Microsoft Flight Simulator’s development team revealed one of the most asked answers from the previous few months, “Does this mean new invites are on the way?”, responding in kind: “Not at this moment. With the release of Alpha 1.2.5.0 yesterday, the team is focused on addressing any issues related to the download and install of the updated alpha build. 

“Once we’ve completed that process (~ 1 week), we will focus on assessing the current alpha participation. We appreciate all the great community feedback from our posting of the Build Change List, we will continue to release these notes going forward.”

The developers also stated that “We are currently focused on Alpha release tasks and will turn our attention to alpha participation within the next week.” They say they are currently:

• Ensuring that everyone that received an acceptance email has access to the Alpha
• Assess Alpha participation options for adding more people as quickly as possible.
• Prioritise access for those that registered early for pre-release build testing. 

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Delays in development were also addressed in today’s blog post, in addition to an update on the alpha builds. The current rough dates that have been provided are:

• Early April - Feedback Snapshot update.
• Mid April - Partnership Series Update will be released .
• Late April/Early May - Episode 8 (IFR) will be released.

Asobo also wrote about Alpha Builds 1.2.5.0 changelog, which concerned the addition of a new Cessna 152 - the first screenshots of which were released today. Further information on that can be accessed here. 

See the source post for this article on the Microsoft Flight Simulator website.