[TRACKING] semver@8

[darcyclarke]

(WIP)

This is a tracking issue & WIP set of potential breaking changes, features & bugs which are expected to be fixed in the next major version of semver.

Breaking Changes

• Remove preload
• Rewrite the cli
• Bump engines
• Rearrange files for better import experience
• [FEATURE] Allow satisfies to throw errors #418
• [ENHANCEMENT] add ability to clone a semver instance #378
• [BUG] limit version prefix to optional v #691

Bugs

• CLI accepts invalid increment specifiers with -i/--increment and treats them as 'patch' #108
• [BUG] the package isn't compatible with Rollup due to require cycle #381
• [BUG] SemVer.compare causes spurious allocations of SemVer objects #458
• [BUG] Version with v-prefix is incorrectly marked as valid #376
• [BUG] dangerous check if semver is a valid semver in constructor #354
• [BUG] semver.lt returns wrong value for pre-release version comparison #483
• [QUESTION] semver.intersects('>=16.0.0 <17.0.0', '^17.0.0-0', { includePrereleases: true }) should be false #345

[Mister-Hope]

Hi, is there any release table for v8? I believe this could be added.

Asking because I am trying to replace some outdated deps from repos I am maintaining. server v7 is requiring on a "very old" version of lru-cache.