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Roadmap

Shipping today at v0.16.5, then installer integration, Proxmox depth, and trust-baseline expansion

SHIPPING TODAY

v0.16.5

Published under Lamco Development LLC, GPG signed. Built on the stable Rust toolchain.

  • ✓Native reading of ext4, btrfs, FAT, XFS, exFAT, and ZFS, with XFS also on LVM and inside an .iso region, read in place.
  • ✓A native read-only media-filesystem stack: EROFS, ISO 9660, SquashFS, cramfs, romfs, and UDF.
  • ✓Opt-in boot of a Linux distribution directly from an .iso on disk or from an optical disc (experimental; Arch 2026.05 and Fedora 44 validated end to end).
  • ✓Native kernel loader that parses the PE header itself with no third-party parser, with a firmware LoadImage fallback for Linux EFI-stub kernels.
  • ✓Trust-evidence log on every boot.
  • ✓Graphical menu with mouse, and a serial fallback.
  • ✓NVRAM crash-loop recovery.
  • ✓BLS plus UKI plus kernel-install plus distro hooks. Kernel-upgrade entries handled in place on an XFS /boot.
  • ✓Bootloader-side self-install of the LamBoot UEFI boot entry, and partition discovery that covers MBR and BlockIO-only layouts in addition to GPT.
  • ✓Secure Boot via shim plus MOK and firmware db.
  • ✓Measured boot on PCR 4, 5, and 12.
  • ✓x86_64.
  • ✓AUR lamboot-bin and lamboot-archinstall, plus a signed pacman repository at pacman.lamco.ai: LamBoot is the first third-party bootloader to integrate with Arch's guided installer (archinstall), appearing in its Bootloader menu.
TIER 1 · IMMEDIATE

Installer integration

The strategic priority, because adoption gates capability: until distributions install LamBoot at OS-install time, it stays a retrofit.

  • •The lamboot-installer-protocol v1, already shipping in lamboot-install.
  • •A Calamares upstream module.
  • •An openSUSE script-contract path.
  • •An aarch64 binary release, built from the same source tree.
TIER 2 · v1.0

Proxmox depth, health, and verified media

  • •The Proxmox host-side sequence in depth.
  • •Health monitoring with expanded metrics and real NVMe SMART reporting.
  • •A verified-media trust-root path, so the new media-filesystem mounts can be integrity-checked, not just read.
  • •Broadening the live-boot validation matrix for boot-from-ISO beyond Arch and Fedora to the other recipe-covered families.
TIER 3 · v1.1 AND LATER

Trust-baseline expansion and more filesystems

  • •The Microsoft shim-review submission (Path D), which removes the per-system MOK enrollment step.
  • •A WASMi diagnostic runtime as a separate lamboot-wasm.efi module, never in the core.
  • •TPM2_Quote remote attestation.
  • •Native f2fs and bcachefs reading.
  • •Broader ZFS topologies beyond single-disk, mirror, and RAIDZ1.
SCOPE

Deliberately not building

Stating scope plainly is part of the roadmap.

  • →No legacy BIOS. UEFI only.
  • →No interactive rescue shell. The menu picks an entry, and diagnostic modules are chainloaded EFI applications.
  • →No GRUB-style config language.