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.

Future Milestones

Milestone 4 - Version 0.4.0 - Early / mid December

The next minor version bump is set to happen a month or so after the public launch

Open issues

This version focuses around the plugin API, import tools and adding functionality which has been heavily requested during the launch phases.

Import & Plugins

Note This section needs (and will shortly be receiving) an overhaul and should mostly be ignored in the short-term.

• Proposal: Plugin Architecture Refactor #769
• Ghost Importer: UI love #953
• Import plugin framework #854
• Ghost Import Plugins #950
• Add "Delete All Content" Button #1445
• importing a bad database that fails to import still imports content #837
• De-duplicate posts and tags in importer #806

Publishing Features

• Add a warning message when leaving the page with unsaved post content. #1327 (Solve data loss problem)
• Featured posts: #1111, #1112
• Static pages: #969, #1329, Casper#39
  • [BUG] Static page issues #1350
• SEO Improvements
  • Generate sitemap.xml #623
  • next and prev rel links in head #685
• Image features, including cover images and different sizes [#128] - more details soon
  • Ghost Image Output #128

Editor and Admin UI Improvements

• Responsive videos inside the Ghost editor #1367
• Improve image uploader UI #1356
• Post Settings UX #1351
• Set a sensible default sort order for post management admin #1303
• [BUG] Wrong notification on updating post #1368
• [BUG] Allow multiple underscores like: _________ #1113
• [BUG] Markdown bug: no new line inserted when quotes are used #974

Scrolling

Note: This section needs an overhaul

• Editor screen: Advanced scroll features #22
• Be smarter about how we line up markdown code with the live preview #704
• [BUG] Editor UI - Scroll events are not smooth #481
• [BUG] Editor scrolling gets stuck when typing lots of text #535
• [BUG] Fucked up scrolling behaviour when typing #958

Shortcuts

• Keyboard Shortcut Overhaul #1463
• [BUG] Select Word Keyboard Shortcut doesn't work #1275
• [BUG] markdown help popup is truncated on small screens #1273

Architecture

• Static Asset Management #1405
• API Improvements
  • API Unit Tests #1189
  • Refactor to use API for data access #755
  • API caching layer (enhancement) #173
  • Settings creation #736
• Migration Refactor
  • Create schema.js #1398
  • Refactor migration (database not yet created) #1399
  • Refactor migration (database is out of date) #1400
  • Add validation to models using schema attributes #1401
  • Migrations: Column modification #601
  • Utilize Transactions in Data Operations #586
• Config & internal structure
  • Ghost install in sub directory support #527
  • Make it possible to require ghost as a module #1326
  • Customisable Permalinks #1395
  • Standardise getting paths and abs URLs #1390
  • Make the content directory configurable #1364
  • [BUG] If the theme is missing, admin crashes #981
  • Connect.multipart() deprecation warning #1227
  • BIG FAT ghost.js & index.js refactor #360
• [Draft] Refactor notifications #1454
  • [BUG] Data imported notification shows after I've logged in #1452
  • [BUG] closing a few alert messages is ugly #836

Testing

• Performance tests #1392
• CasperJS tests for mobile interactions and views #403

Miscellaneous

• No inline script for Ghost.init #1268
• Ugly debug upgrade tool #1260
• Add 'ghost' CLI tool for installing from npm #1001
• More validation #970
• Grunt deploy #927
• Consider switching to javascript:void(0) for hrefs #916
• Backbone: data binding libraries / tools? #550
• Theme API: make {{nextpost}} {{prevpost}} available to themes #529

Security Improvements

• Users: Roll out the ACL/Permissions system #357
• Enhancement: Remove "Insecure Content" warning for backend over SSL #1300
• XSS
  • Investigate XSS filtering #1378
  • Upgrade validator to 2.. #1379
  • [BUG] Editor title removing spaces #1328
• Replace cookieSession with session #1230
• Content Security Policy - Report only mode #1267

Accounts

• Limit login attempts #499
• Improved password reset tool #1471
• Account redirects #1472
• Signing in and then pressing the back button takes you to /ghost/signin/ instead of /ghost/ #596

Bug List

Bugs which don't fit into the categories above. PLEASE KILL THESE WITH FIRE.

• Editing publish date of unpublished post yields JavaScript error #1332
• /settings/user page buggy in firefox. #1210
• custom partial/pagination.hbs not cleared on theme switch #1203
• Select boxes look weird on Firefox #1109
• Fancy quotes are borked #534

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Milestone 5 - Version 0.5.0

Planned for early next year.

Open issues

This version will focus heavily on adding localisation, and more site features such as tag, user and archive pages. We'll also hopefully roll out the dashboard, and start work on multi-user features.

Future Releases

See planned features for an idea of what will be happening.

Past Milestones

Milestone 3 - Version 0.3.0 - Kickstarter release

See 0.3.0

Version 0.3.1

Maintenance release, see 0.3.1

Version 0.3.2 (12th Oct), followed by Public release (14th Oct)

Maintenance release, see 0.3.2

History

For more history, please see the pre-release roadmap