DB schema generated by a migration may look different in rails 4 and 5 (because rails 5 may use different default values). For this reason it's important to explicitly set for which rails version a migration was written for. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35929869/activerecordmigration-deprecation-warning-asks-for-rails-version-but-im-no/35930912#35930912
As requested by the issue #14508 this adds an option in the application settings to set newly registered users by default as external. The default setting is set to false to stay backward compatible.