Detailed breaking changes available at: here

• fix(fabric.Canvas): unflag contextLost after a full re-render #7646
• BREAKING: remove 4.x deprecated code #7630
• feat(fabric.StaticCanvas, fabric.Canvas): limit breaking changes #7627
• feat(animation): animations registry #7528
• docs(): Remove not working badges #7623
• ci(): add auto-changelog package to quickly draft a changelog #7615
• feat(fabric.EraserBrush): added eraser property to Object instead of attaching to clipPath, remove hacky getClipPath/setClipPath #7470, see BREAKING comments.
• feat(fabric.EraserBrush): support inverted option to undo erasing #7470
• fix(fabric.EraserBrush): fix doubling opaic objects while erasing #7445 #7470
• BREAKING: fabric.EraserBrush: The Eraser object is now a subclass of Group. This means that loading from JSON will break between versions. Use this code to transform your json payload to the new version.
• feat(fabric.Canvas): fire an extra mouse up for the original control of the initial target #7612
• fix(fabric.Object) bounding box display with skewY when outside group #7611
• fix(fabric.text) fix rtl/ltr performance issues #7610
• fix(event.js) Prevent dividing by 0 in for touch gestures #7607
• feat(): drop:before event #7442
• ci(): Add codeql analysis step #7588
• security(): update onchange to solve security issue #7591
• BREAKING: fix(): MAJOR prevent render canvas with quality less than 100% #7537
• docs(): fix broken link #7579
• BREAKING: Deps(): MAJOR update to jsdom 19 node 14 #7587
• Fix(): JSDOM transative vulnerability #7510
• fix(fabric.parser): attempt to resolve some issues with regexp #7520
• fix(fabric.IText) fix for possible error on copy paste #7526
• fix(fabric.Path): Path Distance Measurement Inconsistency #7511
• Fix(fabric.Text): Avoid reiterating measurements when width is 0 and measure also empty lines for consistency. #7497
• fix(fabric.Object): stroke bounding box #7478
• fix(fabric.StaticCanvas): error of changing read-only style field #7462
• fix(fabric.Path): setting path during runtime #7141
• chore() update canvas to 2.8.0 #7415
• fix(fabric.Group) realizeTransfrom should be working when called with NO parent transform #7413
• fix(fabric.Object) Fix control flip and control box #7412
• feat(fabric.Text): added pathAlign property for text on path #7362
• docs(): Create SECURITY.md #7405
• docs(): Clarify viewport transformations doc #7401
• docs(): specify default value and docs for enablePointerEvents #7386
• feat(fabric.PencilBrush): add an option to draw a straight line while pressing a key #7034