News 2025
Wednesday, Jul 23, 2025
Celebrating 18 Years of Eclipse 4diac
Today marks the 18th anniversary of Eclipse 4diac. On **July 23rd, 2007**, we presented 4diac for the very first time at a workshop at the *IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)*.
Friday, Jul 18, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #44
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from July 11 to July 18, 2025. The latest round of updates across Eclipse 4diac brings improvements to the BulkEditor in 4diac IDE, the inital scrolling of graphical editors, and global constant and varconfig handling. On the 4diac FORTE side, the build system was overhauled to simplify and modernize CMake usage. OPC UA support was updated to open62541 v1.4.12.
Friday, Jul 11, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #43
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from July 04 to July 11, 2025. This week in Eclipse 4diac: The 4diac IDE has received major cleanups in the system explorer, improved type handling, better support for working sets, and a new bug reporting feature that helps users prefill GitHub issues with useful context. 4diac FORTE enhancements include configurable OPC UA alarm parameters and streamlined coding conventions.
Wednesday, Jul 9, 2025
One-Click Issue Reporting from Error Dialog
We’ve made it easier to report unexpected errors in 4diac IDE!
Friday, Jul 4, 2025
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #42
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from June 27 to July 04, 2025. This week in Eclipse 4diac: 4diac IDE received improvements to structured text editing, including support for finding function references and searching within function editors. Updates also addressed varconfig import issues, added missing function blocks to the 3.0.0 library, and enhanced the watch view. 4diac FORTE continued work on OPC UA integration with support for standard A&C properties and improved robustness for HMI tools, along with several refactorings and compilation fixes.
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!