In May, 2015, Joomla released a roadmap for Joomla 3.5. That suggests that Joomla 3.4 may not live for as long as thouht. There's no estimated release date yet, but there are some exciting plans.

Here's an overview of what you might see in Joomla 3.5.

Joomla 3.5: Override all the things!

A key goal for Joomla 3.5 is to make sure that everything in Joomla can be overriden. The core team hope to use JLayout to make this happen.

Goodbye to com_messages

After removing Weblinks, the next extension to be removed from the Joomla core will be com_messages. It will placed on the JED and on it's own Github repository.

Joomla 3.5: New Media Manager

Buddhima Wijeweerahas been working on a new media manager that addresses many complaints with the current version. Here are some of the key features:

A redesigned Media Manager interface
A better drag and drop image uploader
Image tagging
Improved image editing with options to crop, resize, rotate, filter and more

It remains to be seen how much of the work makes it into Joomla 3.5, but there are signs of progress.

The Joomla 3x series is showing a sign of leading the way to a whole new and improved way for web development.

Read more: https://www.todhost.com/blog/joomla-3-5-may-be-here-much-earlier-than-thought-but-what-do-we-expect.html