# 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.