Category Archives: Development

X-Plane 10.21 Release Candidate Two

X-Plane 10.21 rc2 is out; this recut of the release candidate backs out most of my changes to the lights; in hindsight my change was too ambitious/crazy at way too late of a point in the release process.  The runway … Continue reading

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Three Levels of Lua

I seem to be having the same conversation with lots of third party developers via email, so I’m going to write up some of my recent thinking on Lua – if nothing else, it will save me typing the same … Continue reading

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10.20 rc2 Is Here – Test Now!

X-Plane 10.20 rc2 is out – just a few crash fixes and the final code to support Lua-based add-ons. If you make a third party add-on, please: go try your add-on with 10.20 rc2 now! If we don’t find any … Continue reading

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Airplane Authors: You Will Need New 64-Bit Lua Plugins!

A quick follow-up on yesterday’s post regarding LuaJIT memory failures on Windows: We will be making a change to how plugins interact with LuaJIT and X-Plane for 10.20 rc2.  If you have an add-on that uses a LuaJIT-based plugin (SASL, … Continue reading

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Why Isn’t X-Plane 10.20 Release Candidate 1 Official?

A quick status update on X-Plane 10.20: The Portuguese language bug in the installer is fixed – thanks to all of the users who helped test the new installer. X-Plane 10.20 rc1 has two bugs that we have fixes for: … Continue reading

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10.20: We Have a Release Candidate

10.20 release candidate is out now; see the release notes for a list of changes.  There are two sets of bugs that we didn’t get to: Some users on Windows are having sound problems; I will write more about this … Continue reading

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Posted in Development, News | 38 Comments

ppjoy Crash Fixed

ppjoy users on Windows have been experiencing a crash on startup; this was a bug in X-Plane 10.10/10.11, induced by particular virtual HID devices that only ppjoy could make.   I found the problem and it will be fixed in … Continue reading

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Posted in Development, Hardware, News | 5 Comments

What’s Left in the 10.20 Betas

It’s been a slow week – I’m sick, Alex was sick, Chris is sick, Chris’s wife is sick, my wife is sick, Chris’s daughter is sick, my son is sick…basically all of New England has bubonic plague.  Skype meetings sound … Continue reading

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Quick Request: Ivy Bridge Victim^H^H^H^H^HTester

EDIT: Let me be more clear: we do not need any more volunteers!  Thank you to everyone who helped.  If you have this configuration, please just check the release notes in the next beta and test when the bugs are … Continue reading

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“Any” Has No Place in Bug Reports

This series of exchanges happens to me way too often: User: X-Plane crashes when I change the flap setting. Me: Which airplane does this happen on. User: Any airplane. Me: (Tries one of the default airplanes.  Crash does not happen.)  … Continue reading

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