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Features wishlist (aka TODO list)

Here is a list of features that will be implemented sooner or later.

Core

Name	Status	Target/Released version	Description
Statistics	Not started	Target for v0.0.8	Add support for statistics. It should be possible to add any type of counter or gauge.
Improve packet listener	Not started	Undefined	Make packet listener process protocols earlier in the code in case one of the later protocol issues PROTO_STOP.
Improve locking contention	Not started	Undefined	Try to reduce lock contention by using gcc atomic builtin where possible. Clock would be a good start.
Port to non-x86 arch	Not started	Undefined	Non-x86 arch are not allowed to perform non-aligned access. Proto 802.11 needs special handling for that and the rest of the code needs to be tested.
Make system datastore optional	Not started	Undefined	Don't make a system datastore mandatory.
Conntrack cleanup	Done	Released in v0.0.7	Cleanup the conntrack code to drop the field_id definitions and handle timeout when no child in the core.
Conntrack expectations	Done	Released in v0.0.7	Allow conntracks to match related connections. Useful for protocols such as FTP or VoIP ones to match the additional connections.

Name	Status	Target/Released version	Description
DVBv5 API migration	Not started	Undefined	Migrate DVB inputs to the DVBv5 API.

Name	Status	Target/Released version	Description
Signature matching	Not started	Undefined	Allow protocols such as TCP to match the next protocols based on a signature.

Name	Status	Target/Released version	Description
Use home path for default datastore	Not started	Undefined	By default, the system datastore points to the current directory to store the db file (./pom-ng.db). It should point to ~/.pom-ng/sys_dstore.db or similar.