VO 1.8.253-154 includes:

- Increased conquerable stations' capture timeout from 2 minutes to 5 minutes.
- Adjustments to several weapon-based trade routes.
- Virtual keyboard preserves the currently-entered text if it is closed by a non-user action. For example jumping between sectors.

- Conquerable station turret hitpoints have been significantly reduced.
- Fixed crash on Android when Voice Chat is enabled.
- Android version uses a different timing function so timeouts shouldn't occur if the device's clock gets re-synced.
- Fixed issue with the joystick still controlling your ship if the virtual mouse mode is enabled.
- The virtual keyboard setting is now independent of the HUD touchscreen mode.