A new update for World of Warcraft is now available, bringing Blizzard's MMORPG to version 2.1.2. Manual patches are available for those who don't use auto-updates (which seems to be everyone), and downloads can be found on 3D Downloads, 3D Gamers (thanks Seth), FileFront, and FileShack. On a related note, Blizzplanet has word from Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan that the attunements for Serpentshrine and Tempest Keep have been eliminated, saying: "While many of our attunements in the Burning Crusade have been good progression checks, a few of the attunements have turned out to cause unnecessary stress on guilds either doing the content or attempting to do the content." Finally, on another WoW-related topic, the World of Warcraft Community Site has word that the Blizzard banning stick has been busted out once more:

In the US and Europe, we recently banned several thousand accounts associated with the use of botting programs that fully automate player actions, such as killing and looting monsters. We take these attempts to bypass the rules and standards of the game extremely seriously, and we will continue to aggressively monitor all World of Warcraft realms in order to protect the service and its players from the negative effects of cheating.