Here is an attempt at laying down a roadmap for the development of Libgda.

5.0 version

Version 5.0 is now the current stable version of Libgda, and compared to the 4.2 version it:

• uses GTK+ 3.x
• has remobed deprecated symbols
• is API compatible but not ABI compatible with the 4.2 version
• has LDAP support (using virtual connections and as direct functions)
• has better GObject Introspection
• includes automatic Vala bindings

4.2 version

Compared to the 4.0 version, the 4.2 version:

• integrates the UI extension

• features a graphical tool: GdaBrowser

• has a new database provider: the Web provider which allows one to connect to a database through a web server. The web server must be configured to allow such connections (and needs to have PHP support)

• has a new database provider to acces Berkeley DB through its new SQL API (which relies on SQLite's one); both this provider and SQLite provider can be used at the same time.

• Read only LDAP support starting from version 4.2.8

later versions

Here is a list of features which will at some point integrated into Libgda:

• better support for GObject introspection to make it very easy to use Libgda from other programming languages

• support for NoSQL databases using virtual connections: one will be able to run SQL on top of these connections
• support for Firebird
• support security filtering for each connection (to deny non allowed queries, for example to only authorise queries which SELECT data from some tables and only at some times)

• more features in GdaBrowser (reports, data migration, schema synchronisation)

If you have any specific requirement, please let me know by sending an email to the GnomeDB mailing list (gnome-db-list@gnome.org), or by filling a bug report in bugzilla for Libgda requesting a new feature (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=libgda)