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The 3.x tree tells a reader to consult its own upgrade guide for moving between 3.x versions, and says nothing about moving off 3.x altogether. Add that route in the two places a reader looks: the README, which is also the docs landing page (docs/source/index.md symlinks to it), and the top of the 3.x upgrade guide. The 3.x-to-4.x guide itself already exists as the 4.0.0 section of the upgrade guide on scylla-4.x, published at /stable/upgrade_guide/, so this links to it rather than restating it. What is worth stating here is the artifact rename, which is the first thing that stops a 3.x build from resolving. Note that this reaches readers of this branch on GitHub, not the documentation site: scylla-3.x is not a published doc version -- no branch's BRANCHES list contains it, and /scylla-3.x/ is a 404. The site-visible notice ships separately, from the publishing branch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdded Java Driver 4.x migration guidance to the main README. The guidance covers Java Driver 3.x maintenance status, the 4.x migration guide, the 4.x branch, and dependency artifact replacements. Added a matching maintenance notice and migration-guide link to Possibly related PRs
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- Line 142: Update the scylla-driver-mapping entry in the README dependency
table to state that java-driver-mapper-runtime and java-driver-mapper-processor
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Add a minimum mapper version.
State that java-driver-mapper-runtime and java-driver-mapper-processor require Java Driver 4.1.0 or later. These artifacts are unavailable in 4.0.0.
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In `@README.md` at line 142, Update the scylla-driver-mapping entry in the README
dependency table to state that java-driver-mapper-runtime and
java-driver-mapper-processor require Java Driver 4.1.0 or later.
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DRIVER-854: give 3.x readers a route to 4.x
Companion to #919 (the deprecation announcement on this branch) and #997 (the docs-site half on
scylla-4.x). Split out of #919 so the announcement and the migration route review separately.Changes
README.mdupgrade_guide/README.mdThe 3.x tree currently tells a reader to consult its own upgrade guide for moving between 3.x
versions and says nothing about moving off 3.x. Both files now name the deprecation and link out.
The guide already exists; this links to it
The 3.x → 4.x guide is the
### 4.0.0section ofupgrade_guide/README.mdonscylla-4.x(~430 lines: Maven coordinates, packages, configuration, session, load balancing, statements, result
sets, type mappings, metrics, metadata, query builder), published at
/stable/upgrade_guide/. So this PR
links there instead of restating it.
#997 moves that section onto its own page,
upgrade_guide/from_3x/. The links here stay on theguide's root on purpose:
/stable/is built from the newest release branch inBRANCHES, not fromscylla-4.x, so the new page becomes reachable there only once a release branch containing it iscut. Both links keep working either way, since the root page is where the pointer to it lives.
What is worth stating on this branch is the artifact rename, since it is the first thing that stops
a 3.x build from resolving — and the 4.x guide never mentions the 3.x coordinates a reader is
leaving. #997 adds the matching table on the 4.x side.
scylla-driver-corejava-driver-core(+java-driver-query-builder)scylla-driver-mappingjava-driver-mapper-runtime(+java-driver-mapper-processor)scylla-driver-extrasScope: this reaches GitHub, not the documentation site
scylla-3.xis not a published doc version — no branch'sBRANCHESlist contains it, and/scylla-3.x/returns 404. The published 3.xversions are the six frozen
scylla-3.{7.2,10.2,11.0,11.2,11.4,11.5}.xbranches.Docs / Build PRwill pass on this PR, because this branch has its owndocs-pr.yamlthat buildsthe tree in isolation. That green check says nothing about the live site. It is worth being
explicit, since
docs/source/index.mdis a symlink to thisREADME.md, so the section does renderinto a docs build — just not into a published one.
The site-visible deprecation notice, with a link to the same migration guide on every page of all
six published 3.x versions, ships in #997 from the publishing branch. It needs no change to any
of the frozen branches.
Verification
Built with the pinned 3.x docs toolchain (Sphinx 7.2.6,
sphinx-scylladb-theme1.7.2) using thesame options as
make -C docs test, i.e.-W --keep-going:build succeeded. Confirmed the newsection renders on the landing page and that the Markdown table renders as a table on this older
toolchain, and that the note renders at the top of the upgrade guide.
Part of DRIVER-483 / DRIVER-854.