Important: #106656 - Allow DEFAULT NULL for varchar fields

Description

In TCA, if an input field is configured to be nullable via 'nullable' => true, the database migration now respects this and creates new or updates existing fields with DEFAULT NULL.

In Extbase, this may cause issues if properties and their accessor methods are not properly declared to be nullable, therefore this change is introduced to TYPO3 v14 only.

Example:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Vendor\myExtension\Domain\Model;

use TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\DomainObject\AbstractEntity;

class MyExtbaseEntity extends AbstractEntity
{
    protected ?string $title;

    public function getTitle(): ?string
    {
        return $this->title;
    }

    public function setTitle(?string $title): void
    {
        $this->title = $title;
    }
}

As stated above, this automatic detection is not provided in TYPO3 versions older than 14.0. Using DEFAULT NULL can be enforced via an extension's ext_tables.sql instead:

CREATE TABLE tx_myextension_table (
    title varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL
);