roadmap: Q4 2026 Discussion

WasmEdge Roadmap Discussion (Q4 / 2026)

Hi everyone, welcome to participate and request for roadmap entries of WasmEdge project. In this issue, the WasmEdge maintainers will collect and summarize the roadmap in this following quarter. After the due date, we'll update the result to the document and open the related issues. Please feel free to raise and participate a project and volunteer as an assignee!

Q4 / 2026: 2026/10/01 ~ 2026/12/31 Discussion Due: 2026/09/30

Roadmap Continue From Last Quarter (Q3 / 2026)

This section shows the active roadmap entries not reach the deadline.

Theme	Description	Timeline	Assignee
Proposal	Component Model completion	Q4 / 2026	@q82419
Proposal	WASI preview2 as plugins	Q4 / 2026	@q82419
Proposal	Runtime GC support in WasmEdge	Q4 / 2026	@ibmibmibm
Language Binding	Move Go binding back into WasmEdge org	Q4 / 2026	@q82419
Proposal	WASI-NN GGML plugin with MTP, DiffusionGemma, and other new models	Q4 / 2026	@hydai
Proposal	Update WASI-crypto to use openSSL 3.5 (ML-KEM support)	Q4 / 2026	@parthdagia05
Feature	WasmEdge tool convention and configure refactoring	Q4 / 2026	@q82419
Feature	assert_exhausted test case supporting	Q4 / 2026	@q82419
Feature	Refine the WASM instruction structure in WasmEdge	Q4 / 2026	@q82419

New Roadmap Requests

We'll keep collecting the requests in the comments of this issue and update into this table.

Theme	Description	Timeline	Assignee

Updated Roadmap Status

The updated, completed, closed, and staled roadmap entries will be listed here.

Theme	Description	Timeline	Assignee	Status
Proposal	Component Model canonical section refactoring	Q3 / 2026	@q82419	Completed
Proposal	WASM C API proposal	Q3 / 2026	@q82419	Completed
Feature	LFX (2026/term2) Memory alignment in WASM instructions	Q3 / 2026	@nailo2c	Completed
Feature	Enable cxx11-abi on all platforms in release (PR #5142, PR #5166)	Q3 / 2026	@q82419	Completed
Feature	WAT supporting	Q3 / 2026	@ibmibmibm	TBD (in review)
Proposal	Component model validator re-design (PR #5276, PR #5323)	Q3 / 2026	@q82419	Completed

Appendix

https://github.com/WasmEdge/WasmEdge/blob/master/docs/ROADMAP.md