The cumulative update file in
ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/new/cumulative.dat.gz (and cum_*
files)
will continue to grow with new data until release 99 is built and is
publicly available - we expect that to be around 10th Mar 2009.
See
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Documentation/changesdetails.html for more
details.
Thank you,
Mikyung Jang
EMBL-databank
EMBL-EBI