Here are the patch notes from this morning's game update (taken from the patcher):

*** Highlights ***

- Seek out Meeka Gharn in the Plane of Knowledge and learn of an ancient book thought to lead to many treasures.
- Rare NPCs in "House of Thule" now drop tradable large bags.
- The Dwarven Axe, Dwarven Two-Handed Axe, Bloodruned Mallet, and Fellwinter can now be placed in your house.
- The click effects on Shellscale Bone Fetish Necklace, Silbacle's Rosary of Conquest, and Carved Bone of the Nighthowler no longer share a timer with Geomantra click effects.

*** Items ***

- The Dwarven Axe, Dwarven Two-Handed Axe, Bloodruned Mallet, and Fellwinter can now be placed in your house.
- Rare NPCs in "House of Thule" now drop tradable large bags.
- The click effects on Shellscale Bone Fetish Necklace, Silbacle's Rosary of Conquest, and Carved Bone of the Nighthowler no longer share a timer with Geomantra click effects.
- All items with a Geomantra click effect now share a timer.
- The Bard Arpeggio breastplate spells now have a limited number of counters for the melee damage they provide.
- Hardcore Heritage chest armor no longer has type 15 augment slots. These were removed because the items do not support emblems.
- The Lump of Obsidian's unusable augment slot has been removed.
- Fixed a preview window bug that "locked" an item into place when the viewing angle was rotated all the way to the top or bottom of the item.

*** Tradeskills ***

- Many additional tradeskill components have been marked as ALL/ALL.

*** Quests & Events ***

- Seek out Meeka Gharn in the Plane of Knowledge and learn of an ancient book thought to lead to many treasures.
- "Librarian's Nightmare" - You will no longer have to restart the event if the person carrying the Words of Opening dies before turning it in.
- "At World's End" - Fixed an issue that would cause the event to to reset improperly if players failed at the ice giant fight.

*** Progression Servers ***

- Certain tradeskill research recipes are no longer available too early on Progression Servers.

*** Marketplace ***

- Fixed a bug that caused Potion of Companion Amnesia and Potion of Mercenary Amnesia to not function correctly.
- Items that are on the marketplace or on sale for a limited time now display a timer.

*** Miscellaneous ***

- Fixed a bug that caused large zone lag spikes when doing player trades with large stacks of items.
- Pets and mercenaries will no longer try (and fail) to follow you while you are on a boat.  They will wait at the dock until you disembark before teleporting to you.
- If you die while on a boat, your corpse will now be moved to the safe point in the zone.

*** Test Server ***

- Playing on the test server now grants loyalty crowns over time.  You need to be actively playing to receive loyalty crowns.
- The Test server is now set to begin and end events two weeks before they will happen on live servers.
- Alternate currency and some disallowed spell components can now be copied when a player uses the /testcopy command.

*** UI ***

- Changed -
- EQUI_BarterSearchWnd.xml
- EQUI_EQMainWnd.xml
- EQUI_MarketplaceWnd.xml

*** Previously Updated ***

- Fixed an issue with barter search window where it forgets the vertical size of one of the panes and doesn't display it at all.

- Changed -
- EQUI_BarterSearchWnd.xml


- The EverQuest Team