KnowledgeTree 3.0 was partly developed with funding from a Belgian telecommunications company. The release, scheduled for public beta testing in November 2005, deepens the functionality already found in the 2.x family of servers and eases the deployment of the system in more complex enterprise environments.

The focus for the KnowledgeTree 3.x product roadmap is:

• increasing ease of use for both business users and administrators;
• increasing application applicability in regulatory compliance scenarios;
• cleaning up the application architecture and making it easier for contributing developers to understand and extend the DMS;
• increasing system scalability, performance and robustness.

New and extended functionality includes:

• Secure versioning of document metadata, not just the document itself. This vastly increases the application's applicability in regulatory compliance scenarios.
• A new tree document metadata type has been added with the tree being represented graphically on the user interface.
• The User/Group schema has been extended to allow groups to be nested, thus providing for the mapping of users in more complex organisations.
• The move folder and move file functionality is now transactional and records a history of changes to the folder structure.
• Bulk import functionality allows administrators to import large numbers of files from external data sources quickly and easily.
• KnowledgeTree administrators may customise and extend the KnowledgeTree online help facilities using a web-based editor.
• A revamped permissions system which is easier to use and provides finer grained control over a user's actions than in KnowledgeTree 2.x. The extended functionality also lets KnowledgeTree community developers create their own permissions on the system, allowing their plugins to easily check permissions that they require to function.

The application will also be shipped with new branding and a new user interface. The redesign focused on ease of use, with the goal being making instruction manual reading unnecessary.   The new user interface allows organisations to co-brand the application by making it easy for them to upload their logos into the top left corner.

Some samples of the new user interface may be found here.