In one of the firsts acts of the new year, the media team behind Microsoft Flight Simulator have released this week’s development update with information on Software Development Kit additions and a few other items.

January 14th was initially slated as the release date for the next Feature Discovery Series episode, Aerodynamics, however, the video was deemed ‘not up to standard’ and thus has been delayed.

“[The Feature Discovery Series episode] will be postponed until further notice as we are still making a few edits to the video to ensure we hit the same quality bar for information that we have in the past.”

“We are aiming to have this released next week but will update you should anything change.”

The next topic to be addressed is another feedback snapshot, which lists many of the same items as previously, the top bugs being related to the Garmin G1000 and terrain spikes spotted across the globe. 

The latter issue is actively being worked on, with a root cause discovered and a fix in the pipeline. It is not clear whether this patch will be saved for the next major Sim Update or whether an intermediary fix will be issued.

In terms of an update on the SDK, a list was provided of the changes:

• Asset wizards will be added to the Project Editor. They will provide a way to create packages without having to manually create or copy asset files. The first one to come will be the Airport Wizard.
• We continue to improve the Visual Effects Editor.
• A new feature in the Scenery Editor will soon allow you to rename, group and reorder the objects in the Scene list, for a more flexible and organized hierarchy system.
• We are working on a notification system to keep you informed of our latest releases directly in the DevMode.
• WebAssembly: Some security weaknesses in the WASI layer that were reported have been fixed.
  

An interview with community managers Jayne and Alex was also included, which can be found here.

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