Roadmap

First release candidate for v0.8.1. All core systems are stable. This pass closes the remaining open bugs from the beta cycle and ships the last few quality-of-life features before the final release.

• Boot clock disabled after every boot — crash sentinel was never cleared on success; fixed so OC_On_Boot persists across reboots correctly
• NOPASS login left crash sentinel alive — guest logins now clear Settings.Startup like normal logins do
• Password masking — login and account prompts echo • instead of plaintext
• Case-insensitive cd — tries case-insensitive match if exact name isn't found
• Single-file delete prompt — rm on a single file no longer shows the irrelevant (a) option
• Startup message fix — corrected incorrect "recovery mode" banner shown after an unexpected shutdown

• Tilde expansion everywhere — ~ and ~/path expand to the user home in all command arguments, not just cd
• Program_Execution setting is functional — disabling it via settings or reg set blocks exec and script fall-through
• Echo file redirect — echo "text" > file and echo "text" >> file
• Low RAM warning — shell warns once when free memory drops below 70 KB
• POST .mpy fallback — if a .py module isn't found, POST checks for a compiled .mpy version

• Download .pkg button now styled correctly on the Packages page
• RP2 family language throughout — removed Pico-only references
• Roadmap page added and linked from all nav bars

Major release. Introduces the scripting language, shell pipes, scheduled and startup tasks, the first pass at multitasking via uasyncio, and deep memory and performance optimisations.

• Shell pipes — cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3
• Custom scripting language — feature-packed, tightly integrated with Launchpad; supports variables, conditionals, loops, and ~ expansion
• Tilde expansion everywhere — aliases, script args, any path-accepting command

• Startup tasks — run commands, scripts, or packages automatically on every boot
• Scheduled tasks — run things at timed intervals post-boot using a software uptime offset (no RTC required)
• Unattended mode — background execution (tail logs, toggle GPIO, pull and apply fixes over WiFi)

• First uasyncio integration — cooperative multitasking for background tasks alongside the shell

• Lazy loading & ephemeral imports — evict modules after use for non-critical commands
• Chunked file I/O throughout (512 / 1024-byte buffers)
• Module eviction on memory pressure + gc.collect()
• Avoid string concatenation in hot paths
• Further RAM optimisations targeting Pico W (~200 KB shown in meminfo)
• Frozen modules / custom .uf2 firmware build (feasibility study)

• Recovery mode tools — expanded diagnostic and repair commands
• TUI framework — developer-facing API for building adaptive box-draw apps (modelled on PowerShell edit)
• Updated TUI design — apply new language to settings, edit, and other panels
• OS personalisation — owner name, device name, timezone
• SSH shell access — lightweight SSH-style server giving Launchpad access over TCP; requires uasyncio so the shell can run as a background task alongside the listener; not full OpenSSH — just enough to open a session and get a shell prompt
• Download progress bars — [####----] 47% during wget, curl, and pkg install; uses Content-Length response header; degrades gracefully when header is missing
• Extended benchmark (mem / ROM / SD)
• Dev packages: git (clone / fetch), others TBD

• Extended curl flags — -X POST, -d <data>, -H <header>, -o <file>, -s (silent), -I (HEAD), custom timeout
• speedtest package — measure upload / download throughput; displays result in Mbps / KBps; ships as a package so it can be updated independently

• Compile OS to .mpy — build script + thin main.py wrapper
• Non-absolute internal paths for on-device debugging
• Windows MicroPython port stubs for local shell testing

The v0.9.x series builds toward v1.0. The big milestone is proper multi-threading. Everything here is tentative.

• Proper multi-threading — pre-emptive or deep cooperative; tested before v1.0 release
• Multiple terminals & tabbing — requires multitasking to land first
• Mouse support in TUI — depends on terminal emulator cooperation via serial escapes
• MicroPython Viper optimisation (deferred: sacrifices non-RP2 support — decision pending platform strategy)