I'll start with some (belated) congratulations: Dreggel and Idlefire have both reached level 50, last Thursday and last Tuesday respectively :)
We also have some new members: Juj, Feolab and Groq. Welcome all, I hope to get to know you a bit better soon :)

Game development is going steadily, Mythic is up to version 1.69g on Pendragon. The next live patch on European servers will the 1.68 and should be here by the end of April, fixing several Trials of Atlantis bugs and balance issues.
On other European server news, GOA have announced some upcoming improvements to their customer support. No details yet, but improvement can't be bad :)

Tomorrow (Thursday) starting 8:15 GMT Excalibur will be down for a hardware upgrade. Ever since the release of Trials of Atlantis there have been intermittent problems with server side lag in the new zones.
While the servers used by GOA are actually already faster than prescribed in the system specifications by Mythic, European servers also tend to have higher population per server, therefore the server will be upgraded further in order to solve the lag problem. The server is scheduled to be back up early afternoon, see also the official news article on the DAoC Europe website.

Update: as of 10:58 GMT, Excalibur is back up.

Tuesday 10:15 all the English gameservers will be brought down for some bugfix patching. You can find the original Camelot Europe message here.

On other news, Zonewall has been promoted to Emissary today, congratulations :)

Lastly, 1.69d patchnotes for those interested, as well as 1.69c if you missed them. Mostly bugfixes, but also some minor artifact changes and added trophies for TOA mobs :)

Update: The database server upgrade was completed, and the website should be back to normal.

The tiwaz.org database server will be upgraded and moved early monday morning. Because of this, posting on the forum has temporarely been disabled, as any posts made while the server is moved would be lost.
Character data editing should also be disabled (haven't had time to test this), but it boils down to this: any changes made during the transition period might be lost, so it would be easier to postpone any changes you need to make until further notice (ETA monday afternoon). After the move the website should respond faster than the last few weeks. My apologies for the inconvenience.

There have also been some problems with the Excalibur server on sunday. GOA personel responded quickly, but the problem seemed less than trivial, so people were unable to log in for about 3 hours. Hopefully there will be a followup news item from GOA about this soon.

Some server maintenance is scheduled to be performed today. English servers are expected to be down starting 9:15 CET and should be back before noon.

We're gained some new members over the last week or so: Hostiler, Snefnuk, Npthree, Takros and Enties, welcome all :) (pfft, remind me to post more regular updates :>)
Puritan has been promoted to full member as well, congratulations! :)

Chronicles data provided by GOA is updating once again, so character data on this website should be up to date again. Unfortunately this data doesn't include any Master Level information, so I've added the option of manually providing this information for each of your characters.

For those that like to keep completely up to date: 1.69a and 1.69b patchnotes from Pendragon, the US test server. Lots of changes to Augmentation lines, and Dragonfang is finally nerfed, check it out ;)

First of all: congratulations to Kraig and Grinna who dinged level 50 some days ago and yesterday respectively :)

By now most people have received their copies of Trials of Atlantis, the first master levels have been completed and many an hour has been spent on obtaining artifacts.
There have been some problems with server stability, the ML 4.2 encounter has been responsible for several crashes already. A solution is being worked on. A little more information on the subject as well as others is available in the latest installment of the Friday News.

As with most fridays, a new grab bag was posted on the Camelot Herald as well, for those interested.

The server patching on Wednesday was completed well within schedule (Excalibur was back up before noon CET), but there are a few moderately serious problems that are being worked on: firstly, sometimes when you zone you will find the new zone not properly loading. When you press Escape you'll be back at at the character selection screen. Secondly, there are a few servers experiencing server side lag in TOA zones, Excalibur being one of them.
These problems are being worked on of course, and will hopefully be history soon ;) Some US version fixes (Majestic Will RA changes and 1.68 TOA unique item generation changes) have gone live on the European servers as well for balance purposes.

There has been some problems with the actual distribution of the expansion as well, and not all of you that planned on getting it will have it yet (I'm expecting my own copy on Friday).

Today (well, technically yesterday) was guild RvR day, which was largely a success. We managed to field 2 full groups to kill some enemy scum and to take and claim Dun Crauchon as well. That didn't last very long, but it was fun to do anyway :)

Edit: Oops, almost forgot :) Congratulations to Kraig for reaching Legendary Armorer and welcome to Striketwice, a new member today :)