Before I post the changelist for v5.0 (to whet your appetite!
), I must first say that this is Manimal's final involvement with the roster update (he stepped down last month). Alessandro is now the Head Researcher, but I will also help him to maintain the roster update (I expect I will maintain/organise the UK and North America and Alessandro will concentrate on Europe/Russia). Anyway, I just want to say a huge thank you to Manimal for all of his hard work over the past number of years. His work has been nothing short of outstanding and he has single-handedly been a big reason why we still enjoy EHM so much. Thankfully Manimal will still be present on TBL and no doubt he will continue to be an invaluable source of information relating to developing the database.Finally, I also want to say thank you to everybody who contributed to the roster update and the history update (I will post a full credit list when we release the rosters). Researchers are really hard to come by at the moment and so we're grateful to everybody who has helped out.
Here's a brief run-down of what the update will include:
NHL
* Updated rosters and contracts
* Adjusted attributes (I am going to look at completely re-rating the NHL for v5.1, but I'm not promising anything quite yet)
* Updated team budgets
* Updated average attendances
* NY Islanders' arena move added for the 2015/16 season
North America
* AHL & ECHL - Updated rosters
* CHL, SPHL & LNAH - Partially updated rosters
* WHL, OHL & QMJHL - Partially updated rosters (these will be further updated for v5.1)
Europe
A very wide range of updates spanning the vast majority of Europe. The most notable updates include:
* Czech Republic - Updated rosters and attributes
* Finland - Updated rosters and attributes and over 500 new young players created
* Great Britain - Updated rosters and attributes, over 1,000 missing players created and all missing junior teams created
* Russia - Updated rosters and attributes
* Slovakia - Updated rosters and attributes
* Sweden - Partially updated rosters and attributes
Player Career Histories
* Over 58,000 player career history entries added, covering virtually every player in every playable league (except Great Britain) and a wide range of non-playable leagues
* We have approximately 1,500 career history entries yet to add (because there were mistakes/errors) - these will be added for v5.1 (and hopefully also the UK career histories)
Competition Histories
* 2011/12 competition histories added for all playable leagues
* 2011/12 NHL player award histories added
Logos
I am working on a 2012/13 logo pack for all playable teams and leagues - and some non-playable ones too. Hopefully I will have this completed before the end of this year.
I suggest a Manimal lock-out DB version were nothing as change. 
