One major feature is views integration which for now allows for experimentation with views. All views are disabled by default as the node/nid/annotations and user/uid/annotations are still in place. The next release will be a 6.x-2.x release where these tabs are replace with views these new views. Please report your views experiments to make the 6.x-2.x release as useful as possible.
Feature Request #570008: Just a bit more UI flexibility by rayray,scottrigby,thesleuth,mhunt: default and fixed visibility, more theme div and small bug fix
The access control is now working for
- create annotation: the annotation forms comes visible
- read published annotations: the tab is only visible for this role.
A little rework on the theme_annotation_item
- got rid of check_plain
- added a few annotation-* classes
Note: Hopefully bug http://drupal.org/node/190339 (wating for confirmation) and http://drupal.org/node/190452 (reproduced) are now resolved. It renders annotate useless. The combination with other modules and db_rewrite_sql was not tested :-/)