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X-Plane 12

Public Beta - 12.05r1

  • XPD-14018 - A330 flap relief retracts slats at same time.
  • XPD-14009 - A330 hits overspeed warning at 215 knots clean.
  • XPD-14005 - GFC-700 ESP can active on "no AP" aircraft.
  • XPD-13968 - A330 autothrottle should disengage when moving thrust levers to idle.
  • XPD-14044 - CEF loading does not understand unicode on windows.
  • XPD-13987 - A330 bleed air adjustments needed/ WING A. ICE SYS FAULT problem.
  • XPD-13969 - A330 (too) late tuning of correct ILS for approach.
  • XPD-14042 - Bug report "sim crash around Lisbon (Portugal)".
  • XPD-14023 - Bug report "Front wheel has chocks on Lancair since last update".
  • XPD-14011 - A330 direct-to-radial-in function in FMS reversed inbound course.
  • XPD-13988 - A330 automatic ND declutter function messes up sometimes (suppresses routing).
  • XPD-13965 - Aircraft on NAV mode following a route direct on the GPS will veer off course after ca. 250NM.
  • XPD-13994 - G530 using "Save Flight Plan" is only saving first three lines.

Public Beta - 12.05b3

This public beta update comes with a number of bug fixes!

  • XPD-13983 - acf_tmax dataref broken - sets only first engine.
  • XPD-13989 - Old and deprecated Aerosoft EDLP Paderborn-Lipstadt airport still getting installed.
  • XPD-13986 - Assert during flight load at EGLD.
  • XPD-13985 - Discord rich presence shows wrong aircraft name.
  • XPD-13992 - Custom map layer can trigger OpenGL matrix stack error.

Public Beta - 12.05b2

  • XPD-13979 - Bug report “Ground handling feels weird in 12.05b1 for free-castoring planes that use differential braking”.
  • XPD-13970 - Tops of some Captains-Side MCDU Keys Don’t Depress.
  • XPD-13972 - A330 wipers don’t work.
  • XPD-13967 - A330 meanders around track, failing to intercept and follow smoothly (autopilot constant problem).
  • XPD-13950 - Airbus 330 autothrottle surging power when in CLB notch (AT engaged).
  • XPD-13862 - Ford carrier update: Added circling animated helicopter.

NEW | Society Islands XP - Bora Bora & Leeward Islands

Public Beta - 12.05b1

X-Plane 12.05b1 introduces the Airbus MCDU for the A330 and many bug fixes.


  • XPD-13946 - Some stability augmentation system active in all aircraft.
  • XPD-13815 - Crash taxiing across latitude line at LFPG with wind set up.
  • XPD-13677 - DSF Fatal Error Crashes the Sim instead of Quitting.
  • XPD-13940 - Temperatures can jump dramatically near the tropopause.
  • XPD-13706 - Text Offsets on EFIS Map not working for TCAS.
  • XPD-12609 - Hang or dev assert in failed weapons load.
  • XPD-5948 - Approach lights cut off when crossing longitude degree.
  • XPD-13945 - THR LVR FMA doubled in A330.
  • XPD-13925 - DataRefTool text display broken again.
  • XPD-13702 - Clouds break MSAA.
  • XPD-13559 - Replay system does not handle ground-speed acceleration well.
  • XPD-13550 - OBJ with empty key frame table crashes sim.
  • XPD-13530 - t_quit from thread hangs the sim and other sad things.
  • XPD-13446 - From Bug Report: Landing Gear Failures within IOS (Do not Work).
  • XPD-13354 - microburst doesn't go away when you fix the failure.
  • XPD-13954 - A330 FMC, clicking on the PERF button should always take you to the current active PERF phase page.
  • XPD-13951 - A330 pack flow sound even if no bleed air available to drive the packs.
  • XPD-13723 - Consider CURLSSLOPT_REVOKE_BEST_EFFORT option.
  • XPD-13719 - From Bug Report: Editing Weapon Shell Geometry Using the Weapons' UI Duplicates the Geometry to the Launcher.
  • XPD-13682 - From Bug Report: Wake turbulence broken for 3rd party integrations.
  • XPD-13540 - Additional CLI Adding Additional Options.
  • XPD-13729 - Not able to reach North Pole with a CTD.
  • XPD-13473 - Manufacture List Runs of Screen (Plane Maker).

12.04r3

Version 12.04r3 is now out of public beta and the default shipping version for X-Plane 12. Thanks everyone for your continued feedback and reports!

Public Beta - 12.04r3


  • Emergency fix for tree rendering distances
  • XPD-13909 – DDS loader crashes when trying to free memory

Public Beta - 12.04r2

Emergency fix for crash reporter issues

Public Beta - 12.04r1

  • XPD-13881 - Missing Pipeline with Thranda C208.
  • XPD-13878 - Crash on startup with Zink and Nvidia GPUs.
  • XPD-13870 - Black sun when using a GeForce 900 series GPU.
  • XPD-13890 - Zink needs to be loaded early to intercept anyone injecting GL early.
  • XPD-13889 - Zink needs to disable ReShade even with CLI opt in.
  • XPD-13888 - iphone/XXX datarefs exposed to desktop third parties.
  • XPD-13886 - Zink doesn’t detect when the system OpenGL library was already loaded.
  • XPD-13884 - Zink doesn’t correctly turn off after failing on startup.
  • XPD-13883 - Zink crashes on startup with GeForce 10xx series cards.
  • XPD-13887 - sim/atc/user_aircraft_transmitting crashes if read too early.

Public Beta - 12.04b3

  • XPD-13857 - Sudden change in outside air temperature (causing pressure altitude to jump several thousand feet).
  • XPD-13851 - X-Plane complains about broken DDS that previously loaded just fine.
  • XPD-13853 - Improve accuracy of reported airport visibility with real weather.
  • XPD-13843 - Only first of Custom Ground Trucks is recognized.
  • XPD-13656 - From Bug Report: .FOR file with grass have shimering and transparency with a LOD enabled”.
  • XPD-13848 - drawcall type data ref is not set correctly during `XPLMCustomizeAvionics_t` callbacks .
  • XPD-13390 - Zink/Mesa is leaking staging memory.
  • XPD-13285 - Zink on Linux.
  • XPD-13284 - Allow fallback to the IHV driver instead of forcing Zink.
  • XPD-13283 - Zink doesn’t correctly render UI plugins.
  • XPD-13282 - Zink backend on AMD results in colours being rendered incorrectly.
  • XPD-13472 - No longer able to: “Carry another aircraft” or “Be carried by another aircraft”.