Roadmap v2.0.0 - [Planned Q4 2027]

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Roadmap v2.0.0 - [Planned Q4 2027]

Platform

• Transition to SDL3, and especially to the new AppCallbacks - blocked by [SDL3] Window used in plugin as child of host will lose mouse events on macOS libsdl-org/SDL#12745
• Improved linux support

Graphics

• Introduce ShaderTranspiler and ShaderCache (powered by glslang and spirv-cross) Shader compiler #126
• Implement RHI by exposing Rive's ORE agnostic renderer and RenderCanvas
• Enable 3D and advanced 2D with shading
• Test OpenGL renderer on windows
• Add support for Vulkan surfaces on windows/linux/android
• Support GLES3.1 on linux (Raspberry PI) Request for OpenGL ES 3 Support on Linux #49
• More efficient SVG rendering
• More efficient Lottie rendering
• Component effects based on shaders
• Allow grabbing a component paint to Image on the cpu
• Allow caching the component on a texture

Audio

• Improved support for Audio Plugin client AAX (windows, mac)
• Improved support for Audio Plugin client AUv3 (mac)
• Improved Audio Plugin client VST3, CLAP (linux)
• Audio Plugin Host VST3, CLAP (linux)
• Audio/MIDI device selector panels Audio device panel & CoreAudio #113
• Advanced IIR Filters (Bessel, Legendre, Elliptic, Chebyshev, ...)
• Oscillators/tone generators
• Add AVX and AVX512 support to yup_simd
• Dsp classes to get signal analysis: rms, peaks, phase scopes
• Evaluate and integrate https://github.com/ZL-Audio/zldsp_fft (if performance wise makes sense)

UI

• Oscilloscopes available in yup_audio_gui
• Phase scopes available in yup_audio_gui
• Visualization components for filters in the yup_audio_gui
• Improve Text support: selection, cursor, autowrap, ...
• Improved ListBox, ScrollBar and Viewport components
• Simplified and cleaned up Themes

Data Models

• Improve handling of parent changed notifications in DataTree

Artboard/Animations

• Read inputs from Rive state machines
• Query Rive artboard dimensions and named nodes
• Add support for Lottie state machines handling and notification
• Data binding / View model support
• Support live modifications of SVG, Lottie shapes/nodes properties

AI

• Local LLM requests with tooling AI module #99
• MCP Client and Servers AI module #99
• Python support AI module #99
• Embeddings
• ONNX wrapper

Utilities

• Improved yup_python module support
• Python support added to audio plugins

Misc

• Proper documentation on read the docs
• Open source license files in thirdparties
• Cmake to collect open source licenses and embed into the builds
• Fix includes in each header to help IDEs and intellisense (but also AI tools)
• Proper and improved demo app (simplified and isolated demos)
• Individual demos on the github pages
• External standalone plugin to show the capabilities
• Templates repositories for standalone and plugin development