Is There A Roadmap For Upcoming Features?

ttmp12 Is there a thread here in the forum for such a purpose?

Traditionally the GrapheneOS project has not published a roadmap. At various times various features are mentioned as being in development, but I am unaware of "We plan to do feature X before feature Y" statements, let alone target dates.

Please note that I do not speak for the GrapheneOS project.

ttmp12 I would like to see a list of upcoming features that are currently being worked on.

From what I gathered from just reading here on the forum and the chats, GrapheneOS based on Android 15 is highest priority now. That feature is expected to be finished and released within a few days. After that, additional VPN leak protections will be highest priority. Most are fixed already and has the fixes released, but there are a few known VPN leaks left. The development team has said this will be highest priority to fix after Android 15. As you mentioned yourself, fingerprint+PIN unlock is another feature being worked on. I have the impression this feature may be nearing completion, so maybe only a few months away. Another feature that is being worked on is App Scopes, to prevent communication between specific apps inside the same profile. This feature is probably far away from completion, as the developers have repeatibly hinted it is unexpectibly hard to do and even asked volunteers to help out with the implementation, indicating they currently paused development of that feature internally. A wild guess could be the feature is a year away from being ready.

ttmp12 I would like to see an overall roadmap, even if features are pushed or delayed.

The best place to find that info has already been shared: the issue tracker. Filter by tag and you'll know what's being worked on and the features' priorities, which are updated from time to time.

Other places to get updates would be by following the official project account on whichever social media site you prefer. They're listed on the contact page: https://grapheneos.org/contact

ttmp12 A funding structure like Monero would also be interesting, where community members can make specific donations for feature development.

Not sure I'm following here. You can already donate with Monero: https://grapheneos.org/donate#monero

ttmp12 A funding structure like Monero would also be interesting, where community members can make specific donations for feature development.

Non-profits usually don't want people to donate for specific features, as the project team loses the ability to work on what they consider important. Tor Project is an example of a non-profit that accept both general donations like GrapheneOS does today, but also feature specific donations from govermental institutions. When applying for donations from governmental institutions one has to pitch what feature the money will go to develop. The Tor Project has been unhappy about this, and posted about it on their blog repeatedly. Governments always only donate for developing anti-censorship features, they don't ever donate for security, privacy or anonymity features. The Tor Project was stuck with a weak design for onion services for many years, despite already having a thought up design of a new much improved implementation, but couldn't implement it as all their effort went into pluggable transports instead as that was what governmental institutions funded. This issue is not just with software developments. A non-profit working for positive environmental change and saving endangered species ended up in the same situation. They launched a donation campaign where you could donate towards effort to save a specific species of endangered animals in the hope to raise the amount of donations received. But people only donated towards saving the cute animals, not at all the ones that were the most endangered and in need for help.

Bottom line: Non-profits do not want donations for a specific cause, but want to use their own expertize to judge where to put the money.