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Framework 2.x</a></li> </ul> </div> <p>With the <a href="/news/586-joomla-development-strategy.html">development strategy</a> published on 25 April 2014, one of the key features is maintaining long-term stability and backwards compatibility while also beginning to follow a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning#Degree_of_compatibility" target="blank">semantic versioning</a> 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 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. Ideally the goal is to minimise the amount of items to be included in each release but also offer a more frequent release cycle.</p> <p>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, presently Joomla! 6.x.</p> <p>Please remember all dates are tentative and proposed focus for each release subject to modification.</p> </div> <h2 class="roadmap">Joomla!</h2> <h3 class="roadmap">Teams</h3> <p>Development for the Joomla! CMS is primarily lead by two teams within the <a href="https://volunteers.joomla.org/departments/production">Production Department.</a></p> <h4 class="roadmapteam">CMS Release Team</h4> <p>The <a href="https://volunteers.joomla.org/teams/cms-release-team">Release Team</a> 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.</p> <h4 class="roadmapteam">CMS Maintenance Team</h4> <p>The <a href="https://volunteers.joomla.org/teams/cms-maintenance-team">Maintenance Team</a> 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.</p> <h3 id="4x" class="roadmap">Joomla! 4.x</h3> <p>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.</p> <table class="table table-bordered table-striped table-rounded"> <thead> <tr> <th colspan="2">Development Status</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <th>Current Release</th> <td>4.4.8</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Upcoming Release</th> <td>4.4.9</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Release Date of Series</th> <td>17 August 2021</td> </tr> <tr> <th>End of regular bugfix Support for 4.x</th> <td>15 October 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <th>End of security fix only Support for 4.x</th> <td>14 October 2025</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="text-center" colspan="2"><a class="btn btn-info" title="Download Joomla! 4.x" href="https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla4">Download Joomla! 4</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>A full explanation of supported releases can be found under the heading, <a href="/news/586-joomla-development-strategy.html#supported_releases">4.3 Supported releases</a> on the Joomla! 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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.</span></p> <h5>Schedule</h5> <div> <table class="table table-bordered table-striped table-rounded"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 46.594982%;"> <p><a href="https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5901-joomla-5-0-1-and-4-4-1-security-and-bug-fix-release.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">4.4.1</a></p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405018%;">28 November 2023</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.594982%;"> <p><a href="https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5902-joomla-5-0-2-and-4-4-2-bug-fix-release.html">4.4.2</a></p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405018%;">09 January 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.594982%;"> <p><a href="https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5904-joomla-5-0-3-and-4-4-3-security-and-bug-fix-release.html">4.4.3</a></p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405018%;">20 February 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.594982%;"> <p><a title="Joomla 4.4.4 Release News" href="https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5907-joomla-5-1-0-and-joomla-4-4-4-are-here.html">4.4.4</a></p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405018%;">16 April 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.595%;"> <p><a href="https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5908-joomla-5-1-1-and-joomla-4-4-5-are-here.html">4.4.5</a></p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405%;">28 May 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.595%;"> <p><a href="https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5909-joomla-5-1-2-and-joomla-4-4-6-security-and-bug-fix-release.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4.4.6</a></p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405%;">09 July 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.595%;"> <p><a href="https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5910-joomla-5-1-3-and-4-4-7-security-and-bug-fix-release.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4.4.7</a></p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405%;">20 August 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.595%;"> <p><a href="https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5911-joomla-5-1-4-and-joomla-4-4-8-are-here.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4.4.8</a></p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405%;">27 August 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.595%;"> <p><a title="4.4.9 Release News" href="https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5916-joomla-5-2-0-and-joomla-4-4-9-are-here.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4.4.9</a></p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405%;">15 October 2024</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="alert alert-info"> <strong>Note: </strong>The schedule for upcoming releases is subject to change depending on the availability of volunteers and circumstances beyond our control.</div> <h5>Release Lead</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The release leads for Joomla! 4.4 are <a title="Joomler: Martin Kopp" href="https://volunteers.joomla.org/joomlers/11691-martin-kopp">Martin Kopp</a> & <a title="Joomler: Allon Moritz" href="https://volunteers.joomla.org/joomlers/926-allon-moritz">Allon Moritz</a>.</span></p> <h5>Main Features</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The following are the primary features introduced to Joomla! 4.4.</span></p> <ul> <li>Joomla! 5 compatibility layer/Plugin</li> <li>Joomla! 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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: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">[[Category:Joomla! 4.x]]</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> where the x is replaced with the version.</span></p> <h3 id="5x" class="roadmap">Joomla! 5.x</h3> <p>Joomla! 5.x is the current major release series of the CMS. It accepts new feature for upcoming minor releases.</p> <table class="table table-bordered table-striped table-rounded"> <thead> <tr> <th colspan="2">Development Status</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <th>Current Release</th> <td>5.2.1</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Upcoming Release</th> <td>5.2.2</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Release Date of Series</th> <td>17 October 2023</td> </tr> <tr> <th>End of regular bugfix Support for 5.x</th> <td>13 October 2026</td> </tr> <tr> <th>End of security fix only Support for 5.x</th> <td>12 October 2027</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="text-center" colspan="2"><a class="btn btn-info" title="Download Joomla! 5.x" href="https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla5">Download Joomla! 5</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>A full explanation of supported releases can be found under the heading, <a href="/news/586-joomla-development-strategy.html#supported_releases">4.3 Supported releases</a> on the Joomla! Development Strategy document.</p> <h5><b>Pull Requests Requiring Documentation</b></h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some pull requests are merged before the documentation is written, a list of those pull requests can be found on </span><a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+base%3A5.0-dev+base%3A5.2-dev+label%3A%22Documentation+Required%22+" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GitHub</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. 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: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">[[Category:Joomla! 5.x]]</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> where the x is replaced with the version.</span></p> <h3 id="R52" class="roadmap">Joomla! 5.2</h3> <p>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.</p> <h5 class="roadmap">Schedule</h5> <table class="table table-bordered table-striped table-rounded"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 46.594982%;"> <p><a title="5.2.0 Release News" href="https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5916-joomla-5-2-0-and-joomla-4-4-9-are-here.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5.2.0</a></p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405018%;">15 October 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.594982%;"> <p>5.2.1</p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405018%;">07 November 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.594982%;"> <p>5.2.2</p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405018%;">26 November 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.594982%;"> <p>5.2.3</p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405018%;">07 January 2025</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.594982%;"> <p>5.2.4</p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405018%;"> <p>18 February 2025</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.595%;"> <p>5.2.5</p> </td> <td style="width: 53.405%;"> <p>01 April 2025</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div class="alert alert-info"> <strong>Note: </strong>The schedule for upcoming releases is subject to change depending on the availability of volunteers and circumstances beyond our control.</div> <h5>Release Manager</h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The release manager for Joomla! 5.2 are <a title="Joomler: Peter Martin" href="https://volunteers.joomla.org/joomlers/64-peter-martin">Peter Martin</a> and <a title="Joomler: Hannes Papenberg" href="https://volunteers.joomla.org/joomlers/2759-hannes-papenberg">Hannes Papenberg</a>.</span></p> <h5 class="roadmap">Main Features</h5> <p>Find the list of features in the <a title="5.2 release notes" href="https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5916-joomla-5-2-0-and-joomla-4-4-9-are-here.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5.2 release notes</a>.</p> <h5>Accepted Features</h5> <p>See the list of new features on <a title="accepted features 5.2 GitHub" href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+base%3A5.2-dev+" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub</a></p> <h3 id="R53" class="roadmap">Joomla! 5.3</h3> <p>Joomla! 5.3 is the next minor release of the 5.x series.</p> <h5 class="roadmap">Schedule</h5> <table class="table table-bordered table-striped table-rounded"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 46.4684%;"> <p>5.3.0 Alpha 1</p> </td> <td style="width: 53.5316%;">26. November 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.4684%;"> <p>5.3.0 Alpha 2</p> </td> <td style="width: 53.5316%;">24. December 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.4684%;"> <p>5.3.0 Alpha 3</p> </td> <td style="width: 53.5316%;">21. January 2025</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.4684%;"> <p>5.3.0 Beta 1</p> </td> <td style="width: 53.5316%;">18. February 2025</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.4684%;"> <p>5.3.0 Beta 2</p> </td> <td style="width: 53.5316%;">04. March 2025</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.4684%;"> <p>5.3.0 Beta 3</p> </td> <td style="width: 53.5316%;">18. March 2025</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.4684%;"> <p>5.3.0 RC</p> </td> <td style="width: 53.5316%;">01. April 2025</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 46.4684%;"> <p>5.3.0 stable</p> </td> <td style="width: 53.5316%;">15. 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