* Update LTS versions in README (Miroslav Bajtoš)
* Switch from Bluebird to native Promise (Miroslav Bajtoš)
* Start 4.0 development, drop support for Node 6 (Miroslav Bajtoš)
* Add IBM copyright and MIT license headers (Raymond Feng)
* Allow List to take items as instances of a class (Raymond Feng)
* fix: ignore extra properties when strict=filter (#1423) (Tom Kirkpatrick)
* Add EventEmitter type info to DataSource type (shimks)
* Add a better way to handle transactions (Jürg Lehni)
* validations: use new regex per evaluation (#1479) (Joost de Bruijn)
* Transaction: Bind timeout to tx instance (#1484) (Jürg Lehni)
* CODEOWNERS: add lehni (#1483) (Miroslav Bajtoš)
* Add node8 support for travis (loay)
* Add nyc coverage, report data to coveralls.io (Miroslav Bajtoš)
* Update translations from TVT (Allen Boone)
* Add test coverage for hasAndBelongsToMany (loay)
* package: use qs@6.5.0 (#1471) (Kevin Delisle)
* fix assert, make the test case more clear (rashmihunt)
* code review, better asserts (rashmihunt)
* test case to exclude base props (rashmihunt)
* handle excludeBaseProperties (rashmihunt)
* create sequence for nosql id (#1354) (Janny)
* Fix order of query results (Loay)
* Add DateString type (Kevin Delisle)
* datatype.test: use predefined date (Kevin Delisle)
* Update api documents (Loay)
* Datasource documentation tune-up (Kevin Delisle)
* Added unit tests specific to DateType where null (#1349) (Andrew McDonnell)
* Fix/geo null (#1334) (paulussup)
* replace exception thrown for invalid dates (Diana Lau)
* Revert PR #1326 (#1336) (Sakib Hasan)
* Make lib peerDepend on loopback-connector (#1326) (Russ Tyndall)
* Add test case using updateAttributes (Loay)
* Fix forceId bug for updateOrCreate (Loay)
* Fix typo in description (jannyHou)
* Fix relations test case (loay)
* Add instructions for running the tests (#1330) (Andrew McDonnell)
* handle deep geo-near queries (#1314) (Eric Barault)
* Unskip test case (Loay)
* Make tests work for other connectors as well as C* (Tetsuo Seto)
* Remove debugger statement (Tetsuo Seto)
* Fixup test support for Cassandra connector (Tetsuo Seto)
* Add test support for Cassandra connector (Tetsuo Seto)
* package: use loopback-connector@^4.0.0 (Kevin Delisle)
* Revert "handle deep geo-near queries (#1216)" (Sakib Hasan)
* Revert "Allow `after save` hook to see count of records changed (#1231)" (Sakib Hasan)
* Allow `after save` hook to see count of records changed (#1231) (Joshua Chaitin-Pollak)
* handle deep geo-near queries (#1216) (Corentin H)
* Fix model def column name method (#1224) (destillat)
* Added notify flag for create and upsert (#1277) (Jonathan Sheely)
* Custom Table Names on rels (#1303) (Waldemar Zahn)
* Support multiple fk relations (#1308) (Sakib Hasan)
* #1261 Property name "constructor" is not allowed in 'Model' data (#1284) (Thaer Abbas)
* make geo nearFilter support minDistance (#987) (Vincent Wen)
* Disallow regexp string in arrays for coerce (#1279) (Mikhail)
* Fix - `_targetClass` on scope function (#1280) (Clark Wang)
* Fixes#1275. `Include` filter transforms fields property into array. (#1276) (Nick Oikonomou)
* Included models from include operations do not change defined `strict` model option (#1259) (Dimitris)
* Using a filter with exclusion of a non existent property, removes an existing one (#1257) (Dimitris)
* Clean version of PR 1272 (#1273) (Sakib Hasan)
* Replicate new issue_template from loopback (Siddhi Pai)
* Replicate issue_template from loopback repo (Siddhi Pai)
* Update README.md (Rand McKinney)
* FindOrCreate missing error callback (Diana Lau)
* Fixes#1230 coerceArray converts empty Objects (#1269) (Dimitris)
* override collection name for arangodb (#1243) (Matteo Padovano)
* Add test coverage for `validatesInclusionOf` (#1249) (Rémi Bèges)
* dao: catch errors on Model creation in find (Kevin Delisle)
* dao: catch sync errors on setAttributes (Kevin Delisle)
* Update error message (Loay)
* Fix Order query test case (Loay)
* Doc:Add option for discoverModelDefinitions (jannyHou)
* Add tests for validatesExclusionOf (#1248) (Rémi Bèges)
* Fix id update error message formatting (Rémi Bèges)
* Add test case for all connectors (jannyHou)
* Add proper statusCode for duplicate (Loay)
* Fix datasource to report connector-loading errors (Miroslav Bajtoš)
* Ensure replaceById returns 404 when id not found (Loay)
* Upgrade eslint-config, fix new violations (Miroslav Bajtoš)
* Fix option propagation in relation methods (Miroslav Bajtoš)
* Refactor logic of options.allowExtendedOperators (Matteo Padovano)
* Fix forceId validation error (Loay)
* Add two basic tests for "inq" operator (Miroslav Bajtoš)
* Add missing "done" arg in test/kvao/ttl.suite (Miroslav Bajtoš)
* Support nested queries for arrays (pponugo)
* Refactor TTL tests for KV memory connector (Simon Ho)
* Fix test case for expire (Simon Ho)
* Fix failures of upsertWithWhere (Amir Jafarian)
* Remove expired item before executing expire (Simon Ho)
* Disable `strict` for a few files (Amir Jafarian)