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OpenBao's Roadmap and Community Direction for 2025-2026

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Alex Scheel
Alex Scheel

As the summer of 2025 closed, OpenBao's Dev WG and TSC put together and approved a new technical direction and roadmap for 2025-2026. But before we get into the details, I think is important to look back at and celebrate what all we've accomplished this year:

  1. Many technical initiatives have landed, from namespaces to transactional storage, to CEL support, and many smaller things in between.

  2. Many continuing working groups and large technical initiates have been started, from the horizontal scalability WG, focused on read scalability; the UI WG, focused on a rewrite of our EmberJS Web UI into React; to the PKCS#11/KMS WG, focused on including external keys into OpenBao. Thank you to everyone who participates in these!

  3. Many, many contributions from many, many contributors! We welcomed:

    • 741 commits to main,
    • 287 contributors in the past year,
    • 10 new committers, and
    • 4 new moderators!

    And like I say nearly every meeting, a special thanks to all net-new contributors! A fresh set of eyes brings wonders to a storied project, and often revisiting earlier design choices let us improve the experience.

And yes, not everything on the 2024-2025 roadmap was completed. Don't worry, you can still contribute items from it if you want! But for a community just starting out, with its first formal direction proposal, I think the response we got exceeded my wildest expectations.