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This a sequential list of revision updates which need additional activities in order to successfully upgrade the revision of your production installation.
Although this can be extracted from the log it is a rather difficult because of the number of revisions.These are data model changes that usually involve deprecating an entity or field and replacing it with a new one. Committers should follow the pattern described here to make things easier for end-users:

"Deprecated Entities" section of General Entity Overview

If the pattern described there is used then end-users will simply have to update OFBiz, run it on a server that is not publicly accessible, let OFBiz do the automatic database table changes (ie add tables and columns for new entities and fields), and then run the series of services described here between the revision they were using, and the revision they are updating to.

If you are an end-user and a committer has done something that does not allow you to follow this simple set of steps, please contribute something better, or at the very least complain so committers will better understand your needs.

Committers should Committers are encouraged to make an entry in this list if your revision update needcauses a need for any manual data migration or other update steps in production instances:

1. A re-load of seed data.
2. A file change which need additional unload/reload/convert activities
3. Any tables which can be deleted(dropped) because they are not used anymore.
4. Any other required activity to keep your production site operational

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