2026
Wednesday, Sep 9, 2026
Eclipse 4diac 3.3 Released!
We are excited to announce the official release of **Eclipse 4diac 3.3**, arriving right on schedule as the fourth release under our new 3-month release cadence.
Friday, Sep 4, 2026
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #102
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from August 28 to September 04, 2026. This week brings the finishing touches for the Eclipse 4diac 3.3 release, with improvements to Wago register communication, deployment and refactoring robustness, and legacy project compatibility, while also preparing the 3.4 development cycle with the move to Java 25.
Friday, Aug 28, 2026
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #101
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from August 21 to August 28, 2026. This week brings new visualization and event-sequence tooling to 4diac IDE, including FB network topology and sequence views, alongside substantial improvements to OCL validation and type handling. 4diac FORTE extends monitoring to struct members and Wago 750-636 register communication, while RampLimitFS receives corresponding fixes and new limit indicators.
Thursday, Aug 27, 2026
Eclipse 4diac 3.3 Feature Freeze
The feature freeze for the upcoming Eclipse 4diac 3.3 release is now complete, and we are officially entering the stabilization phase. Our focus over the coming weeks is strictly on testing, fixing remaining issues, and polishing the release ahead of the **September 9, 2026** launch. This release brings substantial new capabilities to both 4diac IDE and 4diac FORTE to improve the diagnosis, visualization, and deployment of distributed IEC 61499 applications.
Friday, Aug 21, 2026
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #100
The 100th update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from August 14 to August 21, 2026. This week brings improvements to library and configuration management, a major cleanup of struct member access and configurable FB handling, and several usability fixes in 4diac IDE, while 4diac FORTE receives a follow-up fix for the standard timer function blocks.
Friday, Aug 14, 2026
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #99
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from August 7 to August 14, 2026. This week focused on reducing 4diac IDE dependencies and improving the separation between the core model and UI components, alongside fixes to editors, validation, and runtime exports.
Friday, Aug 7, 2026
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #98
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from July 31 to August 7, 2026. This week focused on improving library management, deployment, and project validation in 4diac IDE, while 4diac FORTE gained enhanced communication support and fixes for OPC UA deployment and adapter handling.
Friday, Jul 31, 2026
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #97
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from July 24 to July 31, 2026. This week focused on improving library management and editing workflows with a first redesign of the Manifest Editor, while also expanding support for simple function block editing, replay debugging, and overall 4diac IDE robustness.
Friday, Jul 24, 2026
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #96
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from July 17 to July 24, 2026. This week brings major improvements to project and library management, introduces ECC state breakpoints for debugging in the 4diac IDE, and continues the EtherCAT integration in 4diac FORTE.
Friday, Jul 17, 2026
Eclipse 4diac Weekly #95
Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from July 10 to July 17, 2026. This week enhances replay debugging with multi-device support and more flexible resource selection in 4diac IDE, while 4diac FORTE significantly refactors its management command parser for improved performance, robustness, and test coverage.