Ok, installed the new beta and found following :

GCconfig no longer starting up, gives an error about not able to find d3dx9_27.dll
After coping from the Galciv2 folder to GCconfig folder it worked again.

When playing windowed and setting anti aliasing really hurts performace, think playing windowed should disable AA

Spinning with dual core processer still way to fast. fixed by setting to one processer with imagecfg

Going to a planets shipyard shows Population: x.y string not found in the lower left of the screen

I changed my playing color to red but Drengins also still playing as this color so difficult to see in the graphs who is who

Not a bug but an observationis that upgrading a design, changing the name removes the old design,
i use this to copy an existing design and upgrading this.
Suppose we need a copy design button now to do this without losing the orignal.