Archived 1.9 Roadmap

1.9 timeline is below.
FC: 22 May 2022
RC1: 15 Jun 2022
RC2: 20 Jun 2022
GA: 23 Jun 2022

If you have opinions on particular items, please give us feedback here.

Priority	Github	Description	Notes	Status	Docs needed?
P0	3229	Add a new data movement layer to Velero's architecture	Existing design doc may be rethought. Goal for 1.9 is to finish investigation/design doc. Unless there are additional dependencies, we expect to begin work on this in 1.10. WIP discussion doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ECnUJt18sXmCkksgh2XgbCRe0zB85ZUdltpRChchoe0/edit	Part-1 4768 Will continue remaining part in 1.10.	no
P0	4649	Investigate bringing the CSI plugin to GA, likely just for AWS and Azure at first	https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22CSI+plugin+-+GA+-+phase1%22	Done	TBD, awaiting finalized decision of GA criteria
P0	3533	Upload Progress (Itemshotter plugin)	Dave has made some update to the PR, we'll review them	Move to 1.10	yes, the same detail level as other plugin kinds
P0	4541	Carvel packaging for vSphere install		Done	no
P0	4537	Improve Velero testing		Done	no
P0	4540	Kubebuilder tech debt	Trace controller migration to kubebuilder	Done	no
P0	4405	Provide API support for getting Velero server configuration status and errors		Done	TBD, awaiting response from devs
P0	4569	Clarify how the status of a BSL is updated		Done	no
P0	4463	Backup Storage Location controller may reconcile one item multiple times in a single period		Done	No
P0	4150 (Done), 2167 (Done), 4151 (Done), 3154 (Done), 3118 - P1 (Done), 3136 - P1 (Done)	Improve Velero docs (requiring engineering input)		Done	Yes. Abbie to follow up in issues
P0	1712 (Done), 1919 (Done), 2134 (Done), 4483 (Done), 4245 (Done), 3806 (Done), 4500 (Done), 4642 (Done), 4571 (Done)	Improve Velero docs (not requiring engineering input)		Done	Yes
P1	3094	Removal of expired backups does not work		Done	No
P1	4485	The status of BSL isn't updated after updating the credential to an invalid one on Azure		Done	TBD, waiting response from devs
P1	4116	Provide guidance on Velero performance and resource limits		Done	yes
P1	4080	error fetching v1beta1 version of volumesnapshotclasses.snapshot.storage.k8s.io		Done	no
P1	4538	Investigate Kopia	Benefits include getting incrementals for vSphere, ability to move away from restic, and perhaps encryption at rest, comparison doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BMLuRzEpYWYE-Ci_eLg8gWbjDv4DSyqj/edit	Done	No
P1	4842	existingResourcePolicy to Restore API	design: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4613	Done	Yes
P1	4843	multiple label selector support in backup	design: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4619	Done	Yes
P1	4820	Bump up Restic version to 0.13.1 and add insecureSkipTLSVerify for Restic CLI		Done	Yes
P2	4531	Update docs table of contents			Yes
On hold	4111	Ignore items returned by ItemSnapshotter.AlsoHandles during backup	Depends on upload progress (this may be wrong and we will clarify with Dave)