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66 changes: 66 additions & 0 deletions src/content/docs/release-notes/v4.0.0.md
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---
title: v4.0.0
---

Major technical infrastructure upgrades and user interface improvements characterize this release. The following sections detail the major changes brought about by v4.0.0.

## Major Infrastructure Updates

- Upgraded to newer versions of:
- Bootstrap
- jQuery
- Rails
- JRuby
- Jetty (replaced with Puma)
- Nokogiri
- Sequel
- Staff application CSS migrated from Less to Sass
- Java 8 no longer supported - requires Java 11 or 17
- Solr v9 now required
- Docker now supported as recommended deployment method

## Public Interface Improvements

- Collection organization sidebar can now be configured for left/right positioning
- Option to load all children for a resource at once (vs infinite scroll)
- Search terms now highlighted in results
- Fixed bug causing extra lines in notes display
- Fixed PDF icon label
- Improved hyperlink display in classification descriptions

## Staff Interface Enhancements

- Bulk updater plugin now part of core application
- New ability to duplicate full resource or archival object records
- Enhanced spreadsheet importers
- New option to download partially completed digital object spreadsheet template
- Fixed agent merge preview page
- Improved staff plugins dropdown in repository settings
- Fixes to the Rapid Data Entry modal
- Fixed tooltip bugs
- Improved Jobs status layouts

## Documentation & Testing

- Launched new technical documentation site at docs.archivesspace.org
- Ported all Selenium tests to Capybara
- Added functionality for test failure screenshots

## API & Integration Updates

- OAI identifiers now use colon separator instead of slash
- **Breaking change**: OAI URIs format updated to conform with OAI-PMH guidelines

## Security & Administration

- New option to allow system administrators to access system information page
- Added configuration for favicon display
- Improved error messages for PDF generation
- Enhanced bulk import/update capabilities with new configuration options

## Community Contributions

- 76 community contributions accepted
- 134 Pull Requests merged
- 146 Jira Tickets closed
- Contributions from multiple community members and organizations
8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions src/siteNavigation.json
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"label": "API",
"slug": "api"
},
{
"label": "Release Notes",
"collapsed": true,
"autogenerate": {
"directory": "release-notes",
"sort": "asc"
}
},
{
"label": "About Tech Docs",
"collapsed": true,
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