When cloning some repositories, the above mentioned version of Fossil fails to pull configuration data. This results in the project appearing as unnamed with an empty homepage. Doing a pull of the config resolves this, but as was noted on the mailing list, it should happen on clone. Here are two repositories that are affected:

http://spielproject.info
http://dev.thewordnerd.info/touchtype

Interestingly enough, cloning the main Fossil repository seems to work. I've experienced this same behavior on other servers, so I'm not necessarily sure it's my server's fault.