Here's the change log for the upcoming v1.13 of Sins of a Solar Empire. Version 1.13 is now available via Impulse (http://www.impulsedriven.com) for registered customers.
Fixed crash in texture memory allocation.
Improved background texture loading algorithm.
Improved texture defragmentation.
Fixed bug in transmitting unicode characters through the command system (fixes bad characters with chat and renaming entities in foreign languages).