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December 19, 2012

X-Plane 10.20 Update


Release Notes (last updated 20 Dec 2012)

X-Plane 10.20 Beta 8

  • New tropical terrain textures
  • Beta 8 works with the newest update to Xavion iPad apps.
Bug fixes:
  • King-air 3d cockpit fixed
  • Windows XP machines should get their IP address without failing.
  • Fixed METAR parsing with time-stamped winds.
  • Fixed reversed scroll wheel for plugins.
  • Fixed by missing line segments at EHAM custom scenery and others.
  • Fixed keys not working with Romanji keyboard layout.
  • Fixed height of type 1 facades.

X-Plane 10.20 Beta 7

Bug fixes:
  • Fixed crash on scenery load when runways were set to 'flattened'.
  • Mac & Linux: Re-exported libpng to the 32-bit builds of X-Plane
  • Missing library paths: this wasn't actually fixed in beta 6 due to a source control mistake; should be fixed now.
  • Kingair switches fixed.

X-Plane 10.20 Beta 6

Usability:
  • Livery is saved as a preference - when you reopen a plane if there is no option to pick a livery, the last one you used is opened.
  • New button in Open Aircraft dialog box to just change the livery.
Plugins:
  • Fix for LuaJIT compatibility on 64-bit Mac integrated - see here. Plugin authors working on 64-bit Mac plugins should be able to continue with development without any special test builds.
  • libpng, libcurl, and libfreetype2 symbols have been stripped out of the Mac and Linux versions. Please test your 32-bit Mac/Linux plugin; if it will not load, please report this ASAP! (The problem might be with your makefile.)
  • Fixed system_window dataref. This should fix the 32-bit TrackIR plugins.
Airplanes:
  • Prop heat and inlet heat expanded to up to 8 engines, with new datarefs. This should not affect existing airplanes, but please recheck your icing switches.
  • Custom prop disc cross-fades fixed. If you use the prop disc override please confirm that your add-on works!
  • Eagle claw landing gear dataref added.
  • Fixed RGB light field in Plane-Maker exterior lights screen.
  • Fixed IAS indicator showing airspeed when a plane is flying backward or stationary in a tailwind.
Scenery:
  • Fixed incorrect library paths in autogen - this should fix a bunch of custom scenery packs not loading.
  • More new terrain textures from Albert.
  • Fixed texturing of type 1 repeating fence faces. If your facades still have texturing problems but used to work, please file a bug ASAP!
  • Helipads like NK39 don't float in the air when sloped runways are turned off.
Bug Fixes:
  • Fix for some Intel HD GPUs causing the sim to quit with an error.
  • Fixed crash on Mac with Chinese input methods.
  • Fixed hang when filing certain ATC flight plans.
  • Bottom of cloud puffs should be closer to assigned bases.
  • New commands for directional gyros.
  • AI planes keep igniters on to avoid flame-outs.

X-Plane 10.20 Beta 5

Beta 5 brings in new art assets to beta 3 - no code changes.
  • New autogen from Alex. This is not the complete autogen work he has done; it is an interim step.
  • New terrain textures from Albert.
  • Bug fixes to the Kingair and KSEA from Tom.
  • New 3-d exterior on the Harrier from Javier.
If you are a 32-bit Mac user, you may need to turn down rendering settings - we will further fine tune rendering settings later in the beta; for now you are getting the raw new art assets.

X-Plane 10.20 Beta 4

Beta 4 was dead-on-arrival due to an installation problem and was thus recalled after about 2 minutes of life. Beta 5 is now out, providing the stuff that SHOULD have been in beta 4.

X-Plane 10.20 Beta 3

We still have a number of open bugs; please do _not_ re-report bugs that you have already filed against beta 2 unless you see them marked as fixed in this list! We will be getting to all of the filed bugs shortly, but this build gets out a few changes that we needed to test separately.
  • OpenAL sound is now initialized before any plugins are loaded. This changes which OpenAL implementation will be loaded for globally installed plugins. Please see the OpenAL technote for details. This fix should conflicts between Gizmo-enhanced and SASL-enhanced airplanes.
  • OS X 64-bit: the app's zero page and base address have been modified. This allows LuaJIT to function on 64-bit OS X. Please note that LuaJIT will still fail frequently with out-of-memory errors once the sim is running. If you are working on a plugin that uses LuaJIT and have not contacted Ben, please do so.
  • Vsync now functions on OS X. The vsync setting now takes effect immediately, without restarting. Please note that on ATI Windows hardware with the Aero theme enabled, Vsync locks to half-refresh rate; we think this is a driver bug.
  • A bunch of features relating to airport ICAO IDs now work on 64-bit. This fixes real weather and the FMS/GPS ICAO entry on 64-bit.
  • Multiple identical devices now supported properly on Mac.
  • Native TrackIR fixed on Windows. Plugins that use TrackIR are not yet fixed, due to a plugin SDK bug.
  • Log correctly identifies 64-bit versions of Windows.

X-Plane 10.20 Beta 2

  • Fixed unresponsive keyboard and mouse on OS X when X-Plane is started in full screen.
  • Fixed fatal shader error on older Nvidia cards on Windows and Linux.
  • Fixed spinning ball cursor on Windows.
  • Fixed OpenAL 64-bit library on Windows.
  • Fixed a number of log warnings.
  • 32 vs. 64-bit build is shown in the about box and startup screen.

X-Plane 10.20 Beta 1

X-Plane 10.20 is the first 64-bit version of X-Plane 10. It comes with two sets of executable applications for X-Plane:
  • Macintosh: X-Plane.app (64-bit) and X-Plane-32bit.app (32-bit)
  • Windows: X-Plane.exe (64-bit) and X-Plane-32bit.exe (32-bit)
  • Linux: X-Plane-x86_64 (64-bit) and X-Plane-i386 (32-bit)
Linux users: note that the canonical app names have changed to match the standard ABI suffices for Linux; if you launch x-plane with a script, you can either mod the script or sim-link from the old app name (X-Plane-i686) to the app you wish to run.
X-Plane 10.20 does not contain 64-bit versions of Airfoil Maker or Plane-Maker; we do not have any plan to 64-bit-ize them at this time.
Be sure to read the X-Plane 64-bit FAQ!

X-Plane 10.20. Known Issues

  • The 747 plugin is not 64-bit safe yet, so some 747 nav systems will not operate in 64-bit mode.
  • The current installer is not updated for the new file naming convention and will always launch the 64-bit app (Windows/Mac), or fail to relaunch the app (Linux). You can simply restart X-Plane from your desktop after updates.
  • TrackIR not reliably tracking head with built-in TrackIR support.
  • FMS/GPS won't lock onto airports in the 64-bit build.
  • Prop disc multi-image blending is broken.
  • QuickTime capture is not available in 64-bits, and will not be. At some later point we will move to a video capture technology that works everywhere (32 and 64 bits, Mac, Win and Lin) but for now QT will be 32-bit only.
There are a number of open bugs that we are looking at that will be addressed in later betas
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