[ANN] Lift 4.0.0-M1

[Matt Farmer]

The Lift Committers are pleased to announce the release of Lift 4.0.0-M1 on September 2nd, 2024. This is the first release of the Lift 4.0 series, which will be a stepping-stone release to Lift 5.0 which will include a host of breaking changes. This release does include breaking changes.

Breaking Changes

Per ongoing conversations around slimming down the Lift Framework, the Lift Persistence framework will not be included in the Lift 4.0 release. Before upgrading to Lift 4, you should migrate to a persistence solution not based on the lift-persistence set of dependencies.

What's Changed

• bump sbt version by @lvitaly in bump sbt version #2000
• Signing contributors list by @pabloazul in Signing contributors list #2018
• Lift jetty11 by @pabloazul in Lift jetty11 #2017
• Update docs, config for Java 11 minimum version by @farmdawgnation in Update docs, config for Java 11 minimum version #2019

New Contributors

• @pabloazul made their first contribution in Signing contributors list #2018

Full Changelog: 3.5.0-release...4.0.0-M1-release

[François]

Thank you ! It's tested and now in use for our next version of Rudder !

For the record, it allowed us to upgrade to:
- jetty 11
- last Spring/Spring security versions

And that without changes appart namespace renaming (if interested, the PR are related to that ticket  https://issues.rudder.io/issues/22640 (and main PR here: https://github.com/Normation/rudder/pull/5843)

Cheers !

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