Change ctools dependency from ^3.12 to ^3.12 || ^4.0 to allow for a smooth upgrade process

To ensure smoother updates, I suggest using the version constraint "^3.12 || ^4.0".
This will help prevent a large number of modules from encountering a blocker issue.

In the case of the "Total Control Admin Dashboard" module, you can find the relevant configuration in its composer.json file at the following link: Total Control Admin Dashboard - composer.json

The module has utilized the following dependencies:

    "drupal/ctools": "~3.0 || ~4.0",
    "drupal/panels": "~4.0",
    "drupal/page_manager": "*"

Hoping for a smoother update process with "^3.12 || ^4.0"

I agree with #5

#5 works for me

To allow for a smooth upgrade process.
Hoping for a commit and a soft release to support Drupal 10
Other modules switched to use ctools ~4.0 and D10

Only for testing:
Having the issue fork in the composer.json file.
In the repositories

  "repositories": {
    "drupal": {
      "type": "composer",
      "url": "https://packages.drupal.org/8",
      "exclude": [
        "drupal/panels"
      ]
    },
    "drupal/panels": {
      "type": "git",
      "url": "https://git.drupalcode.org/issue/panels-3352307.git"
    }
  },

and in require

  "require": {
    "drupal/core": "~10.0",
    "drupal/ctools": "~4.0.0",
    "drupal/panels": "dev-3352307-upgrade-ctools-dependency as 4.7.0",
  },

you're doing great @Rajab Natshah!

Is there anything else we users can do here or are we simply waiting on maintainers to jump on this?

Thanks @andypost and @Rajab Natshah for the patch. I've committed it for a new release soon.

@joelpittet, is there any way we can get a new release that includes this fix so those of us blocked can move to ctools 4.x?

The failing test for IPE needs fixing before the release.

can you point me to a build failure or (more ideally) an issue for tracking the outstanding IPE test issue? I cant try to work on it. Also, is this the only thing holding back a new release?

Hoping for a release.
To have a smooth upgrade process for projects.

thanks @Rajab Natshah, I'm hoping for a release too :)

@joelpittet, any progress on the failing IPE test? If not, can you point me to the test runner failure and I can try to take a look?

This is a blocker for upgrading to Drupal 10
Please, help us to have a smoother upgrade way
Only a tag release

@Rajab Natshah,
I believe @joelpittet is holding off a tagged release due to the HEAD test failure with IPE

#3383474: Fix HEAD test failures for 4.x
https://www.drupal.org/pift-ci-job/2749558

It would be great to get assistance with this, I sorted through a few issues already, there's one section that's failing still and should be reviewed for action plan.

Thanks @joseph.olstad. Is there documentation somewhere for how I can setup a testing environment to duplicate these failures? If I can get that set up I can do my best to take a look at resolving them.

@xeM8VfDh if you have issues running tests locally you can trigger the ci on #3383474: Fix HEAD test failures for 4.x
by uploading your patch

Otherwise you can look at the documentation here:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/automated-testing
although I had a quick look, this documentation doesn't explain how to run a contrib module test locally.

Hoping for a tag release.
To have a smoother upgrade process for projects.

We need a new tag for this. Upgrade is blocked.

Agreed