Merge branch '4.x'

# Conflicts:
#	components/bower.json
#	components/handlebars.js.nuspec
#	components/package.json
#	package-lock.json
#	package.json

lib/handlebars.js

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import runtime from './handlebars.runtime';
 
 // Compiler imports
 import AST from './handlebars/compiler/ast';
-import { parser as Parser, parse } from './handlebars/compiler/base';
+import { parser as Parser, parse, parseWithoutProcessing } from './handlebars/compiler/base';
 import { Compiler, compile, precompile } from './handlebars/compiler/compiler';
 import JavaScriptCompiler from './handlebars/compiler/javascript-compiler';
 import Visitor from './handlebars/compiler/visitor';
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ function create() {
   hb.JavaScriptCompiler = JavaScriptCompiler;
   hb.Parser = Parser;
   hb.parse = parse;
+  hb.parseWithoutProcessing = parseWithoutProcessing;
 
   return hb;
 }

lib/handlebars/base.js

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import {registerDefaultHelpers} from './helpers';
 import {registerDefaultDecorators} from './decorators';
 import logger from './logger';
 
-export const VERSION = '4.4.5';
+export const VERSION = '4.5.1';
 export const COMPILER_REVISION = 8;
 export const LAST_COMPATIBLE_COMPILER_REVISION = 7;
 

lib/handlebars/compiler/base.js

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ export { parser };
 let yy = {};
 extend(yy, Helpers);
 
-export function parse(input, options) {
+export function parseWithoutProcessing(input, options) {
   // Just return if an already-compiled AST was passed in.
   if (input.type === 'Program') { return input; }
 
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ export function parse(input, options) {
     return new yy.SourceLocation(options && options.srcName, locInfo);
   };
 
-  let strip = new WhitespaceControl(options);
-  return strip.accept(parser.parse(input));
+  let ast = parser.parse(input);
+
+  return ast;
+}
+
+export function parse(input, options) {
+  let ast = parseWithoutProcessing(input, options);
+  let strip = new WhitespaceControl(options);
+
+  return strip.accept(ast);
 }