With Blizzard's highly anticipated patch, 3.1 (bringing Ulduar, many UI changes, and so much more fun stuff) revolutionized itself across the Emulation world. In general, just expect a few more bugs and not so much from your core developers. Perhaps some more patience with those that give their free time to work on the core you prefer? Maybe donate to those projects you already support with comments and feedback? ArcEmu, which many here at MMOwned prefer for their emulation purposes, still to this date hasn't released their 3.1 core yet, however their 3.0.9 core could possibly be said to be the best 3.0.9 open sourced emulator available at the moment. Internal developers of ArcEmu have leaked that they will be supporting 3.1 sometime in the coming week(s), so your wait will be almost over!

What does this mean for MMOwned members? AspireDev still hasn't updated their 3.1 branch, leaving it sit in their SVN repository. All of their efforts are aimed at their 3.0.9 branch, and it is unsure when they will fix up the many bugs of their 3.1 core. And don't forget - Blizzard has already revealed their patch 3.2 plans, so private servers will be going through a hard patch soon.As always with every new patch, the Emulator to first support the new patch wins a lot of user support until the next patch rolls around. This time, the 'up and coming' Emulator, AspireDev's very own Hearthstone Emulator, managed to crank out 3.1 support before anyone else, which satiated many appetites. However, writhed with glitches and other downfalls, many users looked for an alternative which was found later with Mangos, the longest running single Emulator, who released 3.1 about a week after Hearthstone did.