sniffnet/ROADMAP.md

Roadmap

This file provides an overview of the direction this project is heading.

Even if I no longer have the luck of working on Sniffnet full-time (as described in #329), I'll try all my best to make the application grow even further by targeting the following features, improvements, and fixes.

Sections are sorted by relevance.
Elements inside a section are sorted by expected release date.
Known open problems are reported at the bottom of this file.

Major features

Feature	Release
IP geolocation	✅ (v1.1)
Custom notifications	✅ (v1.1)
Host names and ASN availability	✅ (v1.2)
Full connections report in a dedicated page	✅ (v1.2)
Read and write of PCAP files	🔜 (v1.3)
ICMP support	🔜 (v1.3)
Packets' payload inspection	❓(TBD)
IP addresses' reputation	❓(TBD)
Malicious traffic detection	❓(TBD)
PIDs identification	❓(TBD)
Sniffnet agent to monitor a remote host	❓(TBD)

Other features

Feature	Release
Settings page: notifications, style, language	✅ (v1.1.0)
Keyboard shortcuts	✅ (v1.1.2)
Notify user when new release is available	✅ (v1.1.3)
Styles based on color gradients	✅ (v1.2.2)
Filter traffic by port number	🔜 (v1.3.0)
Advanced settings: UI scale factor and MMDBs paths	🔜 (v1.3.0)
Proper table structure for connections list	❓(TBD)
Filter inputs autocompletion	❓(TBD)
Details about unassigned IPs	❓(TBD)
Custom TOML themes support	❓(TBD)
Additional details about each notification event	❓(TBD)

Known problems

Solved problems will be removed.
This section only contains currently open problems.

• Complete host report availability
  • only the 30 top hosts are shown in GUI at the moment
• Notifications startegy should be changed
  • too many notifications are delivered, related to similar events, in a short amount of time
• Improve output report update strategy
  • currently the output is generated once per second
• Using the default renderer in some environments can cause some layout problems:
  • flags are not renderer correctly (they appear black)
  • the UI screen glitches
  • see this section to solve
• Improve packages
  • remove previous version of Sniffnet in Windows
  • solve problems related to osascript on macOS
  • see #252 for the complete list of packaging-related problems
• Text inputs for notification settings immediately change the threshold value while the user is typing
• Scrollers change position when an overlay is opened
• The selected adapter may not be in the visible portion of scrollbar when opening the app
• cosmic-text doesn't display some text correctly centered
• Charts' grids are missing when the renderer used is tiny-skia