Beta patchnotes. Source:  http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=366346

Release Notes 

Version 4.00 Beta 2 (202854) 

• New Feature: Bulletin board system to keep track of offered missions. 

• New Feature: Major overhaul of external view (enabled menus, target elements, external view in highways, and more). Feedback welcome. 

• New Feature: Time acceleration using SETA (feature functional but item not yet available). 

• New Feature: Player ship jump drive (feature functional but item not yet available). 

• New Feature: Economy logging and statistics (feature not yet functional). 

• New Feature: Flight School tutorial. 

• Added 'Fly to position' order selecting a position via map click (Replaces 'Fly to Zone' order). 

• Added ability to interact with on event monitor while controlling drones. 

• Added option to start autopilot to current mission target. 

• Added radar while remote controlling drones. 

• Added heat damage from engine jets. 

• Added savegame compression. 

• Improved small ship AI to use boost in combat situations based on pilot skills. 

• Improved behaviour when following mission target using autopilot. 

• Improved HUD toggle now toggles more elements and works in more cases. Feedback welcome. 

• Improved mouse accuracy in menus. 

• Improved station manager logic to better coordinate multiple owned ships. 

• Improved FXAA colour-correction. 

• Changed default setting for menu display from "Side Console"-mode to "HUD"-mode. 

• Fixed trade ships assigned to stations not respecting their new commander's subordinate range. 

• Fixed being able to issue multiple transfer orders for the same wares when using ware exchange with a station. 

• Fixed another scenario that could lead to incorrect amounts of unavailable units. 

• Fixed incorrect quantity of bought fuel cells on 'Refuel' order if the ship had already some fuel. 

• Fixed several bugs with Marauder Pirates not being able to steal dropped containers from their targets. 

• Fixed several cases resulting in ships getting stuck when following other ships out-of-sector. 

• Fixed missing command info for mining drones and for transport drones picking up ware containers. 

• Fixed stations complaining when player destroys an ownerless ship. 

• Fixed broken game controls after interacting with a trade offer while controlling a drone. 

• Fixed aim-at-indicator being displayed incorrectly when remote controlling a drone. 

• Fixed rare cases where objects showed incorrect outlines. 

• Fixed area damage increasing with lower framerates. 

• Fixed issue where a 'static' effect remained over the event monitor during the plot. 

• Fixed Particle Repeater weapons building up heat slower at higher framerates. 

• Fixed player ship not being able to enter highways with an open menu. 

• Fixed rare case of missing highway/gate/ship group target elements after starting/loading a game. 

• Fixed rare case of non-working input controls after starting/loading a game. 

• Fixed interact menu not always being on top of other target elements when using mouse/gamepad controls. 

• Fixed current target not always on top of all other target elements. 

• Fixed target elements not always on top of other target elements which are further away. 

• Fixed rare cases of clicking on a target element actually targeting another object. 

• Fixed target elements jumping when interacting with it while controlling a drone. 

• Fixed rare cases of crosshair showing weird animations. 

• Fixed rare cases of UI issues when switching to/from external and/or drone view. 

• Fixed cases where weapon panels showed startup animation in cases other than entering the ship. 

• Fixed various trade price discrepancies in menus due to incorrect rounding. 

• Fixed game freezing when quitting the game with Alt+F4 while in loading screen. 

• Fixed startup issues with corrupted or incorrect DLLs in Windows system directory. 

• Fixed several small memory leaks. 

• Fixed more causes of crashes. 

• Several more small performance and memory optimisations. 

Known Issues 

The following issues in this version are known and will be fixed in a forthcoming update. 

• Occasional graphical flash on entering a highway. 

• Clothing on some character appears black. 

• Flight School text remains on screen after playing the tutorial. 

• Player ship can get stuck at the exit of a highway if a menu is open. 

• Player ship can jump positions when changing zones while flying on autopilot. 

• Texts that are new in 4.0 are not yet translated. 

• Voice recordings for voiced texts that are new in 4.0 are not yet present.