3 This file has been replaced by UPGRADING.md. See MDL-81125 for further information.
6 This files describes API changes in /auth/db/*,
7 information provided here is intended especially for developers.
11 * The config.html file was migrated to use the admin settings API.
12 The identifier for configuration data stored in config_plugins table was converted from 'auth/db' to 'auth_db'.
16 * The auth_plugin_db::clean_data() has been deprecated and will be removed
17 in a future version. Please update to use core_user::clean_data()
22 Some alterations have been made to the handling of case sensitity handling of passwords
23 and password hashes which previously varied depending on database configuration:
25 * Plain text password matching is now always case sensitive
26 * sha1/md5 hash comparisons are now enforced case insensitive (as underlying they are hexidecimal values)