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Your workflow runs just got a massive improvement: Copia is now rendering enriched job summaries, including aggregating and displaying test results directly in the workflow run details. See the steps your workflows are taking, where they failed, and any outputs that the workflow renders, easily.
The job summaries support markdown and mermaid chart rendering so you can render exactly the output needed for your runs.
In order to help our DeviceLink users develop targeted disaster recovery strategies, we are introducing a "Device Criticality" field to DeviceLink Devices. You can now label each of your Devices in Copia with a criticality level (Low, Medium, or High). The field is optional and is blank by default.
Device Criticality is shown as a label on Device cards and as a field in our Public API. In the future, we will be announcing additional functionality and data visualization options based on Device Criticality.
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.
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.
Copia users with an active Copilot subscription can now instantly generate AI summaries of Rockwell RSLogix/Studio 5000 PLC project diffs in both the Web and Desktop apps.
Quickly see what changed without digging through every item, share concise updates with non-technical teammates, or even copy summaries directly into commit messages.
Available now for Rockwell RSLogix/Studio 5000 projects. To learn more about this new feature please visit our Documentation.
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.
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.
You can now connect Copia with Azure DevOps Boards and Work Items! With this integration, any commit message or Pull Request comment in Copia that references a Work Item will automatically add a comment to the corresponding Azure Work Item, including a direct link back to Copia as seen in the image below.
If your company uses Azure DevOps Work Items for project management and ticket tracking, this feature now makes it easier to track changes, navigate between tools, and keep your development workflow connected.
In addition to a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution, we've seen increasing interest in using DeviceLink as an observability tool. Our most advanced customers don't just want their projects backed up - they want to see how often their code is changing, how well their backup solutions are performing, and which of their devices haven't been backing up. We've recently released a number of improvements to our dashboards and data visualizations in DeviceLink, including our Site Dashboard and our user management dashboard. Today, we're adding to that list with an improved DeviceLink organization dashboard that organizes data on all of your sites into one convenient table view.
Each row in the table represents one site in DeviceLink. Previously, sites were displayed as "cards" at the bottom of the page, with buttons that linked to the list of projects, devices, jobs, and agents within that site. These pages can still be reached by clicking on the number in each cell. The table format also brings the job run graphs into the same view as the remainder of the site data, allowing for quick data comparisons.
We've also made some nice improvements to the job run graphs. We've kept the ability to filter on custom date ranges (both relative and fixed), as well as the ability to filter by job run status. But we've made the graphs much more information-dense, which means you can now look at large date ranges without needing to scroll horizontally.
We've also introduced a condensed view, where we display the total count of each job run status for the selected date range in a single row instead of a graph. This view allows you to quickly compare the backup performance of many sites in a single screen.
Finally, we've heard from our users and we've delivered it - no more pagination for looking at more than ten sites. Additional sites will now load automatically as you scroll down the table.
Further information about the Organization Dashboard can be found in our documentation.
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:
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:
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.
