From the Update Center at UO.com:

On Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at approximately 6:30PM PST (November 9 - 2:30AM GMT), we will be deploying a publish to the Origin shard.

The update will contain the following changes:

* Anniversary gift for all characters 30 days or older consisting of:
o 9th anniversary coin
o Gift box containing a random piece of crystal or shadow furniture
* Updated ladders to allow players to get down from keep rooftops
* Fixed an exploit with the Iron Maiden and Guillotine
* Heritage Tree trunks will no longer lose their “blessed” tag after being re-deeded
* Slightly reduced the difficulty of the Halloween graveyard spawns
* Added new Halloween pumpkins
* The Grim Reaper will now return to his graveyard if he teleports into a justice region
* The Grim Reapers will now teleport back to his graveyard once he gets down to 33% of his health
* Other monsters will now ignore the Grim Reaper
* Pets will no longer become uncontrollable if their target leaves the area
* The Heritage Ladder will let you choose between two types of ladders:
o Castle/Keep Ladder - can only be placed by house owner
o Regular Ladder

We expect Origin to remain offline for approximately one hour.

Very interesting about the ladder.