cli: use module: 'nodenext' when registering ts-node (#5514) (8695524), closes #5427
core: detect path from decorator for each class only once (#5545) (9af0e38)
core: improve support for clientUrl with additional query parameters (1472705), closes #5608
core: improve support for sharing columns in composite PK and FK (#5623) (7190879), closes #5622
core: improve validation for missing dbName when clientUrl is provided (c21359e)
core: respect ignoreNestedTransactions from upper context (eab4df6), closes #5585
core: use explicit NoInfer type helper to support TS<5.4 (c38b366), closes #5613
knex: explicitly declare all the extended drivers as optional peer dependencies (#5647) (64045ad)
mssql: account for quotes in table names (#5637) (0343609)
mssql: fix creating migrations due to a missing helper method (#5644) (90e27c2), closes #5633
mssql: fix creating schema for migrations table (fe1be6f), closes #5644
mssql: fix ensuring the database exists on older SQL Server versions (f0a5790), closes #5638
postgres: respect deferMode option in 1:1 relations (#5641) (101c0a8)
reflection: detect complex runtime types and don't use them as column types (0c8a587), closes #5601
reflection: support entities compiled by babel (#5628) (26f627e), closes #5610
schema: fix diffing renamed indexes and columns when the names are not lowercase (4019dc3), closes #5617
sql: implement batching of M:N collection update queries (d97979b), closes #5627