XP12: 12.00 Alphas

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2021-12-03

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Version 12 Alpha 1 was a simulator update for the early pre-production of X-Plane 12 released on the 2021-12-03. It was described as an "initial version of the newest flight simulator from Laminar Research."

Subsequent Alphas 2 thru 38 were released to alpha testers at unknown dates thereafter, though preceding the re-release of Alpha 38 as Beta 1 ("Early Access") on 2022-09-05.

Alpha 2[]

Took latest aircraft art.
Ground ops now use regional accents.
ATC bug & crash fixes, and improvements.
Additional UI polish.
XPD-11314 Multiplayer chat box was taking focus before it existed.
XPD-11430 Use pre-recorded speech for ground operations.
XPD-11529 Don’t allow focus visible changes when a popup window is active on the main screen.
XPD-11541 Fix nosewheel steering.
XPD-11557 Fixed installer-maker to not strip FMS resources.
XPD-11575 Fixed weather sliders disappearing.
XPD-11577 Take Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
(
- ICAO: KSEA
)
& Innsbruck Airport
(
- ICAO: LOWI
)
demo areas out.

Alpha 3[]

Took latest aircraft, landmarks, and sim resource art.
Installer fixes & improvements.
Weather & cloud fixes & improvements.
XPD-11381 Fixed water becoming just sand dunes when the water level is positive.
XPD-11479, XPD-11608 Fix assert when using tab on many screens.
XPD-11490 Some aircraft don’t have FMOD sound.
XPD-11512 Fixed snow jitter.
XPD-11518 Fixed dynamic OBJs drawn through the collector receiving snow.
XPD-11521 Auto-normalize luma in snow.
XPD-11537 Moving map option removed from Settings/Hardware screen.
XPD-11547 Undo incorrect font-alignment change.
XPD-11560 OGL_measure_range was using a specific and incorrect font.
XPD-11568, XPD-11605 Real weather download crashes sim.
XPD-11576 Fixed rain glass elements showing up in fwd-no-hud views.
XPD-11578 Show date on free flight screen if UTC is different.
XPD-11581 Fixed Microprofile stack overrun on Linux.
XPD-11583 XLua callbacks not loading in correct order.
XPD-11584 Fixed crash in weapons preview.
XPD-11586 Removed markings for beta from about box and log.
XPD-11602 Fixed “add remove scenery” showing no scenery to add.

Alpha 4[]

Alpha 4 was a staged scenery & installer update only.

Alpha 5[]

Some dataref fixes, restorations, deprecations.
XPD-11531 Fixes stereo rendering dev assert.
XPD-11604 Bug report: text fields incorrect in joystick control sensitivity setup.
XPD-11609 Auto update downloads v11 installer.
XPD-11612 Fixed rain and ice showing up on aircraft
XPD-11642 Fixed attempting to read back the water per monitor.
XPD-11644 Fixed radar map not dimming in airliners.
XPD-11657 Fixed infinite loop on GPU when sun angle is 0.

Alpha 6[]

Updated aircraft LuaJit for M1 Macs.
Updated material model fixed rendering of intermediate metals.
XPD-11629 Updated Super Cub damage model.
XPD-11671 Fixed dead lock in the Vulkan transfer coordinator.

Alpha 7[]

XPD-11707 Latest Gateway airports.
XPD-11504 SSR fix for undefined behavior.
XPD-11580 Don’t create/destroy entities unnecessarily during replay.
XPD-11588 Fix for intermittent problem linking generated taxi networks.
XPD-11614 Legacy shader is not HDR aware, giving pure white on the map screen.
XPD-11655 Disable cinema verite by default.
XPD-11668 Helicopter rotors are not animated in REPLAY mode.
XPD-11671 Deadlock/locking problem in Vulkan.
XPD-11672 Disable replay mode when starting a new flight.
XPD-11698 Missing normal maps for +50-010 and other tiles.

Alpha 8[]

Latest flight model improvements, especially with helicopters.
XPD-11220 GNS530 shows localizer ID only when glideslope is not being received.
XPD-11234 Rain drops move as if possessed.
XPD-11296 Citation X Master Warning and Master Caution erratic.
XPD-11298 Stuttering sound in replay.
XPD-11303 Piper PA18 Super Cub / Carb Heat.
XPD-11624 Holes in “thin” cloud layers can be missing or full of holes.
XPD-11625 CUMULUS clouds – overcast nearly gone based on altitude.
XPD-11639 METAR interpretation of visibility wrong (Europe).
XPD-11643 Plane Maker won’t allow all pax weight in front of empty CG.
XPD-11647 Pre-rotation (for autogyros) is broken.
XPD-11653 Planemaker aircraft engine exhaust vertical offset can not be set to negative numbers.
XPD-11681 Artifacts when using ‘show traffic’ dev option for ground traffic.
XPD-11659 Fixed Metal timers not working around compute encoders.
XPD-11671 Fixed dead lock in the Vulkan transfer coordinator.
XPD-11715 Fixed illegal use of geoid from worker thread without RW lock.
XPD-11725 Pitch/roll order not backwards for astab entry.

Alpha 9[]

Fixed CEF crashing on MacOS Monterey.
X-Plane now initializes CEF on start up instead of on demand as before.
Updated plugin SDK & datarefs.
Includes generic HUD.
No longer provides OpenAL bindings for plugins. Plugins that need to use OpenAL should include OpenAL-soft themselves or switch to FMOD.

Alpha 10[]

Updated autogen & object art.
Now universal ARM and x86 builds on macOS.
In-gfx tri and quad indices are always interpreted in u32.
Added NORMAL_HIGH_PRECISION and NORMAL_SEPARATE_ALPHA directives.
Reduced VRAM usage by compressing normal and material textures.
Faster Vulkan pipeline build times.

Alpha 11[]

Latest flight model bug fixes & improvements.
XPD-11445 Add date to load flight screen.
XPD-11446 If no suitable parking is found, limit the panic choices to the closest size available.
XPD-11667 FADEC error in Carb recip engine type.
XPD-11692 Missing terrain tiles caused entire map to be cleared.
XPD-11697 Read WED’s ‘closed’ airport metadata key.
XPD-11704 Make the AI spawner aware of special use of p1.
XPD-11726 Aircraft weights on initial spawn are not the aircraft default weights.
XPD-11728 Replay replays under water for video recording.
XPD-11730 Unable to start APU after shutting 738 down.
XPD-11750 De-icing holdover time also clears any that already happened.
XPD-11758 Plane Maker carries over tank names from previous loaded aircraft into the current one.
XPD-11765 Throttle detented FADEC disables autothrottle.
XPD-11781 Deprecated autogen.
XPD-11817 Disable LUA allocator on Apple Silicon.
XPD-11820 Entering / exiting replay induces yaw.

Alpha 12[]

Updated CEF version.
XPD-9776 Forward-no-HUD shows Cessna 172SP Skyhawk engine heat blur.
XPD-10720 Default resources log errors.
XPD-10738 AI aircraft are superimposed on the same parking spot.
XPD-11275 Missing lit textures in log.txt.
XPD-11591 dev_assert on finished pushback at Innsbruck Airport
(
- ICAO: LOWI
)
.
XPD-11689 Unknown airport metadata key.
XPD-11690 Static aircraft spawning only Cirrus jets at major airports.
XPD-11757 ATC not aware of a/c reaching parking before runway-transition sequence is complete.
XPD-11773 ATC Active zone assert.
XPD-11792 Minimum usable fuel is not zero.
XPD-11794 vSpeed Markers Missing from PRO version.
XPD-11796 About info should show the CPU architecture on Mac.
XPD-11802 X-Plane 12 nulptr crash with ATTR_cockpit.
XPD-11823 Cannot file flight plan for an aircraft ID T-781 or T781.
XPD-11833 Duplicate UI buttons.
XPD-11834 Choice of units for visibility does not follow in Real Weather.
XPD-11836, XPD-11840 ATC crash.
XPD-11841 Prop cones are not updated while using replay.
XPD-11859 Crash loading glider at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
(
- ICAO: KSEA
)
.
XPD-11862 Aircraft carrier doesn’t change position on Instant replays.
XPD-11864 Grass runways can’t support seasons.
XPD-11867 Sim can be used without a valid v12 key.

Alpha 13[]

XPD-11452 Fixed objects disappearing when vegetation is in play.
XPD-11636 Altitude temperature variation.
XPD-11702 Fixed trees leaning in the wrong direction.
XPD-11739 Clean up weather UI from failed real weather download.
XPD-11821 Custom engine start in XP12 not working anymore.
XPD-11826 One of two EFIS datarefs missing.
XPD-11827 Sea level density dataref missing.
XPD-11868 Fixed wing tip flex dataref type.
XPD-11878 Payload stations can not be zero.
XPD-11885 Put back size of cmdline dataref.
XPD-11886 Crash with devices that don’t support short vertex attributes.

Alpha 14[]

Latest flight model & aircraft improvements.
XPD-11727 Checks for temps and pressures wait a bit for the values to stabilise after loading the plane.
XPD-11788 Excessive bounce on crash when the engine hits the ground.
XPD-11851 Cessna 172SP Skyhawk davtron voltage indicator uses wrong dataref.
XPD-11857 PM graphics visible outside window.
XPD-11869 Throttle manipulator not guarding beta range in Evo.
XPD-11875 Wingtip impact points not matching surface of ground.
XPD-11882 Airbus A330 assigned to undersized gate.
XPD-11892 Airbus A330 speedbrake deploys when it shouldn’t.
XPD-11903 Wireframe issue on Airbus A330 glareshield.
XPD-11907 Gear datarefs not working anymore on aircraft with skids.
XPD-11911 Wing scrape datarefs not resetting when the wing is not touching the ground.

Alpha 15[]

Low vis fog restored.
Ocean shading takes wave height and other lighting into account.
Now requires Vulkan 1.3–driver updates may be required.
Includes FSR & Cacao.
XPD-10500 Make cockpit views more consistent across aircraft.
XPD-11652 Fixed water readback not being aware of the actual DSF data.
XPD-11749 Fixed water stair stepping.
XPD-11774 Fixed water proj grid artifacts when MSAA is enabled.
XPD-11780 Some German text does not fit in the mission complete window.
XPD-11875 Wingtip impact points not matching surface of ground.
XPD-11880 Dragging the user aircraft icon on the map at high zoom is inaccurate.
XPD-11889 Airbus A330: Using reverser triggers ECAM warning “Reverse unlocked”.
XPD-11891 Airbus A330: When pushing the TAKEOFF CONFIG pushbutton, the DOOR R AVIONICS warning pops up.
XPD-11893 Take bug fixes for A330.
XPD-11898 Airbus A330: Bus Tie can’t be closed.
XPD-11901 Airbus A330: Undue overspeed warning Vle (Landing gear extended).
XPD-11904 Airbus A330: When gear is down, the flightphase related system page is the WHEEL page and should be shown.
XPD-11905 Fixed trees leaning too far in any wind.
XPD-11906 Grumman F-14 Tomcat HUD heading skips 345-015 interval.
XPD-11908 New skids model didn't allow the Robinson R22 Beta II to slide on ground.
XPD-11918 Add storing of the tire drag and surface type to the replay system.
XPD-11919 Baron 58 pedals not deflecting with auto-coordination.
XPD-11920 Order of Data Output graph doesn’t match screen.
XPD-11921 Flaps datarefs stuttering on replays.
XPD-11931 Fixed auto board being broken.

Alpha 16[]

Removed 16x AA due to crashing metal.
XPD-6753 OOBS AI acf spawning.
XPD-11377 Jagged shoreline textures with 3d water.
XPD-11385 Transparent lake water.
XPD-11627 Close & back icons are jagged.
XPD-11748 Sky reflection on water is too dark.
XPD-11760 Cube map minification loses brightness.
XPD-11881 Planemaker writes .acf file with commas instead of decimal points for the numbers.
XPD-11883 Monitor configuration UI.
XPD-11887 Focus issues with edit text boxes.
XPD-11908 New skids model didn't allow the Robinson R22 Beta II to slide on ground.
XPD-11909 Pressing certain keys enters an invisible character in the joystick/keyboard search field.
XPD-11937 Crash when showing the upgrade dialog.
XPD-11954 ‘Make this station a circle’ enlarges station to maximum size.

Alpha 17[]

Restored VR.
Fixed SSR history getting always zeroed out every frame.
XPD-11769 Cabin altitude indicator on default Boeing 737-800 is off by a factor of 10.
XPD-11812 AI flight-type counts could be off.
XPD-11927 Instruments inop during beginning of basic tutorial.
XPD-11959 Fixed Cacao hanging a frame behind.

Alpha 18[]

XPD-11635 Increased draped polygon precision for overlay DSFs.
XPD-11651 Fixed scroll wheel on Linux.
XPD-11688 Incorrect urban ambiance inside airports.
XPD-11882 Airbus A330 assigned to undersized gate.
XPD-11910 Wing scrape datarefs not working on replays.
XPD-11932 ATC segment crash.
XPD-11998 Fixed Cacao nested compute passes.
XPD-11999 Removed UI com port fields.
XPD-12000 Removed “side panel” features from sim loader.
XPD-12006 Crashes with SSAO enabled on Metal.
XPD-12009 Texture improvements.
XPD-12014 KAFN out of bounds sound rasterization.
XPD-12017 Fix dev assert when regenerating weather.

Alpha 19[]

Latest versions of all aircraft.
Puma joystick configs added.
XPD-11506 Disabled rendering of lights in Plane Maker.
XPD-11621 Some procedures don’t fit inside pop out box on PFD.
XPD-11722 Crash using the FMS on the Citation.
XPD-11753 Plane Maker – missing “Ellipse” feature in ‘Bodies’.
XPD-11803 XPLMGetFMSEntryInfo is always returning an outref of XPLM_NAV_NOT_FOUND.
XPD-11832 Empty or small sling load objects crash X-Plane.
XPD-11913 Garmin G1000 wind display option 3 too small for three-digit values.
XPD-11994, 11995, 11996 Crashes on Cessna Citation X FMS with LSK.
XPD-12001 Controller orientation is wrong for WMR.
XPD-12023 Fixed SSR history size being incorrect with FSR enabled.
XPD-12050 Fixed crash with Airfoil Maker launching with no saved airfoil.
XPD-12056 Fix popups containing layers containing images being too large in VR.
XPD-12059 New static liveries.
XPD-12070 New Datarefs Are Needed to Drive Legacy Sounds in FMOD.

Alpha 20[]

Updated XPLM SDK.
Add logs and warnings for plugin use of deprecated datarefs.
XPD-11370 Support 3rd party jetways to be animated.
XPD-11452 Fixed objects disappearing when vegetation is in play.
XPD-11597, XPD-11771 Turned off in-cockpit reflections to bandaid SSR bugs.
XPD-11754 Make the ground vehicles library support regions.
XPD-11798 Ground reflections cut short around camera.
XPD-11799 AA Breaks SSR.
XPD-11855 SSR broken by MSAA.
XPD-12024 Runway flows will now be re-evaluated immediately instead of with up to a 60-second delay if the weather page of the free-flight dialog is used.
XPD-12030 Double takeoff clearance could still be issued.
XPD-12032 Replay interpolation bug – engine sounds.
XPD-12035 Keep the same date in the mini time config when changing the slider and date set to ‘track system time’.
XPD-12063 Ground frequencies shouldn’t overlap so much.
XPD-12064 Random crash loading DSFs.
XPD-12091 Removed log spam from static Boeing 737-800.
XPD-12095 Take new Global Airports.
XPD-12101 3rd-party aircraft with weapons no longer loads.

Alpha 21[]

Latest flight model.
XPD-11593 Fixed tree culling on the CPU side that would too eagerly throw out tree patches.
XPD-11860 Turn off nav lights, strobes and red beacon on parked AI.
XPD-11868 Fix several lost dataref changes from mass change process.
XPD-11916 Can’t enable yoke control with mouse after starting a new flight.
XPD-11940 Incorrect Live W&B in the Grumman F-14 Tomcat.
XPD-11942 Crash with .sit files.
XPD-11957 ‘Use second texture’ not applied to mirrored wings.
XPD-11980 Engine does NOT quit when tank selector is set to OFF.
XPD-11990 Fixed scaling of legacy trees.
XPD-12025 VTOL Jet aircraft not responding to ‘Throttle’ engine.
XPD-12048 Crash when resizing window.
XPD-12110 Gun fires with no ammo.
XPD-12133 Added line drawing mode to the fake terrain shader.
XPD-12139 Crash when opening plane.
XPD-12155 Fix popup instrument refactoring bug that caused the UI to not eat mouse clicks to popup windows.
XPD-12163 No drivers on ground vehicles.
XPD-12073 Aircraft carrier, frigate and sailboats are sailing around on dry land.

Alpha 22[]

XPD-11593 Forests “pop in” in the distance.
XPD-11958 Renamed FSR and Cacao “Off” options to “None”.
XPD-11968 ATC should offer deviation for relative heading.
XPD-12019 Small translucid 2D square follows the gaze in VR.
XPD-12058 Make sure the edge cases of the byte-to-normalized-float-conversion are correct.
XPD-12071 Arrow keys broken in edit text field.
XPD-12097 Unable to set “2D Panel Only” on the Graphics tab.
XPD-12167 Translucent window around VR flower menu when looking thru the windshield.

Alpha 23[]

Updated landmarks & sim objects.
New feature: ATC circuit operations.
XPD-11037 Translation typo.
XPD-11475 Fixed particle FX editing fields in Plane-Maker.
XPD-11501 AI creates needlessly convoluted taxi routes.
XPD-11692 Missing terrain tiles caused entire map to be cleared.
XPD-11697 Read WED’s ‘closed’ airport metadata key.
XPD-11870 Implement AWOS broadcasts.
XPD-12024 ATC flow providing opposite runway as in X-Plane 11.55r2.
XPD-12030 Double takeoff clearance could still be issued.
XPD-12047 Assume traffic service when passing from a controlled tower to regional after takeoff.
XPD-12049 Controller contact phrase changes.
XPD-12086 Show rocket shells if they are OBJs.
XPD-12090 Weapon attach point writes fixed.
XPD-12112, XPD-12153 Fixed water whitecaps getting into a bad shape and oscillating around.
XPD-12142 ATC would allow popup IFR clearance whether it was appropriate or not.
XPD-12143 Filing a flight plan on a runway start causes a wrist slap.
XPD-12149 ATC gives poor vectors to route when filing IFR in-air.
XPD-12162 Latest airport scenery.
XPD-12179 Crash turning on VR controller.
XPD-12186 Weapon datarefs for OBJs are not scoped properly.
XPD-12199 Updated Cirrus Vision SF50.
XPD-12206 Fixed edge blending being upside down.
XPD-12216 Fixed fog going wonky with no rain.
XPD-12231 Updated forests.

Alpha 24[]

XPD-9649 Tow plane roll rate fixed.
XPD-10818 PM has radius in Misc bodies, but X-Plane shows error.
XPD-11475 Property Lines Missing from .wpn File when Creating New Unguided Rocket Weapon.
XPD-11745 Moving Plane Maker windows can break menus.
XPD-11949 Top/Side editing window for bodies too small.
XPD-12086 Customized Weapon Shell Object Does Not Show in Flight.
XPD-12165 Not keeping track of wpn damage or blast radius.
XPD-12183 Dataref sim/flightmodel/engine/ENG_XYZ is missing.
XPD-12225 Fix debug assert due to 0-size spills.
XPD-12237 Tower should not say ‘standby’ when receiving a plane from Ground at a hold-short for a runway to be crossed.
XPD-12244 High idle restored for throttle->N2 jet engines.
XPD-12249 Incorrect filtering of submenus in PTT mode.
XPD-12250 Dev_assert when re-routing a VFR circuit if no arrival airport is set.
XPD-12251 Readback of frequency change sometimes cut off.
XPD-12254 Fix special-casing of zeros in flight numbers.
XPD-12265 ATC is issuing vectors when recreating approach to GA field due to a/c being out of position.
XPD-12270 AI taxi routes briefly incorrect when the first segment was a long one.
XPD-12271 Fixed level for “no snow” to avoid traces of snow.
XPD-12273 framerate drops dramatically over time with the map open.
XPD-12274 Stop AI repeatedly requesting taxi if the taxi network is broken.
XPD-12281 Restoring color space conversion.
XPD-12287 Fixed W&B being ignored when aircraft has gaps in stations.
XPD-12289 ATC airspace crash.

Alpha 25[]

Fixed water not getting initialized when there is no scenery.
XPD-11777 Cessna Citation X 'Paint Peeling'.
XPD-12015 Far tree billboards don’t fade, they just roll out in clumps.
XPD-12028 VR keyboard hides when you click on it.
XPD-12112, XPD-12153 Fixed water whitecaps getting into a bad shape and oscillating around.
XPD-12159 Parts of airplane showing through scenery.
XPD-12216 Fixed fog going wonky with no rain.
XPD-12222 Error in the visual effects setting tooltip.
XPD-12223 M1 Macs crash with 8x MSAA.
XPD-12261 Rain repellent airflow not included in rain forces.
XPD-12263 Fixed cacao breaking with multiple monitors that have different sizes.
XPD-12264 Multi-monitor config UI is wonky.
XPD-12291 ATIS auto-tune should be on COM2 Standby freq, not COM2 active freq.
XPD-12292 Fix wrist slap on departure from a runway with mandatory backtrack.
XPD-12302 When taxying to a runway for departure, make the taxi destination point the end of the usable section if the actual destination is outside that.
XPD-12304 Fixed intermittent tower view failures.
XPD-12305 Update taxi guidance arrows more frequently.
XPD-12306 Increase detection range for braking on taxiways, make aware of relative aircraft sizes.

Alpha 26[]

Take latest aircraft.
XPD-11670 Unhandled GPS exceptions that were dialog boxes now hard crash to capture better data.
XPD-11807 Exterior lights don’t shine in cockpit.
XPD-11809 Fix aviation flashlights too dim.
XPD-11971 Prop disc is not rendered correctly – no colors no details.
XPD-12056 Time popup window extends beyond the whiteboard in VR.
XPD-12152 Fix legacy wav file playing continuously.
XPD-12278 flt[n].entity is not reinitialised for AI after resetting the flight.
XPD-12288 Patch to fix W&B dialog sizing.
XPD-12299 Starting a new flight does not reset replay recording.
XPD-12337 Top-level regional controllers are not created if Navigraph has replaced the default atc.dat.
XPD-12353 Cessna Citation X Display Text overlapping.
XPD-12379 VR: No trees on right eye.
XPD-12380 VR: SSR flickering.
XPD-12387 Take latest autogen pack.
XPD-12393 Fixes regression where rough materials are too shiny.
XPD-12397 Put back automatic aniso at least 4x on runway markings.
XPD-12401 Fixed missing texture on Robinson R22 Beta II.
XPD-12404 Restored broken prefill.
XPD-12411 Fixed missing interior spills from plane-maker.

Alpha 27[]

Latest versions of aircraft.
XPD-12197 Fixed NaNs at pure zero vis.
XPD-12198 Take latest world terrain.
XPD-12208, XPD-12363 Fixed semi-reflective materials with SSR.
XPD-12214 Animation error in helicopter airspeed indicators.
XPD-12262 The rain droplet history is stored again as half point float to save VRAM.
XPD-12382 Water Speed Unrealistic at > 60 fps.
XPD-12395 Multiple graphics animations use real time and not sim time.
XPD-12405 Recalibrate night lighting scenery textures for gamma fix.
XPD-12409 Include latest Gateway airport cut.
XPD-12422 Took latest road pack.
XPD-12425 Pavement reflections made worse by accidentally applying them twice due to window glass.
XPD-12433 Added distance paging for trees.

Alpha 28[]

Latest versions of all aircraft.
XPD-11556 Runway lights and PAPIs are too dim.
XPD-12370 Horizon over water has white band visible.
XPD-12410 Cessna Citation X Status messages flashing.
XPD-12416 Restored prefill.
XPD-12426 Cubemap reflections too bright.
XPD-12459 Take latest sim objects.
XPD-12462 Explicitly initialize geoid and catch missing geoid file error.
XPD-12464 Fixed the whole heat blur pass disabling culling.
XPD-12477 Boeing 737-800: Double screens on first class seats.
XPD-12478 Boeing 737-800: Flood strips too bright for the light they emit.
XPD-12482 Take latest global airports.
XPD-11254 Runway markings now have a +1 res.

Alpha 29[]

Recut DSFs for the entire world.

Alpha 30[]

Boost APU and GPU bleed capacity to have enough oompf for the starter at 0RPM/max torque.
Fix TCAS range marks overlapping with EICAS window on MFD.
Fix FADEC from not preventing overtemp in hotter-than-ISA conditions.
Allow sound output device selection in the UI.
Road networking async loading.
XPD-12410 Cessna Citation X Status messages flashing.
XPD-12488 Fixed broken WGS84 scenery shift.
XPD-12495 Fixed broken WGS84 map drag/edit flight.
XPD-12497 Take latest airport scenery pack.
XPD-12500 Aircraft position drifting north-west when changing heading in IOS screen or map.
XPD-12515 & 12514 Take latest sim_objects.
XPD-12522 Latest Gateway airports to fix missing taxiway pavement.

Alpha 31[]

XPD-11967 Disabled kill data-refs for objects with rain effects.
XPD-12057 Removed the concrete slab in the Oculus VR loading screen.
XPD-12191 Wet pavement throughout replay.
XPD-12201 Fix crash when quitting to update scenery.
XPD-12233 Restore FPS test.
XPD-12264 Multi-monitor selection-shows-UI behavior is surprising.
XPD-12285 When using a 3NM/10NM start to a GA airfield, set the tower as contacted to prime auto-tune.
XPD-12306 Way better separation on taxiways.
XPD-12322 Make ATIS broadcasts conform to ICAO Annex 11.
XPD-12324 Bad response to VFR landing request in non-VFR conditions.
XPD-12332 ATIS Phraseology.
XPD-12338 Unable to change frequency to some airports.
XPD-12342 Screen space reflections wrong direction in ground water in VR + FSR.
XPD-12343 Changing FSR settings while in VR leads to rendering artifacts.
XPD-12352 Add specific message “backtrack on runway… ” after landing and going past the only turnoff.
XPD-12354 Vacate runway direction in spoken message could be wrong depending on taxiway layout.
XPD-12376 Fix frequency collisions between controllers with adjacent airspace.
XPD-12429 Reduce IFR check-in to tower for controlled landing.
XPD-12445 Possible fix for ATC crash in routing.
XPD-12448 Crash with FlyTampa atc.dat file.
XPD-12476 AI consistently flies into the ground starting at runway 26 at LOWI.
XPD-12489 AI Aircraft Take Off Into Grass – Not Aligned with Runway.
XPD-12498 Fixed prop shader flashing.
XPD-12528 Use different zoom mode for Flight School buttons.
XPD-12529 Improved beach textures.
XPD-12531 Possible fix for ATC crash in handoff.
XPD-12559 Fixes assert in helicopter tutorial.

Alpha 32[]

Latest aircraft & translations.
XPD-9307, XPD-10193 Tying seaplanes to docks (pier facades).
XPD-11037 Typos in English Translation STRINGs.
XPD-12170 Fix ATC window aspect ratio in VR.
XPD-12202 Plane-maker, weight & balance, payloads tab – ERROR when set to zero.
XPD-12226 Gear OOB dev assert when crashing.
XPD-12252 Surprising Re-route on departure.
XPD-12267 Improve approach separation when hold-short is not immediately next to the runway.
XPD-12310 Wake turbulence seems to have too much of an effect.
XPD-12313 Free castering nose gear wheel on Cirrus SR22 can get locked fully on one side.
XPD-12320 Fuel tanks labels are not shown in IOS window.
XPD-12334 Grumman F-14 Tomcat roll rate is anemic.
XPD-12341 Floatplane collision issues.
XPD-12348 STL and OBJ outputs place landing gear in random locations.
XPD-12371 boat wakes near boat appear in chunks, looks blocky.
XPD-12385 Planemaker typo – Gears section.
XPD-12403 Engines can be started without the ignition/igniters switched on.
XPD-12419 AI should not try to park on occupied parking spots.
XPD-12428 Don’t broadcast all-stations QNH changes unless P0 can hear it.
XPD-12429 Reduce IFR check-in to tower for controlled landing.
XPD-12431 Don’t have ATC request “Report final” for IFR flights to controlled airports.
XPD-12503 PM Parts invisible by default.
XPD-12504 Error in either Planemaker hint or radii of gyration data going to wrong file.
XPD-12509 Fuel selector is off by default, so engines don’t work by default.
XPD-12511 Incorrect floatplane behavior against docks.
XPD-12536 Flaps fully deploy near stall by default.
XPD-12538 Don’t re-issue instructions from ATC for the same heading/speed/alt unless there’s a need to nag.
XPD-12550 Don’t issue line up and wait until the other aircraft is past the entrypoint.
XPD-12558 Fixed broken cruise time estimates and dev asserts for v11 ACF.
XPD-12566 Mismatch when checking actual vs. assigned squawk code during flight-following handoff.
XPD-12573 Fix rare crash on final.
XPD-12574 Check that when nagging for readback, the transmit frequency belongs to the current controller.
XPD-12580 “gpu+time” stat appears to be broken.
XPD-12584 Fix ground dust on the concrete runway at KPUC.
XPD-12586 Fixed crash with orthophoto scenery packs with overlay borders.
XPD-12594 UI not showing the correct fuel tank labels.

Alpha 33[]

XPD-10102 Unknown emitter type ‘wing_condens’.
XPD-11130 Adjust Ren settings for v12.
XPD-11965 Latest road pack to fix street lights.
XPD-12303 Add pauses to ATC speech when commas are detected.
XPD-12399 FSR slider is confusing.
XPD-12444 World objects density vs 3D forest.
XPD-12516 When loading ATCVoice for the first time, async completion is not checked.
XPD-12517 Reduce locking requirements in ATC controller DB.
XPD-12539 Car lights much more visible than city lights.
XPD-12556 Fixed dark magenta line (and other dark line work) in Garmins.
XPD-12569 Performance degradation at night on dense city lights.
XPD-12575 ATC phraseology issues and suggestions (Europe edition).
XPD-12585 TCAS override relies on uninitialized lat/lons when plugin is writing relative bearings.
XPD-12597 Include / clarify ren settings in v12 log.txt.
XPD-12601 Map sectional colors broken.
XPD-12606 Restore FPS tests.
XPD-12610 Proj grid water rejection of the DSF water is broken on Metal.
XPD-12611 Fixed proj grid water not correctly depth testing against itself.
XPD-12612 Fixed rotation of normals with legacy quad trees.
XPD-12619 Latest sim objects.
XPD-12621- fixed crashes and wrong rendering in a bunch of other ortho-over-water and custom scenery cases.
XPD-12623 & XPD-12622 Latest 3D water.
XPD-12629 Fix for visible mowing assets over the water.
XPD-12639 Berlin and Frankfurt update.
XPD-12643 Auto-tune overrides frequency given in “Changing Frequency”.
XPD-12656 Crash when reloading aircraft art.
XPD-12662 Fix log spam caused by recalculating ETAs.

Alpha 34[]

Latest aircraft.
XPD-12666, XPD-11979, XPD-12700, XPD-12709, XPD-12711 Update landmarks & sim objects.
XPD-11946 Fixed bit loss with FSR.
XPD-11952 Fixed depth minify not completely ripping the depth buffer.
XPD-11979 Shadow of user aircraft vs. static aircraft are different colours.
XPD-12336 When not actively retriggering Real Weather Download, the plane initially spawns in bright sunshine.
XPD-12421 Normal mapping for the moon.
XPD-12640 Reduce the water opacity with water depth.
XPD-12641 Fixed Magenta/NaN below sea level at Furnace Creek Airport.
XPD-12655 Mipmaps on panel textures are not gamma correct when scaled down.
XPD-12556 Magenta line for Garmins is very faint (line antialiasing issue).
XPD-12657 Fixed GPU timers not being correct due to command buffer re-ordering.
XPD-12659 Terrain spike near LEBB Bilbao, Spain.
XPD-12661 Fixed back-side prop disc lighting.
XPD-12674 Airbus A330: Metallic pilot/copilot footrests are too reflective.
XPD-12680 Water artifacts new in Alpha 33 : line in water.
XPD-12695 Undue “too low flaps” warning when landing in A330.
XPD-12699 and XPD-12680 Fixed line in water and water inside of cockpits.
XPD-12710 Update Budapest.

Alpha 35[]

Latest aircraft.
XPD-12318 ATIS improvements.
XPD-12392 Status of aircraft doors not correct during replay.
XPD-12590 Ignore the range asserts for prop blade physics when the plane’s crashing.
XPD-12592 The default autopilot will NOT capture the selected altitude in certain circumstances.
XPD-12651 ‘Only Paved Runways on Map’ filter for airliner map not working in predicted manner.
XPD-12677 Cancel speed restrictions when switching to landing/rollout.
XPD-12679 VR laserpointer does not trigger ATC window mouseover behaviour.
XPD-12693 When clicking an ATIS frequency, use COM1 standby instead of COM2 if no COM2 is fitted.
XPD-12715 An ATIS with a new content should always have its identification letter incremented.
XPD-12718 Los Angeles Landmarks update.
XPD-12719 Fixed opaque garmins breaking third party ACF.
XPD-12729 ATC crash-no suitable apt.
XPD-12743 Fixed mip-maps for the pavement.

Alpha 36[]

Latest version of all aircraft.
XPD-11545 Powerlines visible through clouds.
XPD-11587 Powerline rendering artifacts.
XPD-11825 Reinstate ability for a plugin to set overridden slung-load mass.
XPD-11832 Crash when overriding slung-load size from a plugin.
XPD-11877 Contrails visible through clouds.
XPD-11873 Night lights visible through clouds.
XPD-11951 Snow suddenly appears / disappears.
XPD-12335, XPD-11741 Fixed presence of rain being unreliable under thin cloud layers.
XPD-12460 Tuned wave heights, particularly calm waters.
XPD-12472 Sun and reflections visible through clouds.
XPD-12532 Road pieces missing in A30 Global Scenery.
XPD-12533 Roads type tertiary_link missing in a30.
XPD-12535 Undue terrain peak in mesh near EDFB Reichelsheim in Germany.
XPD-12560 Industrial shp files missing.
XPD-12590 dev_assert in aifl_one_class::subsonic_co_lookup().
XPD-12613 New default rendering settings and GPU buckets.
XPD-12617 Crash when using the floatplane.
XPD-12628 Planemaker dialogs lag behind when dragged.
XPD-12635 Allow an inner radius of 0 for OGL_arc_fill.
XPD-12644 HASP Pro Use key compatibility needed on Win/Lin.
XPD-12653 Ford carrier mods.
XPD-12665 Added bypass for bridge rendering for floating gauges without hooks.
XPD-12676 Light bulb of Piper PA-18 Super Cub landing light is not illuminated during the day.
XPD-12682, XPD-12708 Fixed vegetation indexing into the wrong object.
XPD-12683 Carrier tower view wrong, no LSO view, not getting access to all 4 cats for the start.
XPD-12687 Catapult launches too soon if using it for subsequent launch.
XPD-12688 Aircraft hangar deck elevators on Ford CVN move randomly.
XPD-12690 Make it possible to select other spawn points on the new Ford CVN.
XPD-12691 Wake turb too strong, and goes through the ground by magic.
XPD-12708 Huge trees in VR.
XPD-12720 Update of view-dependent drawing only takes effect when viewpoint screen is opened.
XPD-12721 A teeny tower improvement.
XPD-12732 Added a object draw distance slider.
XPD-12737 Fix sky-view update interval.
XPD-12739 PlaneMaker map setting for airport visibility ONLY PAVED RUNWAYS ON MAP works reversely.
XPD-12746 Not showing metric when needed in the UI.
XPD-12750 Add sim/flightmodel/forces/wake_turbulence_effect.
XPD-12751 No more slices taken out of 3d clouds!
XPD-12759 Mac Steam install crashes at launch.
XPD-12761 Fixed weather not scrolling.
XPD-12762 Fixed artifacts when weather ST coords are negative.
XPD-12769 Better diagnostics for FMOD errors.
XPD-12733 Gear force OOB crash with helicopter + carrier catshot.
XPD-12774 Library changes (parking facade).
XPD-12775 Latest water colors.
XPD-12778 Particle system art update.
XPD-12779 Limit down sampling to max 720p internal res.
XPD-12780 Fixed DSFs being missing and exploding sim.
XPD-12781 Light adjusted for photometric lighting.
XPD-12785 St. Louis Landmarks update.
XPD-12787 Sydney Landmarks update.
XPD-12788 Pull Alex static Boeing 767 aircraft into A36.
XPD-12790 Falling into an empty void after the intro flight.
XPD-12791 Global Airport upgrade for A36.

Alpha 37[]

New app icons.
XPD-11631 Missing Datarefs in X-Plane 12.
XPD-11634 Fix interior of clouds being too dark.
XPD-11825 Sling load size dataref not available anymore.
XPD-11832 Empty or small sling load objects crash X-Plane.
XPD-11848 Sky is black with cloud layer base set below ground level.
XPD-11929 XP12 Missing body drag coefficient dataref.
XPD-11951 Snow suddenly appears / disappears.
XPD-12178 Engine datarefs need to be expanded for access to the new engines.
XPD-12269 Water foam creates white artifacts on inland water.
XPD-12280 Cube map not recomputed multiple times when going to night, causes incorrect ambience.
XPD-12283 Crash when forces are large.
XPD-12438 Check all locations where “turn” commands are issued.
XPD-12636 Requesting IFR clearance from a FISO will result in a relayed clearance.
XPD-12716 Assigned parking at departure airport wasn’t cleared for manually-flown aircraft.
XPD-12740 Convert LSO speech to pre-recorded.
XPD-12742 More cirrus clouds at lower cloud coverage settings.
XPD-12753 Prevent ATC window being shown on external visuals PCs.
XPD-12755 New York Landmarks update.
XPD-12756 Paris Landmarks update.
XPD-12757 Rio de Janeiro Landmarks update.
XPD-12675 VRCONFIG on Airbus A330.
XPD-12770 Don’t allow AI to spawn on the ground at an airport the user’s also at.
XPD-12773 Terrain-avoidance instructions could be countermanded by course-adherence task.
XPD-12799 TAA on clouds does not work in VR.
XPD-12801 Washington DC Landmarks update.
XPD-12802 Cloud SDF broken for thin cumulus clouds.
XPD-12803 Remove outdated Aerosoft custom airports.
XPD-12817 Ford Carrier small update.

Alpha 38[]

XPD-11914 Sound events need to be stopped and reset after a flight is ended or else they won’t start properly again.
XPD-12381 The Vulkan defragmenter now synchronizes with the async compute queue.
XPD-12660 SND directive `VEH_PART engine` doesn’t address more than 1 engine when aircraft is used as AI.
XPD-12731, XPD-12849 Fixed messed up beaches at flat airports by killing flattening.
XPD-12767 Turned off incorrect height based fake cloud light fade-out.
XPD-12768 New dataref for nozzle speed.
XPD-12802 Cloud SDF broken for thin cumulus clouds.
XPD-12806 USB key checked twice, causing frame pause.
XPD-12809 The adsb wind output is wrong.
XPD-12810 Seaplanes ride too rough.
XPD-12811 Impossible to set up overcast skies without pouring rain.
XPD-12818 Vapour effect is triggering randomly on the ground.
XPD-12836 Cessna Citation X update for VR & handles.
XPD-12837 Fixed using wrong dataref in PSS.
XPD-12838 New background image from Alex.
XPD-12839 Aircraft can hit their own wake.
XPD-12840 Sim can crash with helos.
XPD-12841 Cirrus SR22 is the new default ACF.
XPD-12842 REAL Cirrus SR22 does not creak under g-load.
XPD-12844 Killed desktop scanning.
XPD-12856 Weird sky rendering bug.
XPD-12862 Fixed cloud history being sized incorrectly with FSR turned on and clamped.
XPD-12866 Fixed installer maker to use KPDX as the demo area.
XPD-12872 Race condition in REN_actor loading sound.
XPD-12876 X-Plane crash while AI plane was calling ATC.
XPD-12877 Shouldn’t be doing route dumps in release builds.
XPD-12881 ATC crash in Waypoint.
XPD-12890 Regression of bug with third-party airports with atc.dat files with no airspace.
XPD-12897 UTL_zip_archive was not thread-safe.