Roadmap

What's been released and what's coming next.

Released

v0.11 — Satellite Polish & Live Audio

• Pi satellite audio device autodetection (when AUDIO_DEVICE is not set)
• Satellite heartbeat reports "error" state after consecutive capture failures with auto-recovery
• Remote update via MQTT with status feedback and detached script execution
• Git authentication for remote updates (HTTPS token or SSH key via .env)
• Version and audio device logged on satellite startup
• Chunk filter stats: aggregate tracking (processed/sent/rejected by reason) in heartbeat
• Filter stats display in satellite detail panel with pass rate bar
• Per-session filter pass rate on timeline ("X% sent" pill)
• Live audio streaming: "Listen live" on satellite detail with SpectrogramPlayer
• Field notes API and migration (text, photos, weather, location — backend ready)
• First-of-day/first-of-season duplicate alert fix (atomic conditional UPDATE)
• SpectrogramPlayer: auto-boost (peak normalization), buffering indicator, spectrogram alignment fix
• Species profile: sort detections by confidence or date
• Shared detection page: today's count, static OG page for link previews (Discord, Slack, Telegram, etc.)
• Open Graph link previews for bot-detected platforms (Discord, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook)
• Reliable remote satellite update via systemd-run transient unit
• Update script: timestamps, retries, error trapping, PATH fix for detached execution
• Comprehensive release protocol documentation

v0.10 — Internationalization (i18n)

• English and French translations (500+ keys, every page)
• Language switcher, locale-aware formatting, translated map popups and heatmap labels
• Singular/plural support via Intl.PluralRules
• Alert messages in tenant's language (species names, labels, rarity reasons)
• First-of-day detection alerts with badge on detection cards
• Start-of-week day preference for heatmaps
• Species images not-found investigation panel with per-species retry
• Public share URLs in alert notifications with species image
• Notification images via Wikipedia direct URLs
• Shared detection page: translated species names, stats, lightbox, user language preferences
• Open Graph link previews (Discord, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook)
• SpectrogramPlayer audio preloading with buffering indicator
• French translation quality pass (gender-neutral phrasing, idiomatic terms)
• Timeline session auto-splitting at 600 chunks
• Abbreviated relative times on detection pills
• Species search across all 38 languages, sort by primary language

v0.9 — Analytics & Visualization

• Biodiversity indices (Shannon, Simpson, Evenness)
• Migration pattern heatmaps, weather correlation (Open-Meteo)
• Enhanced detection map (clusters, heatmap, time filter)
• Enhanced dashboard (trend chart, activity bars, biodiversity snapshot)
• Location comparison (Jaccard similarity, shared/unique species)

v0.8 — Smart Alerts & Communication

• Custom alert rules engine (detection, absence, trend triggers)
• 6 notification channels (Email, Slack, Telegram, Google Chat, Discord, Webhook)
• Platform health banner
• Scheduled automatic exports (cron-based CSV/JSON/eBird/iNaturalist)

v0.7 — Species & Location Context

• Per-satellite config overrides with admin lock
• Species profile pages with trend, activity, seasonal data
• eBird expected species integration
• Activity heatmaps (hour x day-of-week)
• Shareable detection links (HMAC-signed)
• Detection comments

v0.6 — Detection Intelligence

• Detection timeline with session-based browsing
• Species filter pills, expand/collapse sessions
• First-of-season detection with badges
• Species accuracy stats from community verification
• Page layout system, server-side sorting/filtering/pagination on all pages

v0.5 — Scalable Architecture

• Hub split into stateless API + single-instance dispatcher
• Redis event bridge, service registry with auto-discovery
• System monitoring page for platform admins
• Comprehensive audit logging (30+ action types)
• Node.js 24, MQTT over WSS

v0.4 — Audio Intelligence

• SpectrogramPlayer (seek, loop, boost, speed, volume)
• Adaptive noise floor + spectral peak SNR filtering
• GPS per detection, satellite config push
• Satellite management with side panel

v0.3 — User Management & Security

• Account management, self-deletion, ownership transfer
• Login rate limiting, account lockout, last login tracking
• Audit log page
• Unified design system (buttons, badges, states)

v0.2 — Satellite Ecosystem

• Recording profiles (dawn chorus, night migration, low power)
• Community verification with keyboard shortcuts
• Android phone satellite app
• Species images from Wikipedia
• Data export (CSV, JSON, eBird, iNaturalist, xeno-canto)
• Multi-language bird names (38 languages)

v0.1 — Core Platform

• Distributed audio capture (Raspberry Pi satellites)
• BirdNET TFLite inference with geo-aware filtering
• Multi-tenant web UI with JWT auth
• Real-time WebSocket alerts for rare species
• Docker Compose deployment with Traefik

Planned

v0.12 — Satellite Detail & Alerts

• Dedicated per-satellite page with full-width sections (activity, schedule, filters, config, biodiversity, expected species, live audio)
• Stats cards row (location, CPU, storage, uptime, last seen)
• Schedule 24h bar visualization with sun times for all profiles
• Editable satellite config with override editor (lock, customize, reset)
• Alert rules: inline rename, duplicate (disabled by default)
• Alert channels: inline rename

v0.13 — Mobile & On-Device

• Field notes UI (standalone field journal page)
• Mobile app OTA updates
• On-device inference (TFLite on phone)
• Native push notifications

v0.14 — Model & Data Management

• Multiple BirdNET model versions with A/B testing
• Audio re-analysis when models improve
• Adjacent clip stitching for longer recordings
• Data lifecycle (retention enforcement, cold storage archival)
• Research export (structured datasets)

v1.0 — Production Ready

• Unsaved changes confirmation dialog
• Alerts/notifications system revamp (fully configurable)
• Security audit & hardening (GDPR erasure path)
• Two-factor authentication (TOTP)
• Session management (view and revoke active sessions)
• Email notifications (registration, password reset, rare species)
• Rolling updates with zero downtime
• Custom UI components (replace native HTML elements)
• Prometheus metrics, backup strategy, disaster recovery
• Documentation search, API auto-documentation