Roadmap

This page outlines the main goals for future releases. While the internal roadmap for the OpenBoard developers is largely pre-determined, any external contribution is very welcome, whether it addresses items below or anything else.

The list below includes some items we are actively working on or have planned to address, but also several that we may not be able to work on ourselves -- so if you'd like to contribute some improvements to OpenBoard, feel free to give any of these a go!

1.3.x

Our main focus is on fixing bugs, which are not listed here but some of which are listed in the changelog under "known issues", with more in the issues.

1.4 (22.3.2018)

• Podcast module on Linux
• Resizable background grid, and ruled background
• Improvements to stroke drawing
• Better page preview pane, in board mode (allow dragging pages around)

1.4.1 (6.7.2018)

• Podcast module corrected for macOS and using the FFMPEG library
• Updated Calculator widget, new widget (QR code)
• Modification of the installation package for Ubuntu 16.04
• New translation into Galician and correction for Spanish
• Duplicate Button for the Mask
• New item in the preferences to be able to reverse the order if 2 projected screens

1.5 (29.11.2018)

• A whole new Document mode
• Import/Export a folder
• Mac Certification
• New Translations
• ...

1.5.1 (13.12.2018)

• The choice of the background was not maintained between the pages of the documents or when leaving the software.
• Copying a page from one document to another located in a different folder also moved the document.
• The dmg file for macOS did not open on some versions of macOS.

1.5.2 (22.01.2019)

• Resizing of documents mode area is persisted
• Bug fixing (see the changelog for more details)

1.5.3 (10.04.2019)

• Support of OpenSSL 1.1
• Bug fixing (see the changelog for more details)
• Ubuntu 18.04 support

1.5.4 (31.01.2020)

• Added a preference in the display tab to show/hide the date column on alphabetical sort
• Text color is inverted on background changes (white/black only)
• Last used color applied globally is persisted (until the user loads another document)
• Added the Bstgreek font to resources
• Added GETypoLibre improvements (made by Neuchâtel)
• Added 4 shapes with 'nofill' property
• Added two options to periodically delete old documents in trash (emptyTrashForOlderDocuments and emptyTrashDaysValue)
• Bug fixing (see the changelog for more details)

1.6.0 ()

• Qt 5.1x
• C+1x support
• Windows 64 bits
• ffmpeg on Windows
• xpdf to poppler migration
• Ubuntu 20.04 support
• ...

Future, loosely ordered by priority

• More modular package structure for Linux, e.g to allow "clean" .deb package. Currently relies too much on hard-coded paths for files
• Better handling of PDFs