Issue #1867518 by plach, dawehner, yched, iMiksu, epari.siva, marcvangend, Fabianx, Wim Leers, effulgentsia: Leverage entityDisplay to provide fast rendering for fields

Issue #2382931 by larowlan, pfrenssen, Mile23: Drupal\field\Plugin\views\field\Field::access returns an object instead of the expected boolean

Issue #2312093 by alexpott, yched, andypost, swentel | xjm: Rename FieldInstanceConfig to FieldConfig.

Issue #2313757 by Berdir, Wim Leers, dawehner: Remove text_processing option from text fields, expose existing string field types as plain text in UI.

Issue #2287727 by yched, swentel, alexpott: Rename Field[instance]Config classes and entity types (again).

Issue #697760 by sun: Replace getInfo() in tests with native phpDoc + annotations (following PHPUnit).

Issue #2143291 by plach, alexpott, xjm, effulgentsia, pwolanin, swentel | yched: Clarify handling of field translatability.

Issue #2246665 by jaredsmith, martin107, YesCT, filijonka, tstoeckler: Typehint with Drupal\Core\Language\LanguageInterface instead Drupal\Core\Language\Language.

Issue #2095303 by swentel, plopesc, Berdir, claudiu.cristea, yched: Rename 'field_entity' to 'field_config' and 'field_instance' to 'field_instance_config'.

Issue #2080671 by royal121, mcrittenden, Haza: Remove Unused local variable  from /core/modules/field/lib/Drupal/field/Tests/Views/HandlerFieldFieldTest.php.

Issue #2145083 by TR, longwave, dawehner: Fix some grammatical badness mostly in Views tests and comments

Issue #2097691 by plopesc, amateescu: Move FIELD_CARDINALITY_UNLIMITED constant to FieldDefinitionInterface.

Issue #1953408 by swentel, aspilicious, andypost, yched: Remove ArrayAccess BC layer from field config entities.

Issue #1497374 by yched, chx, amateescu, plach, Damien Tournoud, fago, swentel: Switch from Field-based storage to Entity-based storage.

Issue #1981314 by pcambra, aspilicious, andypost, swentel: Drop procedural usage of fields in field module.

Issue #2002910 by diarmy, toddtomlinson, dbcollies, heddn: Rename Views method get_field() to getField().

Issue #1620010 by dawehner, ParisLiakos, plach, jibran: Move LANGUAGE constants to the Language class.

Issue #1818556 by das-peter, plach, fago, Berdir, vijaycs85: Change notice: Convert nodes to the new Entity Field API.

Issue #1876942 by damiankloip, dawehner, tim.plunkett: Use direct methods instead of arrayAccess for display handlers.