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Joomla 3.4 is almost ready

30 June 2014
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Joomla 3.4 is almost ready

If you wondered when next Joomla version will be ready, we can inform you it will be soon. Joomla 3.4 is stable version which replace current J! 3.3, and will be published in the middle of July 2014.  Every major version as Joomla 3.5 will have minium 4-year lifecycle, no more LTS/STS. With the old support model the users were confused and most of them didn't really know which Joomla version they should use.

This version focus on 4 topics:

  • Improved Microdata - new interface.
  • Frontend Module Editing - it wasn't implement as Joomla team wanted in J!3.3 - now is fully working via front-end as it should.
  • Composer Integration - composer is a dependency manager. You will be able to instruct Composer to pull in all the required extensions you need in your site using a single JSON file. This will keep all your dependencies in one convenient location and Composer will take care of upgrading and managing them. Composer has become the de-facto standard for managing dependencies in the PHP community today.
  • Decouple Weblinks component - it won't be installed by default. Web Links Manager was with Joomla probably since its beginning and allows you to manage links to other web sites and organize them into categories. But in modern times probably nobody used it. That's why someone decide to not add into Joomla package anymore. But you don't have to worry, if you still loved it(?) you can install from GitHub repository or find much better alternative extension. Probably this is beginning of big cleaning and in Joomla 3.5 more old components will be also "trashed".

Some ending facts, all templates, modules and plugins which you used with Joomla 3.3 will be still working, checked on developer version. Also, you don't have to worry, your CMS offers one click update process and this is smoothly process in most cases. Probably this upcoming version will also fix some bugs which was found since J3.3.1 was published. Next LTS version of Joomla 3.5 will appear on September 2014.

If you are starting a new project/website it is strongly recommended to use the latest Joomla release, in this case Joomla 3.3, then you can easily update to Joomla 3.4 when it will be available.

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