This roadmap lists only major new features planned for Unimus, each release contains many more features than those just listed here.
For a full list of all features release in individual releases, please see the changelog.
| Timeline | Feature | Status |
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A fully encrypted copy of all backups in the cloud
| Global search (search for any string, see any of its occurrences across the entire system) Devices / backups / comments (in any part of Unimus), etc. | ||
| HTTP and HTTPS connectors (support for IP phones and IP cameras / CCTV) | ||
| Support for new importers (NMS sync) Sonar, Nagios, ConnectWise (CWA), etc. | ||
| Adjust UI session timeout directly in the UI Currently only available as config option, will be exposed in "Advanced settings" | ||
Advanced device information collection during Discovery | ||
Config Push - Export / Send results | ||
| Config Push - show output for individual devices In |
| addition to seeing group output, you will be able to see direct output of each device within a group | ||
| Q2 2025 | In-application notifications (popups) improvements Introduce a popup list instead of piling notifications on top of each other | In design |
| Config Push - built-in variables In addition to user-defined Device Variables, Unimus will offer device information as built-in variables | ||
| Q1 2025 | Compliance reporting (ability to specify Compliance Rules which configs have to comply with, report on compliance, etc.) | In design |
| Improvements to last job logs on the Dashboard Better navigation and visibility into job reports, better filtering | ||
| Q4 2024 | Notification system rework Ability for multiple notification senders, multiple destinations, better configurability | In design (2.7.0) |
| Device Config Changelog A new screen where you can see all recent device config changes (diffs from backups), sorted by date | In design (2.7.0) | |
| Separation of MySQL and MariaDB drivers | ||
| Support for PostgreSQL 12+ Separation of "legacy" Postgre driver, creation of new Postgre driver | In development (2.6.0) | |
| Q3 2024 | "Device CLI" directly in Unimus A full terminal emulator in Unimus' UI, allowing you to open a CLI session to your device directly in Unimus | In development (2.6.0) |
| 2.5.x minor feature & bugfix release (2.5.1) Minor features, bug fixes and new device drivers | Released | |
| Nautobot Importer - new NMS Sync connector (sync inventory from Nautobot into Unimus) | Released (2.5.1) | |
| Network Scan - support for Zones (you will be able to select a Zone for Scan, including support for scanning through Remote Cores) | Released (2.5.1) | |
| Q2 2024 | 2.5.0 major release Custom backup flows, rework of Device Access policies, improvements for Device Access limitation, account creation on 1st successful login with external AAA, and more... | Released |
| 2.4.x minor feature & bugfix release (2.4.3) Bug fixes and new device drivers | Released | |
| NetBox Importer - new NMS Sync connector (adopt devices from NetBox into Unimus) | Released (2.5.0) | |
| MFA support for logging in to Unimus New MFA settings in the new "My Account" screen | In development (2.6.0) | |
| New "My Account" screen for individual users in Unimus Ability for users to set their own account-specific settings | In development (2.6.0) | |
| Q1 2024 | Support for MariaDB 11+ | Released (2.4.2) |
2.4.x minor feature & bugfix release (2.4.1 & 2.4.2) | Released | |
| Q4 2023 | Custom backup flows Ability to specify custom command sequences which should be performed on devices during Backup | Released (2.5.0) |
| SSH session handling improvements Improved login banner recognition logic, support for devices which don't respond to "none" SSH auth method | Released (2.4.0) | |
| Improvements to Zabbix and LibreNMS connectors Import from Zabbix by device Templates and Tags, Field priorities for LibreNMS import configuration | Released (2.4.0) | |
| Q3 2023 | NMS Sync - rewrite of sync algorithm Full re-implementation of NMS Sync, full info on our Blog | Released (2.4.0) |
| New Config Push behavior modifiers and functions (updates to current behavior modifiers, adding new modifiers) | Released (2.4.0) | |
| Q2 2023 | NMS Sync - improved handling for deleted devices Options to delete or unmanage devices in Unimus if deleted in NMS | Released (2.4.0) |
AAA & User Management improvements | Released (2.5.0) | |
| Q1 2023 | AAA & User Management improvements | Released (2.5.0) |
| 2.3.x minor feature & bugfix release (2.3.2 & 2.3.3) See related Changelog entries for more details | Released | |
| Q4 2022 | Full offline mode for Unimus (air-gapped networks) Support for offline licensing with Unlimited licenses | Released (2.3.0) |
| LDAP AAA support | Released (2.3.0) | |
| Q3 2022 | MSSQL support | Released (2.3.0) |
| Config Push - support for variables (per-device variables in Config Push presets) | Released (2.2.0) | |
| Ongoing development on APIv3. (more details: https://forum.unimus.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1347) | ||
| New security hub https://security.netcore.software | Complete | |
| Q2 2022 | Penetration Testing report Results will be published publicly on our Blog | Published |
| 2.2.x minor feature & bugfix release (2.2.3) See related Changelog entries for more details | Released | |
| Performance improvements We are continuing to tune performance in large-scale deploys | Released (2.2.3) | |
| Security improvements Fixes as per recommendations from the penetration testing cycle | Released (2.2.3) | |
| Q1 2022 | New SSH client library Vastly improved SSH crypto algo support, support for more SSH key types and formats | Released (2.2.3) |
| 2.2.x bugfix releases (2.2.1-2.2.2 released) See related Changelog entries for more details | Released | |
| Penetration Testing cycle Full pentest of Unimus - results will be published publicly on our Blog | Complete | |
| Unimus security audit Internal audit of the Unimus codebase in preparation for pentest | Complete | |
| Q4 2021 | Performance improvements | Released (2.2.0) |
| NetBox plugin for Unimus (native Unimus plugin in NetBox, allowing to view data from Unimus in NetBox and to run jobs from NetBox) | On hold | |
| 2.1.x bugfix releases (2.1.3 - 2.1.4 released) See related Changelog entries for more details | Released | |
| Ongoing development on APIv3, see below. | Released (2.2.0) | |
| Q3 2021 | API v3 - initial endpoint groups (more details: https://forum.unimus.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1347) | Released (2.2.0) |
| Backup Exporter (to server FS or GIT) - https://github.com/netcore-jsa/unimus-backup-exporter (export devices backups to server file system or a GIT repo) | Released | |
| Support for additional device auth (login) options (username-only, password-only) | Released (2.1.1) | |
| 2.1.x bugfix releases (2.1.1 - 2.1.2 released) See related Changelog entries for more details | Released | |
| Q2 2021 | Bug Bounty program for Security Issues (official Bug Bounty program with a budget for payouts) | In progress |
| Config Search - Export / Send results (ability to export / send Search results as YAML or HTML docs) | Released (2.3.0) | |
| Config Push - advanced settings (override credentials used for push, override timeouts, etc.) | Released (2.1.0) | |
| Update to latest LTS version of frontend framework | Released (2.1.0) | |
| Q1 2021 | Security updates and improvements (security audit of Unimus code-base, updates to latest versions for all libraries / dependencies) | Complete |
Config Push - Tag as a Push target | Released (2.0.11) | |
| Config Push - Universal Search (search for device / description / text in outputs, etc.) | Released (2.0.11) | |
Rewrite of the "Importer" / "NMS Sync" system to add support for Zones | Released (2.1.0) | |
| 2.0.x bugfix releases (2.0.10-2.0.13 released) See related Changelog entries for more details | Released | |
| Q4 2020 | NetXMS Agent as a proxy for remote Zones (ability to use either Unimus Core or the NetXMS Agent as a local poller) | Released (2.1.0) |
| Backup filters - you can ignore any part of a backup (user-defined rules to remove or ignore parts of backups) | Released (2.1.0) | |
| Update to latest LTS version of backend framework | Released (2.1.0) | |
| 2.0.x bugfix releases (2.0.8 - 2.0.9 released) See related Changelog entries for more details | Released | |
| Q3 2020 | Updates to internal processes, and cleanup after the 2.0.0 development cycle | Complete |
| 2.0.x bugfix releases (2.0.5 - 2.0.7 released) See related Changelog entries for more details | Released | |
| LibreNMS importer (NMS sync) | Released (2.0.5) | |
| Q2 2020 | 2.0.x hotfix and bugfix releases (2.0.1 - 2.0.4 released) See related Changelog entries for more details | Released |
| Unimus 2.0.0 Stable release (Unimus & Unimus Core, all features from Q3 2019 - Q2 2020) | Released | |
| Q1 2020 | Observium importer (NMS sync) | Released (2.0.0) |
| PRTG importer (NMS sync) | Released (2.0.0) | |
| Improvements to runtime data filtering in backups Dynamic backup data filters will only filter actual dynamic data, no longer filtering whole lines | Released (2.0.0) | |
| Q4 2019 | Config Push scheduling Adds support for scheduling to Mass Config Push | Released (2.0.0) |
Remote network support (remote proxy / remote agent) |
MSSQL support
Sonar, LibreNMS, NetBox, PRTG, Nagios
Released (2.0.0) |
| Config change notifications in Slack Send a diff to Slack any time a config change is detected | Released (2.0.0) | |
"Export Backups" functionality | Released (2.0.0) | |
| Support for cron expressions for the scheduler | Released (2.0.0) | |
| Q3 2019 | Backup Push into Unimus Support for pushing devices backups into Unimus from external systems through the Unimus API | Released (2.0.0) |
Improvements to "Network Scan" | Released (1.10.4) | |
| Easy password recovery when login credentials lost (a password reset token generated into the server log file which can be used to reset passwords) | Released (1.10.4) | |
| "New version available" notifications Unimus checks for newer versions, and notifies on the Dashboard when a new version is available. | Released (1.10.3) | |
| Q2 2019 | Large amount of work on modularization of the Unimus code-base, work on back-end and internal infrastructure. This turned out to be much more complex than anticipated, and took a large amount of work, time, and many sleepless nights. | Complete |
| New Unimus Portal release | Released | |
| Q1 2019 | Performance improvements to Config Search (inverse search with 1000+ devices in system takes very long) |
| Released (1.10.0) | |
| Diff improvements (highlight changed words in line, perf. improvements for large diffs) |
| Released (1.10.0) | |
| Dark theme (Portal and Unimus) |
| Released (1.10.0) | ||
| MFA (dual-factor) support for Unimus Customer Portal | Released | |
| New Unimus Portal release | Released | |
| Q4 2018 | Strip sensitive data (password hashes, OSPF PSKs, etc.) from backups before storing | Released (1.9.0) |
Update to Device Tags | Released (1.9.0) | |
Improvements to Device Access limitations | Released (1.9.0) | |
| New Unimus Portal release | Released | |
| Q3 2018 | Powercode importer (NMS sync) | Released (1.8.3) |
| Mass Config Push - usability improvements (re-run on output group, set target from output group, etc.) | Released (1.8.3) | |
| Mass Config Push and Network Scan - preset cloning | Released (1.8.3) | |
| Change notifications - graphical diff in email (for each device with a config change, an email with a graphical diff would be sent) | Released (1.8.2) | |
| New Unimus Portal release | Released | |
| Q2 2018 | Manage / Unmanage device (you can "retire" devices, but keep them in Unimus) | Released (1.8.2) |
| When a change in config is detected, email a diff to user(s) | Released (1.8.0) | |
| Multi-device Edit | Released (1.8.0) | |
| "Send command / push config" - ability to send one or multiple commands to devices (select one/more devices, send one/more commands to them) | Released (1.7.0) | |
| Q1 2018 | New Unimus Portal release | Released |
| 'enable' passwords separate from user password | Released (1.7.0) | |
| Subnet scanning (device discovery) | Released (1.7.0) | |
| Credential to device binding (option to assign exact credentials to device) | Released (1.7.0) | |
| Save only unique backups (do not store config if the current config is the same as already stored config) | Released (1.6.0) | |
| Q4 2017 | REST API | Released (1.5.0) |
| User privilege system (account access roles) | Released (1.4.0) | |
| Comments / notes for backups | Released (1.3.0) | |
| Search in device configs (search for any string in configs, see where it is present) | Released (1.2.0) | |
| Show only changed lines in diff view | Released (1.1.0) | |
| Multi-device diff (diff configs between devices) | Released (1.1.0) | |
| Q3 2017 | Official 1.0.0 release | Released |
| New Unimus Portal release | Released | |
| Backup retention settings | Released (1.0.0) | |
| Download / send multiple backups at once | Released (1.0.0) | |
| Q2 2017 | SSH key support | Released (0.3.3) |
| PostgreSQL support | Released (0.3.2) | |
| Send backup (email, Slack, etc.) | Released (0.3.2) | |
| Q1 2017 | Telnet support | Released (0.3.0) |
| Automatic DB upgrade with new versions | Released (0.3.0) | |
| Unimus Starter (check app component health on startup, helps with common startup issues) | Released (0.3.0) | |
| Notifications (notify on failed / successful job run) | Released (0.3.0) |