V1.3.0 Release Plan

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Endgame

• Code freeze: Sept 12, 2025
• Bug Bash date: Sept. 15, 2025
• Testing start date: Sept. 18, 2025
• Release date: Sept. 30, 2025

Main Features

Platform Features & Stability

1. • Move PostgreSQL database to Azure disk
2. • Blob Mount Enhancement
3. • ssh-proxy and utilization reporter check-in (Add missing ssh-proxy and utilization reporter service #55, remove public-key checking #76)
4. • Add local disk support for prometheus deployment (Bring local disk back for Prometheus service #74)
5. • Bootstrap - add H200 entry for VMSS provision scripts (Bootstrap - add H200 entry for VMSS provision scripts #58)
6. • Update k8s deployment scripts for Kubespray (Contrib - Update k8s deployment scripts for Kubespray #72)

Inference Plugin

1. • Support output streaming in web portal
2. • Long-context thinking output folding support (Feature: Support folding reasoning content for thinking model #60)
3. • Inference model proxy service (Feature: Add a new service "model-proxy" to support to redirect request to all available model serving jobs in cluster #61)
4. • Feature: Make message showed as markdown in chat-plugin and copied as text Feature: Make message showed as markdown in chat-plugin and copied as text #70

CI/CD

1. • LTP Platform Pipeline
2. • LTP Documentation Pipeline

Tools

1. • Add administration tools to manage LTP service (Tools - add common tools for LTP administration #62)

Security

1. • Upgrade Dockerfile with system update (fix docker files for several services to upgrade system and keep package version #43)
2. • Add dind support for Webportal (Add webportal-dind to run webportal in a container #42)

User experience

1. • Copilot SGLANG Interface backend Support
2. • CoPilot Support for Dashboard Metrics (Copilot: Add feature: Supporting Dashboard Metric Inquiry #59)
3. • User Feedback Loop Design and Implementation Copilot: Add feature: collect Question/Answer/Feedback for analytic purpose #71
4. • Code Refactor (Copilot - code refactor #57, Copilot: Data Cleanup: remove unnecessary data #73)
5. • Copilot: Update: Add User group membership authenticate Copilot: Update: Add User group membership authenticate #68

License

1. • License - Add license headers from Microsoft for examples License - Add license headers from Microsoft for examples #64
2. • License - Add license headers from Microsoft for contrib License - Add license headers from Microsoft for contrib #65
3. • License - Add license headers from Microsoft for deployment License - Add license headers from Microsoft for deployment #66
4. • License - Add license headers from Microsoft for src License - Add license headers from Microsoft for src #67