Roadmap
Open MCP Gateway follows Semantic Versioning. This document outlines the planned features for each version.
Version History
v0.1.0 - MVP (Current)
Released: December 2025
The initial release establishing core functionality:
✅ Core Features
- Single-tenant gateway
- YAML-based server catalog
- Auto-managed server lifecycle
- Hot reload without restart
✅ Runtimes
- Local process runtime (stdio)
- Remote SSE runtime (HTTP)
✅ Transports
- HTTP/REST API (gateway-http)
- Stdio wrapper (gateway-stdio)
✅ Operations
- Structured logging with tracing
- Health check endpoints
- Basic error handling
Upcoming Releases
v0.2.0 - Container Support
Target: Q1 2025
Container runtime and enhanced security:
🚧 Container Runtimes
- Docker runtime
- Podman runtime
- Container lifecycle management
- Volume mounting
- Network configuration
🚧 Security
- Env-file-based secrets injection
- Bearer token authentication
- Secure credential handling
🚧 Observability
- Prometheus metrics endpoint
- Grafana dashboard templates
- Request/response timing metrics
- Error rate tracking
🚧 Operations
- Graceful degradation
- Circuit breaker pattern
- Retry policies
v0.3.0 - Kubernetes & Multi-Tenant
Target: Q2 2025
Enterprise-ready features:
📋 Kubernetes Runtimes
- k8s-job runtime (ephemeral workloads)
- k8s-service runtime (long-running servers)
- ServiceAccount configuration
- Resource limits and requests
- Namespace isolation
📋 Multi-Tenancy
- Tenant isolation via namespaces
- Per-tenant catalogs
- Tenant-specific API keys
- Resource quotas per tenant
📋 Scalability
- Horizontal pod autoscaling
- Load balancing across gateways
- Shared state via Redis/etcd
📋 Operations
- Audit logging
- Rate limiting
- Request prioritization
v0.4.0 - Advanced Features
Target: Q3 2025
Enhanced capabilities:
📋 Server Discovery
- Automatic server registration
- Service mesh integration
- DNS-based discovery
📋 Caching
- Response caching
- Cache invalidation
- Distributed cache support
📋 Transformations
- Request/response middleware
- Protocol translation
- Message filtering
📋 UI
- Web-based dashboard
- Server management UI
- Real-time monitoring
Feature Requests
Want a feature not on the roadmap?
- Check existing issues
- Open a feature request
- Join the discussion on Discord
Contributing
Help us build the roadmap faster:
Version Support
| Version | Status | Support Until |
|---|---|---|
| v0.1.x | Current | v0.3.0 release |
| v0.2.x | Planned | v0.4.0 release |
| v0.3.x | Planned | v0.5.0 release |
We support the current version and one previous version with security updates.