With the release of Publish 52, players from many Ultima Online shards are reporting an increased PvP Faction activity. Here is the complete list of the changes introduced.

Yesterday the Ultima Online Origin server has been updated with the most recent patch, which modified runic intensities for blacksmith and tailoring tools and introduced a few more BOD and crafting related modifications.
The other servers are expected to receive the same update in the next days.
This update also included the Valentine live content.

The latest Ultima Online Kingdom Reborn client patch fixes some issues that many players were experiencing frequently. The infamous "black screen in KR" problem should also not happen anymore.

Replying to a player forum post, a member of the Ultima Online development team said that a Kingdom Reborn client patch is scheduled to be released this week and that "The patch notes are... long. And awesome."

The latest UO Five on Friday article talks about Self Repair, Mana Regeneration formula and the Kingdom Reborn client patch expected for the next week.

The UO Test Center 1 has been updated with some anti-leeching measures limiting the amount of drop credits gained by AFK and hidden players inside dungeons. We will hopefully see these changes hitting the operational game servers soon.

The latest article from the Britannia News Network let us think that a new Ultima Online event is going to begin very soon.

EA/Mythic has released a small patch that solved the crash bug that was affecting the Ultima Online Kingdom Reborn client installations with the frame option turned off.

With a forum post , Walt Yarbrough from EA Mythic has announced that the launch of Stygian Abyss, the Ultima Online expansions scheduled for release on this summer, has been delayed to an undefined date.

The Ultima Online 2D client has been update to version 6.0.1.6 while UO:KR beta client has received the patch 2.45.4.2. Check out the patch notes.