ROADMAP.md

Roadmap

v4.1: Speed Crown

• Rust/C kernel for entropy classifier, recipes, transforms, SHA-256, and reference patching.
• Multithreaded chunk compression.
• SIMD bit-plane and word-delta transforms.
• Streaming writer/reader.
• Fast dictionary trainer for tiny office folders.

v4.2: Compatibility Crown

• Native Windows installer.
• File Explorer property sheet.
• Progress UI and cancel/resume.
• Standard ZIP/7z import/export workflows.
• Stronger path, Unicode, and metadata tests.

v4.3: Security Crown

• Replace pure-Python crypto with audited library backend where available.
• Add Argon2id/scrypt KDF option.
• Add hardware-bound key storage option.
• Formal archive authentication test vectors.

v4.4: Recovery Crown

• Reed-Solomon recovery with configurable parity shard count.
• Insertion/deletion-aware repair by resynchronization.
• External .hvcer recovery record files.
• Archive scrubber and periodic verification tool.

v5.0: Heaven-Vector Native

• Stable spec.
• Native cross-platform app.
• Independent benchmark suite.
• Reproducible signed builds.
• Public corpora leaderboard.