core: do not trigger global context validation from repositories (f651865), closes #2778
core: fix processing of onUpdate properties (9cf454e), closes #2781
core: fix processing of multiple onUpdate properties on one entity (4f0e4cc), closes #2784
core: hydrate not-null embeddable prop even with all null values (09aee05), closes #2774
core: register entity to identity map as early as possible (d8f3613), closes #2777
core: respect onDelete: cascade when propagating removal (f1e8578), closes #2703
core: revert to require() when getting ORM version to fix webpack support (6cfb526), closes #2799
migrations: generate snapshot too when using --initial (4857be7), closes #2800
postgres: consider int8 as numeric when inferring autoincrement value (64bc99d), closes #2791
sqlite: respect autoincrement: false in schema diffing (b39b6ad), closes #2800
typing: fix populate hints on collections where both type args are provided (e39ef5b), closes #2771

add better-sqlite driver (#2792) (1b39d66)
core: add connect config option (8aaad33)
core: add SchemaGenerator.clearDatabase() (ecad9c6), closes #2220
core: add populate option to Reference.load and Collection.loadItems (1527c1a), closes #2796