FBDK - What's New

2020-07-29: The FBDK now supports the proposed extensions to IEC 61499 for Library Management.
2020-05-26: FBDK+FBRT Release 8.2 supports the following new features:
1. Multi-line comments.
2. Simple EC States, ECCs, and FBTypes.This experimental feature, which has been proposed for inclusion in the Third Edition of IEC 61499-1, replaces the previously proposed Transient EC States.
2019-09-09: FBDK+FBRT Release 8.1 supports the following new features:
1. The efficient fbmgt2 encoding scheme for management commands and responses, as defined in the Compliance Profile. The library of supporting types is documented in the mgt2 folder of the FBNavigator.
2. Frame buffer synchronization to avoid overflow conditions and provide consistent data displays and smooth animation in operating systems such as Raspbian that use asynchronous frame buffer updating. The documentation of this feature is given in the FBNavigator entry for the PANEL_SYNC FB type.
2018-12-18: The FBDK and FBRT now utilize the support for lambda expressions first provided in Java™ 8 for efficient dispatch of input event handling, instead of the prior use of anonymous inner classes. This has two consequences:
1. FBDK release numbering has skipped from 3.3 to 8.0.
2. More importantly,

Basic FBTypes, Service Interface FBTypes and AdapterTypes
for which Java code has been generated and compiled by earlier FBDK versions
must be recompiled using the File Save As Java option
in order to operate properly with FBDK and FBRT release 8.0 and later.

Validation tools are provided for ECCs and FB Types to guide development and prevent compilation of incorrect or incomplete elements.
The FBDK and FBRT now support the following experimental features:
1. Transient EC States
2. Compact encoding of management commands and responses
The FBDK now supports many enhanced features for generation of HTML documentation.