![]() Development StatusĪ full explanation of supported releases can be found under the heading, 4.3 Supported releases on the Joomla! Development Strategy document. ![]() Joomla! 3.x is the currently supported major release series of the CMS. ![]() 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. 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. The Release Team is responsible for quality assurance testing of the CMS and for planning, coordinating, and distributing all releases. Joomla! Teamsĭevelopment for the Joomla! CMS is primarily lead by two teams within the Production Department. ![]() Please remember all dates are tentative and proposed focus for each release subject to modification. Any features determined to break backwards compatibility will be moved to the next major release, presently Joomla! 5.x. Important to keep in mind: These releases are considered minor releases and none of them are to break backwards compatibility. Ideally the goal is to minimise the amount of items to be included in each release but also offer a more frequent release cycle. By changing the releases to a somewhat standardised 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. ![]() This ties in closely to the version numbers and release dates. The other aspect of timeframes was previously identified as a problem with the old release cycle. With the development strategy published on 25 April 2014, one of the key features is maintaining long-term stability and backwards compatibility while also beginning to follow a semantic versioning approach to releases. ![]()
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