Patch 3.1 is finally live. The servers were down all day and most of the night (for me, on the east coast). I guessed the servers would come up around 10pm EST and from what I saw, I was mostly right. I checked at 9 and my server was down. I checked again at 11:30ish [...]

I don’t have a lot of time to comment on these changes at the moment, but here they are, from mmo-champion.
All paladins auras had their range extended from 30 yards to 40 yards.
Holy

Sacred Shield now cannot be on more than one target at any one time.
Infusion of Light no longer has a chance to reduce [...]

I just saw this on mmo-champion tonight:
Protection

Divine Protection: Cooldown reduced to 3 min.

The current CD is 5 minutes! This can be talented down to (2 points in Sacred Duty) 4 minutes but down to 3 and I’m assuming talented, it will be down to two minutes? That’s a HUGE change and very welcome!

In response to general user uproar (at the removal of ghetto-hearthing), Blizzard has decided to reduce the cooldown on hearthstones to 30 minutes (down from 1 hour).
The forum thread that this announcement was rather amusing to me, the way Eyonix basically just tells people to get over it and how it’s been like this for [...]

Ghetto hearthing has been removed from the game, at least in the current PTR build of patch 3.1 (source).
Ghetto hearthing can best be described as temporarily grouping with someone, going into an instance and then leaving the group. The effect of leaving the group is that you are hearthed (to where your hearthstone is set) [...]

I just caught a great dual spec Q&A type discussion on mm0-champion’s blue tracker (source).
Dual specs are now available at level 40!

Q u o t e:
Using an expensive reagent only scribes can make. Let’s be honest here.

This requirement has been removed.
You no longer need to buy a reagent that can only be created by a [...]

The PTR has patch 3.1 on it. You can copy your character over and start your testing now. Now for patch note greatness (source)…
General
Players at maximum level will now be able to visit their trainer to pay a one-time fee and access the dual talent specialization feature. (1000 gold)
A new Gear Manager feature has been [...]

This is truly awesome! The first we’ve officially heard about dual specs and positive confirmation that it will be in the next patch (3.1). All of the information is very new and will take some time to digest. Here is the Q&A source. Below is the quoted text.
Talent Dual Spec Q&A with Ghostcrawler
With the next [...]

The announced changes seem to be prot-pally related, for the most part (source).

Blessing of Kings – this spell is now a base ability trainable by all paladins.

Blessing of Kings being a baseline talent is AWESOME. This is something the pally community has been raving about for ages.

Exorcism – this spell now causes damage to [...]