The DiabloII.Net Network sends word that Blizzard has released a new version 1.04 of Diablo II, the update can be applied automatically by connecting to Battle.Net. The list of what's affected by the update can be found in the readme. Meanwhile, they have also posted a news update describing problems some are having with the patch, those having problems getting D2 to run are offered the suggestion to reinstall and re-patch the game, while another problem is described in this realm update, with a follow-up in another realm update, talking about characters that may appear to be missing after applying the update due to a change in the limit on the number of characters you may have in each realm. According to this update, this latter problem has now been fixed.