Originally Posted by Tarib, Funcom

The servers will come down for an update on 12th November at 12 am GMT / 7 am EDT. The downtime is scheduled to last about 6 hours.

Ymir's pass will be opened likely be opened.. here are some very unofficial patch notes, probably from the TestLive forum:

Update Notes for Update 1.03.1
**These notes do not necessarily reflect the final version that will be deployed on Live**

CLASSES
Priest General
* Vitalizing Jolt and other friendly area spells will now properly hit the caster, in Massive PvP zones.

Ranger
* Armor Ripper III will no longer debuff yourself.

PVP
* Khopshef Province Redemption quests should have more correct dialog.
* Outlaw Smuggler NPCs will now show the cost of teleporting you in their dialog.

TRADESKILLS
* Some of the new crafted shields were requiring the wrong tradeskill to use - this has been fixed. This change does not negatively effect players who have already learned the recipe -- they now may make the item using the proper feat.
* Recipes for city items that should require guild buildings, now properly do.

YMIR'S PASS
* Many improvements to quests, terrain, NPCs, mobs, and encounters!
* Entrances to Ymir's Pass should now be open.
* Earthquakes will no longer throw you out of conversations.
* NPC: Keaira now has additional dialog offering hints on how to defeat the Devourer.
* NPC: The Smuggler in Ymir's Pass will now let you travel to Field of the Dead, Eiglophian Mountains, and Atzel's Approach.
* NPC: The Spirit of Khan should now aggro players properly.
* Quest: A Call to the Clan - Firewood is now removed after you have used it to build the fire.
* Quest: The Calm Before the Storm now has waypoints.
* Quest: The Darkness in the Swamps - You must now be at least level 54 to get this quest.
* Quest: The Girl With No Fear - This quest is now completeable.
* Quest: Healing Nature's Wounds - Potion of Growth should now be consumed properly.
* Quest: The quest Ragged Diplomacy now has a proper quest description.
* Quest: Skillful Diplomacy - This quest is now completable.
* Quest: Vale of Lost Women - Harem girls now have a waymarker.
* World Design: Fixed several collision and textural issues throughout this zone.
* Corrected several grammatical and text errors in dialog.
* Son of Ymir's debuffs will now have different icons. * Many many improvements to NPCs, world design, and quests!
* The Amphitheatre of Karutonia : The Abyssal Keeper should now be resistant to all types of CCs.

WORLD DESIGN
* Fixed a rendering bug that caused the sky to "lag behind" camera movement.
* All ledges in Kylikki's crypt have been blocked off.


GENERAL
* An issue causing server lag spikes has been remedied.
* Getting knocked back while talking to an NPC should no longer make one's character unable to move or attack.
* Female faces should no longer have squinty eye issues.
* Fixed guards in PvP areas to now agro correctly when players use certain spells.

NPCS
* Enabled the options for Murderers to travel to Ymir's Pass and Lacheish.
* Added an option to the Outlaw Smuggler in Lacheish, for the player to travel to Conarch Village from Lacheish Plains.
* Chill crawler Mindrazer and Shadowbearers now properly attack players.
* Kyllikki: Kyllikki and her adds should now only attack players inside her room.
* Kyllikki: White Hand Guard, Gurnakhi Honorguard, White Hand Priest, and White Hand Spellguard should now properly reset when they have no hated targets.
* Kyllikki: Killing Champion of the Honorguard should now stop the raid trash in front of him from spawning.
* Kyllikki: Added a forcefield after the "Champion of the Honorguard" encounter.
* Yakhmar: Yakhmar now spawns adds at a fixed interval.
* Yakhmar: Yakhmar now despawns his adds when he is killed.
* Yakhmar: Yakhmar now properly evades when he's pulled out of his territory
* Yakhmar: Redesigned Yakhmar’s Lullaby ability to increase the usability of Herald of Xotli and Demonologists in the encounter.
* Yakhmar: Rebalanced Yakhmar’s Wyrmlings to accommodate the changes done to Lullaby.
* Patrolling guards will always resume their patrol if they get distracted while patrolling.

QUESTS
* Khopshef: Ruthlessness - The male humans killed for this Redemption quest will no longer drop female heads.
* Khopshef Province: Commander Ramartarsi - Players should now be able to interact with Commander Ramartarsi in the "Serpent's Head Inn" in Khemi.

COMBAT
* Fixed a bug where the instant cast spells would not complete instantly and start the next queued spell right away.

GUI
* PvP invulnerabilities now appear categorized, like other invulnerabilities.