They love releasing their stuff on Friday ;) Source: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/release-notes-su6-beta-1-8-9-0-july-24-2026/771611

RELEASE NOTES Sim Update 6 Beta - 1.8.9.0

Stability & Performance

• Fixed loading of WASM systems and improved error handling (was causing infinite loading for some aircraft such as the ES30)

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed the order of the cameras in the panel camera

• Fixed flight outro scene sometimes displaying in the air

Glass Cockpits

Garmin G3000 / G5000

• Fixed an issue where the PFD flight director symbol would briefly appear in the incorrect location after toggling the flight director on.

Garmin G3X Touch

• Fixed an issue where the PFD flight director symbol would briefly appear in the incorrect location after toggling the flight director on.

UNS-1Ew SBAS-Flight Management System

• Fixed the fuel flow page using incorrect units with the modern fuel system

Flight System

NavData

• Fixed path point threshold crossing height values.

Aircraft Engines

Turbine Engines

• Added the TURB_ENG_COMMANDED_N1_OVERRIDE_ACTIVE SimVar to enable external control of commanded Ne via TURB_ENG_COMMANDED_N1. See SDK for details.

• Added an optional “delta_commanded_Ne_control” parameter to the [TURBINEENGINEDATA] section of engines.cfg. It specifies whether the first argument of “delta_commanded_Ne_table” represents the condition lever position or the mixture lever position. See SDK for details.

• Added validation of the number of arguments, argument ranges, and data values for the following commanded Ne multi-dimensional tables:

  • corrected_commanded_Ne_table

  • uncorrected_commanded_Ne_table

  • delta_commanded_Ne_table

• Refined the descriptions of the recently added “full_throttle_commanded_n1”, “corrected_commanded_ne_table”, and “delta_commanded_ne_table” parameters in the Package Analyzer (File Def) checks.

Career

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed visibility and wind information discrepancy between world map and briefing information.

Missions

Medevac

• Fixed an issue where the airport selected for rerouting was always the same

• Fixed an issue that caused the flight plan to be deleted when an IFR flight was cancelled

• Fixed the flight path gates and waypoint marker confusing behavior when switching to the new reroute flight plan

Peripherals

• Added options to enable/disable mouse acceleration for “Cockpit” and “External” cameras under Settings > General > Camera > Cockpit/External Camera

• Updated supported gamepads default airplanes presets:

  • Changed TOGGLE LANDING GEAR" to happen on release

  • Remapped “TOGGLE WATER RUDDER” to [D-pad right] after a delay

  • Unmapped “TOGGLE TAIL HOOK HANDLE”

• Updated supported gamepads default airplanes and others presets :

• Mapped “DECREASE/INCREASE PROPELLER PITCH” to [RB + Dpad Left/Right]/[R1 + Dpad Left/Right]

DevMode

General

• Added allowed buttons in Input Device Editor

• Improved debug vector shape

• The debug airport is now showing the airport archetype

Project Editor

• Fixed crash when capturing aircraft thumbnail for aircraft with incorrect static height

• Fixed incorrect size of thumbnail capture, now capture in 360x240 as required

SDK

SimConnect

• Fixed MapInputEventToClientEvent registering actions on joystick button 0 when an invalid button index was provided - now triggers a SimConnect exception

Tools

• Added new 3dsMax - Blender Bridge: A tool for transferring data between 3ds Max and Blender.

• Added possibility to enable masking of cubemap reflections on windshields inside cockpits using the Reflection(R), Roughness(G), AO(B) Texture of the windshield material in Blender and 3ds Max.

• Added possibility to attenuate screen space reflections on windhsields inside cockpits to the windhsield material in Blender and 3ds Max.

Documentation

• SimVars: a new helicopter SimVar - FREEWHEELING UNIT ENGAGED has been added to the documentation.

• The section on modular simobject merging has beeen updated with missing XML information.

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by vbazillio