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Roadmap for future releases
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Before you read this:

(1) To see what's in the current release, read 'RELEASE-NOTES'.

(2) To see the list of bugs, read 'BUGS'.

(3) To understand libguestfs versioning, read section
    'LIBGUESTFS VERSION NUMBERS' of guestfs(3) man page.

(4) For general "might be good to have" items, see 'TODO'.

For next major stable release (1.14)
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Bugs assigned to 1.14 (put "1.14" in the Devel Whiteboard field in
Bugzilla):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&field0-0-0=cf_devel_whiteboard&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=ON_DEV&bug_status=ON_QA&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=FAILS_QA&bug_status=RELEASE_PENDING&bug_status=POST&bug_status=PASSES_QA&type0-0-0=anywords&value0-0-0=1.14&component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization%20Tools

Beyond 1.14
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* Make 'guestfish --ro' be the default, and get users to use
  'guestfish --rw' for write access (but allow the default to be
  overridden in a configuration file).  This was originally planned
  for 1.10 but there's not nearly enough adoption of the new
  'guestfish --rw' option out there to do this yet.

* Allow alternate methods to start the appliance, including through
  libvirt and by connecting to an existing appliance.  This was
  originally planned for 1.10 but we didn't get patches in time.

* Deeper and wider support for progress messages.  Many long-running
  operations in guestfs-browser don't display progress messages, eg.
  "du", "tar-in/out", because it's hard to estimate the runtime of
  these commands.

* Better handling of partitions, including MBR extended partitions.
  Write a new partition handling library to replace parted, and use it
  instead of parted.  (RHBZ#593511, RHBZ#642821).

* Hot plugging of disks using QMP.  This would allow more efficient
  reuse of the appliance in some circumstances: multiple disks
  (ie. VMs) can be added in turn to the same appliance.  In particular
  this would help virt-df.

  [Note this requires upstream work on QMP, see:
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2011-March/msg00124.html]

See TODO and BUGS files.