Beta 2 for X-Plane 12.4.0 has been released. Release notes (from https://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-12-4-0-release-notes/):

Release Date: January 10, 2026

Aircraft
Airbus A330-300

• Fixed the display of QNH on the PERF APPR PAGE of the MCDU (XPD-17627)
• Always allow the entry of values on the PERF APPR PAGE regardless of the current flight stage (XPD-17634)
• Fixed an issue where selecting heading mode would disable ALT CRZ (XPD-17673)
• Fixed several drawing issues on the ND
• Improved autopilot turn rate
• Enabled CLR button on the transponder
• Several other minor improvements

ATC & Radio

• Fixed missing ATIS for some airports (XPD-17630)

Avionics

• Fixed an issue where wind speeds greater than 99 knots would not be displayed correctly on the X1000 (XPD-17651)

Scenery

• Updated global airports to fix various mesh issues (e.g. VNLK – Tenzing-Hillary / Lukla Airport)
• Improved docking behavior of Ground Vehicles
• User Interface & Controls
• Added a new dataref to indicate if Tobii Eye Tracker is enabled (sim/graphics/view/eq_tobii_eyetracker)
• Fixed 10 nm approach startup option (XPD-17640)
• Fixed a crash when using the first monitor as a 2D panel only (XPD-17629)
• Fixed an issue where mouse clicks where not handled correctly when using 2D panels fullscreen (XPD-17644)
• Several stability improvements

VR

• Fixed an issue where MSAA 8x caused visual distortion (XPD-17573)
• Fixed an issue where FXAA caused rendering issues on the right eye screen (XPD-17638)

SDK

• Fixed a crash when closing windows created by plugins (XPD-17624)
• Fixed an issue where calling XPLMCreateProbe could cause a crash (XPD-17652)
• Improved internal handling when subscribing to resizable arrays using the WebAPI

Updated scenery, Raster based, when that coming ?

X-Plane 12 is following a remarkable path towards becoming and even more rich reference in desktop flight simulation.

The latest updates have been focusing in great details 👍👍👍and fixing bugs and overcomming some limitations.

ATC, default, is imho not 2nd to any other sim I use these days! Actually I haven't much to complain about it regarding my airliners shorts opps 😁

45 minutes ago, jymp said:

Updated scenery, Raster based, when that coming ?

The obvious "not now" inbound 🙂

https://www.x-plane.com/2025/12/x-plane-roadmap-update-december-2025/?_thumbnail_id=451804

Just a heads up for others who use SPAD.next with X-Plane: 

I'm getting a crash being logged on exiting the sim. After removing all of my plugins and putting them back one by one, I traced it to the SPAD.next connector plugin. I've submitted a bug report to Laminar and on the SPAD discord. 

Response from the SPAD dev is that the plugin is de-registering its private commands when shutting down and the new beta doesn't seem to need (or like) that any longer. The next SPAD beta will include an updated plugin to (hopefully) fix this.

In the meantime, the sim is still useable but I get a notice suggesting that I run in Safe Mode every time I start the sim because it crashed on exit.

 

4 hours ago, Malaromane said:

suggesting that I run in Safe Mode every time I start the sim

As soon as you do not crash on exit, you will not get that suggestion anymore.

I haven't flown it yet, but I'm very pleased that the A330 is getting such a large degree of attention to fidelity.*

Did anyone check out Reflected Reality's Defalut A330 YouTubes just a little while ago? Lessons from a Master...as always.

 

*Now, if we could just get proper DLC's on the Tomcat, that'd be an excellent flight model enhancement.

Edited January 10Jan 10 by UrgentSiesta

19 minutes ago, Litjan said:

As soon as you do not crash on exit, you will not get that suggestion anymore.

I know. After all, I took the time to fully diagnose what was causing the issue before submitting bug reports.

I merely posted the information so that others who might be encountering this crash -- which is being triggered by many more plugins than just the SPAD.next connector -- know what's going on.

As for me, since the crash is occurring on shutdown and I need the SPAD connector for my various peripherals, I'm content to live with the Safe Mode prompt on start up until a fix is released. 

3 hours ago, Malaromane said:

I know. After all, I took the time to fully diagnose what was causing the issue before submitting bug reports.

I merely posted the information so that others who might be encountering this crash -- which is being triggered by many more plugins than just the SPAD.next connector -- know what's going on.

As for me, since the crash is occurring on shutdown and I need the SPAD connector for my various peripherals, I'm content to live with the Safe Mode prompt on start up until a fix is released. 

Before exiting try to disable the SPAD NEXT addon in plugin admin. 

11 hours ago, Sims Smith said:

Before exiting try to disable the SPAD NEXT addon in plugin admin. 

I believe that's actually what's triggering the crash (in SPAD and many other plugins). According to the dev, the underlying "bug" is that the crash is triggered when the plugin attempts to de-register its private commands when shutting down. 

Abetter camera main culprit, but has being updated

Any idea when is Beta 3 dropping?  The plugin error is an irritant 

24 minutes ago, Sims Smith said:

Any idea when is Beta 3 dropping?  The plugin error is an irritant 

Available now.