We have said from the beginning that Factions changes are nowhere near going live. They are not scheduled for any publish right now. The changes we put up on the Factions test server are an early look at some of the changes, so that we could collect feedback on them early in the process.
We are looking at updating T-maps but development is not done and we haven't slated these for a publish yet.
3) 3rd Party program "fixes"
That information is classified. Sorry.
4) Classic shard (sorry have to stick it in)
As Uriah has stated, we'll have a decision on this before the end of this year.