Joomla has announced the road map for the fourth coming development of the joomla open source content management ( CMS ). The roadmap will provide you with an insight into the new version releases and what the planned functionality will include in the new releases.

Extract taken from joomla.org

Version 1.1 (Schedule for release early November 2005)

• Translation of the static text in the Adminstrator
• Addition of basic right-to-left (RTL) support
• Improved handling for non ISO-8859-1 character sets by implementing UTF-8
  
• Addition of User Bots to allow for other methods of authentication (such as LDAP) and improve bridge work with other applications
• Addition of SSL bot to support https secure sites
  

Version 1.2

• Foundational work to support other database platforms
• Improved access control handling (ability to add custom groups and assign access to different functions, but no change to content access).
• Improved caching
• Separation of logic and presentation layer with patTemplate
• New javascript framework
• FTP based installation mode
• Foundational Useability and Accessibility work
• Improved SEF support

Version 1.3

• Out-of-the-box Useability and Accessibility compliance
• Full version control of content