EOS Online Subsystem: 2024 roadmap update

It’s been a while since the initial roadmap plan for 2024 for EOS Online Subsystem, so I thought I’d do another update on how we’re tracking and what the latter half of 2024 will look like. Spoiler alert: The initial timeline was overly optimistic, and there’s been a few unforeseen issues that will mean it takes us longer to complete the outlined roadmap.

EOS Online Subsystem: The roadmap planned for 2024

I don’t usually write up big “here’s what we’re planning on in the future” posts like this. In fact, it’s probably well known by now that I don’t provide ETAs on features or bug fixes because the roadmap for plugins changes frequently.

However, at this point I’ve got a fairly good idea of what the remainder of 2023 and the first half of 2024 is going to look like in terms of EOS Online Subsystem development. It means it will take a longer to get to the next big feature release and a little longer to address support requests while I do important work on the plugin internals, so I wanted to go through what is being done so you know how this benefits you in the future.

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