v2.5.17-beta.0

This release contains a number of "risky" changes (specifically #7822 , #7823, #7824). Although they do not alter the public API, they do alter internal behavior and may cause breakage if your code relies on some of these specific behaviors. This is therefore released under the beta dist tag so that users can test this release in development environments to ensure compatibility.

Bug Fixes

• codegen: support IE11 and Edge use of "Esc" key (#7887) 1bd6196, closes #7887 #7880
• observer: invoke getters on initial observation if setter defined (#7828) 7a145d8, closes #7828
• add missing asyncMeta during VNode cloning (#7861) 8227fb3, closes #7861
• beforeUpdate should be called before render and allow state mutation (#7822) b7445a2, closes #7822 #7481
• correct the has implementation in the _renderProxy (#7878) 7b38739, closes #7878
• ensure init/prepatch hooks are still repsected de42278, closes vue-router#1338
• invoke component node create hooks before insertion (#7823) f43ce3a, closes #7823 #7531

Performance Improvements

• avoid unnecessary re-renders when computed property value did not change (#7824) 653aac2, closes #7824 #7767