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Release Planning

This section outlines the planned release schedule and key milestones for the FOCUS project. It includes the scope and high-level system requirements for each version, as well as detailed timelines for the development and review processes for each present and past releases.

Scope of Upcoming Releases

Version Release By Scope | High-Level System Requirements
v1.2 Jun 2025 Initial Software as a Service (SaaS) Support
  • Addition of columns to support SaaS-centric concepts and billing models
Continued expansion of Cloud Service Provider concepts
  • Addition of Invoice ID to support invoice reconciliation use cases
  • Addition of SKU properties that are prominent / common across providers
  • Addition of Commitment Discount Unit Price and Cost
Fixes and clarifications
  • Revisions of existing specification content to increase consistency and reduce ambiguity
v1.3 Late 2025 TBD

Scope of Previous Releases

Version Release By Scope | High-Level System Requirements
v1.0 Jun 2024 TBD
v1.1 Nov 2024 SKU and SKU Price Details
  • Provide deeper visibility into SKU and SKU Price details (in addition to the current SKU and SKU Price IDs that are available in FOCUS) which enables many standard FinOps use cases from cost reporting to commitment optimization.
Deeper service classification
  • Move beyond the highest-level service categorization to a sub-categorization for services while adding flexibility for providers to share their native categorizations within FOCUS.
Commitment Discount Visibility
  • Provide deeper visibility into how various commitment discount purchases are amortized across eligible resources.
Capacity Reservation
  • Ability to represent on-demand capacity reservations within FOCUS datasets.
Improve metadata support
  • Strengthen the correlation between FOCUS-compatible datasets and the corresponding metadata to better support data analysis and ETL use cases

Estimated Timeline for v1.2

This table displays key milestones and dates related to the development of FOCUS Release v1.2 Specification.

Date Milestone Comment
8-Oct-24 Start Work Item Preparation For Release v1.2, the group will implement a new process for creating Work Items.
8-Oct-24 to 21-Nov-24 Work Item Creation Six weeks (6) to develop the FOCUS Release (Rel) v1.2 scope.
21-Nov-24 to 3-Apr-25 Development Phase Nineteen weeks (19) to develop FOCUS Rel v1.2 specifications.
23-Jan-25 to 6-Feb-25 Interim Consistency Review Two weeks (2) for the Interim Consistency Review of FOCUS Rel v1.2.
3-Apr-25 End Development Phase End of FOCUS Rel v1.2 development.
3-17-Apr-25 Consistency Review Two weeks (2) for the Final Consistency Review of FOCUS Rel v1.2.
17-24-Apr-25 Preparing baseline for IPR Review One week (1) of preparation to start the IPR Review.
24-Apr-25 to 24-May-25 Start / End IPR Review v1.2 During this 30-day period, members may exclude essential claims from their licensing commitments. Contact the FOCUS Executive Director.
29-May-25 WG Approval v1.2 FOCUS Release Candidate v1.2 approved by the FOCUS members.
29-May-25 SC Ratification v1.2 FOCUS Steering Committee ratifies Rel v1.2.
3-Jun-25 FinOpsX Announcement FOCUS Rel v1.2 must be ready for announcement sometime in June.

Estimated Timeline for v1.1

FOCUS Release V1.1 was announced during the FinOps XE event in Barcelona on November 12, 2024.

Date Milestone Comment
16-May-24 to 19-Sep-24 Start / End of the Development FOCUS Rel v1.1 17 weeks to develop FOCUS Rel v1.1
18-Jul-24 Approval FOCUS v1.1 Scope Close the scope for FOCUS Release v1.1
18-Jul-24 to 1-Aug-24 Start / End Interim Consistency Review CANCELED Two weeks Interim Consistency Review FOCUS Rel v1.1
19-Sep-24 to 08-Oct-24 Start / End of the FOCUS Rel v1.1 Final Consistency Review Two weeks Final Consistency Review FOCUS Rel v1.1
03-Oct-24 to 08-Oct-24 Preparing FOCUS Rel v1.1 baseline for IPR Review Five days to get ready the baseline Specifications for IPR Review
08-Oct-24 to 07-Nov-24 Start / End of IPR Review v1.1 During the 30-day period, members may exclude essential claims from their licensing commitments.
07-Nov-24 WG Approval v1.1 FOCUS Release Candidate v1.1. Approved by FOCUS Members
07-Nov-24 SC Ratification v1.1 FOCUS Steering Committee Ratifies v1.1
11-Nov-24 FinOpsX Europe Announcement of v1.1 Announcement of FOCUS Release v1.1 during the FinOpsX Europe Keynote (Barcelona)

Estimated Timeline for v1.0

FOCUS Release V1.0 was announced during the FinOpsX event in San Diego on June 20, 2024.

Date Tasks Comments
Feb 28 - Mar 11 Consistency Review Opportunity for everyone to review what has been agreed upon in the working-draft branch.
Lock scope for v1.0.
Mar 12 - Apr 25 Drive v1.0 milestone issues to completion Incoming issues will be prioritized by maintainers. Only P0 and some P1 issues will get added to the v1.0 milestone. Prioritization will take voting and comments in issues into consideration
Apr 25 - May 09 Final Consistency Review Freeze working-draft.
Final review, only expecting editorial comments.
May 13 - Jun 11 IPR Review Members may exclude any Essential Claims from their licensing commitments during this period.
Jun 13 WG Approval v1.0
Jun 19 SC Ratification v1.2
Jun 20 FinOps X: Onstage FOCUS Adoption stories