The new devblog continues to explain the incoming random assignments, provides more details on the teleport network revamp, and reports where we stand with the development:
http://blog.perpetuum-online.com/posts/2015-01-24-january-status-report/
We've also deployed a small patch (3.5.7) on Thursday, which included a few bug fixes, and a new search feature for the world map:
http://www.perpetuum-online.com/Changelog:2015-01-22