We have had many requests to update the introduction/title game of OpenTTD as it was 'too old'. As the title game is used for savegame compatability tests we did not want to do that, but as stable branches do not get much (if any) savegame changes we decided that for each stable branch we would get a different title game. The 1.0 series stable branch will be the first that will have a new title savegame.

The voting is now over and you can see the results on the forum.

Today we have released our first release candidate for 1.0.0. This means that it is unlikely that any more features will be added to 1.0.0. More information about this release can be found on the forum.

Today we have released the fourth beta for 1.0.0 (yes, these news messages start to become boring). More information can be found on the forum.

Today we have released the third beta for 1.0.0. More information can be found on the forum.

Today we updated openttd-useful.zip to add an extra library. If you want to compile upcoming releases/nightlies/trunk you have to update.
If you do not compile OpenTTD yourself or you are not using Microsoft's compiler you will not be affected.