Starting with release 0.9.0, we'd like to get serious about coordinating the effort of developing the remaining other features that would be nice to have in the library. This roadmap document should be the de-facto document that contains all the features we would like to support, by when, and whether there are any changes to the timing or the delivery of these features. Beside each feature will be links to issues on the issue tracker to allow us to coordinate our efforts and track our progress against the roadmap.

We would like to have the following releases out by a certain date, containing features as listed below.

Target release date: July 24, 2011List of features to support:

• HTTP
  • Server: HTTPS Support
  • Server: Configurable error handling
  • Client: Streaming API
  • Client: Boost.Parameter-based API
  • Services: REST Service Framework
  • Services: HTML5 DSEL
  • Documentation: More Client/Server examples
  • Documentation: More detailed documentation
• XMPP
  • Client: TBD
  • Server: TBD
  • Documentation
• SMTP
  • Client: ESMTP 1.0 Support
  • Client: MIME Integration
  • Documentation
• FTP
  • Client: Support Basic FTP Operations
  • Documentation

Target release date: May 8, 2011Bugs to fix:

• Make the Status Line and Headers come in a single writeDONE
• 0.9 async_server run stop listen synchronization issue
• Support HTTP Request Pipelining on the Server Side
• Support Stream-based body in Client Request
• Percentage-done Callback (Client API)
• Retry on Failure or Timeout (Client API)