On 21.01.2014, at 16:16, Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> 4.0

Also worth noting is that the major changes in 4.0 were removal of several of 
the nicer features as described here:

http://blog.cloudbees.com/2013/10/cloudbees-folders-plugin-now-open-source.html

> This 4.0 release is fully functional on its own, but some of the advanced 
> features have been retained in Jenkins Enterprise (in the Folders Plus 
> plugin): the Move action, some health reports and icons, the Environment 
> variables property, the Pull information from nested job list view column, 
> and the Restrict the kind of children in this folder option. The core folder 
> functionality and all of the APIs and extension points are available in the 
> open-source plugin.
> 
> Are you already running the Folders plugin? If so, you may upgrade to 4.0 
> today, but if you are using it via the free license, be aware that you would 
> lose access to the advanced functions. You can do without them, stay on 3.15 
> or earlier, or upgrade to Jenkins Enterprise.


http://release-notes.cloudbees.com/release/Folders/4.0

> some functions were moved out of the core plugin into these plugins. If you 
> were using the Folders plugin under the Free license, not as part of Jenkins 
> Enterprise, you may update to 4.0 but you will lose some advanced features; 
> otherwise you may continue to run up to version 3.15 under the Free license.


So users without Jenkins Enterprise license have the choice between folders 3.x 
(closed source, all features, dead end) and 4.x (open source, basic features, 
continued development).

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