The @allegiance info command was added and the number of allegiance broadcasts the allegiance speaker can make per day has been raised from 3 to 10. In addition, monarchs may now assign speaker status to someone even if they are not currently online.
Any character can now swear to any other character, regardless of level.
If you swear to a character who is lower-level than you, you will not pass up any experience to that character (or the characters above him/her) until that character's level is equal to yours.
Once you begin passing experience up to your patron (or if you are currently doing so) you won't stop passing experience to your patron, even if you out-level him or her.
New allegiance officer ranks and custom officer titles introduced. In addition, officers and monarchs now have many new powers including the ability to chat gag, lock the allegiance and give the allegiance a name.