October 23rd, 2025 Development Update

This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is Forum user HeKa48! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below.

Public testing for both the ongoing Sim Update 4 and PlayStation 5 betas remains in progress! This week, the team released a new test build for both betas. In case you missed it, you can read the release notes for these test builds at the links below.

As a reminder, if you are participating in either beta test, please remember to submit and contribute to bug reports on our official forums and to vote in the survey polls. Your feedback is incredibly valuable to the team as they refine both SU4 and the PS5 releases! Forum links for each beta are below. Note: only those invited to the PS5 beta will have access to that private subforum linked here.

Finally, in the interest of improving transparency, we’re pleased to share a new piece of information with you in the weekly Development Update blogs going forward. You can now see how many days it has taken for each third-party product (New and Updated) to be released on the Marketplace after the Creator signed-off that it was ready to go. You can see this information in the dedicated Marketplace release page at this link. We’re curious to hear your feedback about this new information, so be sure to leave a comment on our forums if you have any thoughts about this new information.

– MSFS Team

Development Update

Development Roadmap

Feedback Snapshot

SDK Update

Asobo

No update this week.

Working Title / MSFS Avionics Framework

No update this week.

Flight Planner Update

No update this week.

Marketplace

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2020)

There are 51 NEW and 53 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020).

ReleaseD Week OF oCTOBER 20


New on PC and Xbox		New on PC and Xbox

New Releases This Week
51 NEW Products: 25 ON PC, 26 ON XBOX
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC
New on PC and Xbox	New on Xbox	New on PC and Xbox

Updated This week:
53 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 25 ON PC, 28 on XBOX
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on Xbox	Updated on PC
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on Xbox	Updated on Xbox	Updated on Xbox
Updated on Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2024)

There are 48 NEW and 14 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

New This week:
48 NEW Products: 24 ON PC, 24 ON XBOX
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox

Updated This week:
14 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 7 ON PC, 7 ON XBOX
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
	Updated on PC and Xbox

Marketplace Backlog

Current Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) Backlog: 596 Total

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	13	63	76
Mission	4	98	102
Scenery	11	8	19
Livery	2	4	6
Airport	7	17	24
Other	60	18	78
Total	97	208	305

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	17	33	50
Mission	2	0	2
Scenery	0	179	179
Livery	2	18	20
Airport	10	23	33
Other	1	6	7
Total	32	259	291

Third Party Update

No Update this week.

Community

Community Fly-In Friday

This week, we’re off to Southeast Asia for a beautiful flight over Thailand! We’ll start at Phuket, a beach resort area extremely popular with tourists, then make our way on a generally northeast heading for a full stop landing at the capital city of Bangkok. En route, we will have touch & go landings at Chumphon and Hua Hin.

Click here for event details!

Community Video

If you’re looking for ultimate immersion when watching a video, look no further than this realistic approach into Hong Kong (VHHH), produced by YouTuber “Pulse“! Flying the popular PMDG Boeing 777 addon, Pulse doesn’t disappoint with the stunning sunset views whilst flying into one of the busiest international airports in the world!