I’m Jason Firth.
You will recall that last year I posted about the release of Unity Pro v8.1.
Well, I got an email from a vendor this week about the opportunity to learn about the new version of Unity Pro — Version 10!
(Wait, did I miss something? What happened to 9?)
I have absolutely no idea what happened to 9. They skipped it. Maybe to keep on track with Windows?
Unity Pro V10 supports
M580 features
*CCOTF(Configuration change on the fly) on M580 Local IOs
*Cybersecurity: Events log, Data Integrity, Enable/Disable Services
*System Time Stamping of Application Variables
*Device Integration: Network Manager
Quantum Platform Features
*HART on X80 remote drops
*New Quantum firmware v3.3
Full Excel Import/export tool
Audit Trail
*Log in Syslog
ANY_BOOL Data Type
Supports:
Win 7 32 and 64 bit;
Win 8.1 32 and 64 bit;
Win 10 32 and 64bit and;
Windows Server 2012.
How exciting, right? Well, I went onto the schneider-electric website to download the latest version, and was shocked to discover that version 10 isn’t the latest version!
Yes, there’s a vesion 11, out right before Christmas.
Unity Pro V11 support new Modicon M580 Controllers :
Support new Modicon M580 High End
Support new Modicon M580 HSBY CPUs
Support LL984 language on Modicon M580
Quantum Ethernet IO drops is now supported on Modicon M580
Supports:
Win 7 32 and 64 bit;
Win 8.1 32 and 64 bit;
Win 10 32 and 64bit and;
Windows Server 2012.
To be honest, these seem like awfully incremental improvements to be justifying major sofware number increments.
Alongside Unity Pro v10, there are new firmware images for the Modicon Quantum CPUs, and a major revision of the M580 firmware images for all the new features.
Alongside Unity Pro v11, there are new firmware images for the M580 platform.
Thanks for reading!