lp1846354 release notes

Patron notes, messages, alert messages, and standing penalties have been folded
into one Notes interface.  Notes designated as public will show in the My Account
-> Message Center in the OPAC for patrons.  The underlying data structure has
also changed with all notes living in the actor.usr_message table, so certain
reports may need to be adjusted.

Signed-off-by: Jason Etheridge <jason@EquinoxInitiative.org>

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+Consolidate Patron Notes, Alerts, and Messages
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Patron notes, messages, alert messages, and standing penalties have been folded into one Notes interface.  Notes designated as public will show in the My Account -> Message Center in the OPAC for patrons.
+
+The underlying data structure has also changed with all notes living in the actor.usr_message table, so report writers will need to change the following paths in existing reports:
+
+    actor.usr_note -> all columns
+    actor.usr -> alert_message
+    actor.usr_standing_penalty -> note
+
+And for actor.usr_message, there is now both a pub column and a deleted column.
+
+Depending on privacy policies, system adminstrators may wish to set up a recurring process to truly delete older entries in actor.usr_message that have been flagged as deleted.