It would be great, to publish some kind of release roadmap.

In the past we published releases irregularly. To make planning for users and developers easier, we switched to a six month release schedule. Feature freezes are now due on 1 February and 1 August each year. A short while after each feature freeze, a release candidate will follow and then the final release. However, no one is working full time on DokuWiki (and we have lives, too) so we can't give any hard release days.

You can help with getting releases ready on time (even if you can't code) by joining a team and helping. Also see the roadmap for each release.

If you are eager to try a newer version before it is released, fetch it from the Git repository or download one of the daily snapshots.