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# Roadmap
This is a summary for thenew fatures of the major releases and a collection of ideas.
This list indicates only the current intention and can be changed.
## v8
Planned to September/October 2020
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- Create an `lv_components` repository for compley widgets
- It makes the core LVGL leaner
- In `lv_components` we can have a lot and specific widgets
- Good place for contribution
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- New scrolling:
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- See [feat/new-scroll ](https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl/tree/feat/new-scroll ) branch and [#1614 ](https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl/issues/1614 )) issue.
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- Remove `lv_page` and support scrolling on `lv_obj`
- Support "elastic" scrolling when scrolled in
- Support scroll chaining among any objects types (not only `lv_pages` s)
- Remove `lv_drag` . Similar effect can be achieved by setting the position in `LV_EVENT_PRESSING`
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- Add snapping
- Add snap stop to scroll max 1 snap point
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- Already working
- New layouts:
- See [#1615 ](https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl/issues/1615 ) issue
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- [CSS Grid ](https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-grid/ )-like layout support
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- [CSS Flexbox ](https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ )-like layout support
- Remove `lv_cont` and support layouts on `lv_obj`
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- Simplified File system interface ([feat/new_fs_api ](https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl/tree/feat/new-fs-api ) branch) to make porting easier
- Work in progress
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- Remove the align parameter from `lv_canvas_draw_text`
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- Make the `copy` parameter of `create` functions deprecated
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## v8.1
- Add radio button widget
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## v8.x
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- Unit testing (gtest?). See [#1658 ](https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl/issues/1658 )
- Benchmarking (gem5?). See [#1660 ](https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl/issues/1660 )
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## v9
- Simplify `group` s. Discussion is [here ](https://forum.lvgl.io/t/lv-group-tabindex/2927/3 ).
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- Consider direct binary font format support
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- Remove the copy paramter from create functions
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- Style selectors and style-based states See [#1832 ](https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl/issues/1832 )
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- Optimize line and cirle drawing and masking
- Reconsider color format management for run time color format setting, and custom color format usage. (Also [RGB888 ](https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl/issues/1722 ))
- 9-patch support for `lv_imgbtn` .
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## v10
- Remove property level states
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## Ideas
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- lv_mem_alloc_aligned(size, align)
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- Text node. See [#1701 ](https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl/issues/1701#issuecomment-699479408 )
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- CPP binding. See [Forum ](https://forum.lvgl.io/t/is-it-possible-to-officially-support-optional-cpp-api/2736 )
- Optmize font decompression
- Switch to RGBA colors in styles
- Need coverage report for tests
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- Need static analize (via coverity.io or somehing else)
- Support dot_begin and dot_middle long modes for labels
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- Add new label alignment modes. [#1656 ](https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl/issues/1656 )
