Roadmap

2014

April

• Launched on Bitcointalk
• Renamed from Bitmonero to Monero

September

• Recovered from a spam attack
• Monero Research Lab Papers 1 and 2 published
• Monero Research Lab Paper 3 published

December

• 0.8.8.6 released

2015

January

• Monero Research Lab Paper 4 published

2016

January

• 0.9.0 Hydrogen Helix released

February

• Monero Research Lab Paper 5 published

March

• Network Upgrade to require minimum ringsize of 3 on all transactions

September

• 0.10.0 Wolfram Warptangent released
• Network Upgrade to split coinbase into denominations

December

• 0.10.1 Wolfram Warptangent released
• Official GUI Beta 1 released

2017

January

• Network Upgrade to enable RingCT transactions

February

• 0.10.2 released; critical vulnerability patched

March

• 0.10.3.1 Wolfram Warptangent released

April

• Network Upgrade to adjust minimum blocksize and dynamic fee algorithm

July

• Website redesigned
• 0.11.0.0 Helium Hydra released
• Fluffy blocks
• GUI out of beta
• Network Upgrade to increase minimum ringsize to 5 and require RingCT transactions
• GUI 0.11.0.0 Helium Hydra released
• 0MQ/ZeroMQ

October

• Subaddresses
• Monero Research Lab Paper 6 published
• 0.11.1.0 Helium Hydra released
• GUI 0.11.1.0 Helium Hydra released

December

• Multi-signatures (multisig)

2018

March

• 0.12.0.0 Lithium Luna released

April

• GUI 0.12.0.0 Lithium Luna released
• New Proof of Work CryptoNightV2
• Network upgrade to increase minimal ringsize to 7, integrate multisig, subaddresses, and change PoW algo
• Getmonero.org Localization in French and Polish

May

• 0.12.1.0 Lithium Luna released

June

• Ledger Hardware Wallets Support
• 0.12.2.0 Lithium Luna released

July

• 0.12.3.0 Lithium Luna released
• GUI 0.12.3.0 Lithium Luna released

August

• Kovri alpha release
• Getmonero.org Moneropedia open for Localization
• Getmonero.org Localization in Arabic

October

• 0.13.0.2 Beryllium Bullet released
• GUI 0.13.0.3 Beryllium Bullet released
• New Proof of Work CryptoNightV3
• Implementation of Bulletproofs to reduce transaction sizes
• Network upgrade to increase minimal ringsize to 11, integrate Bulletproofs, update fees calculation algorithm, and change PoW algo
• 0.13.0.4 Beryllium Bullet released

November

• Monero Research Lab Papers 8 and 9 published
• GUI 0.13.0.4 Beryllium Bullet released
• Monero Research Lab Paper 7 published

December

• Monero Research Lab Paper 10 published
• Implementation of Monero Messaging System (MMS) to automate multisig wallets information exchange

2019

February

• Getmonero.org Localization in German
• 0.14.0.0 Boron Butterfly released

March

• GUI 0.14.0.0 Boron Butterfly released
• New Community Crowdfunding System (CCS) to replace the Forum Funding System (FFS)
• 0.14.0.2 Boron Butterfly released
• New Proof of Work CryptoNightR
• Getmonero.org Localization in Brazilian-Portuguese and Dutch

May

• DLSAG: Non-Interactive Refund Transactions For Interoperable Payment Channels in Monero

July

• Blockchain pruning
• Trezor model T support
• Ledger Nano X support
• Tor & I2P CLI wallet integration
• Multisig Messaging System

October

• Localization platform change: from Pootle to Weblate

November

• Pay for service system using mining (RPC-Pay)
• IPv6 support
• Standalone (long) payment ID support removed
• GUI automatic remote nodes discovering and switching option
• New Proof of Work RandomX

2020

February

• Getmonero translatable on Weblate

March

• GUI 0.15.0.4 released
• CLI 0.15.0.5 released

April

• Implementation of the Dandelion++ protocol

May

• CLI and GUI 0.16.0.0 released

August

• Wallet scanning speedups (support for supercop ASM)

October

• Concise linkable spontaneous anonymous group (CLSAG) signatures
• CLI and GUI 0.17 'Oxygen Orion' released

Coming Soon

• Onion address for Getmonero.org
• Triptych: logarithmic-sized linkable ring signatures with applications
• Kastelo: open source hardware wallet
• Second-layer solutions for speed and scalability

Future

Coming Soon

• Return addresses