flatbuffers - npm Package Versions

Refactoring of flatc generators to use an interface (#7797).

Removed legacy cmake support and set min to 3.8 (#7801).

Major release! Just kidding, we are continuing the versioning scheme of using a date to signify releases. This results in the first release of the new year to bump the tradition major version field.

Go minimum version is now 1.19 (#7720) with the addition of Go modules.

Added CI support for Big Endian regression testing (#7707).

Fixed getFullyQualifiedName in typescript to return name delimited by '.' instead of '_' (#7730).

Fixed the versioning scheme to not include leading zeros which are not consistently handled by every package manager. Only the last release (12.12.06) should have suffered from this.

This is the first version with an explicit change log, so all the previous features will not be listed.

Verifier now checks that buffers are at least the minimum size required to be a flatbuffers (12 bytes). This includes nested flatbuffers, which previously could be declared valid at size 0.

Annotated binaries. Given a flatbuffer binary and a schema (or binary schema) one can generate an annotated flatbuffer (.afb) to describe each byte in the binary with schema metadata and value.

First binary schema generator (Lua) to generate Lua code via a .bfbs file. This is mostly an implementation detail of flatc internals, but will be slowly applied to the other language generators.