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title: Roadmap
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gVisor [GitHub Issues][issues] serve as the source-of-truth for most work in
flight. Specific performance and compatibility issues are generally tracked
there. [GitHub Milestones][milestones] may be used to track larger features that
span many issues. However, labels are also used to aggregate cross-cutting
feature work.

## Core Improvements

Most gVisor work is focused on four areas.

* [Performance][performance]: overall sandbox performance, including platform performance, is
  a critical area for investment. This includes, e.g. network performance
  (throughput and latency), file system performance (metadata and actual I/O),
  application switch and fault costs, etc. The goal of gVisor is to provide
  sandboxing without a material performance or efficiency impact on all but the
  most performance-sensitive applications.

* [Compatibility][compatibility]: supporting a wide range of applications requires supporting a
  large system API, including special system files (e.g. proc, sys, dev, etc.).
  The goal of gVisor is to support the broad set of applications that depend on
  a generic Linux API, rather than a specific kernel version (e.g. system
  administration tools, or tools that depend on kernel internals).

* [Infrastructure][infrastructure]: the above performance and compatibility
  goals require aggressive testing and coverage, and continuous improvement.
  This includes adding appropriate system call coverage, end-to-end suites and
  runtime tests.

* [Integration][integration]: Container infrastructure is evolving rapidly and
  becoming more complex, and gVisor must continuously implement relevant and
  popular features to ensure that integration points remain robust and
  feature-complete while preserving security guarantees.

## Releases

Releases are available on [GitHub][releases].

As a convenience, binary packages are also published. Instructions for their use
are available via the [Installation instructions](/docs/user_guide/install/).

[issues]: https://github.com/google/gvisor/issues
[milestones]: https://github.com/google/gvisor/milestones
[releases]: https://github.com/google/gvisor/releases
[performance]: https://github.com/google/gvisor/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22area%3A+performance%22
[integration]: https://github.com/google/gvisor/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22area%3A+integration%22
[compatibility]: https://github.com/google/gvisor/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22area%3A+compatibility%22
[infrastructure]: https://github.com/google/gvisor/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22area%3A+infrastructure%22