diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client/index.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client/index.rs
index 28177b097f..bcde6589c5 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client/index.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client/index.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 //! Able to restore itself from the storage index parts, that are located in every timeline's remote directory and contain all data about
 //! remote timeline layers and its metadata.
 
-use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
+use std::collections::HashMap;
 
 use chrono::NaiveDateTime;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
@@ -62,10 +62,6 @@ pub struct IndexPart {
     #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
     pub deleted_at: Option<NaiveDateTime>,
 
-    /// Legacy field: equal to the keys of `layer_metadata`, only written out for forward compat
-    #[serde(default, skip_deserializing)]
-    timeline_layers: HashSet<LayerFileName>,
-
     /// Per layer file name metadata, which can be present for a present or missing layer file.
     ///
     /// Older versions of `IndexPart` will not have this property or have only a part of metadata
@@ -91,7 +87,8 @@ impl IndexPart {
     /// - 2: added `deleted_at`
     /// - 3: no longer deserialize `timeline_layers` (serialized format is the same, but timeline_layers
     ///      is always generated from the keys of `layer_metadata`)
-    const LATEST_VERSION: usize = 3;
+    /// - 4: timeline_layers is fully removed.
+    const LATEST_VERSION: usize = 4;
     pub const FILE_NAME: &'static str = "index_part.json";
 
     pub fn new(
@@ -99,18 +96,14 @@ impl IndexPart {
         disk_consistent_lsn: Lsn,
         metadata: TimelineMetadata,
     ) -> Self {
-        let mut timeline_layers = HashSet::with_capacity(layers_and_metadata.len());
-        let mut layer_metadata = HashMap::with_capacity(layers_and_metadata.len());
-
-        for (remote_name, metadata) in &layers_and_metadata {
-            timeline_layers.insert(remote_name.to_owned());
-            let metadata = IndexLayerMetadata::from(metadata);
-            layer_metadata.insert(remote_name.to_owned(), metadata);
-        }
+        // Transform LayerFileMetadata into IndexLayerMetadata
+        let layer_metadata = layers_and_metadata
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|(k, v)| (k, IndexLayerMetadata::from(v)))
+            .collect();
 
         Self {
             version: Self::LATEST_VERSION,
-            timeline_layers,
             layer_metadata,
             disk_consistent_lsn,
             metadata,
@@ -140,8 +133,8 @@ pub struct IndexLayerMetadata {
     pub(super) file_size: u64,
 }
 
-impl From<&'_ LayerFileMetadata> for IndexLayerMetadata {
-    fn from(other: &'_ LayerFileMetadata) -> Self {
+impl From<LayerFileMetadata> for IndexLayerMetadata {
+    fn from(other: LayerFileMetadata) -> Self {
         IndexLayerMetadata {
             file_size: other.file_size,
         }
@@ -168,7 +161,6 @@ mod tests {
         let expected = IndexPart {
             // note this is not verified, could be anything, but exists for humans debugging.. could be the git version instead?
             version: 1,
-            timeline_layers: HashSet::new(),
             layer_metadata: HashMap::from([
                 ("000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__0000000001696070-00000000016960E9".parse().unwrap(), IndexLayerMetadata {
                     file_size: 25600000,
@@ -205,7 +197,6 @@ mod tests {
         let expected = IndexPart {
             // note this is not verified, could be anything, but exists for humans debugging.. could be the git version instead?
             version: 1,
-            timeline_layers: HashSet::new(),
             layer_metadata: HashMap::from([
                 ("000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__0000000001696070-00000000016960E9".parse().unwrap(), IndexLayerMetadata {
                     file_size: 25600000,
@@ -243,7 +234,6 @@ mod tests {
         let expected = IndexPart {
             // note this is not verified, could be anything, but exists for humans debugging.. could be the git version instead?
             version: 2,
-            timeline_layers: HashSet::new(),
             layer_metadata: HashMap::from([
                 ("000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__0000000001696070-00000000016960E9".parse().unwrap(), IndexLayerMetadata {
                     file_size: 25600000,
@@ -276,7 +266,6 @@ mod tests {
 
         let expected = IndexPart {
             version: 1,
-            timeline_layers: HashSet::new(),
             layer_metadata: HashMap::new(),
             disk_consistent_lsn: "0/2532648".parse::<Lsn>().unwrap(),
             metadata: TimelineMetadata::from_bytes(&[
@@ -309,4 +298,39 @@ mod tests {
 
         assert_eq!(empty_layers_parsed, expected);
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn v4_indexpart_is_parsed() {
+        let example = r#"{
+            "version":4,
+            "layer_metadata":{
+                "000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__0000000001696070-00000000016960E9": { "file_size": 25600000 },
+                "000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__00000000016B59D8-00000000016B5A51": { "file_size": 9007199254741001 }
+            },
+            "disk_consistent_lsn":"0/16960E8",
+            "metadata_bytes":[113,11,159,210,0,54,0,4,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,232,1,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,14,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],
+            "deleted_at": "2023-07-31T09:00:00.123"
+        }"#;
+
+        let expected = IndexPart {
+            version: 4,
+            layer_metadata: HashMap::from([
+                ("000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__0000000001696070-00000000016960E9".parse().unwrap(), IndexLayerMetadata {
+                    file_size: 25600000,
+                }),
+                ("000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__00000000016B59D8-00000000016B5A51".parse().unwrap(), IndexLayerMetadata {
+                    // serde_json should always parse this but this might be a double with jq for
+                    // example.
+                    file_size: 9007199254741001,
+                })
+            ]),
+            disk_consistent_lsn: "0/16960E8".parse::<Lsn>().unwrap(),
+            metadata: TimelineMetadata::from_bytes(&[113,11,159,210,0,54,0,4,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,232,1,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,14,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]).unwrap(),
+            deleted_at: Some(chrono::NaiveDateTime::parse_from_str(
+                "2023-07-31T09:00:00.123000000", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f").unwrap())
+        };
+
+        let part = serde_json::from_str::<IndexPart>(example).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(part, expected);
+    }
 }