Release 4.0.0

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Release

Work Breakdown

Feel free to edit this release checklist in-progress depending on what tasks need to be done:

• Decide a release version depending on major/minor/patch changes in the CHANGELOG.md.
• Update this issue's title to the new version
• release-prep PR:
  • Update the CHANGELOG.md.
    • Add a clean Unreleased version.
    • Add the version to the old section.
    • Add the current date to the old version.
    • Reorder, reword or combine changelog entries from a product perspective for consistency.
    • Check the Dependabot Alerts for anything fixable pre-release.
    • Write or review a Deployment Migration Notes section.
    • Write or review a release summary.
    • Remove empty sections from the patch notes.
  • Review the Screenshots in the Readme and update them if necessary.
  • Merge the release-prep PR.
• Wait for the main branch to be green.
• Create a release and re-use the changelog section as release description, and the version as title.
• Check if the pipeline built the release versions in the Actions-Section (or you won't see it).
• Revisit the changed list of tasks and compare it with .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/release.md. Propose changes where it
  makes sense.
• Close this issue.