Psithief (me) is on hiatus/retired because we can't seem to attract people with enough technical expertise to assist me.
I will reconsider if there are enough applications for technical assistants. You can just reply to this announcement.

Technical error on our part, server will be back momentarily, thank you for your patience.
edit: Server is back up.

The players page now tells you when that player last played on NML. Just hover your mouse over the player's name.

So, who wants to play Newmineland as the staff intended?
'cause v5 is back with a new resource world - v1.2.3 generated!
This is where I'd post a nice map of the new world, all pre-generated out to 1500 blocks square, but the mapping program hasn't updated yet.
TO-DO List:

• Prettify the resource world spawn

Edit: I moved the Interim map from no Bukkit to a Bukkit dev build. Testing of compatibility will ensue. For now it's still interim.
The bukkit team are still working on 1.2(.3), and there are lot of plugins that need updating.
Some very core ones like Multiverse and WorldGuard don't release any public builds unless bukkit has a new recommended build out.
Also, with the removal of all bukkit's deprecated code with 1.1R6 we've had to drop a few (abandoned) plugins.
We're watching closely, but it looks like it will be at least a few more days before we're ready to kick v5 back to life.
More details in the comments.