This release focused one improvements for our private forums.
Live Alerts are enabled now for our private forums, including moderator forums.
Pages that require authentication now ask for it rather than erroring out.
Users viewing forums that have cooresponding technology centers in technet or msdn will get masthead tab contexts.
A new "Microsoft Partner" affiliation is now rendering for users who are part of the Microsoft Partner program.
We have also deployed various fixes reported by our users. We have made some updates to the "Top Answerers" boxes statistics and some user statistics for contributions. Another area udpates for Release 2 was the idea of navigation context. So for a handful of forums that have related centers, users will have more relevant masthead tab links in the tops of pages. Users in Visual Basic forums now will get Visual Basic documentation when they click the "Library" link at the top of the page.
Community Forums Program Manager