April 23rd, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing
Weekly RecapFollowing last week’s Developer Livestream, Sim Update 5 is nearing the finish line as the team completes final polish. One additional pre-release test build is planned for participants in the optional public beta. In parallel, we’re validating that the Oversized Cargo Rating (previously called Heavy Cargo Rating) is ready to go and resolving an issue with AMD frame generation discovered by community testers during the public beta. We expect to confirm readiness by Monday, with release currently targeted for next week pending final validation. We appreciate your continued support and feedback as we bring SU5 to launch.Since our last Weekly Briefing, we released two new SU5 beta test builds. You can read the release notes at the following links:Sim Update 5 Beta (1.7.21.0) Release Notes – April 17, 2026 Sim Update 5 Beta (1.7.22.0) Release Notes – April 21, 2026Steam users enrolled in the SU5 beta may have also noticed a third Steam-only test build (1.7.23.0) as well. This build contains a few minor modifications to help developers with testing, but it has no user-facing changes. Accordingly, there are no public release notes for this build.Finally, in case you missed it last week, we published the latest Development Update blog. This post contains a high-level summary of all the news and information the panel shared during the April 15 Developer Livestream on Twitch. You can read this Development Update blog post at this link.Click here to continue reading the rest of the Weekly Briefing!
Following last week’s Developer Livestream, Sim Update 5 is nearing the finish line as the team completes final polish. One additional pre-release test build is planned for participants in the optional public beta. In parallel, we’re validating that the Oversized Cargo Rating (previously called Heavy Cargo Rating) is ready to go and resolving an issue with AMD frame generation discovered by community testers during the public beta. We expect to confirm readiness by Monday, with release currently targeted for next week pending final validation. We appreciate your continued support and feedback as we bring SU5 to launch.
Since our last Weekly Briefing, we released two new SU5 beta test builds. You can read the release notes at the following links:
Steam users enrolled in the SU5 beta may have also noticed a third Steam-only test build (1.7.23.0) as well. This build contains a few minor modifications to help developers with testing, but it has no user-facing changes. Accordingly, there are no public release notes for this build.
Finally, in case you missed it last week, we published the latest Development Update blog. This post contains a high-level summary of all the news and information the panel shared during the April 15 Developer Livestream on Twitch. You can read this Development Update blog post at this link.
Click here to continue reading the rest of the Weekly Briefing!
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