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The default JCR persistency layer in Magnolia 5.6 is the H2 database, which is reflected in the following setting of the magnolia.repositories.jackrabbit.config property in the magnolia.properties file:

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The Standard Templating Kit (STK) was deprecated on September 15, 2017, reaching the end of life on December 31, 2018. The replacement for STK is the Magnolia Templating Kit (MTK), first released with Magnolia with Magnolia 5.4 on 4 on July 3, 2015. MTK is quicker to learn than STK and requires fewer skills.

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• Remove both the activation modules.
• Add If you do not currently use transactional activation, add all modules from the magnolia-publishing-parent to  (See Publishing module) to your bundle, either manually as pre-built jars or as dependencies.
• If you currently use transactional activation to manage multiple public instances, add the modules from the magnolia-publishing-transactional-parent (See Publishing Transactional module) reactor. 
• Check that after the upgrade the subscribers were correctly migrated from /server/activation to /modules/publishing-core/config/receivers.
•  Rewrite your custom activation commands to be compatible with the modules of the new publishing module pack.

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If you are updating from an earlier version:
Projects based on an older maven archetype may not build correctly starting with Magnolia 5.6.3 - because the version of the Magnolia main modules is not the same as the Magnolia bundle anymore. If you experience a problem, please update your project parent pom.

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