Roadmap

Roadmap

What is being worked on and what is planned. The order reflects current priorities and may change; nothing here is a dated promise — a feature ships when it is solid, and then it appears in What's new.

In progress

  • Rung comments in the ladder editor, and the FBD canvas visually divided into numbered networks with comments — the layout every PLC programmer expects.
  • Live values in the FBD view while online — the wires and pins of the block diagram showing what the machine is really doing, the same way the ladder page already shows power flow.
  • The new widget properties (trend curves, gauge thickness and needle, alarm-table text size) editable directly in the inspector.

Planned

  • Motion: CANopen drive control with a ready-made Lenze i550 profile — DRIVE_402 wraps the CiA 402 state machine, POS_AXIS and HOME follow PLCopen naming, ramp positioning with delay compensation. EDS import already works; the drive blocks are the missing piece.
  • Editor over the network: online monitoring and diagnostics over Ethernet/WiFi, not only over the USB cable (pack upload over the network already works today).
  • Production security: secure boot and flash encryption switched on for production panels, so a deployed machine cannot be cloned or reflashed by a third party.
  • Retentive data on FRAM as a turnkey service — microsecond writes, practically unlimited endurance, nothing for the project to configure.
  • Custom block libraries: distributing your own FB/FC packages in compiled form with versioning and dependency checks — share the know-how, keep the source.
  • Editor localization — the user interface in more languages.

Under consideration

  • Trend history persisted to storage and browsable from the WEBview.
  • More display controllers besides the SSD1963 and MIPI-DSI panels.
  • Device-bound feature packages (extra axes, extra WEBview clients) activatable in the field without reflashing — the license format already reserves room for them.
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