NOBUGS 2026

Tango-Controls is an object oriented control system used in many synchrotrons, telescopes, laser facilities and more.
Since its creation in 1999 at the ESRF, many institutes joined this free software development effort and are contributing by providing developers, financial support and bright ideas.
The first TANGO 10.x versions have been released recently, providing very interesting new features like the OpenTelemetry support, additional versioning information and alarm events.
PyTango, the Python binding, has switched from Boost-Python to pybind11.
In the last 2 years, several Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings took place to improve the current documentation, to discuss important topics like the Encryption, the TANGO Polling Loop and to prepare the next TANGO Long Term Support version. This last meeting initiated a refactoring work to use the Pointer to IMPLementation (PIMPL) idiom in cppTango, the Tango-controls C++ library, to ease the evolution in future versions.
The Tango-Controls collaboration contract has been renewed for the period 2026-2030.
A new call for tender for Outsourcing of software development for the Tango-Controls community has been published in February 2026, to ease the process of subcontracting tasks for the maintenance and improvements of the Tango-Controls core and tools while ensuring a bright future for the Tango-Controls community.