We have released a new version of the Copia desktop app! This release includes various bug fixes, and updates, as well as the integration of a new indicator for the auto-archiving process for Siemens Step7 TIA portal. 

DeviceLink provides data protection, disaster recovery, change detection, notification, and visibility for your automation assets.  

With current support for Rockwell, FANUC, CODESYS, Beckhoff and FTP-based devices, DeviceLink offers extensive coverage to protect your assets.  In addition, DeviceLink allows you to automate your own backup scripts, allowing you to be in control of what and how you backup additional devices.  

Come and learn more about how DeviceLink can improve your automation workflow at https://www.copia.io/devicelink!

We have updated our Desktop App, to include Release Notes, User Profile data and Product Updates!  

As seen in the image below, once logged into the Copia desktop, your profile image will be displayed on the right side of the app.  In addition, a Product Updates megaphone is also available, and will be highlighted with a Red Dot, when new product updates are announced.  By clicking the icon, you will be taken to the Copia product announcements page.

Also, any time we provide a new Desktop App update, we will now provide Release Notes via a "What's New" link at the top of the app.

As we continue to enhance our product, we will continue to update and improve the Desktop user experience.  Tell us what you think and keep those feature requests coming!

Copia has released the ability to easily "Restore from any Commit", within the Desktop App. 

This means that if you make a change that you later regret, you can easily restore a prior commit. To use this feature, simply navigate to the "History" tab for the relevant commit. From there, you can right-click on the commit that you want to restore, and click the "Restore from Commit" button. 

For more information, see our documentation!

We hope that this new feature will make Copia even more useful for our users. As always, if you have any questions or feedback, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at contact@copia.io.

We are happy to announce formal support for Rockwell RSLogix 5000 v16-20!  As a result, Copia can provide better support for earlier versions of Rockwell software/firmware, by utilizing the RSLogix 5000 software (versus the later Studio 5000 Logix Designer) for Copia advanced features supporting their projects (such as display and differences).

This includes full support of displaying the project and differences, as well as, Rung Commenting, and Merge support*.

See our documentation for more information.

* Merge supported for v20 only

Copia now supports the ability for users to create Tags and Releases for their source code and automation projects!

Tags and Releases give you the ability to mark commits as versions that are important or significant.  While developing your automation programs and projects, you may choose to Tag certain commits as milestones in a development project, such as v0.1 or v0.2.  Once your development project is complete, you may choose to create a Release of v1.0 and make this available to your internal or external customers.

More information about this exciting new feature can be found here in our documentation.

Copia Automation is excited to announce that it has successfully completed the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 1 audit. In collaboration with Secureframe and conducted by CPA firm Modern Assurance, this audit reflects Copia's ongoing commitment to security, availability, and process integrity.

For more details, see this Copia blog post.

We also recommend you visit our Security webpage at https://security.copia.io/, to learn more about Copia Automation's security, privacy, and compliance policies.

Copia has now automated the setup of Git-LFS for many file types, to simplify the configuration of this essential tool for industrial automation.

Git-LFS is a Git extension that helps to manage binary and large files.  This leads to performance improvements by reducing disk space and speeding up transfer times during operations such as Clone, Push, Fetch and Pull.

Since many industrial automation files are binary or very large project files, this can be a concern for using Git for automation version control.  Copia has solved this problem by enabling Git-LFS for new customer repositories, and pre-configuring it for known file types.  

Read more about it in our documentation.

We have some exciting news! Using the Copia Desktop App, you can now perform a compare between any two non-sequential commits.

Download the latest version of our Copia Desktop app and go to the history tab of any repo.  There you will see a Compare Commits toggle.  Click it to enable the feature and select any two commits using the checkboxes provided.

You can even compare commits between branches, by first selecting a branch to compare!  

Read more about it here in our documentation.

We are happy to announce that we are formally releasing support for Schneider Control Expert!  We currently support the .STU, .ZEF and .XEF filetypes.  This includes rendering the project tree, and graphical rendering for both Ladder and Structured Text.  All other project items are displayed in XML format, with changes highlighted.

In addition, Rung Commenting support for Schneider Control Expert is also available, which allows users to comment on both Ladder and Structured text during the Pull Request review process.

See our documentation for more information.