Subsurface settings different in 4.9 vs 4.8?

haveing finally been compelled to switch to 4.9 I now see a big difference in renderings with subsurface - before Imy settings gave me quite a lot and now rendering in 4.9 it's barely visible.
has IRay changed in some significant way between versions?
thanks
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