Roadmap

Commentail roadmap

This page records planned directions. A target release or delivery date is only listed once agreed. Planned work is not part of the published package.

Released in 1.3.0

Version 1.3.0 adds guest form checks, attempt budgets, optional Google/Yandex CAPTCHA and review signals for repeated text and link bursts, including guest edits. It preserves editable drafts and independent forms while keeping external verification mandatory when selected. See changes and upgrade steps.

Released in 1.2.0

Version 1.2.0 includes configurable Django email backends, integration with the host task queue and compact reply cancellation beside Send comment. The guest form is also more compact, with a short CAPTCHA field and clearer email confirmation guidance. All three planned features have been implemented and accepted. The pre-release audit added input/logging fixes and verified Wagtail 8.0.1 with updated test dependencies across the full supported matrix.

See 1.2.0 changes and upgrade guidance and email/background setup.

Released in 1.1.0

The accepted moderation improvements include bulk actions, erasure confirmation, clearer selection and filters, preserved navigation and understandable errors. Staff highlighting, compact settings and publication notices only after moderation are included. See 1.1.0 scope and upgrade steps.

Released in 1.0.0

Version 1.0.0 establishes the stable API and compatibility policy with the 0.2.0 feature set. It adds no runtime changes, dependencies or migrations. See 1.0.0 release and upgrade notes.

Released in 0.2.0 Beta

Version 0.2.0 contains recent comments with filters and host-owned markup, indexed/batched database reads, grouped Page settings, HTML emails and four additional languages (German, French, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese). English and Russian remain available; documentation remains in those two languages.

Status: included in 0.2.0 Beta. See 0.2.0 release scope and upgrade steps, version history and performance guidance.

Implemented in 1.4.0

Version 1.4.0 adds an independent Django email backend, constructor options and sender through the project-wide COMMENTAIL_EMAIL dictionary. For example, comment emails can use a provider's HTTP API while the rest of the site continues using SMTP, within the same application and worker configuration. Without an override, Commentail continues using the project's shared backend and sender. Version 1.4.0 also adds a direct test-mail command and early guest refusal for enabled Reject rules, with optional reasons and backward-compatible CSV import. See rules and CSV; migration 0019 adds the reason field.

Version 1.4.0 is published. See the configuration reference and upgrade notes.

Later: visual Markdown editor and emoji

Add a visual comment editor based on Markdown, without a source view or a source-editing toggle. Readers compose and format comments through the editor UI. This is future work, outside 1.4.0, with no target version or date.

Emoji support is also planned. The formatting subset, storage/rendering and sanitization contract, editing and no-JavaScript behavior, accessibility, editor dependency and emoji interaction remain to be defined before implementation. Emoji do not imply the separate Like/Dislike reaction feature.

Later: most-discussed threads

A ranking of threads by discussion activity is deferred. No API, release number or delivery date has been agreed. The recent-comments API does not supply this ranking.

Additional locales have no agreed list or date. Native-speaker review of the new catalogs remains a separate quality step; automated coverage does not replace language review. See language configuration.

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