Not exactly news, it happened 6 days ago.
See this thread:
http://www.speech.sri.com/pipermail/srilm-announce/2012q4/000010.html
Looks pretty good. I thought that the toolkit would be stagnated but now I am glad that it is maintained. There seems to be many bug fixes.
Goodies: Web Ngram from MS: http://web-ngram.research.microsoft.com/