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For legibility, ease of development, and to make field names easier to remember, field type definition has changed in the with Magnolia 5.7 branch:we've introduced the fieldType property.

• For the fieldType property you You no longer need to specify the field type using a fully qualified class name. Just provide the field's name as the value of the new fieldType property.the fieldType property.
  If your project uses the class propertty in too many places, you may still continue using class. 
• In selected modules (see the Short field names list below on this page), the field name does not even require the -Field or -FieldDefiniton suffix. 

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