Roadmap

A non-exhaustive list of planned features for FoxMQ and their expected timeframes.

May 2024

• Retained messages

• Message expiry

• Session takeover

• Support for MQTT v3.1.1 clients

August 2024

• Support for MQTT over Websockets (ws://)

  • Websockets over TLS (wss://) is not yet implemented, but can still be used with FoxMQ with additional setup. See the Quick Start guide for details.

Release Date TBD

• Support for MQTT over Websockets over TLS (wss://)

• TLS root certificate generation

  • Would allow clients to use a single root certificate to connect to any node in the address book.

• Dynamic cluster membership

  • Would allow a cluster to scale with load

• Helm chart for easy setup in Kubernetes

• Shared Subscriptions

• Disk persistence

• SASL authentication

• Client certificate authentication

• Permissioned topics

• HTTP Message Push

• IPv6 support

• Advanced Message Queue Protocol (AMQP) implementation

• Kafka bridge