From 7.0 to 7.1
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Databases
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We've switched our default database recommendation from MySQL to MariaDB. MariaDB is a more community driven opensource 
database also MariaDB offers improved performance over MySQL and is fully compatible with the MySQL data and table definitions.

DB Requirements
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 * The minimal MySQL version is now 8.4

Generic entity controller
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Because of the introduction of the generic entity controller the following resources have been deprecated:

 * ``resources/blog/add``
 * ``resources/blog/edit``
 * ``resources/blog/view``
 * ``resources/bookmarks/add``
 * ``resources/bookmarks/edit``
 * ``resources/bookmarks/view``
 * ``resources/discussion/add``
 * ``resources/discussion/edit``
 * ``resources/discussion/view``
 * ``resources/file/edit``
 * ``resources/file/upload``
 * ``resources/file/view``
 * ``resources/pages/add``
 * ``resources/pages/edit``
 * ``resources/pages/view``
 * ``resources/thewire/view``

Generic filter menu items
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The generic menu items registered to the default filter menu, like 'All', 'Mine', 'Friends', no longer show on pages with
an owner different from the logged in user. The event handler for the 'All' and 'Mine' menu items has been split into 
2 separate event handlers.

Passing custom `elgg_view_page()` variables ('all_link', 'mine_link' and 'friend_link') have been deprecated.
We encourage developers to leverage the generic route names for these kinds of pages.

Deprecated Views
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 * ``forms/pages/edit`` use ``forms/page/edit``