The concept of upgrade wizards

Upgrade wizards are single PHP classes that provide an automated way to update certain parts of a TYPO3 installation. Usually those affected parts are sections of the database (for example, contents of fields change) as well as segments in the file system (for example, locations of files have changed).

Wizards should be provided to ease updates for integrators and administrators. They are an addition to the database migration, which is handled by the Core based on ext_tables.sql.

The execution order is not defined. Each administrator is able to execute wizards and migrations in any order. They can also be skipped completely.

Each wizard is able to check pre-conditions to prevent execution, if nothing has to be updated. The wizard can log information and executed SQL statements, that can be displayed after execution.