Release Candidate 1.0.3 has been promoted to the default branch. If you've been playing 0.16, you can continue playing in that version by switching branches as described here.
Here are the major changes from 0.16 to 1.0.3:
- Quick save system: player can now save (almost) anywhere with F5
- Option to disable autosave on warp
- New sector environments, minor improvement to nebula performance
- Updates to various late game missions
- Additional missions
- New space artifacts
- New anomalies
- New reputation effects
- New achievement
- Improve mission log performance
- Procedural generation now detects and re-rolls invalid universe (e.g., missing min number of particular anomaly)
- Aggro due to friendly fire effects shortened, clamped per incident
- Fix to localization not appearing in dialogues
- Added baseline experimental Czech, Korean and Japanese translations
- Numerous bug fixes
As always, you can give feedback and report bugs in the discussion forum or by pressing F8 in game.