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April 2nd, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing
Weekly Recap The entire Microsoft Flight Simulator Team wishes godspeed to the crew of Artemis II on their historic space flight to the moon! We know many of you watched the launch yesterday, and if you’re interested in…
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Spring Sale: 1000+ Items On SAle Now in the Marketplace
Enjoy discounted pricing during our Microsoft Flight Simulator Spring Sale! For 13 Days starting on April 2nd, save up to 80% on more than 1000 items. To purchase these discounted items, visit the Microsoft Flight Simul…
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March 26th, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing
Weekly Recap Many members of the MSFS team were in Lelystad, Netherlands last week for the annual FSWeekend event! We welcomed thousands of event attendees to have hands-on time with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on P…
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March 12th, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing
Weekly Recap Public testing for Sim Update 5 remains ongoing with a new test build released earlier this week. You can see the full release notes for beta build 1.7.10.0 on our forums here. As always, if you are partici…
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March 5th, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing
Weekly Recap We had two releases this week! The first is Sim Update 16.1 for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020). This is a relatively small update that resolves a few stability/crash issues. You can read the full release…
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February 26th, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing
Weekly Recap Public testing for Sim Update 5 remains ongoing. Last week we released a new beta build, 1.7.7.0, to volunteer testers from the community. You can read the release notes for this test build here. If you are…
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February 19th, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing
Weekly Recap The Sim Update 5 public beta test for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 began last week! In case you missed it, you can read the release notes for the first test build here. Thank you to everyone who is parti…
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Sim Update 5 Beta Now Available | Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
Welcome to the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Sim Update 5 public beta test! The Sim Update 05 Beta is now available on Steam, Windows PC, and Xbox. The release notes for the first SU5 test build (1.7.6.0) can be found…
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February 12th, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing
Weekly Recap We have good news! Sim Update 5 Public Beta officially begins tomorrow, February 13th, and will be available for Xbox, PC, and Steam users at this time. This beta is an opportunity for those who would like…
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February 2nd, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing
Weekly Recap A few months ago, we had a request for non-English speakers to assist with ATC language localizations. Thanks to the community’s assistance, we’ve improved ATC language quality for Microsoft Flight Simulato…
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January 29th, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing
Weekly Recap We had several new releases this week! First up, there is a new beta build (1.39.12.0) available for MSFS (2020) players. This is a relatively small update which resolves a few stability/crash issues. You c…
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January 22nd, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing
Weekly Recap We released two small updates this week. The first is a stability patch for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on PS5 only which resolves a few crash issues specific to the PlayStation platform. The second is…
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December 4th, 2025 MSFS Weekly Briefing
Weekly Recap Sim Update 4 is getting very close to release on your platforms! Our goal is for the full release to launch next week, but as always this is a target, not a locked-in promise, and the release timing could p…
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November 27th, 2025 Development Update
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 – No…
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October 30th, 2025 Development Update
New beta builds for both Sim Update 4 and the PlayStation 5 version of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 were released to community testers last Friday. You can read the release notes at the links below: Sim Update 4 Beta…
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September 18th, 2025 Development Update
Development of Sim Update 4 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 continues. Earlier today, we released a new pre-release build (1.6.7.0) to those players participating in the ongoing public beta test. You can read the re…
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