Issue #2809635 by markconroy, navneet0693, alexpott, smaz, larowlan, Eli-T, webchick, yoroy, ikit-claw, budda, kjay, timmillwood, tkoleary, Gábor Hojtsy, andrewmacpherson, lauriii, JayKandari, jibran, ok_lyndsey, big_man, ckrina, nathancz, Paul_Gregory, vijaycs85, SharJay, tomphippen, tim.plunkett, Tarun Lewis, cehfisher, kreynen, Petr Illek, mariohernandez, thamas, thatdamnqa, John Cook, philipnorton42, h2cm, kattekrab, martin_q, waako: Create experimental installation profile

Issue #2429191 by claudiu.cristea, amateescu, yched, nlisgo, Berdir, alexpott, klausi, Wim Leers, xjm, catch: Deprecate entity_reference.module and move its functionality to core

Issue #1847596 by amateescu, amitaibu, YesCT, Berdir, David_Rothstein, xjm, rteijeiro, ParisLiakos, webchick, Wim Leers, yched, jhodgdon, Bojhan: Remove Taxonomy term reference field in favor of Entity reference

Issue #1426804 by alexpott, swentel: Fixed Allow field storages to be persisted when they have no fields.

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

Issue #2290849 by fran seva, YesCT: Fixed Regression: Fields missing from translation overview since 'Clarify handling of field translatability'.

Issue #2233787 by alexpott, xjm | tim.plunkett: Move default configuration into extension/config/install to clarify its purpose.

Issue #2080823 by alexpott, swentel, Wim Leers: Create API to discover content or config entities' soft dependencies and use this to present a confirm form on module uninstall.

Issue #2167623 by danilenko_dn, sidharthap, Nitesh Sethia, krishnan.n, aitiba, alexpott, ashwinikumar, Barrett, damiankloip, deepakaryan1988, foxtrotcharlie, ianthomas_uk, neetu morwani, nonsie, piyuesh23, Sharique, sivaji, sushantpaste, swentel, vijaycs85, YesCT: Add test for all default configuration to ensure schema exists and is correct.

Issue #1503314 by swentel, amateescu, bojanz: Remove the concept of active / inactive (field types, storage) from Field API.

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

Issue #1965208 by amateescu, Berdir: Convert TaxonomyTermReferenceItem to extend EntityReferenceItem.