[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6744: Include upgrade warnings in a read me or other notification system

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#6744: Include upgrade warnings in a read me or other notification system
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 Reporter:  hexley   |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  2.7      
Component:  General  |     Version:  2.5      
 Severity:  normal   |    Keywords:           
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 The main point of my issue at http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6680 went
 largely ignored.

 Wordpress needs some method of alerting users before upgrading of what
 changes have been made that may effect their install.  I was fully unaware
 that a change had been made to how the <!--more--> tag works in regards to
 RSS feeds.  I rely on RSS feeds for my advertisers.  Updating to 2.5
 truncated my posts at a hard coded limit, or I had to show full feeds.

 While this can be fixed with a plug-in now, I would have solved that pre-
 upgrade, had I only known.

 A changelog is too verbose for the casual user.  Expecting users to search
 trac is asking too much of casual users.

 If functionality is removed, or changed, from a past version, that users
 rely on, there should be clear warnings in a file in the download archive.

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