Update!Long time no see... anyway, here is the 44.07 update. Utilities for 44.08 are not updated yet, so please be patient.
The update adds another option to the launcher, Taffers Revised Mod.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=161832.0. To use his own words:
"An editor's pass over Dwarf Fortress: more balanced gameplay, more atmosphere, and fewer bugs. Every creature in the game has a rewritten description and many have simpler names. I want to make the game more pleasant to read and play, without straying too far from the original."All in all it makes a lot of small changes, but none dramatically change the gameplay. It mostly fixes vanilla DF bugs, makes a few things more realistic and adds longer, more colorful descriptions to creatures.
You can enable it by going to the "ADDITIONS" tab in the launcher; a single button-press will install the mod for you, then you have to gen a new world. (I have not finished going through all the changes, about half of the creature changes are missing. I'm not sure if I want to add the name-simplifications for them, and a few other changes I have to take a closer look at. Right now, you probably have about 80% of Taffers original revised mod. Everything is there, except for some creature changes.)
Please let me know if you encounter any issues; if you have feedback specifically about the Revised mod, please send it to Taffer.