Wesnoth Knight
Battle for Wesnoth continues to get stupendously good art contributions such as this series of Loyalist portraits.
Hot on the heels of Extreme Tux Racer 0.5beta, contributor and original Tux Racer developer Erin has introduced his rewrite to the world. Tentatively named Bunny Hill, the rewrite has a better design resulting in better performance, nicer graphics (in some ways, lesser in others) and more features. It looks like it will probably become ETR 0.6 once the dust has settled.
PARPG Weapons
PARPG is back from the dead. 3 weeks not blogging being 'dead' apparently. The project itself is thriving, with plenty of graphical creativeness whilst the coders assess their options for developing the game.
Unknown Horizons will have a new release very soon!
Widelands is getting randomly generated maps.
Simutrans Subways
It looks like Simutrans is getting subways, at least pak96.comic is anyway. Subterranean!
There'll be loads more updates to your favourite Free games but I don't have my finger on the pulse as much as I used to, so...
...so...
...post them in the comments!
Update: the FreeOrion project released version 0.3.13 and it has a huge changelog.