It was announced yesterday at the Ignite conference that we’ll be getting a summer preview of SQL Server 2016. With it being a bank holiday in the UK … I missed it yesterday
You can read the blog post here http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2015/05/04/sql-server-2016-public-preview-coming-this-summer.aspx
Some the new features announced include :
Always Encrypted
Stretch Database
Real Time Operational Analytics and In Memory OLTP
You can follow the preview release notes and details here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/sql-server-2016/?WT.mc_id=Blog_SQL_Announce_DI
You can also sign up to notified of announcements about the release
