Ionic 5: new project - update package-dependencies

Ionic Framework
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So i did just install ionic 5 and did create a new project and ran npm outdated.

Result:

@angular-devkit/build-angular      0.803.25  0.803.25  0.900.3  myvelo
@angular/cli                         8.3.25    8.3.25    9.0.3  myvelo
@angular/common                      8.2.14    8.2.14    9.0.2  myvelo
@angular/compiler                    8.2.14    8.2.14    9.0.2  myvelo
@angular/compiler-cli                8.2.14    8.2.14    9.0.2  myvelo
@angular/core                        8.2.14    8.2.14    9.0.2  myvelo
@angular/forms                       8.2.14    8.2.14    9.0.2  myvelo
@angular/language-service            8.2.14    8.2.14    9.0.2  myvelo
@angular/platform-browser            8.2.14    8.2.14    9.0.2  myvelo
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic    8.2.14    8.2.14    9.0.2  myvelo
@angular/router                      8.2.14    8.2.14    9.0.2  myvelo
@types/jasmine                       3.3.16    3.3.16    3.5.6  myvelo
@types/node                           8.9.5     8.9.5   13.7.4  myvelo
core-js                              2.6.11    2.6.11    3.6.4  myvelo
jasmine-core                          3.4.0     3.4.0    3.5.0  myvelo
karma                                 4.1.0     4.1.0    4.4.1  myvelo
karma-chrome-launcher                 2.2.0     2.2.0    3.1.0  myvelo
karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter      2.0.6     2.0.6    2.1.1  myvelo
karma-jasmine                         2.0.1     2.0.1    3.1.1  myvelo
ts-node                               7.0.1     7.0.1    8.6.2  myvelo
tslint                               5.15.0    5.15.0    6.0.0  myvelo
typescript                            3.4.5     3.4.5    3.8.2  myvelo
zone.js

Once i read that since ionic 4, ionic was supposed to be framework agnostic and one could update leverage the latest typescript and angular features.

So my question is: does this still stand? Can i upgrade all those packages and will it still run?.. Or was this just false advertising? (Actually, i’m only interested in updating typescript and angular)

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OK, but “framework agnostic” in this context to me means “works with more than one framework”, which is more about “can use React or Vue, instead of Angular”, than it is:

Not really a consequence of “framework agnostic” in my book, so:

This seems like a bit of a cheap shot.

I believe you can safely upgrade Angular to 9.x, but I would not take TypeScript past 3.7.x (because Angular 9 itself does not declare that it would accept 3.8+).