Development

The roadmap

Where Draft OS is headed. The plan is alive and shifts with the project — priorities are discussed openly in the repository and community.

Now In progress

Stabilizing the Immutable edition

Polishing atomic updates and rollback flows before declaring stable status.

Graphical rollback center

Manage snapshots and image versions from settings — no command line.

Secure Boot out of the box

Signed images and simplified setup for devices with Secure Boot enabled.

Next Upcoming releases

Official images for ARM SBCs

Ready-made builds for popular AArch64 single-board computers.

target: 2026.3

Kernel profiles

Switchable profiles: “responsiveness”, “power saving”, “server”.

target: 2026.3

Expanded documentation

Sections on administration, tuning and migrating from other distributions.

ongoing

Later Planned

Build your own images

A tool to declaratively build custom Immutable images from a config.

Enterprise deployment

Mass deployment and central management of fleets of machines.

Localization

Full translation of the installer and documentation into new languages.


History

Already shipped

Draft OS 2026.2 “Blueprint” — July 28, 2026

Kernel 6.19, updated GNOME and KDE, a faster installer, and the first public Immutable images.

Public Immutable beta

Atomic updates and rollbacks on OSTree available for broad testing.

The unified draft tool

One command for updates, rollbacks and status across both editions.

First stable Desktop release

The mutable edition on Arch with optimized builds and sensible defaults.

Want to shape the priorities? Discussions and feature votes are open in the repository. Every proposal gets read by the team.