While Joomla 1.5 was taking its form, a clear path was outlined that described much more frequent milestones in terms of development. This essentially meant faster progression to add features as Joomla moved from 1.5 to 1.6 etc.
I stumbled upon information that we might see Joomla 1.6 as early as August! Now we know it will most probably happen till the end of this calendar year
On the Joomla forum is a board that has been taking white paper submissions for a couple of months. Roaming through views and posts, we can see the following features as hot items.
01.Option to turn off Mootools
02.Layout control for Front Page articles
03.Access Management in Joomla! 1.6
04.Content versions for Joomla!
05.Remove unsafely stuff
06.Multi-Blogger Component/Module
07.Section/Category Manager
08.Expanded Search Capabilities
09.Bring back blog-content section menu link
10.Extend DB layer - implement PDO, or other DB-s like Pg
As you read through these, a another valuable resource is the Joomla Developer White Paper Analysis that is on the Joomla!
What is to be expected?
We will have to see some progress in version control.ACL( Access control level) will be improved for sure. Change has to be expected with Mootools options and similar and menu link should be brought back.
