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This is the
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upcoming update for FrameworX version 10.1.
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Scheduled
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release: first week of May 2026. Version 10.1.5
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(build TBD).
Release Notes → Update 5 (Preview)
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UNS
Industrial Ontology
Local AI - Platform Service | Local AI is now |
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OWL and RDF import. Bring an OWL or RDF ontology into the UNS through the new Ontology Import wizard. Accepts Turtle, JSON-LD, RDF/JSON, and RDF/XML. Supports W3C standards (RDFS, OWL 2, SKOS, Dublin Core) and industrial vocabularies (IOF, ISA-88, ISA-95, BFO). Shipped policy templates for IOF and ISA-88.
RDF and OWL export. Export the UNS as JSON-LD, Turtle, RDF/JSON, or RDF/XML. Publish to corporate ontology stores (GraphDB, Stardog, Fuseki) or share as portable ontology files.
Round-trip without loss. What goes in comes out. Classes become User Types, individuals become Tags, containment becomes Asset Tree, cross-links become Reference members, and the return trip is faithful.
Visual graph of the namespace. A new toolbar button on the Asset Tree renders the current namespace as a relationship graph, ready for documentation or review.
Semantic search across the UNS. New search_uns in Designer MCP and runtime_search_uns, runtime_get_object_context, runtime_find_by_iri, and runtime_list_by_type in Runtime MCP let you query the namespace by meaning, not just by name.
New UNS columns for semantic metadata. User Types gain DisplayText, Labels, SourceIri, BaseUserType, and Attributes. Tags gain Labels, SourceIri, and Attributes.
Inheritance through BaseUserType. A User Type can inherit members and metadata from another User Type.
/Attr convention. Typed OWL individuals import as Tags named <path>/<name>/Attr. Intermediate folders are created from the path. The exporter strips /Attr on the return trip.
platform service. New Local AI tile on the Data Servers page (alongside OPC Server, DataHub, MQTT Broker, AI MCP) with a structured five-field configuration dialog (URL, Model, Authorization, Auth Value, Headers) and a live reachability indicator (Reachable / Unreachable / Invalid URL / Auth required). Single shipping DLL | |
UNS - Industrial Ontology | The Unified Namespace is now industrial-ontology-aware. UserTypes, Tags, and member definitions gain first-class semantic columns ( |
MCP / AI Integration | The Designer is now drivable from any MCP client. New tools include |
Designer - AI Tutor | Structured learning experience built into the Designer. Three-tier curriculum (Essentials, Professional, Expert) covering fundamentals through advanced topics, with persistent per-user progress tracking, first-run nudge, atomic write for |
Web APIs / Data Explorer | New WebData module unifies external API consumption: REST clients with full verb support (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH), GraphQL queries, and MCP client access from inside the FrameworX runtime — call other MCP servers from Scripts, Tasks, or Displays. New Web Data Tools tab in the Data Explorer (Designer) with schema-aware editors and per-row contextual actions for live testing. Internal naming aligned (legacy "Web API" / "WebAPI Tools" retired). |
Datasets / Protocols / Historian - MongoDB Integration | MongoDB ships as a native, fully-integrated platform connector with four roles in a single driver: Device protocol for direct collection reads/writes, UNS TagProvider for dynamic tag population, Historian StorageLocation for time-series storage, and Dataset provider with SQL-subset query support and JSON directives. |
Import Wizards - Tag Import from GIS and CAD | Complete import wizard family. GIS File Tag Importer (GeoJSON, Shapefile, KML/KMZ). AutoCAD File Tag Importer (DXF, DWG). GIS/CAD Display Generator turns import sources into native Display geometry — |
Datasets - Visual Query Editor | New embedded Visual Query Editor in the Datasets page: drag-and-drop tables, joins, columns, and filters with theme-driven AQB internalization. Phase 1 of an open multi-phase plan; covers the most common OLTP query shapes against any Dataset DB connection. |
Displays - Enhancements | TRadialGauge: new unified portable gauge control — single control replaces three legacy circular gauges; portable across WPF and HTML5/OpenSilver. Four presets (Full / SemiCircle / CenterValue / BandedRange). Per-range |
Displays - Trend Chart | LoadXY method now matches |
Platform - .NET 10 Runtime | First release where the runtime ships on .NET 10. |
Solution Center / Utilities - Enterprise IT Readiness | TServer |
Solution Center / Designer - Multi-Language UI | UI localization for Solution Center and Designer. New TranslationGenerator scans all |
Security - Identity Providers (OIDC) | New OIDC / OAuth2 identity-provider integration for enterprise Single Sign-On with Keycloak, Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID, and login.gov. Includes runtime LDAP dispatch, type-dispatched edit dialogs, new |
Security - Other |
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HTML5 / Web Client | HTML5 client now runs the |
Mobile - iOS / Android | First iOS Camera integration: QR/barcode scanning and photo-capture primitives for the Mobile FX Client. |
Reports | Save as PDF / XPS / HTML on .NET 10 deployments. Text / Unicode / ASCII report export now preserves table content (was empty in some configurations). Alarm Linear Gauge added. |
Scripts | Email & SMS demo runs on a clean install — |
Designer - Other Improvements | Update Notification: Check for Latest Update link surface and new About page in Solution Center. Importer dialog default size no longer clips content. Generate Displays progress bar updates during generation. DBServer "Solution file not found" error now names the missing path. Config DataGrid placeholder text guides user to finalize row editing. |
Symbols / Library | Symbol library renaming rules and Library1015 pipe-library remediation (orphans cleaned, renamed, descriptions added). 8 fabricated HMI accent brush names removed from |
Runtime / Devices / Protocols | MongoDB triple-role connector (see above). CommAPI changes to avoid TCP exhaustion. ControlLogix: byte-swap correctness; tag import past 1,000 tags completes reliably; new |
Documentation | New IT Deployment Runbook hub. New AI Tutor end-user docs hub. New Industrial Ontology Integration How-to. New AutoCAD / GIS Tag Importer pages. New Local AI - First Install Walkthrough. New MongoDB Database Connector reference. Predefined Script Tasks - Client Lifecycle Matrix. DocExtractor: corrected wrong DocLinks in |
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Industrial Ontology import — non-RDF/JSON formats | Importer in 10.1.5 reads RDF/JSON only. JSON-LD, Turtle, and N-Triples readers ship in a follow-up release backed by dotNetRDF. | Use RDF/JSON for import. Export supports all four formats. |
OpenSilver / OPC-UA on .NET 10 (provisional — pending verification) | OpenSilver and OPC-UA library compatibility on .NET 10 verification is still in progress for some HTML5 rendering scenarios. | Continue using the .NET 8 build for affected HTML5 deployments if issues are observed; targeted for the first 10.1.5.x patch. |
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This page is maintained as a draft and will be finalized as Update 5 at GA release
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MCP / AI Integration
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AI integration and MCP
The MCP surface advances on every front this release.
Concurrent Designers. Two AI assistants can drive two different solutions in two different Designer instances at the same time. Each Designer is pinned to its own solution, with no contention on the integration channel.
Richer designer_action. New select_row, scroll, and expand actions. Navigation resolves names to IDs at the API boundary, so solutions written with names travel cleanly across renames.
Workspace-centric Console MCP. New workspace vocabulary throughout (create_solution_file, update_solution_file, open_workspace, create_workspace, list_workspaces, get_workspace_info). New from_workspace parameter on open_solution and create_solution seeds a new Designer from a JSON workspace in one step.
ConsoleMCP over HTTP. A new HTTP transport variant of ConsoleMCP listens on port 10151. MCP clients on a Windows host can reach a ConsoleMCP instance running inside a VM through standard TCP port forwarding. Stdio transport remains unchanged.
Runtime MCP over HTTP. A new HTTP transport for RuntimeMCP on port 10120 plus a Windows Service wrapper, alongside the existing stdio transport.
Runtime target rebinding. runtime_set_target(solution, profile) rebinds a live MCP session to any running TServer on the machine — switch solutions or execution profiles mid-session without restarting. Retargetable and Pinned launch modes.
MCP logs on as the MCP user. Opening or creating a solution via MCP authenticates as the MCP account instead of Guest.
Graceful handling of older solutions. MCP routes an older solution through an explicit open / cannot-open / prompt-upgrade flow instead of opening it blind.
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Designer
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AI Tutor
A guided, interactive learning path that runs inside Designer.
Curriculum. Structured lessons cover Designer fundamentals, UNS modelling, Tags, Alarms, Scripts, and Displays.
Progress that persists. Lesson state persists across Designer sessions.
Tier certificates. Associate, Professional, and Expert certificates on completion of 15 lessons per tier.
Adaptive to your background. The Tutor picks up your automation and programming experience at the start of a session and adjusts pace, depth, and examples per lesson. Experienced PLC engineers skim the fundamentals. Developers new to industrial get extra context on the plant floor.
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Import Wizards
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Tag import from GIS and CAD
A complete import suite for geospatial data and engineering drawings.
GIS File Tag Importer. Import Tags from GeoJSON, Shapefile, and KML or KMZ files. Attributes and geometry map to Tag properties and Asset Tree folders.
AutoCAD File Tag Importer. Import Tags from DXF and DWG drawings. INSERT block references become Tags and their ATTRIB values become naming tokens. LINE, CIRCLE, POLYLINE, and POLYGON entities render as native Display geometry.
GIS / CAD Display Generator. Auto-generate Displays from the imported geometry, with layer overrides and per-feature positioning.
Hierarchical tag patterns. Naming patterns like {Layer}/{Name} build real Asset Tree folders. A Pumps/P-101 pattern becomes a Tag P-101 under a Pumps folder.
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Datasets
Protocols
Historian
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MongoDB as a first-class data source
MongoDB is available across three of FrameworX's data roles.
Dataset provider. A new MongoDB provider for queries, inserts, updates, deletes, and aggregations. Visible in the Dataset connection dialogs alongside SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and SQLite.
Device protocol and UNS TagProvider. Read and write MongoDB collections as a Device, or surface them in the UNS through a TagProvider. Structured documents map to User Type members.
Historian Storage Location. MongoDB appears in the Storage Location picker for time-series archiving, with the standard read-samples and write-history contracts.
Value Simulator as a UNS TagProvider. The bundled Value Simulator driver now registers as a TagProvider, surfacing simulated signals directly in the Unified Namespace for demo and test solutions.
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Web APIs
Data Explorer
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Web APIs across runtime and Data Explorer
The Web API surface gets broader, smarter, and has a real test harness in Designer.
Full REST verb set. PUT, DELETE, and PATCH join GET and POST. DELETE and GET never send a body, in line with RFC 9110.
GraphQL query API. Run GraphQL queries against any endpoint that speaks the protocol. Response-to-table mapping uses the same tracked-columns path as REST.
MCP client in the runtime. The runtime can call MCP servers directly from Web Data scripts. Streamable HTTP transport, with session reuse and idle timeout.
Web Data Tools tab in Data Explorer. A new tab for testing REST, GraphQL, and MCP requests without leaving Designer. Local and Remote modes, response viewer, tag substitution in URLs, headers, and bodies, and a one-click Export action that stages a ReportsWebData row.
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Displays
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New and refreshed display controls
The component library gets new breadth and a long-overdue unification.
Radial Gauge. A single portable control replaces the three legacy circular gauges. Four presets (Full, Semi-circle, Center Value, Banded Range), tag-bindable per-range boundaries, and a redesigned configuration editor. 100% Tatsoft implementation with no external widget dependencies, compiles cleanly to WebAssembly for HTML5 clients. The legacy controls remain for existing projects.
Symbol Legends. Symbols and Groups can now carry an attached Legend with a single checkbox. Legends auto-position, move with their parent, support an independent move gesture, and offer a right-click Reset Legend Position action.
Display Connectors, back in the toolbox. The Connector tool returns with extend, clipboard, undo, and delete. The Allow Connections checkbox now persists across Designer restarts.
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Solution Center
Designer
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Multi-language user interface
Solution Center and Designer are now fully localizable.
Twelve bundled interface languages. Solution Center and Designer ship with English, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, and Korean. Pick a language on the Welcome page and the full IDE follows. See Multi-Language UI Localization.
Additional languages on demand. New locales are produced for partner channels through an AI-augmented translation flow that preserves product nouns, protocol names, and field identifiers in English across every locale.
Operator display localization. Runtime HMI displays continue to translate per-client through the Displays Localization module, fully supported alongside the new IDE localization. See Displays Localization Reference.
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Solution Center
Utilities
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Solution upgrade and deployment
Moving solutions between versions and rolling out the runtime at enterprise scale both get first-class tooling.
Console upgrade utility. A new UpgradeSolution.exe upgrades .dbsln files from the command line. Pass a full path or a solution name. The tool writes a versioned backup next to the original, prints progress to standard output, and returns a script-friendly exit code. A matching UpgradeSolution.bat is staged under My Documents\FrameworX\Utilities\.
Automatic backup on open. Opening a solution from an older version writes a versioned backup next to the original before migration runs. Rolling back no longer needs a manual file copy.
Enterprise deployment runbook. A new operational workflow page walks IT administrators through silent install, Windows service registration, network ports, updates and rollback, and automation across SCCM, Intune, Ansible, and PowerShell DSC. See IT Deployment RunBook.
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Platform
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.NET 10 runtime
FrameworX 10.1.5 modernizes the runtime platform and opens cross-platform deployment.
.NET 10 runtime target. The FrameworX runtime now ships on .NET 10. Cross-platform across Windows, Linux, and containers. Designer remains on .NET Framework 4.8.
Side-by-side with 10.1.4. 10.1.5 (.NET 10) installs alongside 10.1.4 (.NET 8) on the same machine as isolated runtimes. 10.1.4 continues as the long-term supported branch for organizations on .NET 8.
Docker as a first-class path. The 10.1.5 runtime runs as a long-lived container process. See Docker Deployment Guide.
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Fixes and Improvements
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Designer polish. Grid cells commit on click-away. Popup editors for protocol Address and Station dialogs stay open during input. Dataset Queries rows copy and paste cleanly. Script Tasks compile alongside namespace classes. Text Block MaxLength applies on both WPF and HTML5.
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Display precision. Custom format masks like ##.# render 0 when the tag value is zero. Text Block expressions with arithmetic show the ? indicator for bad-quality tags, matching the rest of the product.
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Tag lifecycle. Renames cascade through alarm messages and string-with-expression fields. Enabling Historian, Alarm, or Device from Tag Properties preserves the full Asset Tree path for nested Tags.
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Runtime polish. Smoother Data Explorer interactions for OPC UA, accurate per-pen values in the Trend plugin, reliable Value Simulator scan cycles, and full-field coverage in MQTT SparkplugB Publisher Point Address dialogs.
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Web Browser control. New opt-in property adds local and session storage. SVG rendering handles URL-encoded colors and missing viewBox.
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