Product roadmap

Upcoming releases

Orbeon Forms 2024.1

Focus:

  • Progress on workflow-related features

  • Form Builder user-friendliness:

    • more UI (properties, validations, formulas, etc.)

    • see #2282, #5798, etc.

  • Forms look and feel

  • More demo forms

See the tentative 2024.1 items for details.

Consider:

Please remember that the following schedule is a plan, not a promise:

  • 2024-12: tentative release date

Past releases

See the Orbeon Forms release history.

Release strategy

  • How often do we release? Since 2020 we have switched to one major release per year with point releases as needed.

  • What do releases contain? Releases address both new features and bug-fixes. Point-releases (2020.1.1, 2020.1.2, etc.) essentially contain bug-fixes and sometimes very small features. They are done only when necessary, and only for the PE version of the product. Bigger features are left to the major releases (2019.1, 2019.2, 2020.1, 2021.1, etc.), and we strive to do those on a regular schedule.

Planning strategy

  • How far ahead do we plan? Once we've published a major release, we do the planning for the following one. You can see the future releases listed on the open projects page, and from there, see what has been planned for the next release. We don't plan feature or bugs to be included in releases beyond the very next release, so we can react faster to our customers needs, deciding for every release what will best serve our customers.

  • How do we decide what improvements to include in a release? A fair amount of the new features we develop are designed in collaboration with our customers, and sponsored by customers through a Dev Support plan. Other features are added to better serve existing and future users of the product. And last, but not least, for every release we strive to do work in each one of the development tracks outlined below.

Development tracks

These are general development tracks which we consider from release to release:

What's in a release

For each release we would like to:

The idea is, as some of those tasks are large, to do it incrementally when possible, so that some progress is made.

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