Good news is that the SQL part of this update won't take as long as I dreaded. Hopefully.
[ + ] Fixed startup error in legacy versions; the only impact this had was on default permissions set up in the config.
[ + ] Removed bulk that was the old config code.
[ + ] Distance limitations option is no longer set to true by default; if you are affected by this and don't want to keep it enabled, please change enable-distance-limitations to false. This was not intentional and it somehow slipped past me in testing.