After the API freeze our goal is to implement and fix the very commonly requested features / bugs for a 1.0 release.

Tasks

Note these are not in any particular order.

• Features
  • Improve Install / Update experience Improve app update experience #5166 Fix auto update UX #9164
  • Revisit view system API for creating views in packages #3752 Let's choose a view framework for docs, generated packages, etc. #5756
  • Per-project config settings Per-project config settings #5168
• Performance
  • Startup Improve startup time #3673
  • Large files Large file support #307
  • Long lines Files with large extremely long lines cause hangs #979 Long line breaks syntax highlighting #1667
• Bugs
  • Better handling for international keyboards Right ALT not supported (bad for International Keyboards) atom-keymap#35 Some non-US keyboard layouts not working atom-keymap#37

Done

• Preview pane items Preview pane items / Smart Tabs #3683
• Autocomplete Next Autocomplete Next #4364
• Settings UI refresh [WIP] Improve package management experience settings-view#277
• Windows installer/updater Windows updater and installer #3675
• Exception user experience (eg. Config gets stuck to default if config.cson has a syntax error #3715)
• Grouped undo No more character by character undo #1606 Add grouped undo for all text editor commands #4071
• Scoped config settings (PR Add scoped settings to user config #3718)
• Support non-UTF-8 encodings Support for non-UTF-8 encodings #1806
• Multiple folder projects Multiple folders in projects #770 Add option to configure multiple root folders in tree-view tree-view#63
• Indented soft wrap Softwrap should match indent #1125
• Update default themes Update default themes #5173
• Typing and cursor movement perf Optimize typing, cursor movement, and scrolling performance #5163
• Tab switching Improve tab switching performance #5174
• Update and clarify the docs Split the docs into their own repo #3678 Documentation / guides we should write #3399
• Services (Inter-package communication) Make services API public #5165
• Remove deprecated APIs Remove deprecated APIs #5164
• Wrapping foreign / CJK characters Atom doesn't soft wrap CJK(Chinese/Japanese/Korean) correctly #1783
• Find and replace find/replace performance find-and-replace#145

Open Issues

See https://github.com/atom/atom/labels/1.0-roadmap