We were waiting for it in september 2014 but there was a slight delay in the road map of Joomla 3.4. There was a message that the road map would get an update in january 2015 and here it is.
Joomla 3.4 release timeline update http://t.co/haL51McJMf #joomla
— Joomla! (@joomla) 13 januari 2015Updated roadmap
After all the feedback from the Joomla 3.4 alpha, it resulted into this:
- January 20th 2015 - 3.4 Feature Freeze
- January 27th 2015 - 3.4 Beta 1
- February 3rd, 2015 - 3.4 Beta 2
- February 10th, 2015- 3.4 Release Candidate
- February 17th, 2015 - 3.4 Stable Release
Off course, these dates are not fixed, it's always possible there will be another change.
What's new in Joomla 3.4
With Joomla 3.4 there will be a removing om some core extensions from the core to a new category on JED where they can be downloaded as "core supported". The following core extensies are being removed:
- Contact
- Finder
- Messages
- Newsfeeds
- Redirect
- Search
- Weblinks
With a new install of Joomla, these extensions will not be installed but you have to get them from JED.
Source: http://developer.joomla.org/news/601-joomla-3-4-release-timeline-update.html