Technical Details

Core 1.0.4.2 + Cumulative patch was used as the start .

These are the features you can expect ...

Major features
- Multisite : run multiple sites from one install
- Standards compliance ( XHTML / CSS / 508 )
- Offline editing ( For people on dialup )
- More plugging friendly ( hook core using limbots )
- New Access Control System system
- More SEF ( URL generation can be hooked )
- Faster ( system wide caching / other optimizations )
- Template Based components ( php based very simple templating system )
- Support for new mambo/joomla templates

Minor things
- Static Content : Content Section is now static content
- Multilevel Menu : Unlike 2 levels for older version.
- Page nav history
- Date based publishing
- Limbots ( php , break )
- Other minor improvements and optimizations

Things planned

- Multi language : But it slows things down :|
- URL Aliasing
- Web2.0 / RIA: Auto keyword generation , Spell check , XHTML validation etc
- New Logo ( a joomla like logo )

Release Dates

You can expect the beta around end Feb if everything goes as planned and the stable release by mid march.