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@nikagra nikagra commented Aug 13, 2026 •

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Depends on: #1157 (otherwise its /stable/ links are rewritten to point back at 3.x), and the fast-forward of scylla-4.19.2.x to scylla-4.x (until then /stable/upgrade_guide/from_3x/ is 404). On hold anyway as part of the 3.x deprecation
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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.

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File Change
README.md New "Migrating to Java Driver 4.x" section after the existing "Upgrading from previous versions", with the 3.x → 4.x artifact mapping
upgrade_guide/README.md A note admonition at the top routing readers who are leaving 3.x, rather than moving between 3.x versions, to the 4.x guide

The 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 upgrade_guide/from_3x/ on scylla-4.x (#997 split it out of the ### 4.0.0 section: Maven coordinates, packages, configuration, session, load balancing, statements, result sets, type mappings, metrics, metadata, query builder). So this PR links there instead of restating it. The page reaches /stable/ once scylla-4.19.2.x is fast-forwarded to scylla-4.x; /stable/ now only moves that way.

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.

Driver 3.x Driver 4.x
scylla-driver-core java-driver-core (+ java-driver-query-builder)
scylla-driver-mapping java-driver-mapper-runtime (+ java-driver-mapper-processor)
scylla-driver-extras no counterpart — codecs only

Scope

scylla-3.11.5.x, the published 3.x version, now only fast-forwards from scylla-3.x, so this reaches /scylla-3.11.5.x/ on the next fast-forward after merge. The site-wide deprecation notice on every page ships separately in #997.

Verification

Built with the pinned 3.x docs toolchain (Sphinx 7.2.6, sphinx-scylladb-theme 1.7.2) using the
same options as make -C docs test, i.e. -W --keep-going: build succeeded. Confirmed the new
section renders on the landing page and that the Markdown table renders as a table on this older
toolchain, and that the note renders as a note admonition at the top of the upgrade guide, under both this branch's toolchain and the publishing branch's (:::{note}; GitHub shows it as plain text with a working link).

Part of DRIVER-483 / DRIVER-854.

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Added a Java Driver 3.x maintenance notice and a link to the 4.x migration guide in upgrade_guide/README.md. Added migration guidance and a table mapping 3.x artifacts to 4.x artifacts or codec support in README.md.

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Readers following either migration link currently reach a 404 instead of the 4.x migration material; use the working guide root before merging.

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The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: README.md, upgrade_guide

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  • observed — README.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
  • observed — upgrade_guide (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in README.md: Added migration guidance linking the 4.x guide and mapping scylla-driver-core, scylla-driver-mapping, and scylla-driver-extras to their 4.x artifacts or codec support. The group ID remains com.scylladb; the listed 4.x artifacts are published under it from 4.7.2.0, with no earlier release under that group ID.
  • observed — Modified behavior in upgrade_guide/README.md: Added a maintenance-mode notice for Java Driver 3.x and a link to the 4.x migration guide for users moving to 4.x.
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@nikagra , please resolve conflicts

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) <[email protected]>
nikagra and others added 2 commits September 28, 2026 16:03
A plain paragraph was easy to miss at the top of the upgrade guide.
The `:::{note}` colon fence renders as a note admonition under MyST,
and stays readable text with a working link on GitHub.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Point both links at upgrade_guide/from_3x/, the dedicated 3.x to 4.x
guide, instead of the upgrade guide's root. The page reaches /stable/
once scylla-4.19.2.x is fast-forwarded to scylla-4.x.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>

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Use the stable upgrade-guide root for both migration links.

The /stable/upgrade_guide/from_3x/ route returns 404. The /stable/upgrade_guide/ route returns 200 and contains the migration material.

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- [4.x migration guide](https://java-driver.docs.scylladb.com/stable/upgrade_guide/from_3x/) instead.
+ [4.x migration guide](https://java-driver.docs.scylladb.com/stable/upgrade_guide/) instead.
-The [4.x migration guide](https://java-driver.docs.scylladb.com/stable/upgrade_guide/from_3x/)
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Migration links currently have no valid target. The stable destination does not yet contain the migration page. The current publisher can also rewrite these links to a nonexistent 3.x path. This defeats the change's primary migration route if published now.

The description says the PR is "on hold" but omits the governing merge gate. Publishing the deprecation announcement in the internal and external portals under DRIVER-855 must happen before this PR can merge.

State the DRIVER-855 merge gate explicitly with the other dependencies.

The proposed replacement is "Merge gate: Do not merge until the deprecation announcement has been published in the internal and external portals under DRIVER-855.".

See #919 and https://scylladb.atlassian.net/browse/DRIVER-855.

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