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Monday, June 29, 2026

Beta version v1.3.0-beta.1 of FMI Layered Standard for Network Communication (FMI-LS-BUS) published

The FMI Project is happy to announce the Pre-Release v1.3-beta.1 of the FMI Layered Standard for Network Communication!

In this release FMI-LS-BUS: Ethernet and FMI-LS-BUS: LIN are going from Alpha to Beta state. Additionally it contains smaller adoptions for FMI-LS-BUS: FlexRay.

Summarized this version includes the common Physical Signal Abstraction, that fits for all bus types, and the Network Abstraction that currently supports CAN, CAN FD, CAN XL (from v1.0.0), FlexRay (from v1.1.0; currently in Beta state), Ethernet (from v1.2.0; now in Beta state) and LIN (from v1.3.0; now in Beta state). Check out our roadmap to get more information about the expansion plans of the FMI-LS-BUS.

Many thanks to the whole FMI-LS-BUS working group (with members from Akkodis, Altair, AVL, Beckhoff Automation, Bosch, dSPACE, PMSF IT Consulting Pierre R. Mai, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Synopsys Inc, VECTOR Informatik)! And especially to Benedikt Menne for the release preparation!

To view the original press release, please click here.

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