[META] farmOS 4.x

Todo: review #3347412: [META] farmOS 3.x Breaking Changes → for breaking changes that we considered for 3.x but didn't do.

Here is the informal list of ideas for 4.x breaking changes that I've been tracking myself. These are just copied and pasted from a text file, so the next step is to go through and make separate issues/forum topics/PRs for each with more detail.

• Drupal 11
• recommend composer / drop support for packaged releases
• setup wizard
  • install modules (maybe groups of modules for use-cases? recipes?)
  • remove concept of "default modules"
  • do you need API access? generate keys + install farm_api, or give steps to manually set up keys
• openlayers upgrade (we are on 6, current is 10)
• add google layers (abandon farm_map_google contrib module) (depends on openlayers 9)
• add label/tags to ontology_uri field to distinguish multiple values
• add Purpose taxonomy, referenced by all log types, convert from string on Input logs
• only revert config for core modules via farm_update
• deprecate farm_ui_user, replace w/ https://www.drupal.org/project/r4032login → (or recreate internally)
• Issue #3461548: Upgrade path to plugin attributes
• drop "official" support for sqlite3?
• do not autogenerate OAuth2 keys, document how to set them up (see setup wizard idea above)
• run docker container as www-data (not root)
• change is_castrated to is_sterile?
• pcambra: farmos 4 should be a recipe on drupal core + farmos core + farmos contrib
• immutable quantities / remove entity_reference_revisions dependency
• inject more common dependencies in quick form base class (eg: entity type manager)

Another breaking change is that Drupal 11 requires PHP 8.3, per: https://www.drupal.org/docs/getting-started/system-requirements/php-requ... →

Drupal 11 database version requirements may also be considered a breaking change.

As for databases, Drupal 11 requires:

• MariaDB 10.6+
• MySQL/Percona 8.0+
• PostgreSQL 16+ w/ pg_trgm
• SQLite 3.45+

From https://www.drupal.org/project/farm/issues/3488916#comment-15867568 🌱 Update Drupal core to 11.x in farmOS Active

deprecate farm_ui_user, replace w/ https://www.drupal.org/project/r4032login → (or recreate internally)

Just checked and r4032login → , doesn't have a D11 release (yet).

📌 Automated Drupal 11 compatibility fixes for r4032login Needs review

Regardless, I'm giving second thought to replacing farm_ui_user. It is very simple, and does what we need. Adding r4032login instead would be an additional dependency (which we then need to wait for future Drupal version compatible releases of), and it adds a fair bit of config that would always be the same in farmOS. And if we instead replicated what it does (even barebones without config), then it may end up being more code than farm_ui_user anyways. So I'm not sure it's worth it. I'm going to suggest we keep things as-is, but if anyone as a strong opinion otherwise feel free to chime in.

remove concept of "default modules"

I created an issue for part of this: 📌 Remove farm_install_modules() installation task Active

There will probably be some other related issues that spin off of that as well.

@generalredneck made some suggestions in https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS/issues/653#issuecomment-2622888313 with regard to removing our dependency on composer-merge-plugin. It might be worth spinning off a dedicated issue to think that through, as a potential priority for 4.x.

I'd like to dust off our idea of adding an "abandoned" log status in 4.x. This came up again on a recent dev call and there was broad support (in addition to those who expressed interest in the forum: https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS/pull/782).

I'd like to dust off our idea of adding an "abandoned" log status in 4.x.

Draft PR: https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS/pull/945

I opened a PR that changes how we maintain CHANGELOG.md moving forward: https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS/pull/948

I also started a draft PR for starting an official 4.x branch: https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS/pull/949

Once we merge that, then we can push it to https://git.drupalcode.org/project/farm and create a 4.x-dev snapshot, which will allow us to start referencing that version in this issue queue.