Here is a quick list of new things around Scilab (note that it is slightly modified message of the one I sent on the dev mailing list).
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Sagemath - it is a software which combines the power of various opensource software.
A Experimental "Scilab/Sage package" is planed for Sage 3.4 and an experimental package by Jaap Spies is already available
Debian/Ubuntu
Packages are available on my Scilab homepage
Debian packages are up-to-date (5.0.3-2). I will to upload the new Ubuntu's packages in 2009 (for now, it is 5.0.3-1 which is working too). I might backport them to Debian Lenny (future stable) & Ubuntu Hardy.
Mandriva
Tomasz Pawel Gajc (a regular Mandriva contributor) created a package available on zarb.org
Opensuse
A Scilab package for Opensuse has been created by Andrea Florio.
It is available on packman
and should be included in the next version of opensuse.
Note that Mandriva & Opensuse packages have been created for Scilab 5.0.3 and I applied most of their patches (or update some part of the code) for Scilab 5.0.4.
Redhat/Fedora
The work is still going on.
They are also doing a great work packaging the misc dependencies but they are a bit stuck about the JOGL packaging (jogl and glugen should produce two different packages ... which I should also do in Debian/Ubuntu too)
Arch Linux
It is also available under Arch Linux by Simon Lipp (one of our former trainee).
Gentoo
A bit stuck for now but some activities have been seen lately around on jrosetta (one of the dependency introduced by Scilab 5).
Slackware
Scilab has been packaged by the Italian Slackware community. It is available on their website. I don't know if it is going to be included in Slackware by default or not;
