Last year, we released the 6th big update to ModernBB 3, with Luna in development however, what will be next for ModernBB? Will there be a ModernBB 3.7?
Well, to kick off. We plan to put the final release of ModernBB into a LTS release, similar to ModernBB 1.6, which got 6 updates (1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5 and 1.7.0), it will be supported for over a year. Especialy for security fixes, we will continue to support ModernBB into the future. However, only the last one, the big question is: which ModernBB release will be the last one?
I didn’t plan a ModernBB 3.6 release at first, but due to 3.5.3 becoming to big, I decided to do it anyway. With this new scheme, I do hope that ModernBB 3.6 won’t be the last major update to ModernBB. A ModernBB 3.7 is already in the planning. I’ve decided to not continue the idea I had with ModernBB 3.4 and 3.5 to release new features in the smaller patches, instead, these will be part of ModernBB 3.7 instead.
ModernBB 3.7 won’t be a big update. In fact, it might be just bug fixes, I’ll try to get some small features in there. I hope you guys understand that ModernBB isn’t my focus point anymore, Luna is. Anyway, ModernBB 3.7 will come, and unless we release it before Luna, it will be our final minor version jump. Otherwise, ModernBB 3.8 will be released. Why do we need a minor version bump after Luna? Because that would be our LTS release. So, if ModernBB 3.7 will be released after Luna 1.0, it will be ModernBB 3.7 LTS. If before, it will be ModernBB 3.7, and we’ll release a ModernBB 3.8 LTS after Luna (or perhaps the same day). In such a case, 3.8 will be bug fixes only.
