Release Notes – May 2026
CDP Studio IDE v3.2
Highlights in the CDP Studio IDE release
AI Assistant – read more
- Significant AI capability enhancements
- New AI Assist code support, working as your personal developer
- AI Code Assist includes model modifications – having the CDP context and understanding
- AI background tasks with notifications when tasks are completed
- Local shell tools to perform shell commands if allowed
- Diff views to show AI proposed code changes to ensure safe and controlled updates
Other major improvements
- Optimize Analyze mode to share data models between graphs in the same tab. Solves overloading the target controller when plotting historic data from CDPLogger database.
- 100s of improvements, smaller features, and fixes
Updates and hotfixes:
- Update 3.2.1 May 2026
Release Notes – May 2026
CDP Framework v5.1
Highlights in the CDP Framework release
Intelligent Edge – Read about the new Metrics System
- The new metrics system is a powerful framework for capturing, calculating, and analyzing operational key performance indicators (KPIs) directly from system data.
- The metrics system’s strategic importance lies in its ability to monitor system health, performance, and usage over time, providing engineers and administrators with the tools for data-driven decision-making
Devices and Toolkits
- PLCnext firmware 2025 and 2026 are supported; the PLCNextIO module is no longer required
- WAGO firmware 30 support
- Wago 64-bit toolkit updated to support PFC300, WP400, and TP600
HMI improvements
- HMIs and logger can now be set to always follow the leader in redundant systems, simplifying the creation of HMI and logging for redundant systems
- The Open Bridge scratchpad UI elements have been added as form widgets and are available in Design mode under the “OpenBridge” group
- Added the maritime “In Command” function as part of the OpenBridge template
- Dynamic HMI improvements include the option to add any dynamic properties, including tags to select which and how many instances to show.
- Report container for generating reports, stores reports as PDF, SVG, or PNG files
Other highlights
- Database: Support for Timescale; and added Postgres support to CDP2SQL C++ interface
- CDPStudio API: Add StudioAPI proxy service to serve data from a distributed (DCS) through a single application, very useful in remote system access
- CDPStudio API: The Protobuf protocol, StudioAPIServer, and C++ client have been improved to be more resilient to TCP packet loss for very unstable networks
- Security: Any CDP property can now be configured to store the value in XML configuration files in an encrypted form
- Persistent data storage: Now supports loading and storing property values from external sources (like SQLite database), instead of XML-stored values
- License: Central license server support for distributed systems (DCS)
Updates and hotfixes:
- Update 5.1.1 May 2026
Install the CDP Framework 5.1 version using “Tools -> CDP Maintenance Tool -> Start CDP Maintenance Tool” and selecting “Add or remove CDP versions”. Then select the CDP 5.1 for the toolchains you use. If you have issues with building projects after the update, run the Clean command from CDP Studio project tree.