2020.4

FlightGear 2020.4 is the development version for FlightGear after the release of 2020.3 that implements many new experimental features many of which are unstable and cause bugs.

FlightGear 2020.4 was superseded by the 2024 LTS version, with stable features in 2024.1, and 2024.2 being the new "next" branch for breaking changes and new development which continues work on promising features such as HDR pipeline and WS3.

Features

New Rendering pipeline - Compositor and HDR (Not High Dynamic Range)

Experimental support for Virtual Reality systems

Support for World Scenery 3.0

Updated Open Scene Graph (OSG)

Marker pins (Airports, Naviaids, Fixes, POI, Traffic)

PBR support with gltf files

Features backported to FlightGear 2020.3

Support for photoscenery - 2020.3.18

Nightly Builds

Flightgear has nightly builds which updates daily. This can be downloaded from https://download.flightgear.org/builds/nightly/