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| title: "Tentative Roadmap" |
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| The Gerrit roadmap is a best-effort collection of features/improvements that the ESC is aware of. |
| The intention is to give the wider community - contributors as well as administrators and users - a |
| sense of what they can expect to see in upcoming releases. |
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| This is a living document, so things can change anytime. There is no ordering between |
| features/improvements. |
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| If you’re a contributor and you intend to work on something which is not mentioned here, please |
| create a change and select the ESC members as reviewers. Don’t use this channel to submit ideas or |
| wishes you want someone else of the community to work on! |
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| If someone would like to be involved when a specific topic is tackled, please |
| [reach out to the ESC](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/dev-roles.html#steering-committee-member). |
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| Gerrit community half-yearly plans, to align with the release schedule. |
| The plan uses the OKR (Objective/Key-Result) framework. |
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| ## Gerrit 3.12 |
| Target: H1 2025 |
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| ### O: JGit performance improvements |
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| #### KR: Speed-up conflicting ref names on push |
| #### KR: Improve searchForReuse latency for large monorepos by at least one order of magnitude |
| #### KR: Improve object lookup across multiple packfiles by at least one order of magnitude |
| #### KR: Parallelize bitmap generation across multiple cores |
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| ### O: Gerrit dependencies updates |
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| #### KR: Drop Java 17 support and fully adopt Java 21 for source and binaries |
| #### KR: H2 backend upgrade to v2.3.232 |
| #### KR: Update JGit to master (currently v7.2) |
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| ### O: Gerrit Core improvements |
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| #### KR: Support X.509 signed commits [Issue 380211814](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/380211814) |
| #### KR: Production support for ref-table in Gerrit cache [Issue 392541994](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/392541994) |
| #### KR: New index metrics [Issue 381216361](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/381216361) |
| #### KR: New ACL permission for posting reviews to prevent spam on gerrit-review [Issue 391666234](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/391666234) |
| #### KR: Prolog rules disabled by default |
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| ### O: Gerrit UI experience improvements |
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| #### KR: Improved syntax highlighting when reviewing SVG and toml files |
| #### KR: Automatic commit message formatting |
| #### KR: Allow edit suggestions in commit message |
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| ### O: Owners Plugin |
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| #### KR: Explicitly display which actions are required by each owner on a file level basis [Issue 380211816](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/380211816) |
| #### KR: Give more details on pending reviews by owners [Issue 380113193](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/380113193) |
| #### KR: Allow to contact the file owner more easily [Issue 380125109](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/380125109) |
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| ### O: Make analytics plugin faster and easier to use |
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| #### KR: Natively support repo manifest discovery [Issue 380282334](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/380282334) |
| #### KR: Faster extraction of metrics for branches [Issue 380282335](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/380282335) |
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| ## Gerrit 3.13 |
| Target: H2 2025 |
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| ### O: JGit performance & concurrency improvements |
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| #### KR: Improve push performance by allowing skipping of connectivity checks |
| #### KR: Improve push performance by allowing skipping of collision checks |
| #### KR: Customize lock-interval retries |
| #### KR: Support read-only multi-pack index |
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| ### O: Gerrit Core and UI experience improvements |
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| #### KR: Allow filtering file list in change review screen [Issue 380234236](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/380234236) |
| #### KR: Package headless Gerrit serving only read/write git protocol [Issue 380234237](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/380234237) |
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| ### O: Update Kafka events-broker |
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| #### KR: Support Kafka 3.9.0 [Issue 380282493](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/380282493) |
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| ### O: Update Zookeeper global-refdb |
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| #### KR: Support Zookeeper 3.9.3 [Issue 380234239](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/380234239) |
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| ### O: Make Push/Pull Replication Plugins easier to configure |
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| #### KR: Introduce APIs for dynamically creating and updating replication endpoints [Issue 380234240](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/380234240) |
| #### KR: Surface replication status on UI [Issue 380234241](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/380234241) |
| #### KR: Improve replication latency on force-push (apply-object with prerequisite) [Issue 380282333](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/380282333) |
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| ## k8s-Gerrit |
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| Roadmap for k8s-Gerrit can be found [here](https://gerrit.googlesource.com/k8s-gerrit/+/refs/heads/master/Documentation/roadmap.md) |
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| ## Gerrit 4.0 |
| Target: 2026/2027 |
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| ### O: Decouple Gerrit review UI review and JGit Server |
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| #### KR: Allow to deploy Gerrit UI and JGit Server as separate and independent services [Issue 381906253](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/381906253) |
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| #### KR: Enable other review UIs on top of JGit Server (e.g. pull-requests) [Issue 381906254](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/381906254) |
