6.0.0 vibranium-vivarium (2018-05-03)

MatTree component is now available, @tinayuangao recently gave a talk at ng-conf about the new component
<mat-table> and <cdk-table> now native <table> elements in addition to the existing display: flex based layout
MatTable now supports having an optional footer row
Schematics are now available for Angular Material, @jelbourn recently gave a talk at ng-conf about using schematics
MatTabs content can now be lazy loaded
MatBadge and MatBottomSheet components are now available
@angular/cdk/overlay has a new positioning strategy available, FlexibleConnectedPositionStrategy, which intelligently handles sizing and positioning to ensure that overlay contents always remain on the screen
MatIcon now allows SVG icons to be registered from strings
@angular/cdk/keycodes now includes most keycodes you might need for building a web application
130+ bug fixes
Docs for v5 are now available at v5.material.angular.io
A version picker is available material.angular.io to switch between docs versions

With the Angular CLI v6.0+, you can use the ng update command to automatically migrate to the new APIs

ng update @angular/material

NOTE: There may be some cases where the tool may be unable to automatically migrate, but will notify you of those cases

A number of APIs that were deprecated during beta have been removed, see here for complete list
See ng update tooling above to automatically migrate to the new APIs

autocomplete: panel direction not being updated if the trigger direction changes (#10916) (8c30cee)
button-toggle: not usable in high contrast mode (#11097) (dd2f465)
dialog: add generic parameter for the dialog result to open method (#11059) (bf1bdc0)
form-field: inconsistent underline height at different DPIs (#11062) (0f7d503)
form-field: scrollbars appear on autosize textarea in chrome (#10811) (385f96d)
form-field,select: handle form field controls inside toolbar (#10627) (1a3993e)
list: selection list always firing change event for selectAll and deselectAll (#11029) (54c0b00)
menu: not updating panel direction after init (#11070) (294ba3c)
menu: unable to open same sub-menu from different triggers and not picking up indirect descendant items (#10132) (5393bfe)
overlay: error when rendering flexible overlay on the server (#11072) (422d102)
paginator: handle negative pageSize and pageIndex correctly (#11068) (3f5e481)
select: losing focus position when tabbing away after clicking inside multi select (#10905) (c6ad1f8)
select: unable to toggle multi select option after using the mouse (#11061) (01d0993)
sidenav: box shadow visible while closed when rendering on the server (#10969) (cfe6c1d)

Provide feedback