Lift 4.0.0-M1

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

New Contributors

• @pabloazul made their first contribution in #2018

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