Yesterday there was a test release of 1C: Enterprise 8.2. Under the test release 1C usually implies a kind of Release Candidate i. when opportunities are already frozen and only bugs rule. There are a lot of changes, the key ones are listed below. The full list takes about 30 A4 pages.
New features managed application.
New optimization tools for application developers.
New interface design.
Support for Oracle Database DBMS.
A mechanism for optimizing the generation of aggregated data for building analytical reports.
The mechanism of administrative management of the installation and launch of versions of "1C: Enterprise."
Failsafe 1C: Enterprise server cluster.
Dynamic load balancing of the 1C: Enterprise server cluster.
Optimization of the mechanism of work with the database.
Other new features.
Actually you will see the same list in their press release . Unfortunately, the web interface was excluded from the release. The interface is pretty yellow for example, a new thin client that works using Apache or IIS. 1Sniki are not confused and by default use deflate compression, because The main content of the data transfer is XML files for the thin client. The release of the final version is planned in Q3 2009.