The bonuses for underpopulated realms have been revised for May. For Excalibur Midgard this means that the free level period has increased from 5 to 7 days. You can find all the exact numbers in the friday news.

Today the next DAoC expansion will be revealed for the first time, during the Camelot Roundtable. The rest of us will probably have to wait until next week, or possibly even E3 (17th - 20th May).

Update 2nd May: some preliminary information on the new expansion is available here.