"Drupal 8.2.0, the next planned minor release of Drupal 8, is scheduled for Wednesday, October 5, 2016. Minor releases include new features, usability improvements, and backwards-compatible API improvements."
"As part of 8.1.x we introduced a way to test javascript code in a end-to-end testing way, this means, the entire Drupal site, (exactly like in WebTestCase / BrowserTestBase) is set up."
"Drupal 8 uses the third-party PHP library Guzzle for making server-side HTTP requests. An attacker can provide a proxy server that Guzzle will use. The details of this are explained at https://httpoxy.org/."
Better issue credit tools for maintainers, Composer repositories are now in beta, documentation migration, and more in this edition of what's new on Drupal.org.
This release contains a variety of new features, improvements, and bug fixes (no security fixes). Quoting the post on d.o "Yes, there is a version jump compared to the previous 7.44 release; this is to indicate that this Drupal 7 point release is a bit larger than past ones and makes a few more changes and new features available than normal." The change I'm most excited about is the support for full UTF-8 including emojis on MySQL.