Hi, epitomeofchad
We are glad you enjoyed the MAGE and tracking the changes on mage project page.
So to bate your curiosity, I would say that we were going to release new version (0.8.2) before New Year.
Meanwhile you always can try daily build that can be found here:
http://mtgathering.ru/mage/or
http://magefree.com/trunk/Note: Current version is broken because of some files copied to wrong folder while assembling packages, but hope I will fix it today, so next version would be OK.
If you still want to give it a try, do the following two things after you download and unzip archives from the provided urls:
1. in client folder move mage-theme-plugin-0.4.jar and mage-counter-plugin-0.1.jar from mage-client/lib to mage-client/plugins
2. in server folder move mage-server/plugins/AIMinimax.properties to mage-server/lib/AIMinimax.properties