Good news is, that all #gnome shell extensions I use are working. Some do not declare version 42 support yet: for now I edited metadata.json locally, later I will try to open pull requests.
New #gnome has separate settings for light and dark desktop backgrounds. I use custom day/night dynamic wallpaper and there is no way of setting it in GUI for dark variant. I had to manually set the GSettings key "org.gnome.desktop.background.picture-uri-dark"