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Roadmap

Agama is a project under constant development and priorities are re-evaluated every few weeks. This page offers an overview on the current state of the ever-changing development plans.

Agama 21 (latest released version)​

  • Improved usability of the command-line tools.
  • Compatibility with Systemd-boot.
  • Configuration of NTP sources.
  • Web-based graphical user interface:
    • Improved software section.
    • A more guided desktop selection for openSUSE.
    • Management of non-ethernet network connections like bonding and bridges.
  • Profile-based (unattended) installation:
    • Customize APQNs and key type when defining PAES-encrypted volumes.
  • Agama-live installation media:
    • Disable remote web-server access during installation.

Agama 22 (~ June 15th)​

  • Dedicated setting to configure remote access to the installed system (SSH, Cockpit, etc.)
  • Better adjusted sizes in the partitions for booting.
  • Improvements in network management.
  • Web-based graphical user interface:
    • Improvements to configure authentication.
    • Management of VLAN connections.
    • More understandable configuration of multi-disk LVM volume groups.

Agama 23 (~ July 20th)​

  • Improvements when installing a system in immutable mode.
  • Better error reporting and handling for invalid profiles and other configuration errors.
  • Cleanup of the HTTP API.
  • Web-based graphical user interface:
    • Integrate a command-line terminal.
    • Usability improvements downloading the installer logs and configuration.
    • Enhancements in the management of file systems including labels, formatting and mounting options, etc.
  • Profile-based (unattended) installation:
    • More possibilities for the search option in the storage section.
  • Command-line interface:
    • Usability improvements, especially regarding questions.
    • Allow to get both the explicit config and the extended one.

Mid term plans (autumn 2026)​

  • Introduce the concept of security profiles.
  • Support for NVMeOF.
  • Profile-based (unattended) installation:
    • Specify the boot loader to install.
    • Allow to configure a password for the boot loader.
    • More convenient encryption settings.
    • Configure connection to NFS shares.

Long term plans (2027)​

  • Deal with multiple real-time clocks.
  • Partial support for importing ask-lists from AutoYaST profiles.
  • Improve integration with other tools.
  • Showing individual licenses of packages.
  • Improve mechanism to ask existing encryption passwords (allow to reuse the password).
  • Re-evaluate some aspects of storage handling:
    • Support for GPT IDs (fstab-less systems).
    • Reconsider version of RAID metadata.
    • Better logic for automatically calculated file system sizes.
  • Extend the "Storage" section of the user interface:
    • Management of MD RAID devices.
    • Advanced handling of Btrfs.
    • Option to re-install a system (equivalent to YaST's "import mount points").
  • Profile-based (unattended) installation:
    • Management of Btrfs subvolumes.
    • Define multi-device Btrfs file systems (RAID).