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DocuElevate Milestones
Last Updated: 2026-02-06
This document outlines the release milestones, versioning strategy, and detailed feature breakdown for DocuElevate.
Versioning Strategy
DocuElevate follows Semantic Versioning 2.0.0:
- MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH (e.g., 1.2.3)
- MAJOR: Breaking changes or major architectural shifts
- MINOR: New features, backward-compatible
- PATCH: Bug fixes, security patches, backward-compatible
Release Cadence
- Patch releases: As needed for critical bugs/security
- Minor releases: Every 6-8 weeks
- Major releases: Every 12-18 months
Current Release: v0.3.2 (February 2026)
Status: Stable
- Production-ready document processing
- Multi-provider storage support
- Basic web UI and REST API
- OAuth2 authentication
Upcoming Milestones
v0.3.3 - Security & Testing Hardening (February 2026)
Target Date: February 15, 2026
Status: 🚧 In Progress
Theme: Security, Quality, Testing, UX Improvements
Goals
- Fix critical security vulnerabilities (authlib, starlette)
- Implement comprehensive test suite
- Add security scanning (CodeQL, Bandit)
- Improve CI/CD pipeline
- Add drag-and-drop file upload to Files view
- Achieve 60% test coverage
- Add pre-commit hooks
- Update all dependencies to latest secure versions
Deliverables
- SECURITY_AUDIT.md documentation
- pytest configuration and fixtures
- API integration tests
- Configuration validation tests
- Drag-and-drop upload functionality in Files view
- Reusable upload.js module for code DRYness
- Task processing tests
- Storage provider integration tests
- Updated CI/CD workflows
- Security best practices guide
Breaking Changes
- None
v0.4.0 - Enhanced Search & UI Improvements (April 2026)
Target Date: April 1, 2026
Status: 📋 Planned
Theme: User Experience, Search, Performance
Goals
- Implement full-text search across documents
- Responsive mobile interface
- Dark mode support
- Document preview in browser
- Performance optimizations
- Improved error handling and user feedback
Deliverables
- Full-text search API and UI
- Advanced filtering capabilities
- Responsive CSS framework integration
- Dark mode toggle
- In-browser document viewer
- Loading states and progress indicators
- Performance benchmarks
- Mobile-optimized interface
Breaking Changes
- API response format changes for search endpoints (documented)
Migration Path
- Search endpoint changes will be versioned (/api/v1/search → /api/v2/search)
- Old endpoints deprecated but functional for 2 releases
v0.4.5 - Workflow Automation (June 2026)
Target Date: June 1, 2026
Status: 📋 Planned
Theme: Automation, Integration, Webhooks
Goals
- Custom processing pipelines
- Conditional routing based on document type
- Webhook support for external integrations
- Rule-based classification
- Scheduled batch processing
Deliverables
- Pipeline configuration UI
- Webhook management interface
- Rule engine for document routing
- Batch processing scheduler
- Integration examples and templates
- Webhook payload documentation
Breaking Changes
- None
v0.5.0 - Advanced AI & Multi-language (August 2026)
Target Date: August 1, 2026
Status: 📋 Planned
Theme: AI Enhancement, Internationalization
Goals
- Custom AI model support
- Multi-language OCR
- Document similarity detection
- Duplicate detection
- UI internationalization (i18n)
- API localization
Deliverables
- Custom model integration API
- Multi-language OCR configuration
- Similarity algorithm implementation
- Duplicate detection service
- Translation framework (10+ languages)
- Localized documentation
Breaking Changes
- Configuration file format changes (auto-migration script provided)
v1.0.0 - Enterprise Edition (November 2026)
Target Date: November 1, 2026
Status: 📋 Planned
Theme: Enterprise Features, Scalability, Multi-tenancy
This is our first major release, marking production-ready enterprise capabilities.
Goals
- Multi-tenancy and organization management
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- Horizontal scaling support
- Comprehensive audit logging
- SLA monitoring and alerting
- Professional support offerings
Deliverables
-
Multi-tenancy
- Organization/team management UI
- Per-tenant configuration and branding
- Resource quotas and billing integration
- Tenant isolation at database level
-
Access Control
- RBAC with customizable roles
- Permission management UI
- API key management per organization
- SSO integration (SAML, LDAP)
-
Scalability
- Horizontal scaling documentation
- Load balancer configuration
- Distributed caching
- Database replication support
- Message queue clustering
-
Observability
- Comprehensive audit logs
- Prometheus metrics export
- Grafana dashboards
- APM integration (New Relic, DataDog)
- SLA monitoring
-
Documentation
- Enterprise deployment guide
- High availability setup
- Disaster recovery procedures
- Security compliance guide
- Professional services offerings
Breaking Changes
- Database schema migration (automatic with Alembic)
- Configuration file restructure (migration tool provided)
- API v1 deprecated (v2 required for new features)
Migration Path
- Detailed migration guide provided
- Automated migration scripts
- Rollback procedures documented
- Migration support via GitHub Discussions
v1.1.0 - Collaboration & Analytics (January 2027)
Target Date: January 15, 2027
Status: 📋 Planned
Theme: Collaboration, Reporting, Analytics
Goals
- Document sharing with expiring links
- Comments and annotations
- Version history
- Analytics dashboard
- Cost analysis
- Export reports
Deliverables
- Sharing interface with permissions
- Comment system with threading
- Version control and diff viewer
- Analytics dashboard with charts
- Cost breakdown by provider
- Report generation (PDF, CSV, Excel)
- User activity tracking
Breaking Changes
- None
v2.0.0 - On-Premise AI & Platform Expansion (Q3 2027)
Target Date: Q3 2027
Status: 🔮 Future
Theme: Self-hosting, Privacy, Platform Diversity
Goals
- Self-hosted AI models (no cloud dependencies)
- Local LLM integration
- Desktop and mobile applications
- Offline-first capabilities
- Enhanced privacy features
- Plugin marketplace
Deliverables
- Tesseract/EasyOCR integration
- Ollama/LLaMA support
- Desktop app (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- Mobile apps (iOS, Android)
- Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox)
- Plugin SDK and marketplace
- Offline mode
Breaking Changes
- Major API restructure (v3)
- New authentication system
- Configuration format change
- Minimum Python version: 3.12
Release Process
Pre-release Checklist
- All tests passing
- Security scan passed
- Code review completed
- Documentation updated
- CHANGELOG.md updated
- Migration guide (if breaking changes)
- Release notes drafted
- Version numbers bumped
- Docker images built and tested
Release Artifacts
- Source code (GitHub)
- Docker images (Docker Hub)
- PyPI package (future)
- Helm charts (future)
- Documentation site update
Post-release
- GitHub release created
- Blog post published
- Social media announcement
- Community notification
- Support documentation updated
- Monitor for critical issues
Version History
| Version | Release Date | Theme | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| v0.1.0 | 2024-Q1 | Initial Release | Released |
| v0.2.0 | 2024-Q3 | Multi-provider Support | Released |
| v0.3.0 | 2025-Q4 | UI & Authentication | Released |
| v0.3.2 | 2026-02 | Current Stable | Released |
| v0.3.3 | 2026-02 | Security & Testing | In Progress |
| v0.4.0 | 2026-04 | Search & UX | Planned |
| v0.5.0 | 2026-08 | Advanced AI | Planned |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-11 | Enterprise | Planned |
| v2.0.0 | 2027-Q3 | Platform Expansion | Future |
Support & EOL Policy
Active Support
- Current stable release: Full support (bug fixes, security patches, features)
- Previous minor release: Security patches only
- Older versions: Community support only
End of Life (EOL)
- Minor versions: EOL when 2 newer minor versions released
- Major versions: EOL 18 months after next major version
Security Patches
- Critical vulnerabilities: Patched within 48 hours
- High severity: Patched within 1 week
- Medium/Low: Included in next regular release
Contributing to Milestones
Want to contribute to a specific milestone?
- Check the GitHub Projects board
- Look for issues tagged with milestone labels
- Read CONTRIBUTING.md
- Comment on the issue you'd like to work on
- Submit a PR linked to the issue
This milestone document is updated regularly. For real-time status, check our GitHub Projects board.