We've been working on the fourth major release of Vapor for almost a year now. The first alpha version was tagged last May with the first beta following in October. During that time, the community has done amazing work helping to test, improve, and refine this release. Over 500 issues and pull requests have been closed so far!
If we look at Vapor 3's pre-release timeline, there were 7 months between alpha.1 and the final release. If history repeats itself, that would mean 4.0.0 sometime in February 2020.
As we near the end of the active development phase, efforts are moving to documentation and polish. Since APIs have mostly settled down at this point, I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce you to some of the exciting changes coming in Vapor 4. Let's dive in.