Eclipse 4diac 3.0.1 - New and Noteworthy
Welcome to the Eclipse 4diac project! The Eclipse 4diac 3.0.1 release is planned for December 23, 2025. Eclipse 4diac can be downloaded from the project's downloads page.
Here are some of the more noteworthy items available in this release.
4diac IDE
4diac IDE 3.0.1 is a maintenance release focusing on improved robustness, correctness, and usability. This page highlights the most important user-visible changes since version 3.0.0.
Graphical Editors & HiDPI Support
- Corrected zoom and scaling when adjusting bendpoints and positioning function blocks
- Improved behavior on high-DPI displays, including Windows with GEF Classic HiDPI support
Structured Text (ST) Editor
- Fixed missing-variable quick fixes to generate valid non-generic types
- Resolved potential null-pointer exceptions for incompatible types
- Improved handling of equals-checks in variable declarations
Adapter Handling & Model Consistency
- Adapter type changes are now propagated correctly to all editors
- Fixed incorrect error event pins when changing adapter types, especially in composite function blocks
UI & Editor Stability
- Debug view now handles empty states without exceptions
- Outline pages in multi-page editors are reliably disposed and re-created
- Equality checks in tables now work correctly for empty cells
Additional Fixes
- Added validation in data type selection dialogs
- Improved parsing of array and struct values
- Updated documentation and cleaned up UI message handling