There has been discussion on some changes to the near future roadmap of Midgard and MidCOM. Here are the proposed changes in nutshell:
Midgard 1.8.3: due out this week
- The Midgard release currently in oven
- Adds replication support to core
- Makes it possible to run Midgard without legacy API
MidCOM 2.8.0: entering beta soon
- Fully legacy-free MidCOM (i.e. doesn't require legacy Midgard API)
- Uses Midgard core metadata instead of parameters
- Works with both PHP4 and PHP5
- Replication, multilang, collector and many other improvements
- Requires Midgard 1.8.3
Midgard 1.8.4: when MidCOM 2.8.0 is out
- Installs MidCOM 2.8.0 and MidCOM indexer from packages
- Sets up MidCOM cron service as needed
- PHP 5.2 as the default, not PHP4
MidCOM 2.9 series: after 2.8.0 is branched off
- Support for PHP4 is removed
- Handling all MgdSchema datetime fields as PHP native DateTime objects
- Uses autoload to speed up file inclusion
- Starts to utilize all the PHP 5 object-oriented goodness
- Hopefully pushes us to use and contribute to PEAR libraries instead of our own
