  We give a status report on new developments in the WHIZARD event generator,
including NLO electroweak automation for $e^+e^-$ colliders, loop-induced
processes, POWHEG matching, new features in the UFO interface and the current
development for matching between exclusive photon radiation and fixed-order
LO/NLO electroweak (EW) corrections. We report on several bug fixes relevant
for certain aspects of the ILC250 Monte Carlo (MC) mass production, especially
on the normalization of matching EPA samples with full-matrix element samples.
Finally, we mention some ongoing work on efficiency improvements regarding
parallelization of matrix elements and phase space sampling, as well as plans
to revive the top threshold simulation.
