Releases and Roadmap¶
Plaso comes in 2 different forms of releases:
a packaged release; found on the releases page
a development release; found in the git repository
Note that the development release is for development, expect frequent updates and potential breakage.
If you do not plan to develop or live on the edge, regarding plaso, we highly recommend sticking with the packaged release. We will try to provide two packaged releases per year, a “summer” and “winter” release (depending on your location), but occasionally we will also do preview and release candidate packaged releases.
Roadmap¶
The following sections contain a rough outline of the larger items on the roadmap. For more detailed information see: enhancements
Refactors
storage
redesign how event objects are stored
add support for event groups
add support for events without a date and time value
analysis plugins
front-end, CLI, tools
output modules
text parser rewrite/optimization
Improve file system support
Multi volume support
Parsers
improve existing parsers
job file parser - add format improvements
deprecate stat object in favour of file entry attributes
Collection
Improve collection filters
Hashing
Do NSRL matching prior to event extraction
Use an event database to shortcut file processing
Deployment
Plaso as a module; Clean up and rewrite of the engine code (the parts that were not touched previously); Stabilize an API
Sandboxing the workers
Plaso as a service
Cross-system distributed plaso workers (RPC)
Handling recovered (deleted) data