Antipop has notified us in our forums that the ANZAC Mod has its Public Release 0.8 is avaliable for download. This is a immense amount of work over a number of years. It aims to put all Australian and New Zealand military assets in game. The project started in 2007 and development has gone through till present day.

Vanilla Version 0.8 (No-ACE)

Download:
megaupload

Required Addon/s:
CBA
GLT Misslebox (included)
AAW Weapons

Credits:

• wld427-for donation of resources and knowledge and general coping with me during my wtf moments when coming across a few bugs.
• OCB-for testing of the mod and helping find and iron out a majority of the bugs.
• Tromac- for the aussie uh1h iroquois paintscheeme
• Rhodesy77- for donation of aslav25 and aslav pc paintscheeme
• Rico- for donation of the F-111, and other adf mod material + help for occasional bugfixing.
• Skaircro- for original F-111 base model
• Southy/Eble- for porting the F-111 and helping animated the F-18F Super Hornet.
• TheSun- for LRPV and SRPV base models
• Emery- for porting the lrpv, srpv and pinz lov to Arma2.
• RubenWolf- for fixing the Pinz 6x6 and work on the Rovers and general bug fixing.
• IceMotoBoy/Rocket- for donation of the C-130H Hercules base model in arma1.
• norrin- for creating the interactive cargo scripts for the C-130H and putting up with concepts thrown his way.
• Afrografix- for donating nh-90 base model from ofp.
• ModemMaik- for porting the nh-90 to arma2.
• DK- for S-70 Blackhawk, M1A1 AIM and M113 paints.
• ANZACSAS Steve- for custom sounds for nh90, f111, f18f, ch47, s70, uh1h, tigre, as350.
• Deanosbeanos- for aus commandos (dpcu) hex edit and passing on knowledge of how to hex edit.
• TheVipersFang- for the donation of resourse materials and general advice on the mod.
• FFAA Mod- for the donation of the pinzgauer mlods and allowing us to use and modify it in anzac.
• Nemith Bros- for base as-350 model
• CheyenneAh56- for donating as350, p3 orion mlods and allowing us to use them in the mod.
• HEXAgon Team- for allowing us to use their tigre attack helicopter in the mod.
• randy stratton- for helping out with the mod and fixing up models and setting up good rvmat examples and also helping out with the bugs.
• Ardvarkdb- for allowing us to use his SASR units in the mod.
• Jonny- for sasr units.
• Mankyle + Gnat- for fixing up the animations and other features of the Anzac Class Frigates.
• Franze- for base F-18F Super Hornet model.
• BIS- for base models, textures.

Download Here

Discussion here

Rommel released a wip version of his EOD Dog on the BI forums. This dog currently detects placed pipebombs, but you could always replace the classname with another object.

Discussion here

BIS has informed us patch 1.54 for Operation Arrowhead has been released on the Arma 2 website.

Patch 1.54 highlights:

• Arma 2: British Armed Forces Lite - all units, vehicles and weapons from Arma 2: British Armed Forces are included in this patch with lower quality textures and audio files.
• Numerous stability and functionality fixes and improvements.
• Reworked MP Session Browser and Mission Selector.
• Engineer - Engineers have undergone some serious training and are now capable of repairing damaged vehicles and defusing mines. An engineer can patch up a badly damaged vehicle, making it operable.
• Artillery Computer - All indirect fire weapons can exploit the brand new artillery computer by selecting it in the Action Menu (default binding is the mouse wheel).

This patch is not compatible with the Steam version of Operation Arrowhead!

Download Patch 1.52 here

The Download Content British Armed Forces has been released and is avaliable for download. This adds a new faction, new vehicles and new weapons.

Avaliable from Sprocket or Steam

Requirments: Operation Arrowheal or Arma 2 Combined Operations

We have been informed by the BI forums that BIS have released the new beta patch build 72863 for Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead.
Leave your feedback about the patch in this topic on the BI forums. You can check the beta patch changes, report issues and vote tickets at the ArmA II community issue tracker (CIT). Please note: this patch is only for Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead!

Changelog:

[72851] New: GameSpy modhash key contains list of mods hashes and is used to check there are additional mods on server missing on client (yellow icon in UI).
[72787] New: Mods contents hashes are compared instead of mods lists when equal mods are required on server.
[72716] Fixed: Commandline -mod behavior, active Mods list in UI, ModLauncher UI dialog with better mods detection and handling.

How to stay up to date with the latest beta:
- Oktane has made an RSS Feed which will update every time a new build is released.
Make sure to check out the BI forums topic as some nice cool gadgets were made to work with this RSS.
- Yapab made an email notifier, fill in the form and make sure to allow the email to come through so it does not end up in your spam box!

Running Patches at the moment are extremely reccommended as they stop game stopping things like 'freezing' in ammo creates. However the official patch is due out when the British DLC content comes out later this week.