What ships today, and what is next

Today

• Done
  Project foundation

  Rust workspace, CI placeholder, justfile, MIT license, repo-local agent rules.

• Done
  Phase 1 — Direct-address QUIC transfer

  ferry recv --listen / ferry send <ip:port> <file>, persistent identity, self-signed TLS, BLAKE3 receive validation, temp-file finalize, documented exit codes, loopback smoke.

• Done
  Phase 2 — Manifest, directories, resume

  Directory walking with metadata, multi-file sessions, destination path safety, skip for matching files, prefix verification, resume from verified offset, transfer event stream.

• Active
  Phase 3 — Public website at fileferry.app

  This site. Leptos + Axum SSR, self-hosted behind Caddy on an Ubuntu VM. Install and release pages fill in as packaging lands.

• Done
  Phase 4 — Native discovery and peer registry

  mDNS announce/browse on _ferry._udp.local., fingerprint-keyed registry merge, trust-store persistence, ferry peers/trust/forget commands, and peer-targeted send.

• Done
  Phase 6 — TUI send flow

  Interactive no-args dispatch, Ratatui peers/queue/picker/log panes, file-picker navigation, keybindings, help overlay, core send actions, trust confirmation, progress updates, and visible transfer errors.

• Done
  Phase 7 — Daemon and JSON

  ferry daemon, daemon.toml persistence, stable JSON output, Unix service examples, Windows service planning, JSON smoke tests, and headless PSK docs are in place.

• Active
  Phase 8 groundwork

  Loopback benchmark harness, generated destination path-safety checks, overwrite policy tests, and secret-redaction coverage are in; recorded performance runs and tuning remain.

• Active
  Phase 9 release packaging

  cargo-dist configuration, target triples, a tag-driven GitHub Actions release workflow, SHA-256 checksum publishing, crates.io metadata, and publish order are configured.

Roadmap

• Planned
  Phase 5 — Protocol hardening

  Cancellation, trust confirmation UX, and trust enforcement in the transfer path.

• Done
  Phase 6 — TUI

  The interactive shell, panes, picker navigation, keybindings, help screen, ferry-core send actions, trust confirmation modal, and transfer error presentation are in.

• Active
  Phase 8 — Performance and hardening

  Benchmark harness and hardening tests are in. Recorded large-file, many-small-file, and 1GbE runs plus chunk/concurrency tuning remain.

• Active
  Phase 9 — Release packaging

  Artifact packaging and crates.io publishing are configured. Signing mechanism and demo media remain.

• Planned
  Phase 10 — 1.0 documentation

  Architecture, discovery, security, performance, release, and hosted-send design docs are in; man page generation remains optional.

• Active
  Phase 11 — send.fileferry.app

  Hosted web send portal remains separate from the native LAN product. Threat model, transport constraints, retention, abuse guardrails, and deployment plan are documented before implementation.

Performance targets