# Roadmap (2017-08-29)

This roadmap is a tentative plan for the core development team. Things change constantly as PRs come in and priorities change. 
But it will give you an idea of our current vision and plan. 

### Short term (1-4 months)

 - Release Grafana v4.5 with fixes and minor enhancements 
 - Release Grafana v5
  - User groups
  - Dashboard folders
  - Dashboard permissions (on folders as well), permissions on groups or users
  - New Dashboard layout engine
  - New sidemenu & nav UX
  - Elasticsearch alerting
  
### Long term 

- Backend plugins to support more Auth options, Alerting data sources & notifications
- Universial time series transformations for any data source (meta queries)
- Reporting
- Web socket & live data streams
- Migrate to Angular2 or react


### Outside contributions
We know this is being worked on right now by contributors (and we hope to merge it when it's ready). 

- Clustering for alert engine (load distribution)