Title: Roadmap
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## Future

<a name="2.4"></a>
####VCL 2.4

* Configuration management system
* Scripted installation
* VCL Broker

<a name="2.5"></a>
####VCL 2.5

* Improve additional connect methods
* NAT support
* Remove requirement for 2 NICs
* Support for Spice remote display protocol
* Support for ESX OS for end users
* Initial support for EC2 API and OpenStack

<a name="2.6"></a>
####VCL 2.6

* Power management
* Improve cluster reservations
* Service deployment configuration management
* Initial support for Libcloud

<a name="2.7"></a>
####VCL 2.7

* develop tools for managing both system and user storage

## Current

<a name="2.3.1"></a>
####VCL 2.3.1

* Bugfixes

## Past

<a name="2.3"></a>
####VCL 2.3

* Service deployments
* Allow for additional connect methods for environments (port, other protocols, etc)
* Added framework support for libvirt
* Added support for KVM
* Added support for OS X under ESX
* Added support for VMware VCenter
* Added multilingualization to frontend


<a name="2.2.1"></a>
####VCL 2.2.1

* removed frontend dependency on jpgraph
* remove any access control that is hard coded in frontend
* added support for VirtualBox hypervisor
* many bug fixes and improvements to VMWare support

<a name="2.2"></a>
####VCL 2.2

* support for xCAT 2.x
* VMWare Free Server 2.x and ESXi 4
* improve block reservations (renamed to block allocations)

<a name="2.1"></a>
####VCL 2.1

* completed modularization of vcld
* xCAT 2.1 support
* Shibboleth authentication
* VMWare management via VMWare toolkit
* ESXi with thin provisioning on a NetApp
* Only supports xCAT 1.3 and xCAT 2.1 versions