By berdir on
Change record status: 
Published (View all published change records)
Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
8.x
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/1348162
Description: 

Three new functions have been added to be used when changing variables in update functions. This is required because the corresponding variable_*() functions will be removed once all variables have been converted.

Impacts: 
Module developers