Following the successful release of Xfce 4.14, the development team is now focusing their efforts on the next major update, Xfce 4.16, and the good news is that it could arrive sooner than expected.
The development team took almost 4 years to plan and release Xfce 4.14, so a shorter period is always welcome.
"We want to focus on our release model (which features a new release every six months) this time and take up to a year to release a new stable version.»I mention the Xfce release manager, Simon Steinbeiss.
One of the reasons a fast pitch can be a reality is that no big updates, that is, they do not have to change GTK version or add native support for Wayland, or any other action that involves a lot of time and resources.
In addition, there is talk of improving the maintenance of this graphical environment, possibly migrating your bug tracking infrastructure to Gitlab, which is currently in Bugzilla.
If you are interested in knowing more about the development plans of Xfce 4.16, or even getting involved in this future version, you can see the official cycle in this link.