The main changes and improvements in 4DIAC-IDE are: <UL> <LI> New more modern icon set <LI> Added a tree-based FB palette to all FB network editors to avoid dragging from wrong projects <LI> Replaced system explorer with a more extensible flexible implementation <LI> Adapter connections now have an own separate color <LI> Better routing of network links in the system configuration editor when segments are below of a device. <LI> Merged ECC, internal variable, and algorithm editor and improved properties for the new ECC editor. <LI> Better show the transition order in ECCs. <LI> Improved ST parser for better code completion and syntax highlighting. <LI> New experimental automatic communication generation plugin. <LI> Monitoring of adapter interfaces <LI> Reworked monitoring to be more performant on the tool side. </UL> Furthermore many smaller usability improvements and bug fixes. All in all 75 closed issues!
The main changes and improvements in FORTE are: <UL> <LI> Support for new devices: Lego Mindstorms EV3, Raspberry SPS <LI> Raw communication layer for plain strings <LI> Simplified the thread abstraction class making it easier to port FORTE to new operating systems. <LI> Reduced memory requirements of device management by about 2/3rds. </UL> Furthermore many smaller bug fixes. All in all 15 closed issues!
The main changes and improvements in 4DIAC-LIB are: <UL> <LI> Added device definitions for specific FORTE devices like, BeagleBone Black or RaspberryPI </UL>
The main changes and improvements in 4DIAC-Systems are: <UL> <LI> Cleaned-up Boiler example <LI> Updated all examples to use new device definitions. </UL>
In the 3rd 1.7 maintenance release 4 issues have been resolved in 4DIAC-IDE and 1 in FORTE. In the 2nd 1.7 maintenance release 7 issues have been resolved in 4DIAC-IDE and 1 in FORTE. In the 1st 1.7 maintenance release 9 issues have been resolved in 4DIAC-IDE and 2 in FORTE. The main contribution of this release is the support for monitoring Composite FB internals, more UI cleanup and usability improvements, new platform Wago PFC 200, new communication Eclipse NeoScada SFP, and performance and memory usage improvements in FORTE.

In the 2nd maintenance release 8 issues have been resolved in 4DIAC-IDE, 1 in FORTE, and 1 in 4DIAC-Systems. In the 1st maintenance release 5 issues have been resolved in 4DIAC-IDE and 1 in 4DIAC-Systems. The main contribution of this release is the improvement of the subaplication support, UI cleanup, new platforms Rspberry PI and BeagleBone Black, new communication MQTT, common I/O function blocks for digital inputs and outputs as well as a new control example. In the 3rd maintenance release 5 issues have been resolved in 4DIAC-IDE and 2 in FORTE and the 4DIAC-Help has been integrated. In the 2nd maintenance release 7 issues have been resolved in 4DIAC-IDE. In the 1st maintenance release 4 issues have been resolved in 4DIAC-IDE and 5 in FORTE. The main contribution of this release is the official support of MacOS as well as Syntax highlighting and code completion the Structured Text algorithm editor