The Angular team released Angular 5.0.0.0.
See this blogpost for all detail.
Although this is seems a large update, in fact there are only some minor breaking changes.
Angular made a update guide available here, so you can see exactly what you need to update in your excisting projects.
Improved and new in this version
- Build optimizer creates smaller JavaScripts bundles which increase the boot speed of your application for your users.
- Angular Universal improvements. Added State transfer API and more options for DOM manipulation.
- Many compiler improvements to develop faster with Angular and decrease the size of the JavaScript bundles.
- Angular Forms improvements.
- Updated to RxJS 5.5.
- More router lifecyle events.
- Angular CLI v1.5 fully supports Angular 5.0.0.0.
How to update to Angular 5.0.0.0.
To update to the latest version of Angular for your new projects, follow these steps:
Uninstall the old version (globally)
npm uninstall -g @angular/cli
Install the new version (globally)
npm install -g @angular/cli@latest