With id still being hosed by a denial of service attack, Graeme Devine sent along a beta of the Point Release patch for Quake III Arena so that people could get a chance to check it out over the weekend. Here's a local copy of the patch (1.1 MB) and a list of mirrors, and here's the word Graeme passed along:

We've decided to make the point release beta, but public, because there's nothing like a few million beta testers! When running servers using this release we highly suggest running them as non-pure servers so that older clients can connect to them without problems. Please read the enclosed FAQ for a detailed list of which bugs and UI features we've addressed with this point release. If all goes well we'll go with a final version of the point release very soon. The Macintosh and Linux builds of the point release BETA will be out hopefully today as well.