Planned development in Indico

2025

Indico 3.3.x 🚀

  • Many releases w/ various new features, including:
    • Conditional registration form fields (đź’° funded by Max Planck)
    • Refreshed the looks of the PDF timetable
    • User search privacy improvement (option to restrict to managers)
    • Content-Security-Policy support
    • Many accessibility improvements (đź’° funded by the UN)

2026

Indico 3.3.x

  • New markdown rendering engine (consistent between client and server)
  • Improved LaTeX renderer sandboxing
  • Accessibility improvements (ongoing UN contribution)

Indico 3.4

  • UI Improvements
    • Modernized timetable management (full rewrite in React)

2027

Indico 3.5

  • UI Improvements (likely split over multiple releases):
    • Redesign of various Indico pages (homepage, dashboard, meetings)
    • Improved mobile-friendliness on redesigned pages
    • New conference timetable view

Future :crystal_ball:

  • Improved “data tables” in admin/management areas (contribution list etc)
  • Version 2 of the REST API: granular scopes, endpoint versioning, OpenAPI support;
  • UI improvements in material editor (e.g. better drag and drop)
  • Improve User Experience for users without an Indico account (e.g. in abstract submission)
  • Multilingualism for certain user-defined parts of events (planned UN contribution)
  • Linux distribution packaging (Max Planck Institute for Physics contribution)