News 2025
Friday, Sep 12, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #52
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from September 05 to September 12, 2025. Last week brought significant improvements to both the 4diac IDE and 4diac FORTE. 4diac IDE received major enhancements in command stack handling, deployment, and attribute management, while 4diac FORTE saw large-scale reworks of build options, source structures, and OPC UA handling.
Tuesday, Sep 9, 2025
Eclipse 4diac at ETFA 2025
This year’s IEEE ETFA Conference in Porto started with a special highlight for the Eclipse 4diac community.
Friday, Sep 5, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #51
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from August 29 to September 05, 2025. This week’s updates bring progress on contract checking and visualization in 4diac IDE, refinements in the property sheets and editors, a cleanup in 4diac FORTE, and new content and fixes in the documentation.
Wednesday, Sep 3, 2025
Tune In! Announcing the New Eclipse 4diac™ Podcast
Get ready to enhance your understanding of industrial automation, IEC 61499, and the world of Eclipse 4diac™ – wherever you are! We're thrilled to announce the launch of our brand new podcast, "*The Future of Industrial Control: Decoding IEC 61499.*"
Friday, Aug 29, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #50
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from August 22 to August 29, 2025. This week brought a broad range of updates to Eclipse 4diac, covering both 4diac IDE and 4diac FORTE improvements. The changes span from bug fixes and usability enhancements to infrastructure updates and larger new features.
Friday, Aug 22, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #49
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from August 15 to August 22, 2025. In the past week, development on Eclipse 4diac continued with improvements in the 4diac IDE’s refactoring, Structured Text editing, and the FollowConnection feature. On the 4diac FORTE side, the refactoring of the new communication infrastructure and device execution progressed further.
Friday, Aug 15, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #48
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from August 8 to August 15, 2025. Updates from this week include support for typed Subapp deployment, more robust refactorings, enhanced collision feedback in the graphical editor, and modernization of the 4diac FORTE infrastructure using C++20 features and self-registering factories.
Friday, Aug 8, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #47
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from August 1 to August 8, 2025. This round of updates focuses on enhancing the user experience in the 4diac IDE's graphical editor—especially when dragging and resizing blocks—and improving test reliability in 4diac FORTE. Highlights include better collision feedback and robust test behavior in release builds.
Friday, Aug 1, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #46
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from July 25 to August 1, 2025. The latest updates to Eclipse 4diac bring improvements to 4diac IDE's type handling, graphical editor usability, and code generation logic. On the 4diac FORTE side, a powerful new communication infrastructure has been introduced, including TCP/UDP support and a generic `SEND_RECV` block.
Friday, Jul 25, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #45
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from July 18 to July 25, 2025. This week's development work focused on improving editor behavior, refining code through cleanup and refactoring, and extending functionality across both 4diac IDE and 4diac FORTE. Several enhancements were made to avoid unnecessary reloads in editors, simplify test infrastructure, and introduce new function blocks. 4diac FORTE saw continued work on OPC UA integration and function block consistency, along with the removal of legacy configuration options and build system improvements.