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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 16 (latest released version)​

  • Use Wayland instead of X11 at Agama-live (the default installation media).
  • Support in the web interface to install over existing software RAIDs.
  • Improve the possibilities to patch the installer and the installation media.
  • Reorganize the commands config and profile at the command-line interface.
  • Report the installation status via IPMI.
  • Improve error reporting on registration.
  • Visible conflict resolution for patterns.
  • Passwords strength check.
  • Notify the machine is rebooting to remote browsers.
  • Improvements in the user interface for network configuration.
    • Associate connections to a given MAC address.
    • Configure persistent vs non-persistent connections.
  • Enhancements at config-based (unattended) installation.
    • Option to not install recommended packages.
    • Possibility to extend the installation with user-defined repositories.
    • Use sorting as part of the criteria to match storage devices

Agama 17 (~ July 21st)​

  • Even more possibilities to patch the installer and the installation media.
  • Polish the Wayland-based Live image.
  • Support the new libzypp singletrans feature.
  • Web-based graphical user interface.
    • Define the URL of the RMT server.
    • Possibility to directly use a disk without partitions.
  • Unattended installation.
    • Support to configure zFCP disks.
    • Explicit support in the profile to enable (or not) multipath.
    • Proper error reporting when the given profile is not found.

Agama 18 (~ August 18th)​

  • Stabilization release: mainly bug fixes and documentation.
  • Unattended installation
    • Improve matching and sorting of storage devices.
    • Re-evaluate the current concept of installer "questions" and the mechanisms to answer them.

Mid term plans (end of 2025)​

  • Welcome screen for local installation.
  • Ability to adjust some simple settings related to security.
  • Basic management of Kdump configuration.
  • Deal with multiple real-time clocks.
  • Improvements in network configuration.
    • Usability fixes of the user interface.
    • Ability to configure DNS search domains per interface.
  • Improvements at unattended installation.
    • Allow to configure a password for the boot loader.
    • Configure connection to NFS shares.
    • Define multi-device Btrfs file systems and Btrfs subvolumes.
  • 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.
  • Automatically import the SSH and registration keys from a USB device.

Long term plans (during 2026)​

  • Introduce the concept of security profiles.
  • 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").
  • Rewrite some components in Rust (instead of the current Ruby).
  • Improve integration with other tools.