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Docs: Add "What's new in 4.0" section (closes #2089) #2267

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- **Strong Ecosystem** - Use npm modules to do anything you want + over 2000 curated plugins for streaming file transformations
- **Simple** - By providing only a minimal API surface, gulp is easy to learn and simple to use

## What's new in 4.0?!

* The task system was rewritten from the ground-up, allowing task composition using `series()` and `parallel()` methods
* The watcher was updated, now using chokidar (no more need for gulp-watch!), with feature parity to our task system
* First-class support was added for incremental builds using `lastRun()`
* A `symlink()` method was exposed to create symlinks instead of copying files
* Built-in support for sourcemaps was added - the gulp-sourcemaps plugin is no longer necessary!
* Task registration of exported functions - using node or ES exports - is now recommended
* Custom registries were designed, allowing for shared tasks or augmented functionality
* Stream implementations were improved, allowing for better conditional and phased builds

## Installation

There are a few ways to install:
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