Synergy Roadmap

UPDATED Q1 2024

See what we’re working on now and our plans for the future

Roadmap

Synergex is committed to advancing the Synergy/DE product suite to enable long-term growth and success for Synergy-based solutions. As we extend our roadmap, we’re focused in the following areas:

  • Legacy app modernization
  • High availability and resilience
  • Data visibility
  • Providing access to current technologies
  • Making it easier to run code in .NET
  • Cloud computing
  • Development environment optimization
  • Repository development experience
  • Enhancing reliability and delivery of Synergy apps

Synergy/DE Runtimes, Databases, and Connectivity

Now

Working on these

  • LTTng for runtime performance profiling on Linux
  • CI/CD for all products across all platforms  

Next

Planning to implement

  • Address technical debt​
  • Support high availability for customers through the ability to change ISAM record length and add/remove ISAM keys while file is in use

Later

Considering for future

  • SELECT class TEMP tables​
  • New thread safety warning mechanisms​
  • Thread-local environment variables​
  • ISAM auto-reindex logging​
  • Next generation ISAM 

Synergy DBL Integration (SDI) and Compilers

Now

Working on these

  • Performance metrics / static code analysis​
  • Telemetry for diagnostics and usage analytics​
  • Bug bashing technical debt​
  • More resiliency for Visual Studio updates​
  • Increased reliability with .NET 6+​
  • .NET metadata loader
  • Enhance internal DevOps infrastructure​
  • Ensure ongoing Visual Studio compatibility by addressing deprecated APIs and modularization​

Next

Planning to implement

  • Migration from Managed Package Framework to Common Project System​
  • Support VS 2024+​
  • .NET support for Multiple Mainline project type​
  • .NET support for DI in legacy code to break circular references ​
  • .NET compiler feature parity with Traditional to ease customer migration process​
  • Improve large Visual Studio solution performance

Later

Considering for future

  • Compile performance optimization to improve Build time and IDE responsiveness​
  • Improve Synergy .editorconfig ​
    experience in Visual Studio​
  • Static code analysis for Synergy DBL​
  • Repository schema IntelliSense; considering schema editing via Language Server Protocol​
  • Repository UI to edit / export specific structure, file, etc.

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