Just to keep you on your toes - here's an update to Beta 3.9 called 3.91.
See the full change log below.
Avoid crashing if neither the main texture nor the alt texture are usable, instead fallback to the same behaviour we would use if the main texture did not exist
Replaced a missing station prototype with one that exists
Survive the situation where fused text meshes (and other types) have more characters than the maximum. 4 „Paul-Friederichs Expedition Base Camp“ station names fused together are too much for the current maximum
Prevent crash when in a location with no faction
Improve entry into first location – could help with some peculiar connection issues
Fix crash opening UI panel using left shift
Made the the new freetrack protocol cope with missing functions in the dll. This should prevent the crash on startup some users are seeing
Reload all ammo no longer free
More consistent, and more frequent USSs
Don't allow child stars to be considered for mission variables
Fix „Missing faction for location polity“ error win tutorial stations
Planet generation: Changed the way that the effects are loaded – prevent connection loss is texture generation takes too long
Changed the star hotspots calculation to cope with the asynchronous behaviour of the effect loading
Fix AI ships not being able to fire gimballed multi-cannons
Fix the difference in repair costs due to not taking into account the faction relationship of the player for that station
Speculative fix for failure to set up a talk channel
Fixes for typos in mission branching
Fixed X55 binding file so it should work correctly
Focus now passed back to game after alt-tabbing
Increased the cool down for Frame Shifting to 40 seconds for all ships
Moved the blast shield animation into the pad raising state (added a delay on the small pad launch state so that the blast shield doesn't raise again straight away
Additional telemetry to help understand why some location entries take extended amounts of time
Fix broken pulse laser audio
Refactored special treatment of ship rtpcs when arriving from supercruise
Reduce unnecessary web traffic in interdictions
Some shadowing fixes
Remove Russian as a supported language. Because it's not a supported language yet
Adding some fixes for malformed newsfeed symbols
Bail out of application startup if there are no suitable display modes available