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:

• SPA Support II

  • ICE (In-Context Editing) Pencils for React JS and Angular (possible now, but not as easy as we want it to be)
  • Drag and Drop for React, Angular, and Vue (possible now, but not as easy as we want it to be)

• Crafter Studio features

  • Schedule an item for publishing and continue editing it (specific-version publishing)
  • Improved delete mechanics
  • Improved in-context editing including better drag and drop mechanics
  • Crafter Studio Marketplace for blueprints and new blueprints
  • Time-travel mechanics to preview sites across time
  • Crafter Studio UI enhancements using React components that weave in
  • Integrate Crafter Profile Admin and Crafter Social Admin directly into Crafter Studio

Recently Completed

• Elasticsearch

  • Becomes the default search engine (we continue to support Solr)
  • Full support for AWS Elasticsearch

• Serverless Crafter CMS

  • Full support for Kubernetes clustering vanilla or AWS EKS
  • Crafter Engine backed by AWS S3 (or compatible services)
  • Crafter CMS provided Docker images
  • Search is provided by Elasticsearch and is scaled separately

• GraphQL

  • Query content in Engine via GraphQL

• SPA Support I

  • New JS library: basic JS all the way to Redux: https://www.npmjs.com/settings/craftercms/packages example application: https://github.com/craftercms/video-center-blueprint
  • Node JS integration
  • React JS integration and seamless development
  • Angular integration and seamless development

• Crafter Studio features

  • Advanced multi-master 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

  • URL Rewrite a la Apache mod_rewrite using http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/ (this is different from Crafter’s URL Transformation Engine)