Roadmap¶
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What Paperless Unified Search intends to do in the next twelve months, until October 2027, and what it will not do. It is a direction, not a promise. Ideas are welcome as feature requests.
The next twelve months¶
The app does what it was built for: the full-text search of Paperless-ngx in the search of Nextcloud, with results that open the synchronized files. No larger feature is planned at the moment; the year is about keeping it working and safe:
- Every new major version of Nextcloud. The upstream bot raises
max-versioninappinfo/info.xmlonce the end-to-end tests pass against the new version, and the app follows the changes of Nextcloud's search and of its mobile apps. - Changes of the Paperless-ngx API. A change that breaks the search is fixed first, with a test that keeps it fixed.
- Fixes and security. Reported bugs and vulnerabilities come before anything new; SECURITY.md has the times.
- Current dependencies and tooling, through the update bots and the repository blueprint.
Feature requests with the most reactions are considered next, in that order: anything that breaks for users first, then what makes the search safer, then the rest.
Not planned¶
- Synchronizing documents. That is Paperless Sync, a separate app with its own releases.
- An index of its own. Paperless answers every search; the app stores no documents and no text of them.
- Opening documents in Paperless. A result opens the file in Nextcloud, whose permissions decide who may read it.