[Code freeze] 8.3.0

[aninde]

Description

Testing checklist

Reference

Changelog Draft of the blogpost: Modularization and Suspended rendering

Modularization Advanced explanation once again Modularization from Aaron

Suspendend rendering PR How to suspend - guide

Chores

• [x] becoming familiar with the changes
• [x] developing preliminary test cases
• [x] building a Handsontable locally from the release branch
• [x] building each wrapper from the release version
  • [x] Vue-Handsontable
  • [x] React-Handsontable
  • [x] Angular-Handsotable
• [x] checking size of each version
• [x] Exploratory testing
  • [x] smoke tests based on test cases
  • [ ] repeat with each wrapper
• [x] Regression testing on on ready demos with Handsontable
  • [x] repeat with each wrapper
• [x] Performance testing
  • [x] Check performance with 1M cells
  • [x] Check performance with 10 Handsontable tables with 1000 cell each
  • [x] how modularization affect performance?
• [x] running all automating tests
• [x] documentation build
  • [x] testing changes in documentation
• [x] mobile and iPad testing
  • [x] editor
  • [x] responsiveness

[aninde]

How it was tested?

Modularization

IMPORTANT Testing distribution files created by @budnix will be added to the release testing process

Local project builded using variety version on node.js and diverse bundlers.		Node 10	Node 12	Node 14	Node 15
Webpack 3	x	x	x	x
Webpack 5	x	x	x	x
Webpack 5	x	x	x	x
Parcel	x	x	x	x
Rollup	x	x	x	x
Browserify	x	x	x	x

Environment

macOS Big Sur 11.1 / Windows 10 / Edge, IE 11

Test cases: running all tests in project created with above settings

Suspend rendering

Test cases: API of this function with various CRUD operations and plugins Emphasis on checking the persisanteState with those feature Custom renderer Custom validation Custom editor

Environment

macOS Big Sur 11.1 / Windows 10 / Edge, IE 11

[aninde]

I am closing #85 as no additional regressions were found.

[aninde]

Found one regression: https://github.com/handsontable/handsontable/issues/7516 That regression was fixed by v8.3.1.