And one week later, there will be a new Sim Update for MSFS202 and MSFS2024. Each of these builds was relatively small and contained few changes, but you can find the release notes below:
- Sim Update 3 Beta (1.5.17.0) Release Notes – July 16th, 2025
General Bug Fixes:
– Various back-end updates; no user-facing changes. - Sim Update 3 Beta (1.5.18.0) Release Notes – July 18th, 2025
Stability & Performance:
Fixed screen size calculation for objects coming from MSFS 2020 packages. In particular, it is now properly enforced to 1000% when entering the bounding sphere.
Deactivated new LOD curve in VR (peformance hit is too high with additional vertices & foveated rendering)
- Sim Update 16 Beta [1.39.8.0] Release Notes – July 15th, 2025
General Bug Fixes
– Navdata updates
As announced last week, several aircraft from the Deluxe and Premium Deluxe Editions of MSFS 2024 are now available to rent from the in-sim Marketplace. If you decide you like the aircraft after renting it and wish to buy it, you will receive a discount on the full purchase price! This week, three new planes are now available to rent:
- Zlin Aviation Savage Norden
- Dornier Seawing Seastar
- Pilatus PC-24
As a reminder, the next Developer Livestream is next Wednesday, July 23, 2025 starting at 10:30am PDT (1730 UTC).
On the Twitch channel of MSFS.
