Not only that, but the "auto-launch" was behaving much more consistently on a per-planet level.
I noticed a few other nice things, and only one definite bug so far (accidentally gave a minor civ a whole lot of stuff for free because when i popped into diplomacy, the Altarian picture was displayed, so I hit "talk" without looking at the name and gave them everything I thought they'd need to keep the Drengin busy).
One possible bug is my finances tanked the very turn that I upgraded. It's possible that I had a lot of tribute that expired, but I don't *THINK* I had 2K worth of tribute coming in, as I had just about 1K coming in after installing and was suddenly running about an 800BC/turn deficit. Unfortunately, I didn't think of pulling up the autosaves until after I had played for a while.