…nothing else as in the title. I think it could interest a lot of people here in the forum. There are many new types of laser machines and the competition is not sleeping either. What about the promised camera calibration improvement, for example. …?
Onwards and Upwards!
But in brief, this is something that we share directly with our reseller group via newsletter in a quarterly fashion, but we don’t share publicly on an ongoing basis - and there are some reasons behind that.
Announcing where we want to end up in X amount of time usually ends up with echos of ‘where is X feature’ or ‘I thought this was supposed to be done by now’. We don’t want to disappoint people when we say we’re going to do something, then don’t get there in a specific timeframe because other priorities are just a fact of life. Staying flexible, especially with a relatively small dev team, is important.
We have always operated on the basis of when it’s ready when asked about features or timelines - we do our very best to put out features that are ready when we do make them available. Announcing our ideal timelines, then missing them because whatever feature needs a bit more development, ends up disappointing customers.
Some things to look forward to:
The LightBurn Hardware Compatibility Matrix, launching early 2026, where we will provide public ratings of machines based on their compatibility with LightBurn.
Major improvements to camera support in 2.1 - IP cameras, multi cam
MillMage Release soon™
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…WE are your customers, not the middlemen, I definitely don’t understand that.
Keep us, who constantly contribute with inputs, up to date, if it has to be at a level 3 level, that’s fine too.
We (I) are looking forward to it. 
Congratulations on that, but that’ is another story/program, you need to start separating the programs from each other. Even though there are many of us who have both laser and CNC machines, they are two different programs. It’s like when I only need a word processor and I have no interest/need for a database program…
MillMage development happens alongside LightBurn dev - it’s all under the same proverbial roof (LightBurn Software, the company). They are inextricably linked.
You can expect the same as what we’ve done in the past. We will always be working to add features, support more machines, and when they are ready we will release them for public testing, at which time we’re eager to get user feedback.
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Internally, we are not prone to liking or sticking to roadmaps. Please note, the guy typing that right now is the one that sets the roadmap 
The video on this post from 37Signals is very similar to how we treat such things. We may have grown, but we’re a small company and we like to stay nimble.
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I agree 100% with what was said in that video. Having been a programmer, web, and applications developer for a bunch of years, reality seems to get in the way of long term plans. Technology changes, desires change, so it is very hard to predict what the end product is going to look like.
This is the only possible reasonable prediction.
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