# Roadmap
This document represents the current working roadmap for Pantheon. It is a living document, which will
evolve and change over time. In particular the features in later versions are likely to be refined and change.
We use the approach of `#now` , `#next` , `#later` [used by foursquare ](https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/now-next-later-roadmaps-without-the-drudgery-1cfe65656645 ), with a slightly different time horizon.
Our `#now` scale is about 3 months, `#next` about 6 months, and `+later` is 12+ months.
## Now (up to v1.3)
Our key areas for now are:
* Making Pantheon a First Class Client
* Istanbul Support
* State Pruning
* Tracing APIs
* Disaster recovery
### Making Pantheon a First Class Client
First and foremost, we want Pantheon to be a first class client for usage on both mainnet and permissioned networks.
This entails maintaining compatibility with mainnet, providing permissioning features and constantly improving Pantheon's performance.
Some recent additions to the client have been [UPnP Support ](https://docs.pantheon.pegasys.tech/en/latest/Configuring-Pantheon/Networking/Using-UPnP/ )
and a [GraphQL interface ](https://docs.pantheon.pegasys.tech/en/latest/Pantheon-API/GraphQL/ ).
### Istanbul Support
Pantheon will support the upcoming Istanbul network upgrade and implement all required EIPs as per the [Hardfork Meta: Istanbul EIP ](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1679 ).
### State Pruning
State pruning will be implemented. State pruning reduces the disk space required for the Pantheon database by discarding outdated world state data.
### Tracing APIs
Additional tracing APIs to be added.
### Disaster Recovery
Support key-value storage in relational databases to solidify a robust Disaster Recovery process. Note: Orion to support Oracle and Postgres in 1.3.
## Next (v1.4)
The key areas for next are:
* Privacy group modification
* Enhancing key management capabilities
* Migration tools
* Ethereum 1.x
### Privacy Group Modification
Add the ability to add and remove privacy group members.
### Enhancing Key Management
Enhancing key management capabilities by supporting secure storage of keys.
### Migration Tools
Adding tools to enable migration across consensus algorithms.
### Ethereum 1.x
The Pantheon team will help spearhead the Ethereum 1.x initiative by contributing to EIPs, community discussions, roadmap specificaton and eventually implementing the resulting features from the initiative. More information on the 1.x initiative can be found [here ](https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-roadmap/ethereum-1.x/ ).
## Future (v1.5+)
In addition to making incremental improvements to the above features, there will be some bigger pieces of work.
These are deliberately kept vague at this time, and will be elaborated upon when they move up to the now and next levels of work.
* Ethereum 2.0
* Alternate Consensus Mechanisms
* Sidechains
* Privacy group consensus
* Cross privacy group communication
* On-chain privacy
