# Elite Dangerous Elite Dangerous | Vanguards - Product: Elite Dangerous (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/elite-dangerous) - Vendor: Frontier Developments - Date: 2025-08-19 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/359320/view/552373116697838363 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/elite-dangerous/releases/2025-08-19-elite-dangerous-vanguards What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Squadrons feature has been completely overhauled with custom logos, banners, mottos, and the ability to apply them to ships - **added** — Reworked Squadron Browser to find and view available Squadrons and their members - **added** — Extended Squadron Leaderboards with new rewards - **added** — Squadron Bank to share resources with members - **added** — Dedicated Squadron Carrier with extended Squadron Bank to host commodities, items, and ships - **added** — New Squadron perks system to benefit members - **added** — Squadron influence reports to track how your grip on the galaxy has changed - **changed** — Improved shadows across various locations in game - **fixed** — Target info distance being obscured by cockpit lights - **fixed** — Gaps in the cockpit model for the Panther Clipper Mk II - **fixed** — Harsh shadow flickering in the Panther Clipper Mk II cockpit when facing a planetary location - **fixed** — Thrust vectoring for the Panther Clipper Mk II engines whilst rolling - **fixed** — Gutamaya Corsair thrust vectoring when pitching - **fixed** — Crash that could occur when swapping ships whilst docked on a fleet carrier as it was starting the hyperspace lockdown process - **fixed** — Crash that could occur when using Advanced Maintenance to repair modules - **fixed** — Mirrored decal in the Panther Clipper Mk II cockpit - **fixed** — Missing HUD audio for telepresence and physical multicrew members in the Panther Clipper Mk II - **fixed** — Community decals not displaying correctly on the Panther Clipper Mk II - **fixed** — Ramp shutter clipping into the ship mesh upon deploying the landing gear on the Panther Clipper Mk II - **fixed** — Gap in the mesh of the fighter bay on the Panther Clipper Mk II resulting in light bleeding into the cockpit Greetings Commanders! The much anticipated Elite Dangerous: Vanguards update has arrived, bringing with it a full rework of Squadrons to give you more options and customisation in managing your groups!** **You can read more about this update (https://www.elitedangerous.com/update-notes/4-2-0-0). **Update Notes** **Features of Note:** - Squadrons feature has had a complete overhaul - Squadrons system introduces many new features, including: - Create a unique identity with your own custom logo and banner and the logo to your ships! - Create your Squadron motto to declare your purpose!! - Use the reworked Squadron Browser to find out more about available Squadrons and their members! - Climb to the top of our extended Squadron Leaderboards and earn new rewards - Use the new Squadron Bank to share resources with your fellow members - Manage your fleet with a dedicated Squadron Carrier with an extended Squadron Bank to host commodities, items and ships! - Apply new Squadron perks to benefit your members - Review Squadron influence reports to see how your grip on the galaxy has changed, - …And Much More! - Improvements to shadows across various locations in game (Issue ID: [63484](https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/63484)) **Issue Tracker Fixes ** - Fixed target info distance being obscured by cockpit lights (Issue ID: [77196](https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/77196)) - Fixed some gaps in the cockpit model for the Panther Clipper Mk II (Issue ID: [77212](https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/77212)) - Fixed instances of harsh shadow flickering in the Panther Clipper Mk II cockpit when facing a planetary location (Issue ID: [77218](https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/77218)) - Fixed thrust vectoring for the Panther Clipper Mk II engines whilst rolling (Issue ID: [77215](https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/77215)) - Fixed Gutamaya Corsair thrust vectoring when pitching (Issue ID: [77231](https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/77231)) **Bug Fixes** - Fixed instances of a crash that could occur when swapping ships whilst docked on a fleet carrier as it was starting the hyperspace lockdown process - Fixed instances of a crash that could occur when using Advanced Maintenance to repair modules - Fixed mirrored decal in the Panther Clipper Mk II cockpit - Fixed missing HUD audio for telepresence & physical multicrew members in the Panther Clipper Mk II - Fixed community decals not displaying correctly on the Panther Clipper Mk II - Fixed the ramp shutter clipping into the ship mesh upon deploying the landing gear on the Panther Clipper Mk II - Fixed a gap in the mesh of the fighter bay on the Panther Clipper Mk II resulting in light bleeding into the cockpit - Adjusted Colonisation Facility Rename to clarify it includes unlimited random renames of the facility as well - Fixed descriptions of Hologram & Alphabet bobbleheads **Localisation Fixes** - Fixed unlocalised text strings for Panther Clipper Mk II shipkit items