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.

Rung commenting for both Codesys and Beckhoff TwinCAT3 has been released!

Supporting both Ladder and Structured text, this feature improves the Code Review process by allowing you to provide comments and feedback directly on the rungs during the Pull Request process.

Find out more about Rung Commenting in our documentation for both Codesys and Beckhoff TwinCAT3, as well as by watching the video below!

We're excited to announce the release of Repository webhooks for Copia! (webhooks are also available at the Org level)  Webhooks provide a way for Copia to send real-time notifications to your team through you favorite communication tool, such as Microsoft Teams, Slack or Discord. This means that you'll never miss an important update from your Copia repo again.

In addition, webhooks can support tools like Zapier, which allow you to create actions, and link Copia to other systems you may be using.

We have added a new section to the documentation called "Integrations", which provides step-by-step instructions for configuring webhooks for the following:

• Slack
• Microsoft Teams
• Zapier
• Discord
• Jira*

(NOTE: Jira is a more advanced integration, using both 3rd party tools and webhooks supporting links to things like Commits, Branches & Pull Requests)

✖ In addition, there is a generic "Copia" webhook that can be used to configure webhooks for any other system that may support them.

In those cases where you may be storing projects with Source Protected content, Copia will default to flagging this content as "different", as we cannot determine if something has changed or not.  You now have the option to "ignore" these sections in this case, by toggling the new "Ignore Source Protected" switch found in the View Options menu for the navigation pane.

Want to see what has been happening in your repository?

Copia now has a Repo Activity page to help you stay up-to-date on your repository activity. This page shows you a summary of the recent activity in your repositories, including the number of commits, issues, and pull requests. You can also see a list of the most active contributors. 

Also, we have added a new Repo Management section in our documentation with more information on working with your repositories!