NovaPanel

Roadmap

We ship continuously — everything lands in the changelog the moment it is live. This page is the higher-level view: what has landed lately, what is actually being worked on, and what we are considering or have decided not to build.

Last reviewed 29 August 2026. If this page ever looks older than the changelog, trust the changelog.

Recently shipped

Not everything we ship is listed here — see the full changelog for every release.

In progress

Actively being worked on. Will land in the next 1-3 minor releases.

Plesk import

cPanel and DirectAdmin accounts import today. Plesk is the obvious next format and nothing is written for it yet — its backups are structured differently enough that the existing reader does not simply extend to them.

Pulling accounts straight off the old server

Migration today reads a backup archive you already have. A transfer tool would take the old server's credentials, list its accounts and fetch them itself — the useful half for anyone moving dozens of accounts at once. The importer underneath would not change; it is only a different way of getting the archive.

Considering

Ideas with merit. No commitment to ship — these need either user demand or product clarity before they leave this list.

API reference documentation

The REST API already exists and powers both the admin and customer panels, and API tokens ship on Pro and above — it just is not documented publicly yet. The CLI reference is already up at /docs/cli.

Onboarding wizard for first-time installs

Replacing install-then-figure-it-out with a guided first run: hostname, admin user, first site, first customer. Creating a customer account is already one step rather than five, which was the worst of it, so this is now a smaller job than it was.

Account & site ownership transfer

Move a site — with its domains, databases, and mail — from one customer to another, admin/reseller-initiated. Requested by testers. The database side is simple; the careful part is moving files and the per-account Linux user cleanly, so it's scoped but not yet scheduled.

First-class container hosting

NovaPanel already runs Docker-runtime sites; the larger consideration is full container hosting — deploy an image, expose a port, get an auto-domain + TLS. Tradeoff is scope creep, so we'd build it carefully rather than as a swiss-army-knife.

Multi-server fleet view

Operators running NovaPanel on 5+ boxes manage them individually today. A meta-panel that shows fleet-wide health + lets you push config across servers would be a Developer-tier feature.

Extension / plugin API

Letting third parties add functionality (e.g., Imunify-style malware scanners, custom site builders). Risky — extensions are a security surface. Would only ship behind a strict signing policy.

Windows host support

Honest answer: probably never. The work is huge and the audience for 'Windows hosting via a control panel' has been declining for a decade. Plesk handles this case well.

Want something that's not here?

Drop into our Discord and tell us. The roadmap shifts based on what real users actually need — features asked for once usually stay in "considering" forever; features asked for repeatedly get pulled in.