Since upgrading to 10.5-rc1 a few months ago, it seems the X-Plane development team’s progress has stalled. To support more developers of scenery and aircraft plugins, I assumed their main focus is now on third-party development tools. However, it seems they just updated their development blog, revealing details about the new version 10.10.

Here are a few points I’m particularly interested in: The release schedule for 10.10 is not yet certain; it seems there are still many bugs This version is not yet a 64-bit application The UI for aircraft selection and flight settings will change Road rendering will be more realistic System stability will be improved; even if you run the program continuously for 10 hours, it will not crash unexpectedly The low-level software for joystick hardware has been rewritten, allowing you to plug and play new hardware devices even during flight (currently requires restarting X-Plane)

Let’s look forward to the early release of the latest version.

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