Upgrading from Site Studio R3 to R4

We're upgrading to the current version of Site Studio R4 from R3. We've installed Site Studio R4 server components on the server in a separate test environment. BUT - if we were to install it on our development server where the content for our existing R3 sites is served, am I correct that it should serve the R3 sites properly and allow me edit R3 sites in Site Studio Designer R4 without first re-making the site in Designer R4 from the ground up?
Or is there a conversion process I will have to go through with each of our sites that were designed in the previous version?
And is there anywhere on Oracle's site that explains the upgrade process and what's compatible and not?
Thanks!
Barry

10gR3 to 10gR4 is backwards compatible with the exception of Custom Element Forms.
Also, "backwards compatible" means you can still use contribution regions instead of the new placeholder model, but you won't get many of the benefits of the new model until you go in and recode those pieces. It does however give you the ability to run your pre-upgrades sites as is and build new sites with all the new features. As well as work on updating pre-upgrade sites incrementally.
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