Hi everyone,

I've published the latest snapshot docs for the 4.0.0-beta.3 release: 
https://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/4.0.0-SNAPSHOT/

Please take the time during code freeze to review the documentation and make 
edits as necessary. I intend to redeploy the snapshot docs daily, as changes 
accumulate.

Thanks,
Cole

On 2026/07/15 01:54:48 Cole Greer wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We've had a pretty high count of outstanding PRs over the last few weeks, but 
> as of today that's mostly resolved, and all of the big changes have landed. 
> With this, I think that now is a good time to call code freeze on the master 
> branch for the 4.0.0-beta.3 release.
> 
> Considering this is a beta release, I'd like to suggest we run a slightly 
> abridged code freeze starting today, and ending on Monday July 20. Please let 
> me know if you have any concerns over lack of testing capacity within that 
> timeline.
> 
> It should be fine for the remaining handful of small PRs to merge in the next 
> few days, as well as minor fixes and docs tweaks. These include:
> 
> Fix doFinalReduction to remove keys #3501
> TINKERPOP-3259 Added proxy tests #3506
> Rename evaluationTimeout to timeoutMs #3508
> Added coverage for gremlin-console and gremlin-language #3512
> 
> During this time, the master branch will be closed to major changes.
> 
> I still think we are about ready for the 3.7.7 and 3.8.2 releases as well, 
> however I'd like to suggest we delay those by a week or two and focus on 
> 4.0.0-beta.3 first. This is partially to ease the burden of managing 3 
> releases at once, but as I'd like a bit more time to tinker with some more 
> dependency bumps and minor tweaks for these releases.
> 
> Please let me know your thoughts regarding this plan. If there are no 
> dissenting opinions, I will proceed with the release process for 4.0.0-beta.3.
> 
> Regards,
> Cole
> 
> On 2026/06/08 19:08:09 Cole Greer via dev wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > It's been a little while since our last release cycle, and I think it's 
> > time we prepare for another release. The master branch has made quite a bit 
> > of progress since beta.2,
> > with the addition of graph binary streaming in all GLVs, improved type 
> > parity across drivers, and the new groovy-free server initialization 
> > system. There's a few other big
> > items in review such as match(GQL) support and transactions in all GLVs 
> > which are expected to land soon. I think this set of features makes beta.3 
> > a very compelling
> > release on its own.
> > 
> > 3.7.7 and 3.8.2 are looking pretty light at the moment, as most development 
> > effort has gone towards TP4 recently, but there are a few useful bug fixes 
> > in there, and these
> > release lines would benefit with some dependency upgrades as well.
> > 
> > I'm thinking of a rough release target of the end of June (with code freeze 
> > ideally starting next week).
> > 
> > Please let me know if you have any thoughts on releases this month, as well 
> > as you if you have any in progress work you'd like to see included in the 
> > next set of releases.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Cole
> > 
> 

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