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I've just published a new roadmap for DayPilot that contains specifications for the next two releases:

• DayPilot 3.1
• DayPilot 3.5

Summary:

• If you are interested in DayPilot you should skim the specifications and send me some feedback ;-)
• I tried to make it detailed so you can have a better idea about what's planned.
• It's not a fixed thing. If you need some other feature that is not mentioned just let me know.

Open-source version:

• The next open-source release will come after DayPilot 3.5 is finished. The specification is not yet ready. I expect that it will contain some minor improvements and bug fixes I did for DayPilot 3.
  

Warnings:

• The specifications are subject to change.
  
• The release dates are my best guesses valid at the moment. I'm going to keep it up-to-date.
  

A few days ago, I’ve released DayPilot 3.0. Since this release I’m switching to a different licensing model: In addition to the current open-source versions (2.0 and 2.1), there will be a commercial version available. This commercial version (DayPilot 3.0 and further) will move forward quickly and should soon meet most of the user requests I’ve received.

The major reason for this step is that I would like to move DayPilot forward. As you could see, there were just minor improvements to the open-source DayPilot in the past months. The control would deserve a lot of new features but it’s simply not possible to finance it from the donations.

What’s going to happen?

The commercial version (DayPilot 3.0+) will include source code and all updates and upgrades for one year. The initial version (3.0) contains a first set of advanced features (scrolling, multiple resources, configurable number of cells per hour). It’s not a revolution yet. More new features are to come during the following month (drag&drop support for moving and resizing, inline editing, better client-side scripting support, etc.). I will publish a roadmap in a few days so you will know what you get if you buy DayPilot 3.0 now (you are going to get all these new features for free).

The open-source versions will still be available. I would like to add bugfixes and selected features (there will be a schedule for these as well) but it will never be as feature-rich as DayPilot 3.0.

If you are interested in beta-testing DayPilot 3.0 or if there are features you would like to have in DayPilot 3.0 just contact me at daypilot @ annpoint.com.

As a sponsored feature, I've developed a DayPilot modification that shows data for multiple resources for one day in the calendar columns (instead of multiple days).

I'm wondering if this is interesting for more users: Should I incorporate it into the standard release?

Please post your opinions here: http://forums.daypilot.org/Topic.aspx?id=6

I've just opened new forums for discussing DayPilot: http://forums.daypilot.org

There are three forums:

• Bugs
• Features
• General
  

RSS channels are available for each forum and each topic. You can also subscribe to all recent topics feed.

The blog comments are now closed - it was difficult to watch it for me and difficult for users to find useful information there.