News 2025

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.

Friday, May 2, 2025

Eclipse 4diac Weekly #33

Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from April 25 to May 2, 2025. This week's Eclipse 4diac updates include improvements to 4diac IDE such as improved contract editing with new properties and grammar fixes, enhanced validation for negated connections, and better support for Simple Function Blocks in the IDE. On 4diac FORTE side, code has been cleaned up by replacing temporary BOOL objects and removing unused includes.

Friday, Apr 25, 2025

Eclipse 4diac Weekly #32

Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from April 18 to April 25, 2025. This week's Eclipse 4diac updates include improvements to the 4diac IDE, such as enhanced search functionality, read-only handling for libraries. In 4diac FORTE, connection handling was extensively reworked to introduce delegating connections, optimize performance, and simplify the management of connections.

Friday, Apr 18, 2025

Eclipse 4diac Weekly #31

Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from April 11 to April 18, 2025.