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In the email that they sent they said following:

The main updates are: we now link to instructions on choosing a revocation reason if you revoke a certificate. This is a requirement for Subscriber Agreements from all Certificate Authorities as of this year. Also, we've removed unneeded capitalization, removed a section that is redundant with our Certificate Policy (CP), and tweaked the wording of the requirement to "assure" control of your private key so it matches the Baseline Requirements (BRs).

We still store the certificate in the same ways we did, we just don't talk about it in the subscriber agreement any more as it's redundant with our CP/CPS documents.

Is that different from the certificate transparency log (CT)?

Yes, previously as part of audit requirements you are required to internally store all certificates you've issued for at least seven years. Seeing as CT is now here though (which is a much more robust system since it's tamper-resistant), storage on your own archives is no longer needed (as long as you can prove that you log them all in CTs).

Thanks!

That's what I gathered.