What is the status of Middleman 4, and can we use it yet?

#1

The documentation on the site contains a section on “Upgrading to Middleman 4”. It also refers to “v4 betas”.

However, in my exploration of the site, I haven’t seen anything that says whether we’re encouraged to start using v4 (“Go ahead, give it a whirl”) or to wait until it’s more stable (“Stand back! It’s gonna blow!”).

If it is possible to start using v4, what’s the procedure? I presume that ‘gem install’ will still get the current v3 version. Is there a simple guide to getting started with v4?

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#2

You can put gem ‘middleman’, ‘~> 4.0.0.alpha.6’ in your gemfile and rebundle, but I didn’t spend too much time with it and it looks like either that isn’t the correct method or it requires additional work.

I’d love to see a timeline on v4 now, I’m about to start a new project and I’d rather start with v4 if it’s nearly ready.

#3

I am interested to know this as well.