  This article summarizes the talk given at the LCWS 2021 conference on the
status and news of the WHIZARD Monte Carlo event generator. We presented its
features relevant for the physics program of future lepton and especially
linear colliders as well as recent developments towards including NLO
perturbative corrections and a UFO interface to study models beyond the
Standard Model. It takes as reference the version 3.0.0$\beta$ released in
August 2020 and additionally discusses the developments that will be included
in the next major version 3.0.0 to be released in April 2021.
