This blog post continues our quarterly roadmap updates for Sensmetry’s SysML v2 ecosystem products. The goal of this post is to outline our current short- to medium-term vision & priorities as well as to reflect on developments over the past 3 months.

Disclaimer: This blog post outlines upcoming features and developments for Syside. Please note that these details are shared for general awareness of direction and may be subject to change over time due to evolving circumstances. Plans and timelines can shift as projects progress, and any updates or releases will ultimately be determined by Sensmetry.

Executive Summary

The work over the past quarter focused on user-driven Syside features to meet enterprise needs, Sysand maturation following an initial public release, and general accessibility of Sensmetry’s SysML v2 ecosystem offering. Many efforts will be visible in the 0.8.5 release expected by the end of January 2026. A major milestone & success, experienced by over 1000 users in the past 3 months, has been our new Syside Cloud service, providing the full capabilities of the Syside Pro Suite through a web browser without any installation. Use it for free by taking our free SysML v2 course Advent of SysML v2, or request a free trial.

The main goal of the 2026 Q1 quarter, guiding our development, is to meet feature stability expectations of enterprise end users preparing for Syside adoption in large-scale production projects. In the terminology of semantic versioning, this means for our main Syside Pro Suite tools Syside Automator and Syside Modeler to reach the first major version ‘v1’, which will provide the peace of mind that any applications or workflows relying on Syside stay on a solid enough foundation for production projects. 

Syside goals:

• Syside v1 release providing a stable Syside Automator API and Sysand integration into Syside Modeler.
• User-defined model views roll-out, incl. tabular views. 
• Syside Derisker public beta launch. Syside Derisker is a new tool to be added to the Syside Pro Suite for conducting safety, reliability, and security analyses of modern Automotive & Space systems.

Sysand goals:

• Sysand.org website overhaul, incl. user accounts and server-side automation features.
• Sysand feature set for production-readiness, incl. bug fixes, enterprise-grade authentication.

2025 Q4 overview: user-driven features prioritization & accessibility

As we step into 2026, let us first reflect on 2025 Q4, a high-velocity, agile period whose development priorities have been significantly influenced by Syside’s largest users as they bring Syside to production projects in 2026. Thus, though there has not been any change in product direction since our last quarterly roadmap update, some reprioritization happened to bring capabilities deemed in the highest demand for Syside’s readiness for large-scale production adoption.

Our primary mission this past quarter has been threefold: maturing the Syside Modeler user experience, enhancing the stability of Syside Automator and Sysand. In addition, we focused on improving accessibility of SysML v2 and our tools through creating free educational content to the community, incl. the global System as Code Fest, and a free-for-all introductory SysML v2 course Advent of SysML v2.

Here is a look at the milestones achieved, including some features still undergoing quality assurance to be included in a feature-packed Syside 0.8.5 release. 

Syside Modeler: Advanced Diagramming & CLI Power

We reached several key milestones in visualization and accessibility, significantly lowering the barrier to entry for complex modeling.

• Next-Gen Diagramming: Through our partnership with Tom Sawyer Software, we integrated the latest SysML v2 Viewer. This update expands support for sequence and state machine diagrams while introducing model fragment visualization via initial support for SysML v2 view elements. These features will debut in Syside Modeler 0.8.5, currently in final internal testing.
• Modeler CLI: We launched the Modeler CLI to streamline workflows for power users. It enables model checking and formatting without a Python dependency. While these core features have been live since 0.8.1, the upcoming 0.8.5 release adds automated diagram export capabilities through the CLI. In particular, this allows to automatically generate reports with SysML v2 diagrams directly from SysML v2 files – both locally or within CI/CD workflows – removing manual work and speeding up work a lot.

Syside Cloud: A New Era of Accessibility and Learning

Our cloud-based Syside offering, initially focused on educational use cases, underwent a massive transformation to support the growing global interest in SysML v2.

• The “v2” Cloud Platform: We launched a major overhaul of our cloud-based infrastructure, drastically reducing latency and bandwidth usage. The platform now comes pre-configured with Syside Modeler, Automator, Sysand, and Claude Code, providing a seamless, AI-integrated learning environment.
• Powering Advent of SysML v2 Success: Syside Cloud platform flawlessly powered our Advent of SysML v2 educational challenge through December, supporting around 1000 unique registered users. Due to popular demand, Advent of SysML v2 challenge has been turned into a free-for-all self-paced introductory SysML v2 course still powered by Syside Cloud. You can read the full recap on our blog or LinkedIn. Have not yet tried Syside Cloud; explore it by taking the free Advent of SysML v2 course.

Sysand: The Ecosystem’s Package Manager

Sysand is rapidly maturing into the package manager for the SysML v2 ecosystem; it is open-source and free for all.

• User experience:
  • We introduced a clone command for rapid access to example models making Sysand a place for sharing example models in addition to reusable libraries.
  • We refined the user interface as well as made error messages informative and helpful.
  • Significant speed-up improvements achieved.
  • New support for multi-package builds allows users to compile multiple .kpar files with a single command.
  • Custom index support via sysand.toml
• Pilot Implementation Integration: Sysand is now the engine building the official SysML v2 .kpar packages, reinforcing our commitment to specification compliance and ecosystem interoperability.
• Developer Experience: Java bindings for cross-tool integration.

Syside Automator: Stability & Scale

Our automation tool received substantial stability and distribution upgrades:

• Public Release on PyPI: Syside Automator is now available on PyPI, making installation and version management effortless.
• Usability improvements: We have improved programmatic element restructuring workflow, implemented experimental support for quantity evaluation. We’ve also improved the experience when using Python debuggers.
• Community-Driven Fixes: A huge thank you to our community for the proactive bug reporting on our Community Forum. Your feedback is making Syside better for all!

Syside Derisker: Model-Based Risk Analysis within SysML v2

We are excited to introduce Syside Derisker, our upcoming domain-specific tool for highly automated safety, reliability, and security analysis. The tool has been maturing and in development for multiple years, building on the Sensmetry team’s industry-leading expertise in safety and reliability engineering, gained through complex Space and Automotive projects as well as the development of international safety standards (ISO 21448, ISO 26262). The tool’s alpha versions are already available to Syside customers for testing and providing feedback.  

• Compliance-Ready: Syside Derisker tool and associated SysML v2 libraries initially aims to support the following safety and security standards:  ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, VDA AIAG FMEA, ECSS FMECA.

2026 Q1 Goals

The main goal of the 2026 Q1 quarter, guiding our development, is to meet feature stability expectations of enterprise end users preparing for Syside adoption in large-scale production projects. In the terminology of semantic versioning, this means for our main Syside Pro Suite tools Syside Automator and Syside Modeler to reach the first major version ‘v1’, which will provide the peace of mind that any applications or workflows relying on Syside stay on a solid enough foundation for production projects. 

Syside goals:

• Syside v1 release providing a stable Syside Automator API and Sysand integration into Syside Modeler.
• User-defined model views roll-out, incl. tabular views. 
• Syside Derisker public beta launch. Syside Derisker is a new tool to be added to the Syside Pro Suite for conducting safety, reliability, and security analyses targeting modern Automotive & Aerospace systems.

Sysand goals:

• Sysand.org website overhaul, incl. user accounts and server-side automation features.
• Sysand feature set for production-readiness, incl. bug fixes, enterprise-grade authentication, Sysand Python library launch on PyPI.

Regarding a longer-term horizon, we intend to have a separate communication for that. So much is happening behind the scenes for Sensmetry’s SysML v2 products to meet the demands of production projects in leading technology and engineering enterprises adopting SysML v2 at scale in 2026 and beyond.

The medium-term to long-term vision and driving forces behind the development of Syside & Sysand remain the same:

To liberate organizations to unlock unlimited Systems Engineering automation potential across the system lifecycle – to build superior systems, much faster!