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Upgrading from Magento 2.3.7-pt to Magento 2.4.0

I’ve been trying to upgrade my magento version from 2.3.7-p2 to 2.4.0
I’ve double checked all system requirements and everything is good.

When I run composer update I get this error:
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

Problem 1
– Conclusion: don’t install magento/product-community-edition 2.4.0
– Conclusion: don’t install gene/module-braintree 4.0.9
– Conclusion: remove gene/module-braintree 4.0.8
– Conclusion: don’t install gene/module-braintree 4.0.8
– Conclusion: don’t install gene/module-braintree 4.0.7
– Conclusion: don’t install gene/module-braintree 4.0.6
– Conclusion: don’t install gene/module-braintree 4.0.5
– Conclusion: don’t install gene/module-braintree 4.0.4
– Conclusion: don’t install gene/module-braintree 4.0.3
– Conclusion: don’t install gene/module-braintree 4.0.2
– Installation request for magento/product-community-edition 2.4.0 -> satisfiable by magento/product-community-edition[2.4.0].
– Conclusion: don’t install gene/module-braintree 4.0.1
– magento/product-community-edition 2.4.0 requires paypal/module-braintree 4.1.0 -> satisfiable by paypal/module-braintree[4.1.0].
– paypal/module-braintree 4.1.0 requires paypal/module-braintree-core 4.1.0 -> satisfiable by paypal/module-braintree-core[4.1.0].
– paypal/module-braintree 4.1.0 requires paypal/module-braintree-core 4.1.0 -> satisfiable by paypal/module-braintree-core[4.1.0].
– paypal/module-braintree-core 4.1.0 conflicts with gene/module-braintree[4.0.0].
– paypal/module-braintree-core 4.1.0 conflicts with gene/module-braintree[4.0.0].
– Installation request for gene/module-braintree ^4.0 -> satisfiable by gene/module-braintree[4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.0.7, 4.0.8, 4.0.9].

I’ve tried to uninstall this module then tried running composer update but when I do that I get an out of memory error, even when running composer update with unlimited memory.

After that I tried upgrading composer to v2, but was unsuccessful and received this error:

Problem 1
– laminas/laminas-dependency-plugin[1.0.0, …, 1.0.4] require composer-plugin-api ^1.1 -> found composer-plugin-api[2.6.0] but it does not match the constraint.
– magento/product-community-edition 2.4.0 requires laminas/laminas-dependency-plugin ^1.0 -> satisfiable by laminas/laminas-dependency-plugin[1.0.0, …, 1.0.4].
– Root composer.json requires magento/product-community-edition 2.4.0 -> satisfiable by magento/product-community-edition[2.4.0].

I’m unsure what to do at this point. I’ve never ran into these issues when upgrading my magento store