True.

Generally, if a change is going to break something, we document it in the
Upgrade Guide. Unfortunately, the xsearch move and rename was not. Another
oversight, which has now been corrected
<https://github.com/weewx/weewx/commit/b01354bfc0713f06b298b40445105b72a46e2a3e>
.

-tk

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Vince Skahan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I know 3.7.0 has a lot more stuff in it than a typical release, but it
> feels like it's been a bit more traumatic than usual too for the users.
>
> For the future, might it be possible to tweak the changelog a little ala:
>
>        Changes the admins/users will notice
>
>        Internals changes likely not visible to the admins/users
>
>        Potentially breaking changes that might affect folks trying to
> upgrade
>              - example here is the xstats move, deleting examples etc.
> thing
>                  that was in there, just many folks probably didn't catch
> all the
>                  nuances of this one.
>
> I know breaking changes are rare, but this release was so big the changelog
> was a bit TL;DR possibly...
>
>

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