Tracker: v4.0 release checklist

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v4.0

• Unbreak Node Workers
  • yarn test node-debug broken
  • Node Workers broken during test on 4.0 #2735 P0 @belom88
  • Restore all tests https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Avisgl%2Floaders.gl+%22TODO+v4%22&type=code
• Audit
  • shape changes to loaders
• Tests
  • Test Website
  • Test all examples
  • Update bundler examples
  • Update CONTRIBUTING and developer guides.
  • Bump in luma.gl v9
  • Bump in deck.gl v9
  • Bump in deck.gl v8.10
• Docs and Cleanup
  • Document any changes to shapes
  • Update release notes to cover action engine work P0 @dsavinov-actionengine
  • Document polyfills updates for Node v18 and v20 @ibgreen
• Loader upgrades
  • Laz-Perf v0.0.6 @ibgreen (check if needed to restore tests)
  • Draco v1.5.6 @ibgreen
• Deprecations
  • Remove loadImage etc from @loaders.gl/images (now in textures)
• Typing and doc improvements
  • Tighten up loader shapes and return specific types P0
  • Add Types to Writers P0
  • Support typed Writers P0
  • Better typing for GeoJSON binary utils
  • Add types to ArrowLoader P0 Tracker: 4.3 release #2423
  • Add types to most loaders P0 Tracker: 4.3 release #2423
  • Support typed loaders P0
  • Firm up GLTFLoader types
• New loaders
  • Strongly typed TilesetJSON and TileJSON in tiles module P0 @belom88
  • pmtiles
  • geoparquet (experimental)
• Schema improvements
  • Add support "Transferable" Schemas (parallel to Arrow Schemas) P0
  • arrowjs v13 P0 -blocked feat(arrow): upgrade to apache-arrow v13 #2632
• Platform and packaging
  • Support Node 18 - upgrade build tools (ocular-devtools v2)
  • Support Node 18 - Align with built-in fetch
  • Support Node 20 in CI (P1)
  • Support ecmascript modules P0
  • Move node dependent code to @loaders.gl/polyfills
  • Replace use of md5 with MD5Hash in i3s module. P1 @dariaterekhovaae
  • Rename Buffer in 3d tiles: https://github.com/visgl/loaders.gl/blame/master/modules/3d-tiles/src/types.ts#L361
  • Remove use of Buffer from i3s module. P1 @dariaterekhovaae chore(i3s): use loaders.gl MD5 hash, avoid Buffer usage #2500
• Capabilities
  • Support Node.js workers in @loaders.gl/worker-utils P0