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Product Decisions This Supports

• Admin/back-office roadmap sequencing. With v1.1.0 supporting both Filament 4 and 5, adopting this package no longer forces a Filament major-version upgrade. That decouples two decisions we would otherwise have to make together: when we adopt this capability and when we migrate our admin stack to Filament 5. We can take the feature now and schedule the platform migration on its own merits.
• Build vs. buy for admin surface area. If the capability overlaps something we'd otherwise hand-roll inside our Filament panels, dual-version support lowers the switching cost in both directions — we can adopt without committing to the next major, and we can leave without being stranded on an unsupported version.
• Upgrade-risk budgeting. A package that explicitly maintains backward compatibility signals a maintainer who treats breaking changes as a decision, not an accident. Factor that into the risk column when comparing against alternatives that only track the latest major.
• Use cases to evaluate against: internal ops tooling, tenant-facing dashboards, back-office CRUD, and any admin surface where we've standardized on Filament as the UI layer.
• A deprecation clock to start watching. Dual support is a cost, not a permanent state. The follow-on question for the next release is the stated support window for Filament 4 — that date becomes an input to our own migration plan, and its absence is a planning risk.

When to Consider This Package

Consider it when:

• We are on Filament 4 today and expect to migrate to 5 within the next one to two quarters — a release that spans both majors removes a blocker from that path.
• We are already on Filament 5 and want a dependency that isn't brand new to the ecosystem.
• The capability it provides is something we'd otherwise build in-house, and the build estimate exceeds the cost of adopting and vetting a dependency.
• We want the option to defer the Filament major upgrade without also deferring feature work.

Look elsewhere — or wait a release — when:

• The package's value is a thin wrapper we could implement in a few days; dual-version support does not offset owning another dependency.
• No support window for Filament 4 is published, and our migration timeline is longer than a quarter. "Compatible today" is not "supported through our upgrade."
• Release cadence is driven entirely by upstream Filament releases. That's efficient for the maintainer but means we inherit upstream's timing.
• Our admin surface isn't on Filament at all — this release is only meaningful inside that ecosystem.

Before committing, confirm: license terms, whether the test matrix actually runs against both majors (not just declared compatibility), and the maintainer's stated policy for dropping Filament 4.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

For executives: This release removes a scheduling conflict. We can adopt the capability without also committing to a platform upgrade, so the admin tooling investment keeps paying off across the current and next version of the underlying framework. The practical effect is that a decision we'd have had to make as a bundle is now two independent, lower-risk decisions.

For engineering: v1.1.0 adds Filament 5 support while keeping Filament 4 working. That means no forced migration to evaluate this, and no forked branch if we upgrade later. The trade-offs are real but contained: the maintainer is now testing and supporting two majors, so expect a wider compatibility matrix and a future release that drops Filament 4. Pin the version, run the suite against both majors in CI if we straddle them, and treat the eventual v4 drop as a known event to schedule rather than a surprise.