Hi,
I am Matthieu from the German community, the guy who ran the live blog. I know there are users here who know English quite well so I thought I would put in a complete English list of new features which someone could then translate into french.
XS+ series and business features
2 devices: RS3413xs+ and RS10613xs+, estimated release september '12
Ivy Bridge Intel Xeon Cores rated at 3.1 Ghz
Support of SATA III and SAS hard drives plus SSDs acting as caches
8GB ECC RAM, expandable to 32GB
4GBit Ethernet LAN plus two optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet LAN interfaces using PCIe-Cards
Reaching a performance of more than 2.000 MB/s and 200.000 IOPS
RS34... using Infiniband to connect expansion devices, RS106... using double SAS connections (double for failover)
-> Maximum capacity of more than 400TB
Passive CPU cooling
Power, network and cooling redundant
High Availability function to completely mirror two XS+ devices. If one fails, the other one will take up all services without interruption using VLAN mechanisms; synchronisation of data on block level
Raid Groups to put one volume on top of multiple Raids
Global Hot Spare drives which will replace any failing hard drive whenever needed immediately
Support of VAAI hardware acceleration to speed up virtualisation performance
Advanced Ressource Monitor which now includes logging of used ressources
SNMPv3 support
better Mail Station including SMTP Relay, Auto Reply and Forward, statistics on send and received mails, a second spam filter system, alias-adresses and more
Quality of service (QoS) to limit bandwith of certain applications based on TCP-port
Bandwith control also on user basis which means you can limit WebDAV, FTP and File Station transfers based on user/group (no SMB so far)
Advanced Syslog server able to log up to 3000 logs per second, with advanced notification and logging
Cloud Station to support synchronisation among multiple users and there might be a Linux client coming!
Surveillance Station 6
Visual Station 240HD coming, able to display HD material
new UI (especially new color scheme)
"Virtual barrier" which you can put e.g. at your door and it will alarm if somebody crosses that
Object count e.g. to see how many people went into a building
No-Idle-Zone to detect objects which went into an area and stayed there (e.g. parking cars in emergency areas to be kept free)
Independent time server to use with cameras
Surveillance Station API
more flexible layouts to view cameras
DSM 4.1
new Video Station to organize all videos you have on your NAS
importing Meta data from International Movie Database
able to record TV through USB DVB-sticks (they said they only tested DVB-T sticks yet)
DS video app to use Video Stations functions on the go
Photo Station now with "Timeline"-function to display images across folders by year
Photo Station supporting face recognition
Audio Station with new UI
personal Audio Station coming, comparable to personal Photo Station
Synchronised Playback across multiple AirPlay-devices
lyrics on Audio Station
connecting to internet via proxy server
new web app packages (probably through package center; mediawiki, moodle, osticket, joomla, drupal, phpBB, sugarCRM, osCommerce, magento)
synchronisation of folders with consolidation of multiple sources
IT-self service including paste bin accessible by every user and easy sharing through QuickConnect using the Synology gofile.me service
SFTP support
FXP support for ftp server
Samba update to version 3.6
Offline mode of iOS DS audio
new UI for Android DS audio and ability to edit playlists
broad Windows Phone 7 support also with apps DS audio and DS photo+
DS download app for Download Station (first iOS, Android to be added later)
unpacking zip files with Download Station including password
faster creation of preview pictures used for Photo Station and others
Media Server supporting indexing of external drives
iTunes supporting more formats through transcoding
I hope I can help you with that. Feel free to ask in English if you have further questions.
Greetings from Germany,
Matthieu