2021

2021 Roadmap

The zenoh team is currently finalising the proposal for the 2021 Q1 roadmap. Please engage on the zenoh gitter channel.

January / February 2021

Security

• Password authentication

Routing

• Arbitrary DAG topology support

APIs

• C# API Beta

Transport

• Add support for TLS

Performance

• Finer performance characterisation
• Performance Improvements

March / April 2021

Routing

• Multi-Link Inter-region Routing

ROS / DDS Interoperability

• ROS type codec support. This will allow zenoh applications to read/write ROS2 topics without having to bother with CDR encoding.
• Topic Allow list for zenoh DDS plug-in (this will allow to control the DDS topics exposed across zenoh)
• Peer-to-Peer support for dds-zenoh-plugin
• Docker container with multicast support (Linux only)

Transport

• Add support for QUIC
• New shared memory allocator for zero-copy
• Defragmentation support for shared memory allocator

Tool

• Initial Router Management Web Tool

Embedded targets

• zenoh-pico supports Zephyr

Performance

• Finer performance characterisation
• Performance Improvements

May / June 2021

Performance

• Finer performance characterisation
• Performance Improvements
• Sync/Async refactoring

Zero-Copy

• Add flag into data-info to inform routers and receiving API if the payload is a shared-memory-info.

July / August 2021

Extensions

• Group management
• Publication cache
• Querying subscriber

Routing

• Query Targeting

ROS / DDS Interoperability

• Make the dds-zenoh-plugin as actual plugin for Zenoh router additionally to a service

September / October 2021

Tooling

• Routers graph view for admin tool
• Stats live plots for admin tool

Configuration

• Client live migration support

November / December 2021

APIs

• zenoh/zenoh-net APIs merge
• builder based API
• Configuration refactoring

Next

APIs

• Go-Lang API
• Java API

Routing

• Parametric queries

Write API

• Add option for application level ACK

Transport

• End-to-End Reliability
• Reliability for best-effort transports
• Support for DTLS (?)

Notifications

• Add callback for relevant events on discovery, disconnections, etc.

Security

• Access Control -- constrain access to specific set of keys to given identities.

Query Body

• Add query body to the zenoh Query message

Tool

• Advanced Infrastructure Router Web Tool

Plug-In

• MQTT Plugin for zenoh

ROS2

• Complete zenoh-pico RMW for MicroROS2
• Complete zenoh RMW for ROS

Performance

• Finer performance characterisation
• Performance Improvements