Title: Jackrabbit Roadmap
This is a roadmap of future Apache Jackrabbit releases and features. See [the dev@ list](mailing-lists.html)
for the latest status.
## Unstable/stable release model
Starting with Jackrabbit 2.3 we are adopting a "Linux-style"
unstable/stable release model with odd/even minor version numbers used to
mark the status of a release.
* [Jackrabbit 2.3 (trunk)](https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/trunk/)
([download|Downloads#v23])
Unstable 2.3.x releases will be cut fairly frequently directly from
Jackrabbit trunk, and a stable 2.4 release branch will be created later on.
At current rate it looks like the 2.4 branch can be created before the end
of 2011.
Once the 2.4 branch has been created, trunk will switch to 2.5.x and
continue progressing towards 2.6, etc.
## Maintenance branches
We currently support the following maintenance branches:
* [Jackrabbit 2.2](https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/branches/2.2/)
([download|Downloads#v22])
* [Jackrabbit 2.1](https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/branches/2.1/)
([download|Downloads#v21])
* [Jackrabbit 2.0](https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/branches/2.0/)
([download|Downloads#v20])
## End of life
The Jackrabbit 1.6 maintenance branch has reached its end of life status.
No more patch releases will be cut from the 1.6 branch, and the latest
1.6.5 release will be archived in December 2011.
* [Jackrabbit 1.6](https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/branches/1.6/)
([download|Downloads#v16])
There is currently no schedule for declaring the end of life of any of the
stable 2.x maintenance branches.
## Prototyping the future
The ongoing microkernel work in the Jackrabbit sandbox is being used to
prototype a possible next generation architecture for a future major new
Jackrabbit release.