Improvement: When applying an effect to placed art, such as linked images, or art with a Freeform Gradient, a warning dialog was previously displayed explaining that the "Auto Rasterize" option is needed for the effect to work correctly. This still appears, but now there is a new button "Enable Auto Rasterize" which will turn on the option for you. If the "Don't show again" checkbox is ticked before the button is clicked, the option will always be automatically set for these types of art without the warning disturbing you.
Feature proposal: When using Node-Only Sampling with the Gradient from Art tool, the sampled colors may be turned into a labeled color palette on the artboard using the panel flyout menu item "Create Color Palette". Note - this feature may change or be removed depending on beta test feedback.
Improvement: The Add Points live effect distance control's dynamic increment has been tweaked so its value will not be reduced to the minimum as quickly when using the arrow keys.
Bug fix: The Extend Path tool no longer ignores self-intersections when using Bezier extension mode and extending from the head end of a path.