ReadyAPI response appending zeroes after decimal and also printing fields values as hexadecimal

I am experiencing the same issue after installing 2.3 last week.  I am using a simple built in assertion on the response, comparing to the expected result stored in SQL DB. I have both 2.2 and 2.3 installed so can easily run the same test in both to see the different assertion result; success in 2.2 and failure in 2.3.  I have opened a support case.  But has anyone already successfully resolved this?