Per Josh Berkus; some additional explanatory text by me.
- Implement a truly serializable isolation level
+ Implement Serializable Snapshot Isolation, in order to
+ provide a more robust serializable transaction mode.
+
+ In previous releases, the REPEATABLE READ and SERIALIZABLE isolation
+ levels were identical. The historical behavior of REPEATABLE READ is
+ unchanged in this release, but SERIALIZABLE now provides stronger
+ guarantees.