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🚀 Roadmap #654

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@tiangolo

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This is a tentative roadmap, I will update it as things evolve. Some things might be discarded, others might be added later. I didn't want to make it fully public as it could raise expectations, but it seems it would be more beneficial for the community to know all the ideas and objectives.

Work on this is alternated (and sometimes mixed) with work on Typer, SQLModel, Asyncer, and others.

Answering questions, issues, and PRs is also intermixed with this, but as in some cases one of these features would solve several issues or questions, or potentially solve something done by one or more PRs, in many cases I focus on this a bit more than on answering specific issues, questions, PRs.

Maintenance

The word "maintenance" or "maintainer" doesn't have a very strict definition, and it probably varies a lot from perspective.

A lot of the work related to maintaining FastAPI is done by contributors by answering questions, reviewing PRs, etc.

You can help me ensure each existing PR is in shape (has tests, solves the problem, etc.). Make sure you filter out the translation PRs (most of them) unless you speak the language and can review them.

Security

When there are security issues, those are handled with the highest priority. Those are normally not handled in issues and PRs but in emails, it's not public until the security disclosure is made, in most cases (always, up to now) with the version that fixes them.

Roadmap

Now, here's the current high-level tentative roadmap:

All this is intermixed with reviews for PRs, issues, and discussions.

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  1. pinned this issue on Oct 4, 2023
  2. Zaffer commented on Oct 6, 2023

    @Zaffer

    This is great news! So excited to start using these new features. I'm curious how you are planning in integrating Alembic?

  3. AntonDeMeester commented on Oct 7, 2023

    @AntonDeMeester
    Contributor

    Is the goal to support both Pydantic v1 and v2 and SQL Alchemy v1 and v2? Or only v1+v1 and v2+v2? The combination of both will become difficult.

  4. honglei commented on Oct 8, 2023

    @honglei

    @AntonDeMeester @tiangolo Only support SQLAlchemy v1.4 with 2.0-style and v2.0?

  5. hyperknot commented on Oct 8, 2023

    @hyperknot

    Is there a branch of this project or a starter template for using FastAPI latest + SQLAlchemy 2 + Pydantic 2?

    I'm starting a new project with FastAPI latest + SQLAlchemy 2 and I'm not sure what would be the right way to set it up? Should I just avoid SQLModel altogether?

  6. honglei commented on Oct 8, 2023

    @honglei
  7. hyperknot commented on Oct 9, 2023

    @hyperknot

    Thanks @honglei.

    I've also found

    I'll personally not use SQLModel. It introduces way too much logic for a simple type checking functionality for me.

    Duplicating a small amount of code in the codebase is much more maintainable than introducing an external dependency with a lot of logic involved.

  8. joshTax commented on Oct 10, 2023

    @joshTax

    You can help me ensure each existing PR is in shape (has tests, solves the problem, etc.)

    🫡

    So glad to see signs of life in this amazing project.

  9. chamithdulshanadl commented on Oct 18, 2023

    @chamithdulshanadl

    We are using fast API with SQL Model for our microservices. And planning to add Llama index which needs SQLAlchemy above 1.4.41. But does not support by current SQL Model versions (required: >=1.4.17,<=1.4.41).

    @tiangolo Need your kind help.

  10. Matthieu-LAURENT39 commented on Oct 24, 2023

    @Matthieu-LAURENT39
    Contributor

    Are the items on the roadmaps features you plan to implement yourself, or are they open for PRs?

    In any case, this is really exciting! I can't wait to be able to use a Pydantic v2 + SQLModel (with all the great SQLAlchemy 2 features) + FastAPI stack!

  11. gmos commented on Oct 24, 2023

    @gmos
  12. andylinzie commented on Oct 27, 2023

    @andylinzie

    Take a look at this.

  13. luoshuijs commented on Nov 1, 2023

    @luoshuijs

    Since the dev dependency, FastAPI, no longer supports Python 3.7 from version 0.104.0 onwards, will SQLModel also need to drop support for Python 3.7 in the future? If so, it would likely be a massive undertaking. It should be included in the roadmap together.

  14. Leewinner1 commented on Nov 4, 2023

    @Leewinner1

    When dealing with relational models,sqlalchemy only needs to define relationships on one side,sqlmodel needs to define relationships on both sides, and the complexity of the model class is very difficult to deal with. The screen full of relationships makes my brain a little hot, especially the many-to-many relationships, even if the model class is written according to the documentation, it becomes extremely complex.

  15. zoonman commented on Nov 6, 2023

    @zoonman

    I am looking forward for SQLAlchemy v2 support. This should enable ClickHouse columnar storage.

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  17. peterdresslar commented on Oct 16, 2024

    @peterdresslar

    @tepelbaum I know it's two months later, but I wound up having to work on a minimal implementation of sqlmodel and alembic, so I published it to github. I'd actually be interested to keep maintaining this example or something like it, if it's helpful.

  18. AtticusZeller commented on Nov 19, 2024

    @AtticusZeller

    migration is seems already finished in official template repo full-stack-fastapi-template
    and here is the README

  19. iloveitaly commented on Feb 7, 2025

    @iloveitaly

    here's an example repo with albemic + sqlmodel setup https://github.com/iloveitaly/python-starter-template

  20. godsplanhub commented on Aug 6, 2025

    @godsplanhub

    Any plans of adding support for GeoAlchemy 2.(Using SQLAlchemy with Spatial Databases).its becoming hard to satrt new projects without using SQLModel again.

  21. gillespilloudkerlink commented on Sep 17, 2025

    @gillespilloudkerlink

    @tiangolo How can we support you in term of

    • community
    • development
    • release management
    • financial
      to have a new sqlmodel release ?

    SqlModel is a great project an the model unification from the db to the api is a real game-changer, and a robustness improvement for all classical SaaS with the API-first logic. but some issues (alias management, pydantic v2 full support, ...) are painful in a daily usage.

  22. KunxiSun commented on Sep 22, 2025

    @KunxiSun

    @tiangolo How can we support you in term of

    • community
    • development
    • release management
    • financial
      to have a new sqlmodel release ?

    SqlModel is a great project an the model unification from the db to the api is a real game-changer, and a robustness improvement for all classical SaaS with the API-first logic. but some issues (alias management, pydantic v2 full support, ...) are painful in a daily usage.

    I completely agree. SQLModel is a fantastic tool provides great developing experience.

    However, I've noticed that the pace of updates and the review process for Pull Requests have been a bit slow recently. There are many valuable community contributions waiting to be merged.(such as #1226 ).

    I know maintaining an open-source project takes a lot of work, but I really hope this tool keeps growing and doing well. I’d be super excited to help out with SQLModel’s development any way I can (from SqlModel community).

  23. medihack commented on Sep 22, 2025

    @medihack

    I am a bit hesitant about using the library. Although I know it's just a thin wrapper around Pydantic and SQLAlchemy (which I believe is significant), many of the opinions I've read express mixed feelings about the library's stability and future. I truly hope that this library not only survives but also thrives.

  24. iloveitaly commented on Sep 22, 2025

    @iloveitaly

    It's the best ORM option out there. Would love to see active development on this: please let us know how we can help!

    I've started pulling all of the additional stuff I've needed to make SQLModel fully functional to me into this repo: https://github.com/iloveitaly/activemodel

  25. vmskonakanchi commented on Dec 29, 2025

    @vmskonakanchi

    does anyone have ETA on the migrations feature

  26. stevleibelt commented on Aug 3, 2026

    @stevleibelt

    @vmskonakanchi looks like there is a pull request/689 pending already. Maybe you can fix the existing merge conflicts?

  27. vmskonakanchi commented on Aug 3, 2026

    @vmskonakanchi

    Thanks for the suggestion, @stevleibelt! I took a pass at reviving #689 against the current main.

    What I completed:

    • Resolved the merge conflicts.
    • Preserved the current uv/PDM tooling and CI.
    • Updated the deprecated entry-point loading.
    • Verified the migration CLI tests, lint checks, and sqlmodel migrations --help.

    I initially opened #2061, but it was automatically closed because the implementation modifies pyproject.toml and uv.lock, which require maintainer approval.

    To get guidance on the preferred packaging direction, I opened Discussion #2062. It asks whether this should use core dependencies, an optional extra, or a docs/template-only approach.

    I’m happy to adapt the implementation based on that guidance.

  28. iloveitaly commented on Sep 5, 2026

    @iloveitaly

    does anyone have ETA on the migrations feature

    I'd love migrations to be a first class feature as well! I have alembic configured on this example template and it's working great if you want to point AI at something to copy.

  29. vmskonakanchi commented on Sep 5, 2026

    @vmskonakanchi

    does anyone have ETA on the migrations feature

    I'd love migrations to be a first class feature as well! I have alembic configured on this example template and it's working great if you want to point AI at something to copy.

    We do have a PR against this feature, it's in discussion , take a look at it

  30. pete312 commented on Sep 25, 2026

    @pete312

    Question: SQLModel is in pre release 0.0.# stage but its widely used. Is it possible that if a breaking change is to be introduced, then adopt the system of bumping the MINOR number.

    I do want to auto accept point releases but breaking changes is something that i could guard against if we did adopt this. This is in relation to the 0.0.45 release.

  31. stevleibelt commented on Sep 25, 2026

    @stevleibelt

    As far as I understand semantic versioning that is the reason why this project is still below a major release @pete312 . Expect breaking changes until version 1.0.0 is created.
    With this written, I am using fastapi and typer in many places since years and from this projects, breaking changes are always well communicated with an "do this and all is fine"-howto section included.

    Either wait for a major release or subscribe to the release notification here. I don't see there is another option without slowing down the development until version 1.0.0.

    Kind regards,
    Stev

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