If you remember, we had facial and body shapes working all the way back in a0.3. Then we took it out. The reason for that was the old system was using bones to change the skin shapes, while it worked great, it also took a lot of memory. So, after a year and half, we have a new system in place for this to work, through morph targets:
Faces GIF
This might end up going in around a0.86 instead of a0.85 though, as we’re going through all the player wearable assets and changing their morph targets, and there are quite a bit.
On another note, we are aware that the multiplayer server was down for a few hours yesterday. This was caused by Steam login servers going offline for a bit, but why the server didn't reconnect to Steam after Steam was back up, we're still looking into it (as we should have fixed this the last time this happened).