[url=http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list]Engine Updates[/url]

Myrddin 0.82
- huge amount of improvements
- big Elo increase from last version
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:engines:myrddin:index

Jim Ablett Win builds
- Chesley r288 JA (WB) for Win32/64
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Down chess websites
Averno site down for 62 days
Smash site down today
Simplex site back up

[url=http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list]Chess News[/url]

Kvetka 3.3.1 UCI Chess GUI
Intended for game viewing and analysis. Several plug-ins available.
- Problems with some hotkeys are fixed in it
http://kvetka.org/en/

Norm Pollock 40H PGN Utilities
- "ecoExtract", "ecoList" and "ecoPlayer" now also work with extended ECO codes of up to five characters
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

CrystalDiskInfo 3.0.1a
open source utility to monitor health, status, & temperature of hard drives
and SSDs http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

Miranda IM 0.8.7
open source, multi-protocol instant messaging program
http://www.miranda-im.org/

µTorrent 1.8.4
free BitTorrent client
http://www.utorrent.com/