We have released a new update for the Desktop App that provides better feedback during the conversion and rendering process.  As always, you can choose to wait for the display, or you can just commit and push!  With the new dialog, you have better visibility into the process, so you can make an informed decision to wait or not.

By popular request, we have added rendering support for CODESYS .library files.  You can now see differences in these files in a similar manner to your .project files.  

This should allow you to make better decisions based on changes made, and more quickly review changes proposed during Pull Requests and code reviews.

More information about this feature can be found in the product Documentation.

Need to quickly e-mail a report to a customer or a peer?  We have now added the ability to generate a diff report for Rockwell Studio 5000 Logix Designer!

At the top right of the diff in the Copia Web App, just select Generate Report.

Once selected, you will go to a preview screen that will allow you to adjust settings, provide useful data, and highlight the changes.  You can then send them to the PDF or other printer of your choice.

Read more about it in our Documentation, and keep submitting those feature requests.  The more we hear from you, the better our product will be!

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. 

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.

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 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.