LabVIEW 2026 Q3 Features and Changes

• NI Nigel™ AI Updates

  • prompt to generate VIs in the Nigel chat window
  • use the Add File to Context button
  • clean up your front panels through the Edit » Clean Up Panel option
  • select the AI model used to answer your queries
  • connect to Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and tools
• Support for Unicode (UTF-8) Strings
• Updates to LabVIEW Icon Editor
• Updates to LabVIEW Actor Framework
• Automated Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Generation
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Improvements
• Added New NI-DAQmx Sample Project
• LabVIEW Security Feature Updates
• Debug Window Improvements
• LabVIEW Regular Expression Engine Upgraded to PCRE2

LabVIEW 2026 Q1 Features and Changes

• NI Nigel™ AI Updates

  • suggest new code elements
  • answer questions related to project structures
  • answer questions related to your specific hardware and software
  • stores your chat history
• Enable or Disable VI Debugging Without File Modification
• Set Probes and Breakpoints Without Modifying Source VIs
• Enable or Disable Retain Wire Values Setting on Multiple VIs
• VI Comparison Improvements
• Added Externally Changed Files List Dialog Box
• Support for LabVIEW Headless Environment
• Support for LabVIEW on Windows Docker Containers
• Additional Security Features to Prevent Unknown External Code from Executing
• Added Web Browser Front Panel Control
• .NET (Core) 8.0 Improvements
• Deprecation of Code Interface Nodes

• Bug 3741628: Notification of externally changed files triggers falsely when programmatically modifying or creating files.

  • Disable with this .ini key: FeatureToggle.Project.FileSystemMonitor=False

LabVIEW 2025 Q3 Features and Changes

• Nigel AI Advisor
• New Debug Window
• Logging for Unwired Errors
• New keyboard shortcuts
• Automatically wire values through the Enabled frame when placing Diagram Disable Structures
• Context Help Notes
• Left-Aligned text for block diagram objects
• LabVIEW CLI
• .NET 8 support for Register Event Callback
• Added support for Windows Long Paths
• Additional data types supported for Export Data to Clipboard & Export Data to Excel
• Vertical scrollbar for free labels
• Source Distributions now use the compiled code setting of each source file by default.

LabVIEW 2025 Q1 Features and Changes

• .NET (Core) 8.0 Support
• Python 3.11 and 3.12.
• Changes to Compare VIs and Other LabVIEW Files
• New Row Options for Listbox, Multicolumn Listbox, Table, and Tree Controls
• New Properties, Methods, and Events
• Updated LabVIEW Font Type Definition
• Additional Changes

LabVIEW 2024 Q3 Features and Changes

• Saving All VIs in a Project for a Previous Version of LabVIEW
• Improvements to Comparing VIs

• Preview Feature: .NET Core (8.0) Support in LabVIEW

LabVIEW 2024 Q1 Features and Changes

• Support for openSUSE 15.5
• Use JKI Dragon to manage package dependencies directly from your LabVIEW project
• The Path class includes the new “Browse for Path” method
• The Open VI Reference function's vi path input parameter now accepts an existing VI reference

• Beta feature: Develop a project in an older LV version

NI Forums Beta Announcement

• Diagram zoom
• Multiple animation speeds for Execution Highlighting
• “Quick change” label to object
• “Quick change” rectangular selection
• Double-click to finish wire and create control/indicator

  • DoubleClickWhenWiringCreation=False will disable this behaviour
• Find All Instances when running
• New visual feedback when selecting and branching wires
• Performance improvements to building applications, packed project libraries, and source distribution…
• JKI Dragon (Separate installation required)
• LabVIEW for macOS supports Apple silicon

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/upgrading-labview/page/labview-2023q1-changes.html

• LabVIEW Introduces a Tool to Identify and Install NI Drivers for a Project
• Applications on Linux Support Custom Name and Icon
• Terminals Height No Longer Changes With Font
• Python Support
• Support for macOS 13

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/upgrading-labview/page/labview-2022q3-changes.html

• Compare VIs within LabVIEW
• Python Support
• Changes to Default under Options

  • In LabVIEW 2022 Q3, the default for Separate compiled code from new files has been changed to ENABLED.
• Call MATLAB Function
• Uninit method of Actor.lvclass
• Support for Drivers/Toolkits Independent of LabVIEW Version
• New Help Experience

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/upgrading-labview/page/labview-2021-changes.html

• Improvements to the Probe Display
• SFTP Support
• Python Support
• Run When Opened
• nicurl Uses System Certificates on Windows
• OS Support (no Windows Vista/XP/7/8.x, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, or any 32-bit Windows operating system)
• Hidden Controls
• Use LVCompare with Git
• Improvements to Workflow for Comparing VIs and VI Hierarchies
• Image Depth for GetImage and GetImageScaled Methods
• Call MATLAB Functions
• Named Tuples Support
• VI Names Listed in VI Abort Dialog
• Improved Wire Routing

https://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/371780t.pdf

• Improving Code Flexibility Using LabVIEW Interfaces
• LabVIEW Web Services Enhancements
• Application Builder Enhancements

  • (Windows) Repairing Packages
  • Miscellaneous Application Builder Enhancements
• Environment Enhancements

  • Improvements to Selecting a List Item
  • Improvements to Moving between Subdiagrams
  • Improvements to Rearranging Cases or Subdiagrams
  • Clearing Data for Variant Data Types
  • Improvements to Displaying Errors
  • Launching the Cluster Size Dialog Box
  • Displaying the Last Item in a Ring Control
• Dialog Box Enhancements
• Enhancements to the Import Shared Library Wizard
• Block Diagram Enhancements

  • Cleaning Up Broken Wire Branches
  • Hiding the Event Data Node
  • Hiding the Iteration Terminal in Loops
  • Swapping Wire Positions When Only One Input is Wired
  • Setting Text on Icons
  • Displaying Context Help for Objects in Quick Drop
  • Improvements to Wiring Terminals for Objects Inserted from Quick Drop
• New and Changed VIs and Functions
• New and Changed Properties, Methods, and Events

https://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/371780r.pdf

• New Fundamental Collection Types: Set and Map
• New Shortcut Menu Items
• Application Builder Enhancements

  • (Windows) Distributing Your Application as Package Installers
  • Publishing NI Packages to Feeds
  • Miscellaneous Application Builder Enhancements
• Front Panel Enhancements

  • Set and Map Controls and Indicators
  • More Controls and Indicators in NXG Style
  • Viewing Run-Time Front Panel Bounds in Edit Mode
• Replacing Project Items
• Highlighting the Execution of a Section of Code
• Monitoring the Flow of Data Using History Probes
• Enhancements to Handling Errors in Case Structures
• Indicating Text Overflow in Constants, Controls, and Indicators
• Environment Enhancements
• New and Changed VIs and Functions

  • JSONtext (link for auto-install)
  • Data Type Parsing VIs
  • …
• New Properties

https://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/371780p.pdf

• Customizing a Malleable VI for Different Data Types
• Running Operations Using the Command Line Interface for LabVIEW
• Calling Python Code from LabVIEW
• Application Builder Enhancements

  • Creating Packages on Windows and Linux Real-Time Targets
  • Backward Compatibility Support for LabVIEW-Built .NET Assemblies
• Environment Enhancements

  • Improvements to Creating Type Definitions
  • Keyboard Shortcuts for Formatting Text
• Block Diagram Enhancements

  • Improvements to Error Handling on Parallel For Loops
  • Improvements to Removing and Rewiring Objects (QD)
• Front Panel Enhancements

  • NXG Style Controls and Indicators
• New VIs and Functions

  • The Comparison palette includes the new Assert Type subpalette
  • The Connectivity palette includes the new Python subpalette
  • The Conversion palette includes the new Coerce To Type function
  • The Timing palette includes the new High Resolution Polling Wait VI
• New and Changed Properties and Methods

https://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/371780n.pdf

• Reduced VI Load and Compile Time
• Maintaining Wire Connections When Moving Objects
• Malleable VIs
• New and Changed VIs and Functions

  • Read-Only Access for Data Value References
• New and Changed Classes, Properties, Methods, and Events
• Application Builder Enhancements

  • Backward Compatibility of the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine (EXE, DLL, PPL)
  • Improvements to Calls between LabVIEW and Other Languages

https://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/371780m.pdf

• Improvements to Selecting, Moving, and Resizing Objects
• Asynchronously Communicating Data between Parallel Sections of Code
• Environment Enhancements
• New and Changed VIs and Functions
• New and Changed Classes, Properties, Methods, and Events
• Add-On Consolidation for LabVIEW (64-bit)
• Changes to LabVIEW for OS X

  • LabVIEW 2016 for OS X is available only in 64-bit. NI no longer provides the 32-bit version of LabVIEW for OS X.
• Changes to LabVIEW for Linux

  • LabVIEW 2016 (32-bit and 64-bit) for Linux supports only 64-bit versions of Linux operating systems. LabVIEW for Linux no longer supports 32-bit versions of Linux operating systems.