Silverlight 2 BETA 2 released on Friday and is the best release of Silverlight so far!  It is packed with features, with many much-awaited features like DRM coming into play!

On the media end, SL 2 BETA 2 supports server-side playlists, DRM and adaptive streaming (that was announced at MIX).  I intend to post more technical details on these in upcoming posts.

One of the good things for developers is that many of the base Silverlight controls have been moved into the runtime, hence not requiring that additional piece of download when the app loads.  That would make app loading really fast and app size really small!!  That addition into the runtime has not increased the runtime size which is still around 4.3 MB for Windows.

A full-fledged post with all features is at ScottGu's blog here.  This is a must-read for anybody who is interested in Silverlight!  It covers the comprehensive list of features we've released in Silverlight 2 BETA 2 and in Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview.

Download Silverlight and Expression with the SDK/VS Tools here.