Roadmap to v1.0.0

[clue]

Let's face it, this project is currently beta, but has been used in production for years

We're currently following a v0.X.Y release scheme (http://sentimentalversioning.org/).

We should finally make this stable and fully adhere to SemVer and release a stable v1.0.0.

To a large extend, a stable v1.0.0 helps making BC breaks more explicit and thus the whole project more reliable from a consumer perspective. This project is actively maintained and has received some major updates in the last weeks and has some major updates planned in the next weeks. Given our current versioning scheme, we'd like to ensure all anticipated BC breaks will be merged before the planned v1.0.0 release.

As such, I've set up a roadmap that enlists only the major changes for each version among with planned release dates towards a stable v1.0.0 release:

v0.4.0 ✅

• Released 2014-07-31
• Initial tagged version

v0.4.1 ✅

• Released 2016-08-01
• Standalone component and tests

v0.4.2 ✅

• Released 2017-03-10
• Stream v0.5 API

v0.4.3 ✅

• Released 2017-03-14
• Support PHP 5.3 - PHP 7.1

v0.5.0 ✅

• Released 2017-08-15
• Readable/Writable pipes
• Drop Windows support entirely

v0.6.0 ✅

• Releases 2019-01-14
• Custom pipes
• Add (limited) Windows support

v0.7.0

• Planned 2025-Q1??
• API cleanup

v1.0.0

• Planned 2025-??
• No new changes planned, this should merely mark the previous release as "stable"

This ticket aims to serve as a basic overview and does not contain every single change. Please also see the milestone links and the CHANGELOG for more details.

Obviously, this roadmap is subject to change and I'll try to keep it updated as we progress. In order to avoid cluttering this, please keep discussion in this ticket to a minimum and consider reaching out to us through new tickets or Twitter etc.

[clue]

Updated now that the v0.4.3 release is out (a few days ago already)

[WyriHaximus]

Updated now that the v0.5.0 release is out

[clue]

Updated now that the v0.6.0 release is out

[WyriHaximus]

@clue is 0.7 still going to be a thing?

[clue]

@clue is 0.7 still going to be a thing?

Good point, but yes, that's still my understanding. I've just filed #72 to discuss this further 👍