The technical specifications of Mandriva 2011 are out. We will see quite a lot of new features in this release.
In keywords: systemd booting, unified control center, only one DE (the rest is community developed), simplified installer, new package manager UI, RPM5 (see Per Øyvind Karlsen's blog post for more details on that) etc.
There's also an article on ostatic.com in case you don't know what some of these things are.
Finally, here's the full list.