# Metasploit's 2017 Roadmap Review In 2017, we published our first open roadmap for Metasploit development. How did we do? For achievements: * The Metasploit data model backend: we did a lot of design work on this, and got a couple of initial Proof-of-Concept project built. You can see a video of it here: . In the mean time, we started merging parts of the main development branch * The first pass of external session handling landed with the metasploit-proxy project. * Independent modules that run in isolation _did_ land, along with a hand full of new modules demonstrating the advantages of the design, including multi-language support. * The ruby_smb project made a lot of progress, with support incorporated into several existing modules. Full client-side support is also available for testing now. * Native iOS and macOS support landed, along with many new IoT and router exploits. * Meterpreter shrank almost 4x thanks to the new cryptTLV packet obfuscation support, and the removal of OpenSSL. Things we didn't quite finish: * Metasploit's RESTful interface was not complete in 2017, so we will continue it into 2018. * Session handling as a separate process was implemented with the project, but more work needs to be done to improve scalability and usability. * Asynchronous session support remains on the drawing board. * SOCKS5 support did not land, but Metasploit did gain a lot more support for running modules externally as separate processes, and gained initial support for running modules in Python. * Modernized payload generation with new tools continues to be researched.