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As the latest announcement of Joomla! Team, Joomla 3.5 would be released soon under the new release leader. This version will not be included so much feature releases as previous releases to reduce the number of possible bugs, but there are some exciting features that worth waiting for.
If you are fancy discovering what you will see in this new Joomla release, let's take a look at this article.
What's New in Joomla 3.5? When is It Out?

What We'll See in 3.5

According to the official update, the 3.5 will be released with 2 main new features - The new routing system and email notifications on Joomla Updates. Besides that, this version also has big bug fixes and add some other improvements.

1. New Routing System

This work is contributed by Hannes Papenberg, a dedicated member of Joomla Community. He researched and developed his URL Improvement Plan for Joomla for a long time. After many times rewriting the code, Hannes has decided to submit a good part of his work for Joomla Project which is officially confirmed to be included in the upcoming Joomla 3.5 version. So, you maybe not have to worry about unnecessary IDs that Joomla is currently putting in the URLs or even style for the URLs as you want to increase the search ranking.

There will be more fixes and improvements in this new routing system, but stay tuned, things are in the way of the progress. However, one thing for sure that this new feature will bring better, more flexible and faster URLs.

2. New Email Notifications on Joomla Updates

Nic Dionysopoulos is going to bring a new feature into Joomla 3.5 to give email notifications on Joomla Updates. Accordingly, you can set up to get update notifications via email instead of checking the back end as before.

3. Say Goodbye to Some Useless Extensions in The Core?

According to the roadmap, it seems that Joomla will get rid of most of the optional core extensions below within 1 year or so.

  • Banners (com_banners)
  • Contacts (com_contacts)
  • Messages (com_messages)
  • Newsfeeds (com_newsfeeds)
  • Redirect (com_redirect)
  • Search (com_search)
  • Smart Search (com_finder)

Some of extensions above are useless and should be removed to make Joomla core lighter. But, don't worry if you’re using one or more of these extensions, because these changes will only affect on the new installs.

These extensions would be maintained on GitHub and listed in a JED category. If you are interested in using these components, you can easily get them and install as usual.

4. Will New Media Manager be Added?

With ideas about how to improve Media Manager, Buddhima has been working on a new media manage project in January 2014 and worked through about 6 months. The New Media Manager will probably be one of the biggest improvements for the com_media component and change almost every part of the existing media manager.

Some key features of this new media manager:

  • A complete new file manager interface
  • A better drap-n-drop image uploader
  • Image tagging
  • Improved image editing with options to crop, resize, rotate, filter and more

 

New Image Editor


New Drag & Drop Uploader


The official Joomla! Roadmap said that this awesome feature should be added in version 3.9. But, this project has currently reached to a level which can be tested and wait for approval on the 3.5-dev GitHub repository. If you'd like to know the status and detailed information about this project, you can read this Google Docs document.

When is 3.5 Coming Out?

There is no official information about the exact release date of Joomla 3.5. Go back to the 2014 which said that Joomla 3.5 would be out on April 2014 but for now, it's not been still out yet.

 

Joomla Release Cycle

We all know that there are many changes in the plans of releases as well as plenty of bug fixing work which can slow down the project. However, with the official announcement of Joomla PLT, we can be assured that Joomla 3.5 is in the process and will be available soon.

So what do you think about this Joomla release and what features do you expect? Please share your thought as well as what you know about this version with us via comment box below.

Thanks for reading!

 

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