Is there a newer Bitcoin blockchain download available? The SourceForge project page for Bitcoin provides a blockchain download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/ but this file is old/dated.

How and where can I download an up to date copy of the Bitcoin block chain?
Since v0.10, the parallel block download in Bitcoin Core is often comparable in speed to torrent downloading, does not require temporary double storage, and validates while downloading instead of sequentially.

Original answer:

Please use the bootstrap.dat torrent download. It is more frequently updated and much safer to use.

You can find the .torrent download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/bootstrap.dat.torrent/download