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 <h2 id="cayenne-40-beta-1-released">Cayenne 4.0 Beta 1 Released<a class="headerlink" href="#cayenne-40-beta-1-released" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
 <p><em>Jun 12, 2017</em> </p>
-<p>Apache Cayenne team is glad to announce the beta release of Cayenne - 4.0.B1. 
-This is a really important step on the way to <strong>4.0</strong> release. 
-The new release features a number of important things:</p>
+<p>Apache Cayenne team is glad to announce a beta release of Cayenne 4.0. What this means for our users is
+that now the API is frozen and it is safe to try it out even if you are not usually confortable living 
+on the bleeding edge of unstable releases. We'd like to hear from you about your upgrade experiences. 
+And of course we'll strive to fix any remaining bugs before 4.0 goes final. To give you more confidence, 
+we'd like to mention that most of the Cayenne developers have been using 4.0 in production for years. </p>
+<p>From now on the 4.0 branch will concentrate on bug fixes, Modeler improvements, documentation, web site
+and other such things.</p>
+<p>We are planning to publish a more detailed 4.0 comparision with 3.1 shortly. For now let's take a look at
+things that have changed since the late milestone - M5:</p>
 <ul>
-<li>Introduces native <strong>Gradle Plugin</strong></li>
-<li>Fresh <strong>Modeler design</strong> (along with many small improvements and bug fixes)</li>
-<li>Switches from <em>commons-logging</em> to <strong><em>SLF4J</em></strong> API</li>
+<li>A native <strong>Gradle Plugin</strong>.</li>
+<li>Fresh <strong>Modeler design</strong> (along with many small UI improvements and bug fixes).</li>
+<li>A switch from <em>commons-logging</em> to <strong><em>SLF4J</em></strong> API</li>
 <li>Optional <strong>HMAC</strong> in crypto module</li>
-<li>Fixes bugs, updates docs, etc. </li>
+<li>Numerous bug fixes, updated docs, etc. </li>
 </ul>
 <p>Cayenne can be downloaded from <a href="/download.html">here</a>. Make sure to consult <a href="https://github.com/apache/cayenne/blob/4.0.B1/docs/doc/src/main/resources/UPGRADE.txt">UPGRADE.txt</a> file before updating.</p>
-<p>Now the new things in a bit more detail:</p>
-<h3 id="gradle-plugin">Gradle Plugin:<a class="headerlink" href="#gradle-plugin" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>BTW, here is an example of the Gradle plugin use :</p>
 <div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="n">buildscript</span> <span class="p">{</span>
     <span class="n">repositories</span> <span class="p">{</span>
         <span class="n">mavenCentral</span><span class="p">()</span>