In the last time the VirtueMart Team has had their heads together and thought about how VirtueMart will evolve and how it will position itself in the area of Open Source Shopping Carts. The good message is that VirtueMart Development will be enforced!
With VirtueMart 1.1.2, the first "real" maintenance release will come out soon (probably in 2 weeks).
After that we will focus on working for VirtueMart 1.2, which will still support Joomla! 1.0.x (and of course Joomla! 1.5). You can expect a first alpha release in August 2008 and the final release around November 2008.
VirtueMart 1.1.x now is in maintenance mode, which means there will be no exciting new Features in upcoming Versions. VirtueMart 1.1 and VirtueMart 1.2 will be branched from the current SVN trunk - so the trunk can be used to develop VirtueMart 2.0.
This next "big thing" will be a complete rewrite. We plan the rearrange the current Code Structure to make it more flexible and extensible. Joomla! 1.0/Legacy Functions will be dropped and we will make use of the Joomla! 1.5 framework.
VirtueMart 2.0 will be compatible to Joomla! >= 1.5 and PHP 5 only.
We have published the Roadmap, but please: it's still a work in progress. The process of targeting features for VM 1.2 and 2.0 has just begun and I'm sure that not all features will find their way into upcoming VirtueMart Versions.
