Roadmap

• Core request & response

  Shipped

  Method, URL, query, headers, and bodies - JSON, XML, text, GraphQL, form, multipart, file. Pretty/raw response views, Validate/Format, and the native CORS advisory.

  GraphQL modefile bodiesCORS advisory

• Variables & environments

  Shipped

  A layered scope chain (global → collection .env → collection → environment → folder → request → script overlay), dynamic {{$guid}}/{{$timestamp}} values, and ask-at-send {{?Name}} prompts, with a live resolved-URL preview.

• Authentication - nine schemes

  Shipped

  Basic, Bearer, API Key, OAuth 2.0 (+ PKCE), OAuth 1.0a, WSSE, AWS SigV4, Digest, and NTLM - with secrets externalized out of the committed YAML.

  OAuth 2.0 + PKCEAWS SigV4DigestNTLM

• Scripting, tests & chaining

  Shipped

  Pre/post JavaScript with the curated helena.* API (env, interpolate, sendRequest, cookies, hash, sleep, runner control), a test()/expect() framework, no-code assertions, and request chaining.

• Collections & headless runner

  Shipped

  Workspaces, collections, folders; an in-app runner and a helena run CLI for CI with the same resolution, scripts, and assertions as a GUI Send. Run a whole collection or a single folder, and emit JSON / JUnit reports for CI dashboards.

  folder-scoped runsJSON / JUnit reports

• Import / export / codegen

  Shipped

  Import OpenAPI / Swagger / WSDL / Postman; export to cURL, wget, fetch, Python, or Go; paste-cURL to build a request.

• Real-time - SSE & WebSocket

  Shipped

  Server-Sent Events streamed into the response view, and a bidirectional WebSocket session UI - both hand-rolled on the standard library, the WebSocket frame codec pinned to RFC 6455's own test vectors.

• Documentation

  Shipped

  This site plus reference docs and a per-module design-notes set living alongside the code.

• Packaging & app stores

  In progress

  Today there's a native binary for every release (with checksums, an SBOM, and build provenance), Linux .deb/.rpm packages, and - live now - a Microsoft Store listing on Windows for a one-click, auto-updating install. Windows winget/Scoop manifests and an Inno Setup installer script are committed but not yet wired into the release pipeline, and macOS is built in CI but not yet signed. Next, so each remaining OS can install and update Helena the way it expects:

  • Mac App Store and a Homebrew cask on macOS, signed and notarized
  • Flatpak / Flathub (the AppStream metadata already lives in the repo), plus AppImage, on Linux

  .deb / .rpmwingetScoopMicrosoft StoreMac App StoreFlatpakHomebrewAppImage

• UI beautification

  In progress

  An ongoing visual refresh: the green accent, the Inter / JetBrains Mono type, the icon sidebar toolbar, and the reworked top bar are in; refined tabs and general polish are next - so Helena looks as good as it works.

  green accentcustom fontsicon toolbartab polish

• gRPC support

  Planned

  Unary + streaming calls from .proto definitions. Unlike SSE/WebSocket this can't be hand-rolled on the standard library, so it's gated on a deliberate dependency decision (grpc-go + protobuf).

• Internationalization

  Planned

  An i18n seam and accessible request/response text, so the UI can be localized.

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