News 2025
Friday, Nov 7, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #60
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from October 31 to November 07, 2025. This week’s updates for Eclipse 4diac include several quality and usability improvements in 4diac IDE, along with modernization and cleanup work in 4diac FORTE.
Friday, Oct 31, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #59
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from October 24 to October 31, 2025. 4diac IDE received a large enhancement for transition condition support and improved annotation handling, while work on 4diac FORTE focused on better modularization, cleanup of outdated modules, and improved portability across systems.
Monday, Oct 27, 2025
Eclipse 4diac 3.0 Enters Feature Freeze!
After more than two years of development and over 7200 commits across 4diac IDE and 4diac FORTE, Eclipse 4diac 3.0 has the **feature freeze phase**! This marks a major milestone toward our next big release.
Friday, Oct 24, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #58
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from October 17 to October 24, 2025. This week’s updates continue refining the stability and consistency of both 4diac IDE and 4diac FORTE. 4diac IDE received multiple improvements around refactoring, editor synchronization, and type management, while 4diac FORTE introduced updates to generic block handling, build configuration, and testing.
Friday, Oct 17, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #57
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from October 10 to October 17, 2025. This week’s updates continue the refinement of the new 4diac 3.0 infrastructure, with improvements in editor robustness, refactoring of generic function blocks, and expanded platform support. The 4diac IDE received many model and UI stabilizations, while 4diac FORTE introduced new generic function blocks and modernized internal code structures.
Monday, Oct 13, 2025
Eclipse 4diac White Paper on Improved IEC 61499 Communication Modelling
The Eclipse 4diac project is not only dedicated to providing an open-source ecosystem for IEC 61499-based automation but also to continuously advancing and improving the IEC 61499 standard itself. As part of this ongoing effort, we are excited to share our first **Eclipse 4diac White Paper**, focusing on **improved communication modelling in IEC 61499**.
Friday, Oct 10, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #56
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from October 03 to October 10, 2025. This week’s updates bring further refinements to the new 4diac IDE import and validation mechanisms, cleanup of XML structures across the codebase, and several improvements to build robustness and platform compatibility in 4diac FORTE.
Friday, Oct 3, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #55
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from September 26 to October 03, 2025. This week brought major progress in the ongoing refactoring of the 4diac IDE with the transition to the new `BlockFBNetworkElement` model, alongside several fixes and improvements in 4diac FORTE and updates to the documentation.
Friday, Sep 26, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #54
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from September 19 to September 26, 2025. This week’s updates focus on improving 4diac IDE graphical editing, type handling, and forte_ng export, as well as enhancing 4diac FORTE’s OPC UA A&C layer, namespaces, and module structure.
Friday, Sep 19, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #53
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from September 12 to September 19, 2025. This week’s updates bring improvements across the 4diac IDE and 4diac FORTE. 4diac IDE saw enhancements in attribute handling, type parsing, and library maintenance, while 4diac FORTE gained better support for shared libraries, refactored communication layers, and installation features.