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See Feature and improvement requests for the current full list of suggested new features and improvements that may feature on the roadmap as it is updated over time.

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11B - feature referred to in 2021 paper proposing de-prioritisation of certain features from version 11

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PSIP - feature or improvement mentioned in the Performance and Stability Improvement Plan

Timeline and releases

Q1 2023

Version 14 

Q3 2023

Version 15

Q4 2023

Version 16

Q1 2024

Version 17

2024

Future versions

Document types and specific document features

Adding the ability to handle new document types and specific features that only occur in certain document types; refining existing features. 


Tables of origins and destinations (11B)

Automatically generate citations in SI/SSIs (REUL)

Church measures (11B)

Table notes (11B, REUL)

Update numbering sequence for UK bills to include 'O'

Amendments

Enhancements and refinements to the functionality for creating, editing and managing amendments and amendment lists, including ping pong, creating amendments inline and automatically applying amendments to a Bill.

Improve handling of multiple users in Amendment preview and comments (v.13.2)

Permissions on individual amendments and lists (11B)

Insert headings before ping pong amendments

Display content of ping pong amendment in structure view

Improve handling and flexibility around Commons programme (and related) motions

Bulk update status/outcomes of selected amendments

Improved amendment numbering logic for Lords

Improved sorting of Ping Pong motions

auto-apply amendments - improvements from feedback

Inline/auto-apply - preamble and long title in UK Bills (11B)

Improve sorting of Lords amendments to amendments

Specify an order of consideration for ping pong stages

Notification of new amendments (11B)

Delete amendments from Amendment Manager tab (and PDR)

Manage amendments by stage instead of Bill version

Inline/auto-apply - move amendments (11B)

Amendment preview enhancements

Inline/auto-apply - divide amendments (11B)

X-refs to children of unnumbered sections

Refine paste amendment logic

Update 'update list' feature so it works for Ping Pong lists

Robustness, resilience, performance, accessibility, data quality

Making the overall experience better for users by making the system more intuitive/accessible, harder to break and less likely to generate invalid XML, e.g. improved validation, improvements to paste logic, progress bars on slow tasks

Improved Schematron validation

Improved Schematron validation

Improve folding functionality (PSIP, REUL)

Data quality improvements (inc. improved whitespace handling)

Optimise session management for performance (PSIP)

Additional stability improvements (PSIP, REUL)

Improve Editor performance under load (PSIP, REUL)

Enable actions (e.g. PDF generation, list publishing) to complete in background to improve performance (PSIP)

Improved approach to validation and document checks (REUL, PSIP)

Data quality improvements (REUL)

Handle "quoted text" in XML like quoted structures (REUL)

Implement new colour scheme/branding throughout application (11B)

Refine tracked change behaviours

Authoring and editing

Adding new capabilities related to creating and editing content that will improve productivity or content quality. For example, user-generated templates, importing from http://legislation.gov.uk , improved table functionality

Import data from http://legislation.gov.uk (11B, REUL)

User-defined text templates (11B)

Table formatting - row height and text alignment (11B)

Table formatting - custom borders (11B)

Refine 'Update x-ref' to work with converted section/schedule elements

Refine smart paste

Improve logic for cursor placement and Editor view after action

Enable x-refs inside quoted structures to other doc types

User, project and document management

Adding new capabilities and refining existing features to help manage and interact with user accounts, projects and document versions within projects. For example, user management by org admins, permission/access control, archive/deletion tools

User Admin dashboard (create, reset, deactivate, delete) (11B)

Extend Finalise Document to SIs (11B)

Document Admin dashboard (archive, delete, download) (11B)

Set project to inactive (and reactivate) (11B)

Improved labelling of snapshots and significant versions (REUL)

Change project title manually

Print output

Features relating to the generation of print-ready PDFs of documents. For example, user-controlled page breaks, hyperlinks, including comments, multi-volume PDFs. 

 Add "Draft" watermark to PDF documents

 

Generate PDFs with landscape-orientated tables (11B, REUL)

Generate large print PDFs (REUL)

Generate multiple-volume PDFs (11B)

API

Additional endpoints and enhancements to existing endpoints to provide data required by external systems and to enable other interaction between those systems and Lawmaker. For example, paging of large responses, enabling external systems to create amendments or update amendment statuses. 

API updates for TNA publishing system integration (11B, REUL)

API - images in amendments

Infrastructure and software components

Changes to cloud infrastructure and software components that make up the Lawmaker service for security, scaling, performance, resilience etc. For example, work on Disaster Recovery environment, patching of software components to up-to-date, supported versions.

Additional health check+auto-restart for PDR

Oxygen upgrade preparation (PSIP)

Redesign infrastructure for multiple instances (PSIP)

Implement new infrastructure design (PSIP, REUL)

Oxygen upgrade (PSIP)

Implement AWS Shield Advanced (additional cybersecurity protection)