Or has it been there all along with 1.6?
I don't remember this from the other betas--I didn't play them that much.

But the colony ship module will only hold 250 instead of 500. I am talking about
the first colony ship that you have and later ones that you build. When you are building the ship, it says that the module will hold 500. That makes quite a difference when you are trying to get a planet going. Was this deliberate?