Joomla! Documentation™

Joomla! 

3.10

Stable Version

With the proposed new development cycle one of the key features is maintaining long-term stability and backwards compatibility while also beginning to follow a semantic versioning approach to releases. The other aspect of timeframes was previously identified as a problem with the old release cycle. This ties in closely to the version numbers and release dates. By changing the releases to a somewhat standardized semantic version numbering and increasing the number of releases we will be able to stop the rush to include bugs and improvements in a release. Ideally the goal is to minimize the amount of items to be included in each release but also offer a more frequent release cycle. Important to keep in mind: these releases are considered minor releases and none of them are to break backwards compatibility. Any features determined to break backwards compatibility will be moved to the next major release, Joomla! 4.x.

Estimated EOS (End of Support) for the Joomla 3 major series, 3rd quarter of 2018.

Current

Developing

Future

Released Roadmap Versions

2015

Joomla! 

3.5

current dev

2nd quarter

Release manager: Roberto Segura

• JLayouts
• Remove additional components and all associated pieces. (com_newsfeeds, com_banners, com_contacts, com_search, com_finder, com_redirect, com_messages).
• Remove sample data from installation; place in post install.

Joomla! 

3.6

3rd quarter

Release manager: Chris Davenport

• Improve Joomla! translation.
• Improve Joomla! multi-language support.
• Build a powerful platform for adding hypermedia APIs to Joomla CMS applications.

Joomla! 

3.7

4th quarter

• Add bootstrap compatibility layer as a Joomla layer to allow different versions of bootstrap or other CSS style frameworks to be used.

2016

Joomla! 

3.8

1st quarter

• Improve Search Engine Optimization and SEF URL's. Take advantage of currently available resources.
• Explore new routing options which can improve SEF while still maintaining backwards compatibility.

Joomla! 

3.9

2nd quarter

• Improve media manager.
• Continue the work performed by the earlier efforts and increase both security and functionality of the media manager.
• Explore adding additional media types and embedding options.

Joomla! 

3.10

Last planned release

3rd quarter

• Create new administrator template to replace the two current administrator templates.
  • This new template should be both responsive, and accessible.
  • The focus is to provide a single, robust, user-friendly design.