Roadmap

Last updated: September 28, 2026

Each vX.Y.Z-slug section mirrors a GitHub milestone. The version number names a theme, not a release order: v0.6.0 (artist dashboard) is scheduled ahead of v0.5.0 (mobile), which waits for the Player V2 redesign. Milestone due dates on GitHub are the schedule; this page is the scope. Whether a milestone belongs on the roadmap at all is decided in Tech roadmap.

v0.1.0-setup

Turborepo monorepo setup
Apps initialization (API, Web, Mobile, Desktop, Admin, Docs)
Packages setup (ui-react, contracts, tokens)
Docker infrastructure
CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
Biome, Lefthook, Commitlint configuration
Database setup (PostgreSQL, Prisma)

v0.2.0-auth-core

JWT authentication (access + refresh tokens)
User registration & login
Artist registration & login
Protected routes & RBAC
OAuth 2.0 — Google & Facebook (users + artists)
Two-Factor Authentication — TOTP, QR code, backup codes
Password recovery — email flow with reset tokens

v0.3.0-music-engine

v0.4.0-admin-panel

~~Admin panel UI (Kottster)~~ — removed, see ADR-0025
Upload tracks & albums
Manage artists & users
Content moderation

The operator panel is now the Angular apps/admin (ADR-0035).

v0.4.5-player-v2-redesign

Tracked in #234. Due 2026-12-23. Stages the migration ADR-0039 left open.

New visual design — desktop bar, mini player, floating window, now-playing view
Style-variant API on @bitrate/player (PlayerChrome is declared but unused today)
Migrate apps/web-player's playback engine onto @bitrate/player
Implement the new design on all four player surfaces
Adopt the updated variant in admin's TrackAudioPlayer
Feature additions and optimization pass
Regression pass across web-player and admin

v0.5.0-mobile-beta

Tracked in #225. Due 2027-04-30. Starts once the Player V2 design ships (v0.4.5); apps/mobile is still the untouched Expo scaffold.

Bootstrap conventions — API client, state layer, design-token bridge, tests
Auth screens
Main feed + player
Search
Offline mode (download tracks, playlists, albums)
Background playback & lock screen controls
Push notifications
EAS build & beta program

v0.6.0-beta-artists-app

Tracked in #241. Due 2026-12-31. apps/web-artists ships marketing and auth only; the authenticated dashboard is scoped from the MVP boundary in Product backlog and Stage 2 of the Tech roadmap. Screens must be confirmed against the received designs before each item starts.

v0.7.0-monitoring-admin-panel-diagrams

Prometheus, Grafana and Loki in the preprod stack (ADR-0044, ADR-0046); prod is deliberately excluded
Metrics and logging gaps: status_class labels, bitrate_api_ prefix, body redaction, request-id correlation (#172, #173)
Instrument Prisma, Redis, BullMQ and the audio pipeline (#174)
Grafana alert rules and purpose-built dashboards (#177); observability stack in prod (#175)
Sentry in web-artists (#130) and browser telemetry (#178)
CI/CD improvements (deployment automation, security scanning)
Admin analytics overview (KPI tiles and time series)
Drill-down analytics — see v0.7.7

v0.7.4-worker-extraction-and-graceful-shutdown

Tracked in #206 and #179. Due 2026-11-13. Delivers the "extract the transcode worker" item of Tech roadmap Stage 1. This is one deliberate split, not a step toward microservices.

Graceful shutdown with readiness gating and job draining (#179)
Design the worker process boundary and job contract
Extract transcode logic into a standalone worker process
Run the worker as a separate deployed service
Health checks and monitoring for the worker
Staged rollout with a documented rollback — the production switch itself is still on; see the worker rollout runbook

v0.7.5-resilience-and-replication

API replicas behind nginx (#182) — needs graceful shutdown
Timeouts, retries and circuit breakers (#180)
Queue retry policy, DLQ and stall recovery (#181) — mostly in place; the operator DLQ view and stuck-track reaper remain
Defined degraded-mode UX for every failure state (#183)
PostgreSQL hot standby (#184), WAL archiving and PITR (#185)
Failover runbook and recovery drill (#186)

v0.7.6-admin-themes-and-i18n

Dark / light / dim themes in the operator panel
EN + UK API errors, validation and emails
Admin i18n infrastructure (Transloco, locale toggle, Accept-Language)
Extract remaining admin screen strings into en / uk dictionaries (#187)

v0.7.7-admin-feature-expansion

Tracked in #212. Due 2027-03-05. Follows the staged operator-panel plan; overview, detail pages and take-down/restore already shipped.

Vendored dialog, select, tabs, toast primitives
Genres CRUD with guarded delete
Albums, public playlists and podcasts — list, detail, take-down and restore (podcasts later removed: Bitrate is music-only, ADR-0066)
ADR addendum: operator panel resource coverage
Bulk actions on moderation, catalog and users
CSV export for operator lists
Drill-down analytics on the Overview dashboard
Notifications and Settings pages — deliberately parked until a notifications / billing backend exists

v0.8.0-security

Security audit & penetration testing
DDoS protection & rate limiting improvements
CSRF / XSS / SQL injection hardening
Security headers & HTTPS enforcement
GDPR compliance & data encryption at rest

v0.9.0-additional

v1.0.0-rebranding

Delivered by ADR-0024.

New brand name & identity — Bitrate, defined across docs/brand/ and design.md
Icons redesign — every raster icon is rasterised from the mark; see design.md §24
Wordmark & lockup — the mark has landed, the wordmark is still raster-only (design.md §25)
Color scheme & design tokens update — Bitrate Purple #7c3aed, three themes
Rename the package namespace to @bitrate/*
New domain & SSL
OG images, favicons, metadata update
Documentation & marketing materials update

v1.1.0-public-release

Production testing & performance optimization
App store submission (iOS + Android)
Release notes & launch

v1.2.0-desktop-beta

System tray & media key integration (Tauri)
Local file playback
Offline mode & local cache
Desktop notifications & auto-updates
Cross-platform testing (Windows, macOS, Linux)

Future (2027+)

Monetization

Subscription system (Stripe / PayPal)
Premium tiers (ad-free, FLAC, unlimited downloads)

Collaborative playlists
Comments & reactions on tracks / albums
Real-time listening sessions
Share functionality

Content

Podcasts and audiobooks are out of scope for Bitrate — see ADR-0066.

Music videos
Radio stations

AI & Recommendations

Daily mixes & Discover Weekly
Collaborative + content-based filtering
Mood detection
Voice commands

Platforms

Smart TV (Android TV, Apple TV, Tizen, webOS)
Car integration (Android Auto, CarPlay)
Wearables (Apple Watch, Wear OS)
Smart speakers (Alexa, Google Assistant)

Scale

Microservices migration — deliberately not planned; only the transcode worker is split out (v0.7.4), see Tech roadmap
CDN for audio & static assets
Database sharding & read replicas
Auto-scaling & 99.99% uptime
Multi-language support (EN, UA, ES, FR)

Change history:

2026-01-11: Initial roadmap
2026-06-14: Updated dates; added Taskfile.yml, Changesets, infra/ migration
2026-06-21: Simplified to plain todo; updated completed items
2026-09-28: Added v0.4.5 (Player V2), v0.7.4 (worker extraction), v0.7.7 (admin expansion); rescoped v0.6.0, v0.7.0, v0.7.5, v0.7.6 to their milestones; documented that version numbers name themes, not release order

v0.1.0-setup​

v0.2.0-auth-core​

v0.3.0-music-engine​

v0.4.0-admin-panel​

v0.4.5-player-v2-redesign​

v0.5.0-mobile-beta​

v0.6.0-beta-artists-app​

v0.7.0-monitoring-admin-panel-diagrams​

v0.7.4-worker-extraction-and-graceful-shutdown​

v0.7.5-resilience-and-replication​

v0.7.6-admin-themes-and-i18n​

v0.7.7-admin-feature-expansion​

v0.8.0-security​

v0.9.0-additional​

v1.0.0-rebranding​

v1.1.0-public-release​

v1.2.0-desktop-beta​

Future (2027+)​

Monetization​

Social​

Content​

AI & Recommendations​

Platforms​

Scale​