Milestones and Versioning

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Milestones and Versioning

This page tracks the major evolution of the Moo project and our release strategy.

Versioning Strategy

We follow Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.

MAJOR: Incompatible API changes (e.g., the move to Jakarta EE 11).
MINOR: Backward-compatible functionality additions (e.g., new social features).
PATCH: Backward-compatible bug fixes.

Major Milestones

✅ Milestone 1: The Modernization (Current)

Upgrade to Spring Boot 4.0 and Java 21.
Migration to Jakarta EE 11.
Implementation of JWT-based Authentication.
Enabling Virtual Threads for massive scalability.
Refactoring to Scalable Pagination for all feed endpoints.

📅 Milestone 2: Enhanced Social Features (Q3 2026)

Threaded replies implementation.
Media upload support (Images/Videos).
Robust search functionality with Elasticsearch.

📅 Milestone 3: Real-time Interactions (Q4 2026)

WebSocket support for real-time notifications.
Direct Messaging (DM) system.
Trending topics algorithm.

Release Process

Development occurs in feature/* branches.
PRs are validated via the PR Checker workflow.
Merges to master trigger the Master CI pipeline.
Official releases are tagged and published as multi-arch Docker images to GHCR.