Follow along here, they have not posted patch notes yet, but will update the thread when available.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=253924
Update 1: The servers are down. Here we go!
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Hi guys,
Today's the day many of you have been waiting for. We're going to be updating Elite Dangerous with The Engineers (2.1) and 1.6. However, to do so we will need to bring the servers down for a long period of time while we apply the updates.
The servers will be down for potentially 10+ hours. It could be significantly shorter or longer and we wont be able to give a firm timeframe but we'll keep you informed on this thread as we get more information.
While you're waiting for the servers we have a few things going on to keep you entertained.
- We have a 1 hour AMA with David Braben on the Elite Dangerous subreddit at 11am. The thread will be going live on the subreddit closer to the time.
- We have the launch livestream from 1pm where Ed Lewis will be joined by David Braben, Mike Brookes, Sandro Sammarco and many more developers for some Q&As and giveaways. You'll find that on our official YouTube channel.
- We also have the beta servers still available for those of you with access so you can continue to enjoy some Beta action... perhaps head out to Wolf359 and enjoy some PVP
We will update the thread with the full patch notes once we have them.
Thank you for your patience.