So I finally got all the libs downloaded and compiled the CVS version of The Ur Quan Masters.  It looks like only the .exe file changed (and reports a new version of 0.12 - the collision detection bug seems to be fixed - the Spathi are useful once again, so I assume this is the 0.2 referenced in the ChangeLog).  Since I'm "developing" (I use the term loosely) on the windows platform, I don't know how to make a diff or other easy way to update the exe.  However, it's only 500k.  

If someone has some hosting space, I'd be happy to try to provide the windows binary for the development version every once in a while as the CVS is updated.

Maybe once I poke around the code a bit I'll try to contribute some fixes.