 is now the latest stable release of stream-chat-angular