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Roadmap

The detailed roadmap is maintained in our issue planning and tracking system, and you can find that here: https://github.com/craftercms/craftercms/milestones

At a high-level, we’re pursuing the objectives listed below in order:

  • Crafter Engine features
    • Engine Plugin Marketplace: Pull in widgets for your app from the marketplace

    • Direct integration with Node JS

  • Crafter Studio features
    • Crafter Studio Marketplace: Pull in authoring extensions for your site from the marketplace

    • New Sidebar navigator

    • Enhanced site translation mechanics

    • Direct management of Node JS scripts and artifacts

    • Page Builder: Improved in-context editing including
      • In-place editing

      • Out of the box and marketplace components

      • Improved drag and drop mechanics

    • Schedule an item for publishing and continue editing it (specific-version publishing)

    • Recycle Bin and improved delete mechanics

    • Time-travel mechanics to preview sites across time

    • Integrate Crafter Profile Admin and Crafter Social Admin directly into Crafter Studio

Recently Completed

  • Enhanced Preview Proxy to connect to any remote server as the preview server
    • This allows easier authoring of sites built with other programming languages and technologies

  • Managed Blob Stores
    • Manage external blob stores (S3) assets as if they’re CrafterCMS assets with full workflow and multi-environment support

  • GraphQL
    • Query content in Engine via GraphQL

    • GraphQL extensions: You can now change the GraphQL response and add in data from other sources with a small groovy script. GraphQL now pulls back data from CrafterCMS or other sources, and you can override whatever you like.

  • Elasticsearch
    • Becomes the default search engine (Solr is no longer supported starting CrafterCMS v4.0)

  • Serverless CrafterCMS
    • Full support for Kubernetes clustering vanilla or AWS EKS

    • Crafter Engine backed by AWS S3 (or compatible services)

    • CrafterCMS provided Docker images

    • Search is provided by Elasticsearch and is scaled separately

  • SPA Support I
  • SPA Support II
  • Crafter Studio features
    • Crafter Studio UI enhancements using React components that weave in

    • Crafter Studio Marketplace for blueprints and new blueprints

    • Advanced clustering for the authoring environment

    • New search backend based on Elasticsearch for better search in authoring

    • Advanced Git workflow mechanics
      • Specify a branch per site

      • Add remote repositories and pull/push from the GUI

    • Added support for a staging waypoint (an environment where you can stage your project before pushing it to production)

    • S3 connector for uploading large media assets

    • Box connector for uploading/linking to Box assets

    • WebDAV connector for uploading/linking to WebDAV assets

    • AWS Media Services integration for video processing (upload, transcode, stream ABR video)

  • Crafter Engine