Chris Roberts has posted the latest weekly newsletter to detail the current plans for Star Citizen v2.6.1 and with the first hints of moving to 3.0. The next update see the game receive a number of performance improvements, balance updates as well as some new features including leaderboards.
Moving forward to 2.6.2, players will be able to see the MegaMap as well as the introduction of multi-region game servers. The latter is a direct result of moving to Amazon's AWS engine.
Once these two updates are successfully deployed, more will be revealed about v3.0.
You can find out more about the next update on the Star Citizen site.
