I'm going to agree with Chris, Jeff, and Jane on this; 3.x to 4.x should
mark as big of a shift in Evergreen as the move from 2.x to 3.x did.

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On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM Chris Sharp via Evergreen-dev <
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> As a user/admin, yes, I would expect a major version release (e.g. 4.X) to
> be different enough to merit the new classification.  I agree with Jeff and
> Jane that removal of legacy frameworks and moving to Angular for the
> remaining AngJS UIs would suffice.  Definitely merging OpenSRF into
> Evergreen would qualify too.  Maybe those are the goals we should strive
> for?  I'm in favor of the next release remaining in the 3.X series.
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM Terran McCanna via Evergreen-dev <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I also recognize that the numbering is arbitrary, but there is definitely
>> something about shifting from the 3 series to the 4 series that implies a
>> bigger change. My preference would be to wait until Angular Circ is ready
>> because that will be a more visible and dramatic change and really mark the
>> end of the initial web client push.
>>
>> There are still 7 bugs with the staffcatalogblocker tag - if we can wrap
>> those up, then 4.0 could mark the complete and utter end of the old
>> embedded TPAC staff catalog for those libraries that have been unable to
>> make the switch. (I believe the work in progress bugs relating to hold
>> groups and shelving location groups have been the biggest sticking points.)
>>
>> Another more visible change could be the Bootstrap KPAC that I am nearly
>> done with. That could go into 3.next, but it could also wait for 4.0 to
>> make it a bigger release.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM Jeff Davis via Evergreen-dev <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> We've been talking about calling our next major release Evergreen 4.0,
>>> rather than 3.16.
>>>
>>> Is there a list of features that we want to include in a 4.0 release?
>>> Should we hold off on bumping the version number to 4.0 until those
>>> features are ready?
>>>
>>> Some candidates for "features that warrant going to 4.0":
>>> - Making Angular circ the standard circ UI, rather than experimental. My
>>> understanding is that we don't expect that to happen in the next release.
>>> - Merging OpenSRF into Evergreen (LP#2032835). We were waiting to
>>> replace ejabberd with Redis before doing that; Redis is now supported in
>>> Evergreen, but I don't know if anyone has revisited merging OpenSRF into EG
>>> since then.
>>> - There are a number of bugs targeted to "4.0-beta" in Launchpad, but
>>> AFAIK they are just targeting the next major release, whether it's called
>>> 4.0 or not.
>>>
>>> Any opinions? I would prefer to reserve "4.0" for a release that is
>>> somehow "more" than just the next major release, but I recognize that
>>> version numbering is basically arbitrary.
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