Lioran S3 V1 Pre-Alpha: Current Scope and Roadmap
Lioran S3, also known as Lioran Bastion, launched its V1 Pre-Alpha on October 1, 2026.
The next planned version is scheduled for November 17, 2026.
I’m Swaraj Puppalwar, Founder & CTO at Lioran Group and Lioran Developer Solutions (LDS). This article is a deliberately plain description of what the current release supports, what it does not, and what is planned.
That distinction matters more than hype.
Supported today
Object storage
The server currently supports native object operations:
- PUT
- GET
- HEAD
- DELETE
- listing
- prefix filtering
- cursor pagination
- byte-range reads
Buckets
Current bucket features include:
- create
- list
- inspect
- update
- delete
- storage quotas
- tags/configuration fields exposed by the driver
Streaming
Large object paths use bounded-memory streaming rather than requiring entire payloads in RAM.
Multipart
Current multipart support includes:
- create upload
- upload parts
- inspect status
- resume
- complete
- abort
- high-level automatic multipart orchestration
Security
Current security features include:
- HTTP Basic authentication
- Argon2id password hashing
- admin/readwrite/readonly roles
- bootstrap password rotation
- user CRUD
- access key creation
- access key rotation
- access key revocation
- credential masking
- production credential checks
- CORS configuration
Signed URLs
The server supports expiring signed:
- GET
- PUT
- HEAD
URLs using cryptographic signing.
Reliability
Current storage-safety mechanisms include:
- temporary/staged writes
- configurable durability mode
- object integrity metadata
- bucket quota checks
- host free-space guardrails
- graceful shutdown behavior
Metadata
Metadata is stored separately from object payloads using embedded RocksDB.
Media
Experimental media features currently include:
- video upload
- transcoding
- HLS generation
- poster generation
- playback URLs
- downloadable processed video
- video share links
- image resize
- image conversion
- image quality optimization
FFmpeg is required for video processing.
Developer tooling
Current official TypeScript package:
npm install @liorans3/driver@prealpha
Current official CLI:
npm install -g @liorans3/cli@prealpha
Observability
Current operations surfaces include:
/health/metrics- system information
- performance diagnostics
- CLI
doctor - machine-readable CLI JSON mode
Current limitations
Single-node
V1 is not a distributed cluster.
There is currently no:
- multi-node replication
- Raft consensus
- active-active topology
- erasure coding
Those layers are intentionally deferred.
Not yet AWS S3 API compatible
Lioran S3 currently provides S3-style object-storage semantics, but the native API is not yet a drop-in implementation of the AWS S3 REST protocol.
This means existing AWS S3 SDKs should not be assumed to work directly.
Use the official driver or API.
Local filesystem dependency
The embedded storage architecture expects direct local filesystem behavior.
Do not casually place RocksDB over a network filesystem with incompatible locking or persistence semantics.
Media dependency
Video functionality requires:
ffmpeg
ffprobe
Planned areas
The current roadmap includes:
AWS S3 compatibility
A compatibility layer for existing S3 ecosystem tooling.
Object lifecycle rules
Automatic expiry and storage lifecycle behavior.
Webhooks
Object mutation events such as:
object:created
object:deleted
Fine-grained authorization
More expressive IAM-style policy controls.
Distributed storage
Future work can include clustering and replication after the single-node engine reaches the required level of correctness and stability.
Why publish limitations?
Because infrastructure documentation should help developers make decisions.
Calling a native REST object store “fully S3 compatible” before the S3 compatibility layer exists would make the documentation less useful.
Calling pre-alpha storage “production ready” because a benchmark looked good would make it less useful again.
The current goal is to build the system in visible stages and document the actual contract at each stage.
Release timeline
October 1, 2026
V1 Pre-Alpha launched
November 17, 2026
Next planned Lioran S3 version
Resources
Product:
Documentation:
Repository:
https://github.com/LioranGroupOfficial/LioranBastion-Rust
Lioran Group:
Lioran S3 is developed by Lioran Developer Solutions, part of the broader infrastructure work of Lioran Group, founded and technically led by Swaraj Puppalwar.
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