At the beginning of the year the new owners announced the new pricing structure for the game.
http://forums.ryzom.com/showthread.php?t=33422

There was a server side patch on January 7: http://forums.ryzom.com/showthread.php?t=33431.

and a Client side patch on January 26 (which fixed a lot of the bugs that had been around forever) http://forums.ryzom.com/showthread.php?t=33535

Details are here: http://atys.ryzom.com/releasenotes/index.php?version=638&lang=en&ca=ryzom_live&r=1

There were a couple of things that needed to be fixed so there is a small patch for today: http://forums.ryzom.com/showthread.php?t=33603

And the developers are still working: http://forums.ryzom.com/showthread.php?t=33572