# Development plan, 2026-01-14

**URL:** <https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/development-plan-2026-01-14/89776>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [January 14, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/development-plan-2026-01-14/89776 "2026-01-14T15:48:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![uckelman](https://forum.vassalengine.org/user_avatar/forum.vassalengine.org/uckelman/32/10020_2.png) [@uckelman](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/uckelman)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/development-plan-2026-01-14/89776/1 "2026-01-14T15:48:32Z")

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Development report for 14 January 2026:

I was tied up with holiday travel for the last two weeks of December; since then my father has been in the hospital for an operation, so I’ve been unable to tackle anything which requires extended concentration. I expect to be able to start catching up in a week or two. Don’t expect much from me before then.

## Done since last time

🎉 I am now devoting my development time to V4 tech demos. 🎉

### V4 Demo

I’m making rapid progress on the demo:

Review initial demo work from May  
 Load maps, pieces from a file  
 Load individual images  
 Crop images  
 Slice images  
 Position maps, grids with anchors  
 Click select pieces  
 Lasso select pieces  
 Drag pieces  
 Pan view  
 Zoom view  
 Rotate view  
 Hex grids  
 Square grids  
 Snap to grid

You could already use it to play simple games such as Battle for Moscow if you supplied your own die:

 ![Screenshot from 2025-12-07 15-59-05](https://forum.vassalengine.org/uploads/default/original/2X/4/40f2a693e106454fff004a3323316fc6c566a2b5.jpeg)

### Maintenance

Release 3.7.19

### Library

This library issue is ongoing:

[GL #19](https://github.com/vassalengine/game-library/issues/19) Clean up publisher names.

This library issue I would like to conclude, but will continue postponing until someone makes a concrete suggestion for how it should be done:

[GL #3](https://github.com/vassalengine/game-library/issues/3) Add project creation link on library front page.

## Next up

### V4 Demo

Piece stacking  
 Logging  
 Undo/Redo

### Maintenance

Release 3.7.20

## Near-term forecast

Once the above V4 Demo tasks are complete, I intend to publish the demo for public comment.

It may be several months before I return to any other module library issues. If there are other module library issues you want addressed sooner, please consider volunteering to help with them.

Game library Issues may be found in the [issue tracker](https://github.com/vassalengine/game-library/issues). Most of them are underdescribed at the moment, so the first step would be asking for a better description. Especially for the frontend issues, we could use pointers to examples of good design.