BREAKING CHANGE: The default value of Parse Server option `encodeParseObjectInCloudFunction` changes to `true`; the option has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
BREAKING CHANGE: Authentication adapters are disabled by default; to use an authentication adapter it needs to be explicitly enabled in the Parse Server authentication adapter option `auth.<provider>.enabled: true`
BREAKING CHANGE: Parse Server option `allowExpiredAuthDataToken` defaults to `false`; a 3rd party authentication token will be validated every time the user tries to log in and the login will fail if the token has expired; the effect of this change may differ for different authentication adapters, depending on the token lifetime and the token refresh logic of the adapter
BREAKING CHANGE: Cloud Code file trigger syntax has been aligned with object trigger syntax, for example `Parse.Cloud.beforeDeleteFile'` has been changed to `Parse.Cloud.beforeDelete(Parse.File, (request) => {})'`
BREAKING CHANGE: Fields in the internal scope of Parse Server (prefixed with underscore `_`) are only returned using the new `maintenanceKey`; previously the `masterKey` allowed reading of internal fields; see [access scopes](https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server#access-scopes) for a comparison of the keys' access permissions (#8212)
BREAKING CHANGE: The mechanism to determine the client IP address has been rewritten; to correctly determine the IP address it is now required to set the Parse Server option `trustProxy` accordingly if Parse Server runs behind a proxy server, see the express framework's [trust proxy](https://expressjs.com/en/guide/behind-proxies.html) setting (#8372)
BREAKING CHANGE: The Node Package Manager lock file `package-lock.json` is upgraded to version 2; while it is backwards with version 1 for the npm installer, consider this if you run any non-npm analysis tools that use the lock file (#8285)
BREAKING CHANGE: This release introduces the asynchronous initialization of Parse Server to prevent mounting Parse Server before being ready to receive request; it changes how Parse Server is imported, initialized and started; it also removes the callback `serverStartComplete`; see the [Parse Server 6 migration guide](https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/blob/alpha/6.0.0.md) for more details (#8232)
BREAKING CHANGE: The Parse Server option `enforcePrivateUsers` is set to `true` by default; in previous releases this option defaults to `false`; this change improves the default security configuration of Parse Server (#8283)
BREAKING CHANGE: This release restricts the use of `masterKey` to localhost by default; if you are using Parse Dashboard on a different server to connect to Parse Server you need to add the IP address of the server that hosts Parse Dashboard to this option (#8281)
BREAKING CHANGE: Config option `directAccess` defaults to true; set this to `false` in environments where multiple Parse Server instances run behind a load balancer and Parse requests within the current Node.js environment should be routed via the load balancer and distributed as HTTP requests among all instances via the `serverURL`.
