This project roadmap is a list of features that will be implemented over the next days, months and years. With an active developer community spanned around the globe there are new features each week.

• Full testing of preview 0.8 version and first full-fledged community release
• Full support for digital video transmission (PX) - Tested and works
• Catch up with any open 2010 roadmap items

Changes planned until the end of the year

• Full support for SLUGS and other non-pixhawk vehicles (SLUGS)
• Full support for PIXHAWK fixed-wing aircraft (PX)

• 3D Map view with elevation data (PX/James Goppert)
• Improvements in the parameter interface to make it more robust towards communication losses (PX)
• Waypoint IDs / names in the map (PX)
• Show cross track error in horizontal situation indicator (HSI)
• New data plotting view, rendering Matlab as plotting tool unnecessary (PX)
  • Will be able to plot and zoom into logs (done in linechart with “Start Logging” button)
  • Will be able to plot and zoom into SD-Card logs done with pxIMU
• Improvements and waypoint view in 2D moving map (SLUGS)
• Support for KML logfile export to Google Earth
• Interactive mission planning by creating waypoint paths via clicking directly in the map
• Adding a preferences dialog to allow for user configuration of the GUI
• Capability to interact with Simulink as a Hardware-in-the-loop simulation engine for SLUGS

• Add hotkeys for different views

• Allow to save serial link preferences
• Save location / layout of individual views

• Make autoscaling optional, introduce buttons/comboboxes to select plot scale on Y-axis
• Support multiple plots (to allow watching variables with different ranges)
• Add variance calculation to supplement actual value and mean. Usefull for Kalman filter tuning.

• MAVLink will gain support for (PX)
  • bitfields (e.g. a 4bit variable for 16 states)
  • Scaled integers (e.g. heading in floating point transported as 16bit integer), whith automatic conversion during transport. Numbers will look like natural floating point on the interface
• New MAVLink default message set with community inputs (see the Google Docs document for details) (SLUGS, PX, community)

• Improve runtime-performance
• Support for persistent application window position / user look and feel preferences

• Show QGroundControl Running on the iPad