v14 breaking changes

[josdejong]

This issue will keep track on breaking changes planned for mathjs v14. Please comment if there are more topics to discuss.

• 3225 prevent math.import(...) from overriding units unless you specify { override: true }. See 3222
• #3283 Upgrade to fraction.js@5, using bigint under the hood
• 3269 Possible breaking changes in changing the type definitions of arrays and matrices to generics.
• #3260 think through changing the index in the filter callback to be a number instead of an array holding one number since filter only supports 1d arrays.
• #3307 let functions like dotDivide return a sparse matrix when the input is two sparse matrices.
• #3306 improve type definitions of arrays
• #3311 fix precedence of % (mod) being higher than * and /

[iJhefe]

I've been thinking about the promises support. Perhaps we could get some of the old and new discussions and work on it in this release or a next one?

[josdejong]

Definitely!

[josdejong]

I've introduced a new milestone "one day" and move the big refactor plans there, since we don't know when that will be ready.

[dvd101x]

Hi Jos,

Regarding #3260 I noticed that one of the taks mentions the forEach function but I guess you meant filter.

[josdejong]

@dvd101x ah, yes, thanks. I fixed the typo.

[josdejong]

Version 14 is now published 🎉, closing this topic now.