Roadmap
We ship continuously — small things land in the changelog the moment they're live. This page is a higher-level view: what's coming next, what we're considering, and what we've decided not to build.
Recently shipped
- Tunable WAF — Off / Detection / Blocking modes + per-category OWASP CRS rule toggles — Jul 2026
- WordPress Manager — one-click core/plugin/theme updates + nightly per-site auto-updates — Jul 2026
- Per-customer offsite backups — each customer's own S3 / B2 / Wasabi / MinIO / SFTP destination + schedule — Jul 2026
- File Manager power-ups — in-panel text editor, batch delete, compress/extract, sortable columns — Jul 2026
- Streamed signed backup downloads — grab any backup from the browser, any size, no session token in the URL — Jul 2026
- Offsite backups — S3 / Backblaze B2 / Wasabi / MinIO / SFTP, with restore-from-remote — Jun 2026
- Server Health Score dashboard + resource monitoring & alerts (disk/CPU/RAM → notifications + webhooks) — Jun 2026
- Edit everything — in-place DNS records, site settings (docroot/PHP/runtime), git config, and domain reassignment — Jun 2026
- Per-site maintenance mode toggle — Jun 2026
- Wildcard SSL via ACME DNS-01 (PowerDNS) — Jun 2026
- DKIM/DMARC auto-publishing + email deliverability checks (SPF/DKIM/DMARC/PTR/DNSBL) — Jun 2026
- Secondary DNS / hidden-master (per-zone & global AXFR + NOTIFY) — Jun 2026
- Debian 11/12 support + cross-distro installer with preflight checks — Jun 2026
- Customer portal (magic-link login + self-serve actions) — May 2026
- Provider-aware billing (Stripe + PayPal) — May 2026
Not everything we ship is listed here — see the full changelog for every release.
In progress
Actively being worked on. Will land in the next 1-3 minor releases.
Migration tooling (cPanel & Plesk import)
Headline feature for the next minor release. Bulk import of accounts, sites, databases, mail. Likely starts as a CLI before it lands in the panel UI.
Onboarding wizard for first-time installs
Replaces the install-then-figure-it-out flow with a guided tour: hostname, admin user, first site, first customer. Cuts the 'I installed it, now what?' drop-off.
Operator-facing API + CLI reference docs
The panel already has a REST API powering both UIs; we just haven't documented it externally yet. Same for the novapanel CLI shipped alongside the binary.
Considering
Ideas with merit. No commitment to ship — these need either user demand or product clarity before they leave this list.
Account & site ownership transfer
Move a site — with its domains, databases, and mail — from one customer to another, admin/reseller-initiated. Requested by testers. The database side is simple; the careful part is moving files and the per-account Linux user cleanly, so it's scoped but not yet scheduled.
First-class container hosting
NovaPanel already runs Docker-runtime sites; the larger consideration is full container hosting — deploy an image, expose a port, get an auto-domain + TLS. Tradeoff is scope creep, so we'd build it carefully rather than as a swiss-army-knife.
Multi-server fleet view
Operators running NovaPanel on 5+ boxes manage them individually today. A meta-panel that shows fleet-wide health + lets you push config across servers would be a Developer-tier feature.
Extension / plugin API
Letting third parties add functionality (e.g., Imunify-style malware scanners, custom site builders). Risky — extensions are a security surface. Would only ship behind a strict signing policy.
Windows host support
Honest answer: probably never. The work is huge and the audience for 'Windows hosting via a control panel' has been declining for a decade. Plesk handles this case well.
Want something that's not here?
Drop into our Discord and tell us. The roadmap shifts based on what real users actually need — features asked for once usually stay in "considering" forever; features asked for repeatedly get pulled in.