Forthcoming improvements
With our new V3 technology, Cloud Drive Mapper (CDM) has a long and exciting life ahead. While we are not ready to publish our strategic roadmap for CDM here, we have received many queries about future updates. Here are some of the more critical features and improvements planned for release in the next few months:
Support for ARM-based devices
CDM will soon be available on ARM-based devices to ensure enhanced performance and greater compatibility across a broader range of hardware platforms. Stay tuned for CDM’s official ARM-based release.
Expected release schedule: Q3 – Q4 2025
Thumbnail handler
Currently, in CDM V3, thumbnails are intentionally not rendered yet as we need to finish some browse optimizations and create a simple dedicated handler for thumbnails. This is a relatively small piece of work that has already been architected. Still, as this is deemed a slightly lower priority than some of the other features mentioned, this may be finished and released around the end of the year.
Expected release schedule: Q4 2025
Search component
In terms of handling search, CDM’s performance is the same and sometimes even worse than WebDAV (depending on what you are searching for). We have designed a new search component to significantly enhance CDM’s ability to handle searches.
Rather than trying to enumerate in real-time (which mirrors the search pattern employed by File Explorer), CDM’s search component will bypass this to make direct use of indexing and deep content search capabilities within SharePoint Online.
Expected release schedule: Q4 2025
Multi-language support for the CDM client
Unlike CDM v2.x (aka Cloud Drive Mapper Legacy), the CDM V3 client only supports English. However, we want to ensure that V3, much like its predecessor, continues to cater to our diverse global user base.
The work for the CDM v3 client to support multiple languages is in progress, with implementation planned in due course.
Expected release schedule: Q1 2026
Auto-assign drive letter
Currently, CDM supports static drive assignment only. This means that when you map a drive using CDM, you can only assign the drive a permanent, fixed drive letter. While static drive assignment works in most environments, it can cause issues if the chosen letter is already in use.
To address this, we are working on a feature that will give you more flexibility when assigning letters to your CDM drives.
This feature will enable you to allocate multiple letters to a drive so that when CDM assigns one of your allocated letters to the drive, it’ll check letters assigned to other drives based on their order in the mapping group and assign the letter from your list that is not already in use by another drive.
Expected release schedule: Q2 2026
