Configuration changes made in the bitcoin GUI (such as the pruning setting,
proxy settings, UPNP preferences) are now saved to <datadir>/settings.json
file rather than to the Qt settings backend (windows registry or unix desktop
config files), so these settings will now apply to bitcoind, instead of being
ignored.
Also, the interaction between GUI settings and bitcoin.conf settings is
simplified. Settings from bitcoin.conf are now displayed normally in the GUI
settings dialog, instead of in a separate warning message ("Options set in this
dialog are overridden by the configuration file: -setting=value"). And these
settings can now be edited because settings.json values take precedence over
bitcoin.conf values.