Sim Update 4 Beta
In SU4 beta news, we released two more test builds in the past week. You can check out the release notes for each of these two builds at the links below:
Sim Update 4 Beta (1.6.29.0) Release Notes – November 21, 2025
Sim Update 4 Beta (1.6.30.0) Release Notes – November 26, 2025
We want to once again thank everyone who is participating in the beta and sharing your feedback about each test build with the dev team. As always, we encourage all beta participatints to kindly submit bug reports, share your overall impressions, and vote in our beta surveys on the forums here.
Upcoming Changes to this weekly blog
With the impending release of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on PS5, we are taking this opportunity to revamp our weekly blog post starting next week on Thursday, December 4. Based on your feedback on how the blog can serve you better, going forward we will be splitting the current blog into three different posts:
MSFS Weekly Briefing
Marketplace Update
Development Update
A description of each of these three posts follows.
MSFS Weekly Briefing
The MSFS Weekly Briefing will be an at-a-glance view of what YOU the community have been up to in the past week, as well as a high-level recap of what’s been going on in the sim. This is where we will give an overview of any new releases from the past week, such as Sim Updates, World Updates, City Updates, new aircraft (Local Legends, Famous Flyers, Expert Series), pre-release beta test builds, new YouTube trailers, Marketplace sale notifications, special offers from flight sim peripheral makers and add-on creators, and more. If you’re a simmer who regularly reads the forums and already stays on top of the latest MSFS news, you may not find much new information here, but this will be an ideal short read for players who just want a quick recap of the past week’s updates.
The MSFS Weekly Briefing will also include the Community section from the current weekly blog:
Community Fly-In Friday information
Community Video
Creator Highlight
Screenshot Challenge
Additionally, we will use the MSFS Weekly Briefing to highlight interesting and unique group events organized by you, the simmer community. Whether it’s a group flight listed on our forums, a charity fundraising livestream, or a real-life simmer meet-up that’s part of our Bravo Alpha Romeo program, check in here to stay on top of all the latest events happening in the MSFS community.
The MSFS Weekly Briefing will release at the same time as the current blog, approximately 4pm Pacific Time every Thursday. The idea is that this post can be your single source of news to stay up-to-date with all the latest happenings in the world of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Marketplace Update
The Marketplace Update will be a separate blog post and will include the image grids for New and Updated MSFS 2024 and MSFS (2020) Marketplace products released that week on Monday and Thursday. For now, this will be published every Thursday concurrent with the MSFS Weekly Briefing, but the publication date/time could change in the future. This page will also include the Marketplace Backlog table and the text-only table of Marketplace releases which also shows how long a product was waiting between Last Submission and Creator Sign-Off and Creator Sign-off to Release.
You can find the new Marketplace page at https://flightsimulator.com/marketplace. This page currently holds the text-only tables, but will be refreshed with a new look come Dec. 4th.
Development Update
Development Updates will be focused solely about development information of the sim, not Community or Marketplace news. Publication is not locked in to a certain cadence, but the goal is for a new Development Update to be published either on an ad-hoc basis whenever the team has important new information to share OR for a new Development Update to follow each Developer Livestream (approximately every other month), giving a recap of the topics discussed by the panel for those simmers who were unable to watch the broadcast live on Twitch or prefer to read a text article rather than watch a YouTube VOD of the session.
Development Updates will include the following sections from the current weekly blog:
Development Roadmap
Feedback Snapshot
SDK Update
Third Party Update
Other Development News
We look forward to these changes to the weekly blog and hope you will find this breakout into three separate posts more useful for staying updated with the latest MSFS news. As always, we are listening to your feedback and are excited to hear what you have to say on our forums.
Black Friday Sale
The Marketplace Black Friday Sale remains ongoing! This is a great opportunity to enjoy savings of up to 85% on thousands of items from the in-sim Marketplace. See here for more information!
– MSFS Team