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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 18 (latest released version)​

  • Installer self-update functionality for SLE 16.
  • Improved initialization of iBFT.
  • Support for installing alpha versions of SLE 16.1.
  • Removed support to install openSUSE Kalpa, since Agama offers too many configuration possibilities.
  • Officially dropped support for i586 (at least in the short term).
  • Web-based graphical user interface:
    • Rearranged information in the storage configuration page.
    • Allow sorting devices by name or size when choosing a disk.
    • Improved handling of wired connections.
    • Enhanced interface to manage DASD devices.
  • Profile-based (unattended) installation:
    • Ability to validate a JSON profile locally, with no Agama instance running.
    • Allow to add and remove patterns to install, in addition to replacing the full list.
    • Support to manage answers to Agama questions directly in the profile.

Agama 19 (~ March 16th)​

  • Architectural revamp:
    • New improved version of the HTTP API, to be supported through the whole lifecyle of SLE 16.X and the corresponding openSUSE Leap versions.
    • More consistent handling of iSCSI and DASD between web UI and JSON profile.
    • Both official user interfaces (web and command-line) fully adapted to the new HTTP API.
    • Improvements in the i18n architecture of Agama.
  • Web-based graphical user interface:
    • More useful overview page.
    • Improved navigation.
    • Option to easily download the current installer configuration.
    • Possibility to add or remove network connections.
  • Profile-based (unattended) installation:
    • Possibility to reuse pre-existing LVM structures.
    • New option to prevent the boot loader update of the persistent RAM (NVRAM).
    • Support to specify SSH public keys for the non-root user.
  • Agama-live installation media:
    • Unified kernel and initramfs location among architectures.
    • Several improvements in the boot menu.
    • Dropped the option "Boot from Disk” on all archs except legacy (non-UEFI) x86.
    • New boot option live.net_config=1 to interactively configure network settings during boot.
  • Both software management and users management reimplemented to not longer rely on YaST.
  • Some other internal components also rewriten in Rust.
  • Support to install SLE in standard or immutable modes.
  • Honor the boot argument inst.finish also in interactive installation.
  • Improve the experience when installing over existing MD RAIDs (detection of boot device).

Agama 20 (~ April 13th)​

  • Better error reporting and handling for invalid profiles and other configuration errors.
  • Improvements in the installation of transactional systems like openSUSE Kalpa or SLE Micro.
  • Support to select which boot loader to install: grub2 or systemd-boot (and maybe also grub2-bls).
  • Agama-live installation media:
    • Disable remote web-server access during installation.
  • Web-based graphical user interface:
    • Possibility to reuse pre-existing LVM volume groups.
    • More understandable configuration of multi-disk LVM volume groups.
    • Usability fixes for the network configuration.

Agama 21 (~ May 15th)​

  • Dedicated setting to configure remote access to the installed system (SSH, Cockpit, etc.)
  • Web-based graphical user interface: 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.

Mid term plans (summer 2026)​

  • Improved desktop selection for openSUSE.
  • Support for NVMeOF.
  • Ability to configure DNS search domains per interface.
  • Profile-based (unattended) installation:
    • Allow to configure a password for the boot loader.
    • More convenient encryption settings.

Long term plans (end of 2026)​

  • Introduce the concept of security profiles.
  • 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:
    • Configure connection to NFS shares.
    • Management of Btrfs subvolumes.
    • Define multi-device Btrfs file systems (RAID).