Ah...that was it.
many thanks JudgeD

did not know you could turn it off but I copied my mq2map.ini file from previous build and pasted it into this one and no go. I usually run with pc on, group on, npc on, npcconcolor on, ground on, corpse on, target on, normallabels on. /mapfilter shows these as being on /plugin list shows mq2map loa...

My map is not working with this update. Looks just like non-mq2 map. Any ideas?

Yes, I am still getting the same 4 error messages also