Roadmap

What AccessFlow can do today, and what's planned

AccessFlow ships as a single open-source product under Apache 2.0 — every capability on this page is in the same release, so the roadmap is a capability map rather than a sales document. The grid below is grouped by what the platform does, not by the release that introduced it; version-by-version milestone scope lives in docs/12-roadmap.md, and the release currently in progress is tracked on the GitHub milestones.

Available now

Everything in this grid is generally available today in v2.4 — self-hosted with Docker Compose or Helm, and governed by the same review pipeline and tamper-evident audit log throughout. The map itself is driven by community input and adapter contributions.

Proxy & data access

  • SQL proxy · 6 DBs + custom drivers
  • Read-replica routing · result diffing
  • Schema explorer & ER view · sample previews
  • Datasource health dashboard
  • High-volume proxy performance — result caching · query batching · multi-replica load balancing
  • Declarative connector catalog
  • MongoDB · Couchbase (SQL++) · Redis
  • Cassandra & ScyllaDB (CQL)
  • Elasticsearch & OpenSearch · DynamoDB (PartiQL)
  • Neo4j (Cypher) · text-to-query for NoSQL
  • Cloud data warehouses — Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks SQL (native auth)

AI & monitoring

  • Risk scoring + index hints · analytics
  • OpenAI-compatible & Hugging Face providers
  • Editable prompts · Langfuse · text-to-SQL · RAG
  • Offline AI fallback — provider fallback pool with local Ollama
  • Approval-likelihood prediction — advisory triage signal from your own review history
  • Behavioral anomaly detection (UBA)
  • AI optimization & index recommendations
  • Expanded MCP agent toolset

Review & access

  • Multi-stage approvals · auto-approve reads
  • Bulk decisions · scheduled & recurring runs · plan templates
  • Reviewer groups & scoping · JIT access
  • Policy-as-code routing · row-level security · masking
  • Break-glass emergency access
  • Multi-tenant orgs & per-org quotas
  • Real-time collaborative editing
  • Mobile PWA + one-tap push
  • Version history & diff · dry-run sandbox · replay
  • Personalized dashboard & weekly digest
  • Request chaining & grouping
  • Group-based data & API access grants

API governance

  • Outbound API access governance — REST · SOAP · GraphQL · gRPC
  • Operation catalog · response masking · text-to-API

Deployment governance

  • Deployment approval governance — gate CI/CD releases behind approval workflows
  • Pipelines & environments · per-pipeline trigger grants · AI release-risk analysis
  • Fail-closed deployment gate · freeze windows · break-glass · rollback tracking
  • GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Azure Pipelines gate steps

Compliance

  • Data classification tagging (PII/PCI/PHI/GDPR)
  • Compliance reports & signed exports · Auditor role
  • Result-export governance & DLP — watermarked, policy-gated downloads
  • Data lifecycle — retention, right-to-erasure & pseudonymization
  • Access recertification campaigns

Auth & audit

  • JWT · SAML · OAuth/OIDC · SCIM provisioning · TOTP · RBAC with custom roles
  • HMAC-chained audit log + CSV export
  • SIEM audit streaming & WORM archival — Splunk HEC · syslog/CEF · signed HTTPS · S3 Object Lock

Security & ops

  • External secrets managers (Vault / AWS / Azure Key Vault)
  • Backup / restore & DR tooling — Helm hooks + audit-chain verification
  • ServiceNow & Jira ticketing — auto-created tickets + bi-directional status sync
  • Automated sensitive-data discovery — scheduled column scanning proposes classification tags
  • Least-privilege intelligence — unused-grant analytics with advisory revocation recommendations

Automation & IaC

  • Terraform / OpenTofu provider
  • Reusable GitHub Actions & GitLab CI template

Deploy

  • Docker Compose · Helm 3 · HPA · health probes

How the capability grid maps to releases

AccessFlow releases in small, themed milestones a few weeks apart rather than one large annual version. A capability graduates from the Planned band into a milestone, ships through the normal review-pipeline and audit machinery, and joins the grid above. The grid never says which release introduced an item — docs/12-roadmap.md does, version by version since v1.0.

The two most recent themes: v2.3 was data-aware governance and reviewer intelligence — automated sensitive-data discovery, advisory approval-likelihood prediction, recurring approved queries, least-privilege analytics over unused grants, reviewer delegation and escalation, result-export DLP, and SIEM / WORM audit streaming. v2.4 added deployment approval governance: CI/CD pipelines ask AccessFlow for permission to release and block on a fail-closed gate, with per-environment policies, freeze windows, audited break-glass, and native GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Azure Pipelines steps.

In progress now is milestone 2.5.0, which carries deployment governance past the approval gate into what is actually running where: per-environment version tags and current-version state, rollback semantics that restore the prior recorded version rather than merely reopening a review, a version-inventory and drift API that answers which environments are behind and by how much, and a version matrix, per-environment history timeline and drift badges in the web UI. Every open and closed milestone — with the issues inside it — is on GitHub.

What's next

The Planned band holds capabilities that are not yet scheduled into a milestone; an item leaves it when it lands in a milestone, and enters the grid above when it ships. The absence of an engine here is never a blocker — any JDBC-compatible database can be governed today by uploading its driver JAR, and first-class engine plugins are open to contribution.

Planned

  • Native wire-protocol gateway
  • Column-level permissions
  • Custom analyzer plugins (SPI / HTTP)
  • Automatic query suggestions