Lumen GI and Reflections feedback thread

Hi guys,

We recently upgraded to 5.6 and noticed that when creating panoramic renders with MRQ, the scene is a lot darker with the same settings, as if there is barely any GI contribution, especially from skylight and directional light. Is it a known issue, is there any workaround or cVar which could possibly fix it?

These images are with 5.5:


And these are with 5.6: