The new Spore patch is available to download via EA downloader or as a direct link. Besides the main patch there also two Creature Creator patches available: one for the trial version of the editor and one for the full version. Here are the changes lists:

 - for the game's patch

Features

• New Cheat: "evoadvantage". Enter this cheat when are starting a new Creature game to choose any creature from the Sporepedia. Start a new game with one of your more evolved creatures!
• Display part statistics when you are in Build mode. Rollover any part and hold down the 'i' key.
• New Cheat: "blocksmode". Turns creatures into their blocky representations.
• More style filters. Open the cheat window and type: "stylefilter -microscope" or "stylefilter -norainbows" or "stylefilter -nextgen" to see the new styles
• Added 70 new planet scripts with a low terraform score, especially of the "hot and high atmosphere" type

Graphics/Aesthetics

• Animation improvements
• Improved the planets fogging, blooming and lighting
• Fixed animation issues with tool handling, hand walking and some of the more oddly shaped creatures

Tuning

• Creature phase: Improved the pacing towards the end of the game, and increased the challenge in Normal and Hard modes.
• Tribe phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
• Civilization phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
• Space phase: Made Empires in Easy and Normal modes demand reasonable amounts of money in exchange for peace and adjust the level of punishment if the player doesn't pay
• Space phase: Made disasters less likely to occur in Easy and Normal modes and increased the time between each attack from the enemy empire when the player is at war.

Miscellaneous

• Creature phase: Improved the way posse members behave during threatening situations and fights.
• Space phase: Made finding your home world and colonies easier in the Galactic view.
• Tribe phase: Made it so that tribe members can travel on steep hills if they need to do so now, but their speed will be reduced a lot.
• Fixed an issue with attacks not working on some bigger animals and larger animals not dying correctly
• Fixed collect mission not completing correctly when all parts have been collected
• Fixed problems with the "Rolling Thunder" and "Déjà Vu" achievements not being awarded as they should
• Fixed floating parts not being deducted from the budget when loaded into creator
• Fixed an issue with the rotation rings not resizing correctly when a part was resized and improved their look
• Fixed an issue where the terraforming score of planet could differ when revisiting a solar system
• Fixed the keyboard controls for zoom & pitch in the Colony Planner not working properly
• Fixed a crash that could occur when watching an epic creature attack a city
• Fixed some issues where the game would freeze when using the Creature Tweaker tool or when capturing a planet in solar view
• Fixed an issue where not all tribe members would obey the raid order when a large group was ordered to raid
• Fixed an issue where banning a creation from one of your other saved games would black out the main menu

 - for the Creature creator patch

Patch Fixes

• (MAC Only) Corrected patch detection text to display in correct language. Once patched, subsequent patch detection will display correctly.
• (MAC Only) Re-mapped the @ symbol on the French AZERTY keyboard
• Improved thumbnail resolutions for saved creatures.
• Added five new animations, recorded when creating animated GIFs in Test Drive Mode.
• Fixed a randomly occurring system hang.
• Fixed a crash associated with EADM.
• Creatures no longer disappear from the Sporepedia when the save flow is interrupted.
• Corrected the Audio buzzing found on systems with nForce2 integrated audio.
• Updated Spanish and Polish readme files.
• Updated the EULA found in the installer.
• Fixed disparity between server and game complexity limits.
• Integrated the newest save creature PNG.
  NOTE: This allows creatures PNGs made with Spore to be drag-and-dropped into the Spore Creature Creator. Spore Creature Creator players who do not patch will not be able to drag-and-drop PNGs created in patched versions of the Spore Creature Creator or Spore.
• Improves overall stability.