12.0.8-rc-3 goes final!

Another Beta run comes to an end! 12.0.8-rc-3 ships with months' worth of Beta testing, bug fixes, and new features! Thanks for all the feedback along the way!

Click here for a full list of new 12.0.8 features and updates

XPD bug fixes during 12.0.8 Beta run:

• XPD-14808 - Crash when destroying the aircraft_grid_widget and the full size render icon has been purged.

• XPD-14806 - Crash when checking for available readback command when not tuned to a valid controller.

• XPD-14800 - External visuals go into infinite loading loop.

• XPD-14809 - The list of XP instances in the network for existing IP entries is wrong if new host shows up.

• XPD-14833 - Icing effect doesn’t properly work without thermal textures.

• XPD-14810 - Memory leak in telemetry system.

• XPD-14791 - “Reset UDP ports” button leaves inet init error displayed with updated port.

• XPD-14643 - Mouse wheel scrolling fails at right side of screen with FSR.

• XPD-14787 - Assertion failed when landing or loading Skyhawk float plane on solid ground.

• XPD-14786 - Crash when popping up ATC window at EGPR.

• XPD-14779 - Tons of PNG iCCP warnings with zibo & 12.0.8-beta2.

• XPD-14775 - Bug report “Complement to my last submission “impossible to push back.

• XPD-14554 - Tips during load don’t rotate anymore.

• XPD-14774 - Performance Regression reading “sim/aircraft/view/acf_livery_path”.

• XPD-14750 - Bug report “Carrier snaps and violently pulls aircraft to catapult location when taxing close”.

• XPD-14631 - Bug report “Freezing mode is not working properly”.

• XPD-14755 - Default MD-82 fails to draw fuel from CENTER fuel tank: engines quit when wing fuel runs out

• XPD-14760 - X-feed selected L or R causes Opp engine shut down in AirSim3D C560XL

• XPD-14753 - Planemaker: can't select "None" for tank-moves-with-wing option in weight/balance

• XPD-14638 - In FakeVR mode, the mouse cursor is behind windows and the panel and can't interact

• XPD-14746 - Blue bar at bottom of VR rendering

• XPD-14748 - Lightning Strikes Glitch Frame on OS X

• XPD-14777 - CDU #2 datarefs may get truncated depending on current CDU#1 page

• XPD-14740 - Crash due to broken navdata not being handled correctly

• XPD-14735 - Dataref Read/Write Ability Gone

• XPD-14736 - 2D panel rendering broken with panel/always_render art control

• XPD-14718 - Missing OBJs of new fire extinguishers

• XPD-14670 - Icing effect doesn't properly take thermal sources into account

• XPD-14689 - Window icing glows in the dark

• XPD-14692 - Rain on windshield visible in “forward with nothing” view and disabled windshield effects

• XPD-14673 - Hot Start CL650 crashes on startup due to a previously writable X-Plane dataref having been changed to read-only

• XPD-14717 - Aircraft Class in Analytics Needs to be Untranslated

• XPD-14721 - New Gateway/Global airports recut!

• Further tuning of pitch-down effect upon wheel spin-up

• XPD-14729 - Thousands of new log warnings

• XPD-14716 - FMOD event velocity is apparently set the same as the vehicle velocity

• XPD-14521 - Citation X fuel transfer annuciator test failure.

• XPD-14512 - Eagle claw landing gear ‘pops’ during ‘rotate’.

• XPD-14510 - B738: Max throttle gets less N1% than less than max throttle.

• XPD-14378 - Crash when selecting Details tab - VRAM Profiler .

• XPD-14201 - Assertion failed - platform_x != flt[p_we_watch].dob_x().

• XPD-14167 - Unable to quit sim on Linux box with pawel_network_integration_1207b1 .

• XPD-13944 - Expand Electrical Bus-Tie Capability.

• XPD-14478 - Clicking “next tutorial” button results in assert failed: flight_in_progress().

• XPD-14426 - vpaths missing in XP12 for Global Airports.

• XPD-14262 - Valid ATC options may be unavailable after cancelling or when filed but not cleared.

• XPD-14231 - 2K textures for taxi signs.

• XPD-14221 - Testing branch build won’t launch on Windows .

• XPD-14218 - Assertion failed: intrange(this_p, 0, num_fm_planes() - 1).

• XPD-14217 - Assertion failed: fltrange.

• XPD-14166 - Assert on exvis machine during replay - m_history[hcn-2].get_remote_time() .

• XPD-14480 - Add Korean language support.

• XPD-14459 - Panel Preview Command broken for F-14.

• XPD-14451 - Switching the roles of master and exvis slave sometimes leaves exvis in standby.

• XPD-14450 - Ships Update.

• XPD-14449 - Update library.txt in sim objects.

• XPD-14435 - Update of containers for big ships.

• XPD-14431 - Updated LODs of container loads for container carriers.

• XPD-14430 - Updated LOD of big ships.

• XPD-14414 - Bug report “Headlights pointing to the opposite direction”.

• XPD-14403 - 180 degrees FOV can dev assert or corrupt screen.

• XPD-14402 - assertion fail in window management after loading a config with popped out proj params.

• XPD-14400 - Add Reset Edge blending button?

• XPD-14399 - Projector config testing: Assertion failed - succeeded .

• XPD-14393 - Add linux HOTAS Warthog joystick configs contributed by Marco Auer.

• XPD-14339 - New library items: ground markings, fire extinguishers.

• XPD-14265 - Add Ukrainian language support.

• XPD-14246 - Repeated inappropriate altitude compliance calls from ATC in some combinations of terrain and weather.

• XPD-14239 - Check-in calls use actual altitudes rather than indicated.

• XPD-14232 - Adding AI aircraft when in multiplayer reports invalid number of AI aircraft.

• XPD-14227 - San Francisco Landmarks update.

• XPD-14216 - new art in the airport library - legacy towers replacement, military shelters.

• XPD-14200 - Hypoxia and blackout on EXVIS machine only.

• XPD-14199 - Case which results in some exvis aircraft displays flickering.

• XPD-14190 - Broken airport definitions can cause continuous logging.

• XPD-14185 - Crash when arriving at untowered airport with active flightplan.

• XPD-14184 - Wingtip vortex effect and condensation not visible on extvis.

• XPD-14180 - Parts of ATC are still running on exvis machines.

• XPD-14163 - Review behavior when switching machine from Exvis standby to master whilst in flight .

• XPD-14159 - Airfoil editing datarefs are broken.

• XPD-14145 - Make “Reset on crash” alert more visible on Settings UI.

• XPD-14134 - Slaving meter uses wrong dataref on both King Air and Baron.

• XPD-14119 - Bug report “Baron 58 no autopilot information light”.

• XPD-14106 - Unpausing the sim triggers bogus DELTA/ABS_DELTA in sound events.

• XPD-14103 - Crash reading certain array datarefs.

• XPD-14099 - Race condition in otto_class.

• XPD-14489 - Error in italian translation

• XPD-14531 - Planemaker ignores settings for body parts attached to landing gear

• XPD-14672 - Crash on startup with no wifi

• XPD-13835 - Per-airport flatten switch creates floating beaches

• XPD-14654 - A333 MCDU Perf page distance to TOD keeps thousand digit below 1000 nm

• XPD-14579 - Map Window - Aircraft move, Altitude, Speed, and Pitch changes all turn the aircraft clockwise.

• XPD-14587 - Some aircraft engines were shutting down after loading flight (via .sit file)

• XPD-9386 Bug report: Tiling extension causes artifacts

• XPD-14353: Add dataref to allow plugins to disable autotune. Requires XPLM branch feat_XPD-14353_Disable_autotune

• XPD-13882: Fix flows changing too rapidly

• XPD-14343: Disable dev_assert which can happen if the pilot's being arsey

• XPD-14143 + XPD-14169: ATC dialog and autotune were resetting COM1 active when COM2 tx had been selected.

• XPD-14316: Various problems with controller handoff being ignored.

• XPD-14246: Fix discrepancy between flight model and ATC ISA altitude

• XPD-14239: Radio calls used correct indicated altitude even if altimeter setting was wrong

• XPD-14193: Request diversion mentions the previous destination

• XPD-14192: Ensure the AI closes all aircraft doors, not just the ones it would have opened itself, when service completed.

• XPD-14190: Don't continually regenerate fake flows except at load time - if the flows are unusable, this never stops.

• XPD-14189: LSO left/right commands were reversed

• XPD-14539 - Crash when routing AI under rare conditions