Enterprise Library v3 plan is released.

The Patterns and Practices group at MSDN have released their initial plans for Enterprise Library v3.

In a nutshell, here is their list:

As at our Vision/Scope milestone, the minimal credible list line includes the following features:

• Medium Trust support
• Manageability extensions for configuration (WMI, Group Policy)
• Simple Strong-naming
• Mini-Factory for building your own blocks and providers
• Validation Application Block
• Exception Handling: WCF integration (exception shielding / fault mapping)
• Logging: WCF pipeline integration
• AuthZ: WCF Pipeline integration

Once we get through this list, we have prioritized a backlog of additional features. Currently this list looks like this:

• Config Tool: Embedded in the Visual Studio IDE 
• DAAB: SQL Everywhere support
• DAAB: Richer transactions support
• Docs: More code samples
• Docs: Detailed documentation for ObjectBuilder
• DAAB: Batch support
• Config Tool: Edit AppSettings and other .NET settings
• Config Tool: Environmental Overrides
• Config Tool: Encryption Support
• Config Tool: Improved type loading behavior when assemblies can't be found
• Logging: Rolling flat file TraceListener
• Logging: Local or UTC timestamps in formatted log messages
• Logging: Reflected property tokens
• Ability to create custom production installs
• Ability to create custom developer installs
• Exception Handling: Localization of exception messages
• DAAB: ODP.NET provider support