Over the previous year, main feature development on Asphalt has stagnated. As of the date of this post (20th of February 2026), the last commit to the main Asphalt repository was the 16th of November 2025 to fix a critical bug. Before that, it was the 15th of March 2025.
There are two main reasons for this:
- Lack of ideas: I have been working on Asphalt solo since December 2016, and during that time features have come and gone with demand, I feel that Asphalt today is at a place where the features that should be in the bot are, and thinking of any additional functionality would just be making features for the sake of making features.
- Other commitments: Back in January 2025, a good friend and I created a web and software development business together, Mallinson and Wright (https://mallinsonandwright.com) which I have been focusing most of my attention on.
What are the plans for the future of Asphalt?
I am planning on taking a development hiatus, for an unknown duration, on functionality of Asphalt (only fixing critical/major bugs during this time), and keeping up the management of Asphalt’s infrastructure (for example, the major audio infrastructure re-write that I am currently about half way through, which is why Audio is non-functional).
During this time, no further features will be implemented, no changes to commands will be made. Our team will continue to respond to support requests as usual and, as stated above, critical bugs will continue to be fixed.