Joomla! has great plans for the future of the project. Below is a generalised idea of the features desired for future releases and a highlight of in progress activity. When writing a revised roadmap we started by determining what we hoped to accomplish.

Joomla!

Teams

Development for the Joomla! CMS is primarily lead by two teams within the Production Department.

CMS Release Team

The Release Team is responsible for quality assurance testing of the CMS and for planning, coordinating, and distributing all releases. The release lead for each minor release is a member of this team and acts as the primary decision maker when it comes to the release.

CMS Maintenance Team

The Maintenance Team is responsible for reviewing all proposed patches for the CMS, providing feedback on the proposed patch and making decisions regarding whether a patch is merged into the code base.

Joomla! 4.x

Joomla! 4.x is the currently supported major release series of the CMS. This version is in bugfix mode only, that means, no new features will be added.

A full explanation of supported releases can be found under the heading, 4.3 Supported releases on the Joomla! Development Strategy document.

Joomla! 4.4

Joomla! 4.4 is the current supported release of the 4.x series. This is the fourth minor version of the 4 release. In preparation for Joomla! 5.x, Joomla! 4.4 is primarily a release containing backports of API changes from the 5.x to help ease the transition to the next major release for the community.

Schedule

Release Lead

The release leads for Joomla! 4.4 are Martin Kopp & Allon Moritz.

Main Features

The following are the primary features introduced to Joomla! 4.4.

• Joomla! 5 compatibility layer/Plugin
• Joomla! Pre Upgrade checker

Proposed Features

This release does not accept any more features at this point other than intended for the pre upgrade checker and backports of 5.x features to improve compatibility.

Accepted Features

See the list of new features on GitHub

Pull Requests Requiring Documentation

Some pull requests are merged before the documentation is written, a list of those pull requests can be found on GitHub. Each new feature should be documented on the documentation wiki by the developers involved to provide all information to users as well as helping 3rd party developers to integrate a feature to their extensions. Each page should have the following code inserted at the end: [[Category:Joomla! 4.x]] where the x is replaced with the version.

Joomla! 5.x

Joomla! 5.x is the current major release series of the CMS. It accepts new feature for upcoming minor releases.

A full explanation of supported releases can be found under the heading, 4.3 Supported releases on the Joomla! Development Strategy document.

Pull Requests Requiring Documentation

Some pull requests are merged before the documentation is written, a list of those pull requests can be found on GitHub. Each new feature should be documented on the documentation wiki by the developers involved to provide all information to users as well as helping 3rd party developers to integrate a feature to their extensions. Each page should have the following code inserted at the end: [[Category:Joomla! 5.x]] where the x is replaced with the version.

Joomla! 5.2

Joomla! 5.2 is the current supported release of the 5.x series. This is the third version of the 5 release and introduces new functionality.

Schedule

Release Manager

The release manager for Joomla! 5.2 are Peter Martin and Hannes Papenberg.

Main Features

Find the list of features in the 5.2 release notes.

Accepted Features

See the list of new features on GitHub

Joomla! 5.3

Joomla! 5.3 is the next minor release of the 5.x series.

Schedule

Release Manager

Main Features

Joomla! Framework

Teams

Development for the Joomla! Framework is steered by the Framework Working Group as part of the Production Department.

Joomla! Framework 1.x

Joomla! Framework 1.x is the supported major release series of the Framework.

Joomla! Framework 2.x

Joomla! Framework 2.x is the current major version of the Joomla! Framework and is the backbone of the Joomla! CMS. This release will introduce new library packages, raise the minimum supported PHP version to PHP 7, and remove previously deprecated functionality.

Joomla! Framework 2.0

Joomla! Framework 2.0 is the first release of the next Joomla! Framework major release series.

Schedule

Backward Compatibility Breaks

The Framework 2.0 release has backward compatibility breaks as required to improve each package's structure and to adopt to PHP community standards. An upgrade guide will be available for each package documenting each break and these guides will be integrated into the Joomla! Framework website.

In addition to API upgrades, the following packages have been deprecated and will not have a Framework 2.0 release:

• Cache
• Compat
• Date
• Facebook
• Form
• Google
• Image
• LDAP
• LinkedIn
• Log
• OpenStreetMap
• Twitter

Main Features

The following are new features in the Framework 2.0 release.

• New Renderer package providing support for rendering templates with many popular PHP libraries (including Twig, Mustache, and Blade)
• New Console package for building command line applications
• New Preload package for managing HTTP/2 resources
• OpenSSL encryption support in the Crypt package
• Refactored Database package structure, including full support for prepared statements
• Refactored HTTP package providing support for the PSR-18 HTTP client interface
• Refactored Keychain package to use the Crypt package
• Refactored Router package
• Refactored Session package
• Restructured Test package to support database related integration tests

In Development or Proposed Features

The following features are presently in development.

• New Entities package providing an Active Record based database integration
• Renderer support in the Profiler package
• PSR-7 support in the URI package