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RunUpdates Roadmap

Current Phase

Status: Active Development RunUpdates 1.0.0 provides a stable execution pipeline, a normalized inventory model, and a reliable SSH/local execution layer via PythonTools. The next phase focuses on backend intelligence, structured output, and expanded validation.

Near‑Term Goals (1.1.x Series)

Backend Check Parsing

Implement backend‑specific parsing for update availability:

  • zypper

    • total patch count
    • security patch count
    • repo health indicators

  • dnf

    • advisories
    • update table parsing
    • security classifications

  • apt

    • upgrade summary
    • security origins
    • held packages

Deliverables:

  • Unified structured result for the check stage
  • Improved exit‑code classification consistency across backends

Core Functionality Enhancements

  • Implement dry‑run mode (no remote execution, validation only)
  • Improve error handling and deterministic failure states
  • Expand structured logging (session lifecycle, command execution, exit‑code mapping)
  • Add support for non‑standard SSH ports at the distro or host level

Inventory & Validation

  • Strengthen validation for host entries (addresses, ports, enabled flags)
  • Add optional host tags (grouping, roles, metadata)
  • Improve debug output for multi‑host runs

Documentation

  • Add schema documentation for hosts.yml
  • Add troubleshooting section (SSH, permissions, exit codes)
  • Add backend‑specific examples (openSUSE, Debian-family, RedHat-family)

Mid‑Term Goals (1.2.x – 1.3.x)

Inventory Model Evolution

  • Add schema versioning
  • Add migration path for older inventories
  • Add richer host metadata (tags, roles, groups)

Repository & Key Management

  • Add support for importing vendor GPG keys
  • Add repo definitions to hosts.yml
  • Add lifecycle ordering: import keys → add repos → refresh → update

Structured Output & Summaries

Enhance per‑host summaries to include:

  • parsed check results
  • advisory/security metadata
  • repo health indicators
  • update counts

Add optional fleet‑level summary for dashboards and monitoring systems.

Execution Enhancements

  • Add dry‑run diff output (planned vs actual operations)
  • Add pre‑ and post‑update “list updates” capture
  • Add parallel execution mode with concurrency limits
  • Improve reboot classification across distros

Testing & Validation

  • Add nightly validation harness
  • Add multi‑host test matrix (Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, RedHat-family)
  • Add mock SSH backend for local testing

Long‑Term Goals (1.x and Beyond)

PythonTools Integration

  • Continue stabilizing PythonTools as a standalone micro‑library
  • Expand PythonTools session layer (timeouts, retries, diagnostics)
  • Ensure consistent consumption across RunUpdates, BotScanner, TimerDeck, and future tools

Architecture & Extensibility

  • Add pluggable execution backends (local, SSH, containerized)
  • Add rollback hooks for supported distros
  • Add package‑level filtering (security updates only, kernel only, etc.)

Ecosystem & Integration

  • Optional web dashboard for update status visualization (read‑only)
  • Optional diagnostics endpoints (read‑only)
  • Structured summary files for external dashboards

Future Research

  • Evaluate support for Windows hosts (PowerShell remoting)
  • Evaluate container‑based update execution for isolated testing
  • Explore package‑level dependency graph visualization
  • Investigate optional REST API for read‑only fleet status