We decided to extend the the support of 8.x-1.x until 2020-12-31. This should be enough time to upgrade to 4.x.
This release modifies the update checks accordingly and adjusted the tests to succeed against Drupal 8.8 and 8.9.
The minimal support throughout 2020 will NOT cover
Deprecations removed
Allow Multiple Boolean Field Values to be passed in the Site Settings Loader
Move definition of cache BIN/CID constants into class rather than in the .module file