Development roadmap

This document outlines Fabric’s intended development path. Please make sure you’re reading the latest version of this document!

Warning

This information is subject to change without warning, and should not be used as a basis for any life- or career-altering decisions!

Near-term feature releases and support work

• Fabric 1.5: SSH tunnelling, remote timeouts, improved SSH key debug info, sudo improvements, and a bit more. See the milestone issues page for what remains to be done.

Invoke and Fabric 2.0

• Finish and release the Invoke library, which is a revamped and standalone version of Fabric’s task running components. See #565.

  • Initially it will be relatively basic, matching Fabric’s current functionality, but with a cleaner base to build on.
  • That opens the door for dependencies and so forth.

• Start putting together Fabric 2.0, a partly/mostly rewritten Fabric core:

  • Leverage Invoke for task running, which will leave Fabric itself much more library oriented.
  • Object-oriented hosts/host lists and all the fun stuff that provides (e.g. no more hacky host string and unintuitive env var manipulation.)
  • No (or optional & non-default) shared state.
  • Any other core overhauls difficult to do in a backwards compatible fashion.
  • Current issue list