By aspilicious on
Change record status: 
Published (View all published change records)
Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
8.x
Introduced in version: 
7.9
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/1226796
Description: 
  • Use of the != (not equal) comparison operator in SQL queries is deprecated in favor of the <> operator, since the latter is ANSI SQL compatible.
  • For Drupal 7, != will still be supported for backwards-compatibility, but <> should be used whenever possible.
  • For Drupal 8, != will no longer be supported, .

The Field Storage API is modified in the following incompatible way:

  • The != operator is replaced by <>
Impacts: 
Module developers