What Is Eclipse 4diac™?

Eclipse 4diac™ Provides an Open Source Infrastructure for
distributed Industrial Process Measurement and Control Systems
based on the IEC 61499 Standard.

design once use everywhere

Eclipse 4diac Virtual Community Meetings

Join us for a discussion on IEC 61499 and Eclipse 4diac. We welcome interested participants from all background, whether seasoned developer or interested newcomer. We will demonstrate new developments in Eclipse 4diac, outline our development roadmap, and provide enough room for questions and answers with the project team of Eclipse 4diac.

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Eclipse 4diac provides

IEC 61499 Engineering Tool 4diac IDE Real-time Capable IEC 61499 Execution Environment 4diac FORTE Easy to use Build Environment for 4diac FORTE 4diac FBE IEC 61499 Function Block Library 4diac LIB IEC 61499 example systems 4diac SYS

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Eclipse 4diac 3.1 Released!

11 March, 2026

The Eclipse 4diac community is happy to announce the release of Eclipse 4diac 3.1, including updates to both the 4diac IDE and 4diac FORTE. This release introduces improvements to the development experience in 4diac IDE as well as architectural and performance enhancements in 4diac FORTE runtime.

Eclipse 4diac Weekly #76

6 March, 2026

Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from February 27 to March 06, 2026.

This week’s updates to Eclipse 4diac prepare the upcoming 3.1 release with improvements to the Structured Text model, XMI export correctness, deployment stability, and UI consistency. Documentation was also improved with streamlined contributing guidelines.

Eclipse 4diac Weekly #75

27 February, 2026

Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from February 20 to February 27, 2026.

This week’s updates focus on major internal robustness improvements, enhanced refactoring support, and continued modernization of the 4diac IDE UI. 4diac FORTE advances OPC UA alarm handling and communication extensibility, while documentation improves developer onboarding.