Thank you for the feedback. TickTime and MaxRequests are unrelated to IB, they work with all brokers. contractUpdate() won't load prices from IB, it's for loading options chains. Without contractUpdate(), contractPrice() and contractRecord() won't work either. The FOP exchange is returned from the broker by contractUpdate(), so when it was traded on GLOBEX, contractPrice() uses GLOBEX. I know no changes with the IB plugin.

If you encounter a problem with a beta version, please describe it, possibly with a code example, in a way so that we can see what problem you had.