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Roadmap
The Roadmap aims to set out when certain features will appear. It reduces in clarity the further we go into the future, and is constantly being added to as we move forward.
If you're just looking to find out whether a feature is likely to end up in core or not, then take a look at the planned features page. It's just a list, but we're adding more detail to it as we go.
Update: 15th April 2014
The roadmap has been changed to become proect focused, rather than milestone focused to help the team deliver. Each project listed here in the Roadmap is listed in the order they will be done. Projects don't get a Ghost version in advance, but they do have an estimated delivery date. As we pick up each project, we'll assign a number of weeks / end date for the project - no project should last more than 4 weeks.
The first project, API, is a dependency for the Ember project, Apps project and Multi-user project, which is why it is the first priority. The Ember project is required to deliver any features which require amends or additions to the admin UI. The Multi-user project has been brought forward as it is a highly requested feature, and the majority of the work is done by the API & Ember changes.
The API project is a dependency for the Ember, Multi-user and Apps projects. It involves changing the request and response formats of the internal data API to be clear and consistent, adding missing API endpoints, and implementing permissions across the API.
See the Epic for an overview of the project, what is required and why. Additionally, see the issue backlog to pick up issues and monitor progress.
- To standardise the Ghost data API by introducing a standard format which closely matches JSON-API
- To introduce new API endpoints needed for Apps, Themes and other core parts of Ghost.
- To introduce permissions / access control across the entire API
- To produce structure documentation of each endpoint, the expected response and any errors that may result
The Ghost Admin will be rewritten in Ember.js as a full client side SPA, consuming the Ghost data API. This is a dependency for all features which depend on UI changes.
See the Epic for an overview of the project, what is required and why. Additionally, see the issue backlog to pick up issues and monitor progress.
- To rebuild the entire Ghost admin in Ember.js
- To resolve as many UI bugs/issues as possible
- To create a framework for rapid development of user interfaces in Ghost
- To lay the groundwork to deliver significant improvements for mobile
- ?To introduce a more holistic solution for managing keyboard shortcuts?
Ghost will get the option to add multiple users, with differing roles and permissions.
- To make it possible to have a multi-user blog
- To ensure that the admin UI is safe from XSS and other security issues
- To improve the first run/install and introducton experience for users
Introduce an internal tool for upgrading Ghost
Focuses on the app boilerplates, API, filters, importers, permissions, security and other app related things, to bring the first iteration of Ghost Apps to the public.
Open issues: 0.5
Delivering the app platform for Ghost is a truly enormous project. To get a full grasp of what this entails, it is recommended that you read Imagining-the-Ghost-Developer-Kit. The roadmap here documents which aspects of the Ghost Developer Kit (GDK) we intend to deliver in 0.5, along with other areas of work that are required in order to deliver this first iteration of Apps.
Apps encompasses work across both the Ghost and Ghost-App repositories. Work on this area is tracked through an epic issue in the Ghost repository. Watching this issue should allow any one interested to keep up-to-date on the progress of Ghost apps.
- app developers willbe able to create simple apps for Ghost that achieve the most obvious additions, like comments, analytics custom helpers, and media handling improvements.
- app developers should not expect to have full access to all tools documented in the GDK. Further updates will ship more advanced features.
- Settle on the App boilerplace, decide on v1.0 of the Ghost-App module, and publish it to npm.
- [~] Add
package.jsonsupport for apps, enabling developers to define key data about apps, and also define their own dependencies. - Introduce App permissions system to ensure that apps can only do the things for which they have permission.
- Create the App UIs for installation, activation and management.
- Update the schema to include tables for App settings, and create a way for Apps to define, access and provide UIs their own settings.
- Develop the App install process, which presents users with permissions, manages dependencies, etc etc.
- Create an intial set of filters which provides for overriding Ghost's behaviour via the Filter API.
- Ensure that error handling for Apps is top-notch, and introduce features for debugging.
- Use the App proxy to provide access to an v1.0 of the Data API, Theme API and Filters API.
If we have time:
- Start work on the following parts of the GDT:
- Routes API
- Files API
- Accounts API
- The various toolsets
- Begin work on the dashboard, which is being planned separately from 0.5. See note on the dashboard
Issue label: importer
- make it possible to easily import a blog from a WXR or RSS file, by installing and using the official Ghost Importer App. This App should serve as an example app, and also be easily extended to support more import formats.
- Develop a sexy new UI for the import tool, and move it to a new home.
- Make it possible for Apps to hook into and extend the import UI.
- Add support for more permalink structures, configured by the importer if possible.
- Build the Importer App, with initial support for WXR and RSS imports.
- Turn importing from a one-step do-or-die operation, into a several step process with opportunities to fix or discard invalid data.
Focuses firstly on adding multi-user functionality, so that you can run a multi-author blog, along with addressing the security concerns this introduces. Secondly, on providing the tools for l10n & i18n - making it possible for you to use Ghost in your language, and to publish blogs in any language.
For more information see where is the dashboard?
Rough Plan: - focus on overhauling and rebuilding the editor, bringing full mobile/multi-device support, markdown & media improvements etc
Open issues: 0.7
Rough Plan: focus on advanced publishing workflows, catering for bigger, more complex teams and also on more advanced theme features aimed at building magazine style blogs.
Open issues: 0.8
Rough Plan: focus on anything which is still missing and required for 1.0.0. This is currently an open ended opportunity to refactor, tidy up, finish off features, add finishing touches etc etc
Open issues: 0.9
See planned features for an idea of what will be happening.
Maintenance release with many new features
See Milestone History or the release post
Maintenance release, see 0.4.1
See Milestone History or the Release Notes
Maintenance & security release, see 0.3.3
Maintenance release, see 0.3.2
Maintenance release, see 0.3.1
See 0.3.0
For more history, please see the pre-release roadmap