Copia Actions is now available — a workflow engine built directly into Copia that lets you automate the repetitive tasks your team has been running by hand.

What's new

Copia Actions lets you define workflows that live alongside your code in Copia. Lightweight, self-hosted workflow runners execute those workflows based on triggers like commits, pull-requests, issues, or DeviceLink backup events. Results and artifacts can be stored directly in your repo for audit-worthy change tracking and management.

How it helps

If your team is manually running mirror scripts, rebuilding compliance reports from git logs, or doing drift audits by hand, Actions can help automate the cycles. You can standardize the operations and share as part of a repo template to make sure every repo you create in Copia inherits your quality.

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We're excited to announce enhancements to our Advanced Merge Tool in Source Control, designed to give you even greater flexibility when merging Siemens TIA Portal projects.

What's New?

Available now, our latest update introduces deeper merge capabilities for Structured Text (SCL) routines in TIA Portal projects. Building on the DB and Tag Table merge support we released last year, the Advanced Merge Tool now provides line-level merge resolution for SCL files. This means you can resolve conflicts with greater precision, choosing specific lines within an SCL routine instead of being limited to accepting an entire file from one branch.

How This Helps:

• Reduced Rework: No more overwriting a colleague's changes just because you both modified the same SCL file. Pick and choose the exact lines you need.
• Improved Collaboration: Merge code changes from multiple contributors to the same Structured Text routines with confidence and ease.
• Enhanced Accuracy: Maintain code integrity and minimize the risk of errors during complex merges — especially for large SCL files where only a few lines have actually changed.
• Increased Speed: Spend less time manually reconciling changes outside of Copia, and more time shipping code.

This enhancement is part of our ongoing commitment to provide you with the most powerful and user-friendly Industrial DevOps platform. We continuously strive to meet the evolving needs of our customers and improve your experience.

Learn More:

For detailed information and examples of SCL Line-Level Merge in action, please visit our updated documentation.

Copia now supports Omron Sysmac Studio projects in Source Control.

This release enables users to manage Sysmac Studio PLC projects in their Copia repositories, now with graphical rendering, diffing, and code commenting support. Omron projects can now live alongside the rest of your automation code in a single source of truth.

This initial release includes Source Control support only. DeviceLink backup support for Omron Sysmac Studio is planned for the near future and will enable automated backups directly from Omron PLCs into Copia.

For setup details and supported project information, please see our Documentation.

We're happy to announce that Copia now supports the newest version of Rockwell's Studio 5000 Logix Designer, V38, for both Source Control rendering and DeviceLink automated backup! No user action is required within Copia to start version-controlling or automatically backing up V38 projects. See our Documentation for more info on our Rockwell/Allen-Bradley support.

We’re excited to announce support for FactoryTalk Linx as the communication software for your DeviceLink Studio 5000 devices running FW >=V31, enabled by the Logix Designer SDK. This update expands DeviceLink’s reliability and flexibility for Studio 5000 users by addressing several common backup challenges.

What’s New

FactoryTalk Linx Support
You can now use FactoryTalk Linx on your Agent machine instead of being limited to RSLinx. This eliminates the need to recreate devices and network paths in RSLinx just to run backups.

Improved Networking
Backups now support nested communication paths. No more rewiring networks just to make DeviceLink work.

More Reliable Backups
RSLinx re-browsing issues often caused failed backups. With the Logix SDK integration, we've significantly reduced the need to manually re-browse devices.

Broader Device Coverage
Additional Rockwell controllers, such as PlantPAX devices, are now recognized and supported for backups.

For important information about the capabilities and limitations of this new feature, please visit our documentation using the button below.

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Copia has expanded support for Schneider Electric’s Control Expert through both:

• Source Control: rendering and change visualization
• DeviceLink: automated backup

This support extends through Control Expert V16.2, the most current version of the IDE.

Copia users can now confidently manage their latest Schneider Control Expert projects with seamless versioning, collaboration, and device backups.

👉 Learn more about our Control Expert support in our Documentation here:

• Control Expert in Source Control
• Control Expert in DeviceLink

We’re excited to announce that Copia Copilot's chat now supports Siemens TIA Portal projects. With this update, you can reference items from your repository's TIA Portal projects directly in Copilot chat to streamline your workflow.

Copilot can now help you:

• Explain code to improve clarity and understanding
• Document code to create useful, consistent documentation
• Generate example reference code to use as a guide for development (note: exporting generated code is not currently supported; it will need to be recreated in the IDE)

This enhancement makes Copilot an even more powerful partner for engineers working in Siemens environments.

Siemens TIA Portal support for Copilot for DeviceLink is forthcoming and will be released in the near future.

👉 Learn more in our documentation on Copilot for TIA Portal.

We’ve expanded our support for Beckhoff users! Copia now renders TwinCAT 3 TwinSAFE logic and differences in Source Control — no setup required.

Just open any repository containing TwinSAFE project files, and you’ll be able to:

• 🔍 View raw TwinSAFE logic in a readable format
• 👀 See visual diffs between versions
• 💬 Comment on TwinSAFE code in Pull Request reviews

This makes code collaboration, review, and version control for TwinSAFE logic smoother than ever.

Log in, open your repo, and try it out, or visit our Documentation to read more about our TwinSAFE support.

Copia now supports rendering for CODESYS Continuous Function Chart (CFC) projects — no configuration needed.

Simply navigate to a repository containing CFC programs and you'll be able to:

• 👀 View raw CFC logic in an easy-to-read format
• 🔄 Compare visual diffs between revisions
• 💬 Leave comments on CFC logic in Pull Request reviews

Whether you're reviewing changes or just browsing project history, CODESYS CFC logic is now fully integrated into your version control workflow.

Open a project and see it in action — it’s already live! Or, visit our Documentation to read more about our CODESYS support.