# Monthly milestones

We plan and ship in monthly cycles. Each cycle is named for a cultural, literary or scientific pioneer whose story connects to the work we're doing.

Here's a view of the road ahead. Vote for your favorites, or [request a new feature on GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/datum-cloud/discussions/categories/feature-requests).

See also: [Product Roadmap](/roadmap.md) - features planned but not yet assigned to a release.

## Upcoming

### OCT - October 2026 - "Hedy"

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian and American actress, producer, and inventor who was responsible for developing the technology now used for Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth. She also invented an improved traffic stoplight and a tablet that would dissolve in water to create a flavored carbonated drink.

<div><p style="margin-bottom: 2rem;"><strong>What's included in this milestone:</strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0;"><li>Galactic VPC (gVPC) for go-anywhere backbone <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/475" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#475</a></li><li>Wildcard hostnames on ALBs <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/913" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#913</a></li><li>Internet outbound access for workloads on Galactic VPC <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/911" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#911</a></li><li>Create a more personalized website experience for users <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/890" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#890</a></li><li>Per Region Network Load Balancer for Public Connectivity to gVPC Workloads <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/884" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#884</a></li><li>Deliver Private DNS for Galactic VPC <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/921" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#921</a></li></ul></div>

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/14)

[Full details](/release/october-2026-hedy.md)

### NOV - November 2026 - "Lovelace"

Ada Lovelace was born on December 10th, 1815 and considered the world's first computer programmer. Her AWOL dad was Lord Byron.

<div><p style="margin-bottom: 2rem;"><strong>What's included in this milestone:</strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0;"><li>Feedback reporting mechanism for agents and users <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/889" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#889</a></li><li>Improve Domains &amp; DNS <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/905" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#905</a></li><li>Looking Glass for Edge Network Diagnostics <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/934" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#934</a></li><li>Bare Metal Infrastructure service <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/912" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#912</a></li><li>Introduce &quot;Cloud Protect&quot; service <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/907" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#907</a></li></ul></div>

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/15)

[Full details](/release/november-2026-lovelace.md)

### DEC - December 2026 - "Hopper"

Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician and pioneer of computer programming, the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages.

<div><p style="margin-bottom: 2rem;"><strong>What's included in this milestone:</strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0;"><li>VPCs Private by Default <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/903" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#903</a></li><li>Introduce &quot;Connections&quot; Service <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/883" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#883</a></li><li>Introduce &quot;Interconnects&quot; Service <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/908" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#908</a></li><li>Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) for Traffic Management <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/833" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#833</a></li><li>Support for AWS Direct Connect in gVPC <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/673" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#673</a></li></ul></div>

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/16)

[Full details](/release/december-2026-hopper.md)

### JAN - January 2027 - "Bessie"

Bessie Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license, and is the earliest known Black person to earn an international pilot's license

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/17)

[Full details](/release/january-2027-bessie.md)

### FEB - February 2027 - "Chuck"

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist credited with developing the scientific theory of evolution by natural selection.

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/18)

[Full details](/release/february-2027-chuck.md)

### MAR - March 2027 - "Mr. Rogers"

Fred Rogers as an iconic American television host and producer, known for treating every viewer with the utmost respect. He defended public broadcasting and taught children how to handle complex life challenges through empathy, honesty and authenticity.

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/19)

[Full details](/release/march-2027-mr-rogers.md)

### APR - April 2027 - "Goodall"

Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall was an English primatologist and anthropologist. Regarded as a pioneer in primate ethology, she was a fierce advocate for animal-human conservation.

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/20)

[Full details](/release/april-2027-goodall.md)

### MAY - May 2027 - "Maya"

American memorist, essayist, poet and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou was a literary groundbreaker who transformed how Black women's literature was recognized in mainstream media.

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/21)

[Full details](/release/may-2027-maya.md)

### JUN - June 2027 - "Josephine"

Josephine Baker was an American-born French dancer, singer, actress, a spy for the French Resistance and civil rights activist.

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/22)

[Full details](/release/june-2027-josephine.md)

### JUL - July 2027 - "Rosalind"

Rosalind Franklin was an English Chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to understanding the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite.

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/23)

[Full details](/release/july-2027-rosalind.md)

### AUG - August 2027 - "Maggie"

Margaret Eliza "Maggie" Kuhn was an American Activist known for founding the Gray Panthers movement, shifting the landscape of labor and civil rights by leading the movement to ban mandatory retirement laws in most American Professions.

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/24)

[Full details](/release/august-2027-maggie.md)

### SEP - September 2027 - "Jim"

Jim Henson revolutionized children's education television and the art of puppetry as the creator of the Muppets.

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/25)

[Full details](/release/september-2027-jim.md)

### OCT - October 2027 - "Mae"

Mae Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/26)

[Full details](/release/october-2027-mae.md)

### NOV - November 2027 - "Curie"

The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize twice across two different scientific fields, Marie Curie was a pioneering physicist and chemist who discovered radioactivity.

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/27)

[Full details](/release/november-2027-curie.md)

### DEC - December 2027 - "Tu"

Tu Youyou is a Nobel Prize-winning Chinese pharmaceutical chemist. She discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria; these discoveries were a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/28)

[Full details](/release/december-2027-tu.md)

## Previous milestones

### SEP - September 2026 - "Brother Ray"

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/13)

### AUG - August 2026 - "Armstrong"

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/12)

### JUL - July 2026 - "Kwolek"

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/11)

### JUN - June 2026 - "Katherine"

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/10)

### MAY - May 2026 - "TimBL"

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/9)

### APR - April 2026 - "Thuerk"

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/8)

### MAR - March 2026 - "Dolores"

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/7)

### FEB - February 2026 - "Blankenbaker"

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/5)

### JAN - January 2026 - "Mary Elizabeth"

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/4)

### DEC - Datum Cloud 1.0

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/3)

### NOV - Datum Launch Release

[GitHub](https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/milestone/1)

## How we plan

- **Monthly release cycles** - One named cycle per month, scoped tight and shipped end-to-end.
- **Public discussion** - Roadmap items live on GitHub Discussions where the community can vote, comment, and propose alternatives.
- **Open development** - The platform is AGPLv3. Code, issues, and design docs are all in the open at [github.com/datum-cloud](https://github.com/datum-cloud).

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Source: <https://www.datum.net/release>