Future of codeigniter

May be you should ask this question directly to the CI officials. It would be great to post the reply here. Hope we will be getting a positive reply from the CI developing team.

It's already been answered. CI 3 has been released and CI 4 is on the horizon. See: http://forum.codeigniter.com/thread-61342.html

Yes, there was a time when the future of CI was looking shaky, to say the least. Now the future is looking much more promising, and if CI makes sense for your project now, there's a good chance it will continue to make sense for your project in the future. As stated up thread, choose your framework (or technology solutions in general) based on your requirements, but if "ongoing support of the framework" is one of your requirements, CodeIgniter should satisfy that requirement as well as anything. (Nothing you get from a third party can be relied upon completely, so any such requirement should be rationalized.)