In this stage, Joomla team focuses on 3 main features and they will be completed in the Beta release.
Backend Template Redesign
Approx: 70% done.
Joomla 4 implements a new proposal in backend interface. There is a lot of work to be done to fully meet the requirements of the invision prototype.
Extension Services
Approx: 95% done.
com_content is almost migrated, there is only a pr not merged yet which turns the router access into a service. The rest of the core extensions will then be done step by step.
Prepared Statements
Approx: 10% done.
Prepared statements have been implemented to the Joomla 4 database library in order to increase security in the code base. PostgreSQL users are welcomed to help test the PDO library that will be implemented in Joomla 3.9
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