  This summarizes the talk given at the LCWS 2019 conference in Sendai, Japan,
on the progress of the WHIZARD event generator in terms of new physics features
and technical improvements relevant for the physics programme of future lepton
and especially linear colliders. It takes as a reference the version 2.8.2
released in October 2019, and also takes into account the development until
version 2.8.3 to be released in February 2020.
