# Version control and future versions of Ignition (8.3?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81\ **Created:** [June 5, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/version-control-and-future-versions-of-ignition-8-3/74578 "2023-06-05T15:42:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Robert\_McIlvenna](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/robert_mcilvenna/32/80238_2.png) [@Robert\_McIlvenna](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert_McIlvenna)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/version-control-and-future-versions-of-ignition-8-3/74578/1 "2023-06-05T15:42:54Z")
[Any progress on version control system for Ignition? - Ignition - Inductive Automation Forum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/any-progress-on-version-control-system-for-ignition/15333) This is sort of asking for an update to this post, and what might be planned for 8.3. Our team is working on better version control solutions, so it would be really helpful to know what sorts of things may help to solve problems going forward. For example, are there any manual steps to be automated or changes to [Ignition 8 Deployment Best Practices | Inductive Automation](https://inductiveautomation.com/resources/article/ignition-8-deployment-best-practices) for the new version? Or any integration with Git planned? Or any changes to the SDK, or Gateway configs, etc. that may help with version control? Apologies if somewhat vague, but this would really help with planning for the future and smoothly integrating those changes into the way we, and probably quite a few others do version control now. ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/version-control-and-future-versions-of-ignition-8-3/74578/2 "2023-06-05T16:55:09Z")
One of the highlight features planned for 8.3 is for all _gateway_ config to end up on the filesystem in a human & machine readable file format, similar to 8.0 moving all _project_ configuration to the filesystem. Exact details on how that will work have yet to be determined. That's by far the biggest change planned with regard to version control. ---
**Author:** ![hventer23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bbce88/32.png) [@hventer23](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hventer23)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/version-control-and-future-versions-of-ignition-8-3/74578/3 "2023-06-06T20:50:44Z")
Support for IaC like Terraform? Would be insane. ---
**Author:** ![msteele](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/msteele/32/77889_2.png) [@msteele](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/msteele)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/version-control-and-future-versions-of-ignition-8-3/74578/4 "2023-06-06T21:52:58Z")
Is there a public roadmap or a rough timeline when Ignition will move beyond 8.1.\*? ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/version-control-and-future-versions-of-ignition-8-3/74578/5 "2023-06-06T22:03:15Z")
The hints at last year's conference indicated Q4 '24 -ish. Nothing solid of course. ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/version-control-and-future-versions-of-ignition-8-3/74578/6 "2023-06-06T22:32:48Z")
When it's ready 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rbachman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/rbachman/32/43718_2.png) [@rbachman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rbachman)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/version-control-and-future-versions-of-ignition-8-3/74578/7 "2023-10-10T18:36:40Z")
Are there any updates regarding whether or not the gateway config (specifically Gateway Events) will be in a human readable format for 8.3? ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/version-control-and-future-versions-of-ignition-8-3/74578/8 "2023-10-10T18:42:34Z")
Yeah, the technical keynote this year made clear **all** of gateway config will be human-readable, and the gateway will have a config API available for it all in "commissioning" mode. ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/version-control-and-future-versions-of-ignition-8-3/74578/9 "2023-10-10T18:56:46Z")
Note that 'Gateway Events', as in 'Gateway Event Scripts', are a regular project resource and already stored on the _filesystem_. Their actual storage format is also planned to be revamped in 8.3, so that they're broken up into distinct resources in a human-readable format, but that's orthogonal to gateway configuration itself (db connections, device drivers, etc). ---
**Author:** ![louagejasper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/louagejasper/32/86311_2.png) [@louagejasper](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/louagejasper)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2026, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/version-control-and-future-versions-of-ignition-8-3/74578/10 "2026-03-03T10:14:11Z")
Hi all, if anyone has interest in this topic, I've made a video on how to do CI/CD in Ignition 8.3: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svj5-1t8aAk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svj5-1t8aAk)