IEC 61499 Power Up: Feature Freeze Reveals the Eclipse 4diac 3.0 Revolution for Industrial Automation
Source: Eclipse 4diac 3.0 Enters Feature Freeze!
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After over two years of development and a "tremendous community effort," Eclipse 4diac 3.0 has entered the feature freeze phase, marking a major milestone for this next big release. This milestone was achieved through more than 7200 commits across 4diac IDE and 4diac FORTE (with over 5800 commits in the IDE and 1400 in FORTE), resulting in a modernization, optimization, and extension of the platform's capabilities.
This release brings a "wealth of new functionality" and "improved usability", focusing on streamlining the IEC 61499 development process:
- Structured Text Interpreter: The 4diac IDE features completely reworked and improved IEC 61131-3 Structured Text editors. Most notably, it now includes an Interpreter for IEC 61131-3 Structured Text, which allows for the testing and debugging of Function Blocks (FBs) directly within the 4diac IDE.
- 4diac FBE (Function Block Environment Builder): This is a new component in 4diac 3.0. The FBE builds 4diac FORTE fully automatically, eliminating the need for downloads or the installation of third-party software. It simplifies configuration management by allowing a single developer machine to manage multiple 4diac FORTE configurations for various target machines and operating systems. A beta-quality setup is currently available.
- Core Performance: The 4diac FORTE code base and build system have been modernized, leading to greatly reduced overhead in both event processing and data connection handling.
Other highlights include refactoring functions in graphical and textual editors, validation of IEC 61499 projects (including the ability to load and repair incomplete projects), support for named constants, and simplified deployment and monitoring capabilities that can store configurations.
With the feature freeze in place, the focus now shifts entirely to stabilization and polishing to ensure a "solid and reliable 3.0 release," which is planned for approximately three weeks from the announcement date. The team invites the community to download the early access builds and share feedback through the issue trackers to help make 4diac 3.0 the "most solid and feature-rich release yet".
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