Q2 2018 - Our focus will be finishing up Backpack's use as a platform. So we'll have features like automatically registering routes and menu/sidebar items. One-line installers for all packages. Skeleton repositories and guides for you to easily create Backpack packages. By our next breaking update (BackpackCRUD 3.4), you'll be able to browse a marketplace of Backpack packages and install each with one command line. This marketplace will feature both first-party and third-party plugins, and as people build more plugins, we hope it will greatly improve our speed in building admin panels.