Connectivity Software 2025.2 Released
We have released Connectivity Software 2025.2 today. This version introduces a new product: Rapid Toolkit for Sparkplug - a toolkit for development of Sparkplug host applications and edge nodes. It supports Sparkplug A and B, and allows the developer to create Sparkplug software with minimal effort, and without having to deal with the underlying MQTT protocol and the Sparkplug encoding and messaging rules.
QuickOPC, OPC Wizard and Excel Connector have been updated with various small improvements too.
For more information about this version, see What's new in Connectivity Software 2025.2 .
Sparkplug is a trademark of Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
OPC Studio 2025.1 Released
We have released OPC Studio (QuickOPC, OPC Wizard and Excel Connector) 2025.1 today. Applications built with this version can now make use of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) for OPC UA certificates and secure communication. Supported new security policies are ECC_nistP256, ECC_nistP384, ECC_brainpoolP256r1 and ECC_brainpoolP384r1.
Version 2025.1 also adds support for .NET 9.
For more information about this version, see What's new in OPC Studio 2025.1 .
OPC Studio 2024.2 Released
We have released OPC Studio (QuickOPC, OPC Wizard and Excel Connector) 2024.2 today. This version adds a brand new product to the family: OPC Wizard, a toolkit for rapid development of OPC UA servers. OPC Wizard allows to develop a fully functional server with minimal boilerplate code and programming effort.
This version also brings various other improvements, especially in the area of user authentication in QuickOPC.
For more information about this version, see What's new in OPC Studio 2024.2 .
OPC Labs PubSub tools in use by Airbus Defence and Space
We were pleased to learn that our customer Airbus Defence and Space is successfully using OPC Labs tools to verify and inspect the OPC UA PubSub connectivity.
OPC Studio 2024.1 Released
We have released OPC Studio (QuickOPC and Excel Connector) 2024.1 today. This version now officially supports Python not only for Windows, but also for Linux.
In OPC UA PubSub, QuickOPC now supports the standard MQTT topic tree, introduced in version 1.05.03 of OPC UA specification (the data, metadata and status topics)
We have also added approx. 100 examples in VB.NET!
For more information, see What's new in OPC Studio 2024.1 .