The notes for this morning’s upcoming patch have already been posted to the official forums.
As well as several bug fixes, there are references to the character copy tool that should allow players to copy characters from the ‘live’ server (Holodeck) to the upcoming ‘public test’ server (Tribble). Hopefully this means that the test server should be up soon, as the ability to copy a character from live to test should make it a lot easier for me to investigate some of the game systems that I still don’t understand very well.