A brief list of some of the changes in this release.

New Features

• Simplified installation
• New Themes
• Upgraded Blog Feature with Moderated Comments
• Collapsible abstracts included in publication teasers
• Class materials can have child nodes (Book)
• Taxonomy filtering preserves view ordering
• New sign-up options for events
• Book Images
• One install profile for personal/project sites

Configuration Changes

• Simplified publication fields increasing ease of use
• Activity messages simplified
• Views default ordering changed to fit content types
• Removed dependency on repec_meta module

Bug fixes

• Corrected install profile to work with AEGIR
• Uploading a new version of a file will not change the file alias
• Documentation enhancements
• Update Dataverse integration to allow for popups and deeplinks
• Removed hidden menu entry that allowed access to private content
• Unified biblio teaser views
• Permissions fixed for presentations
• Many css bug-fixes and tweaks

Contrib Modules Updated
 Biblio,CCK,Date,Diff,Views Bulk Operations,Litecal,OG Vocab,Token,Activity,Better Formats,imagecache,signup,filefield, pathauto,imageapi,jquery_ui,override_node_options,lightbox2,imagefield,transliteration, stringoverrides

Next release:

• Upgrading to Sapces3 + Context3 + Strongarm2
• Ability for users to add custom widgets and customize them
• Menu system improvements
• More options for theme customization (custom background, custom header,  css editing)
• etc.