News 2025

Friday, Jun 27, 2025

Eclipse 4diac Weekly #41

Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from June 20 to June 27, 2025. This week in Eclipse 4diac: 4diac IDE received updates to the external library handling, improved SubApp support in the Bulk Editor, and better drag-and-drop behavior in the System Explorer. The connection layout algorithm now supports user-defined timeouts and considers comment fields during routing. In 4diac FORTE, clang-format integration was added along with fixes for debug-level logging in IEC 61131-3 function blocks.

Friday, Jun 20, 2025

Eclipse 4diac Weekly #40

Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from June 13 to June 20, 2025. This week's updates brings major enhancements to the function block interface specification and composite FB support, aligning both 4diac IDE and 4diac FORTE with modern concepts like spans and structured data handling. In addition, the 4diac IDE sees numerous usability improvements in the Bulk Editor, better deployment tooling, and updated exporters for seamless integration with 4diac FORTE.

Friday, Jun 13, 2025

Eclipse 4diac Weekly #39

Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from June 6 to June 13, 2025. This week brings improvements to 4diac IDE and 4diac FORTE, including support for the new adapter architecture and enhanced openPOWERLINK integration. Additionally, legacy code cleanup and validation improvements strengthen overall code quality and maintainability.

Friday, Jun 6, 2025

Eclipse 4diac Weekly #38

Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from May 30 to June 6, 2025. This week's updates bring notable cleanups, UI improvements, and enhancements across both the 4diac IDE and 4diac FORTE. For 4diac IDE, the team streamlined function block libraries, improved property sheet behavior, and introduced a new contract check system. 4diac FORTE received major CMake cleanups, refined its type system, and improved handling of variable arrays.

Monday, Jun 2, 2025

Next Eclipse 4diac Virtual Community Meeting

On June 4, 2025, we have our 3rd virtual community evening. We have the program ready for this week!

Friday, May 30, 2025

Eclipse 4diac Weekly #37

Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from May 23 to May 30, 2025. This week's Eclipse 4diac updates bring improvements to 4diac IDE including support for FunctionFBType in the FB Network interpreter, significant improvements to the Structured Text editor, and smarter monitoring and bulk editing features. On 4diac FORTE side the improvements are to store type hashes for FBs, data types, and adapters, streamlined build support with fixes for string escapes and improved CI integration, and a more flexible Generic FB architecture.

Friday, May 23, 2025

Eclipse 4diac Weekly #36

Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from May 16 to May 23, 2025. This week's Eclipse 4diac updates bring improvements to 4diac IDE including enhanced Structured Text search, refined deployment and monitoring with support for negated connections, and improved model editing and validation. On 4diac FORTE side the improvements are better tracing, cleaner data handling, and streamlined build support with fixes for string escapes and improved CI integration.

Friday, May 16, 2025

Eclipse 4diac Weekly #35

Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from May 9 to May 16, 2025. This week's Eclipse 4diac updates bring improvements to 4diac IDE including enhanced Structured Text export, improved monitoring stability, and refined function block configuration and type library handling. On 4diac FORTE side the improvements are better modular IO integration, support for non-finite floating-point values, and modernization of internal data structures using standard C++.

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Introducing Our New Committer Martin Jobst

We’re happy to welcome [**Martin Jobst**](https://github.com/mx990), a long-time contributor and expert in embedded systems, as a new committer to the Eclipse 4diac project!

Friday, May 9, 2025

Eclipse 4diac Weekly #34

Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from May 2 to May 9, 2025. This week's Eclipse 4diac updates include improvements to 4diac IDE such as enhanced type export, improved UI for function block networks, and better support for modeling timing information. Meanwhile, 4diac FORTE benefits from significant modernization and performance optimizations, including memory-efficient data structures, simplified code architecture, and improved support for hardware devices.