Roadmap

Aephoron development follows phased milestones documented in AEPHORON_ROADMAP.md and AEPHORON_UI_ROADMAP.md. Status below reflects public engineering progress — not release guarantees.

Completed foundations (Phase 0)

• WebRender GPU paint, html5ever HTML parser, rust-cssparser
• SpiderMonkey v140.5 JavaScript engine
• Hyper + Rustls networking with post-quantum crypto available (ML-KEM, ML-DSA)
• Multi-process IPC via ipc-channel
• DOM, WebCrypto, IndexedDB, WebSockets
• aephoron-desktop port with egui + Winit UI
• Cross-platform build via mach + Cargo workspace

Phase 1 — UI & navigation ✅

• Omnibox connected to IPC navigation with URL sync
• Back, forward, reload, stop controls
• Tab manager — create, close, switch (Cmd+1..9)
• Favicon and dynamic tab titles
• Search vs URL detection with configurable default engine
• Keyboard shortcuts (Cmd+T/W/R, find-in-page, reader mode)

Phase 2 — Optimization (in progress)

• Thermal throttling — inactive tabs drop to 10 FPS
• Tab discard and aggressive cache purge
• Target: < 150 MB RAM per static tab

Phase 3 — On-device AI

• Ailoos inference on GPU (Metal/Vulkan/DirectX)
• Empoorio Assistant side panel
• Reader mode, visual search, voice shields
• Page summarization without cloud API lock-in

Phase 4 — Web3 vault & PQ TLS

• window.aephoron native API for dApps
• Eoonia Wallet embedded — keys never in JS heap
• In-app transaction signing UI (clickjacking-resistant)
• Post-quantum TLS on the network stack
• WalletConnect v2 session persistence
• Aephoron SSO — did:emp login, VC presentation, SIWE

Phase 5+ — Loogo Search

See Loogo Vision for the three-layer search roadmap:

1. Clearnet — self-hosted SearXNG aggregation
2. Web3 — Tantivy index over EmpoorioChain + P2P query nodes
3. Synthesis — Ailoos on-device answers with citations

Contributing

Aephoron is MPL-2.0 (Servo fork). Contributions welcome via GitHub — start with WPT conformance, aephoron-desktop UI, or Loogo provider traits.