Microsoft is making available to testers on January 20 the Release Candidate (RC) builds of SharePoint Server 2016 and Project Server 2016.
The SharePoint Server 2016 RC is "mostly feature complete," according to Microsoft's blog post on its availability. Microsoft is still on track to make SharePoint Server 2016 generally available in the Spring of 2016, today's post also confirmed.
The focus of this release of SharePoint Server is on hybrid-computing scenarios, officials have said. It also will add more data security and compliance support and better access to mobile content and applications. Many of the features in this release of SharePoint Server are already available in SharePoint Online.
In a frequently-asked questions portion of today's post, Microsoft officials acknowledged the company is adjusting its support timelines for InfoPath and SharePoint Designer. Microsoft officials said in 2014 that the company would be dropping support for InfoPath, its electronic forms product, and last summer that there'd be no more SharePoint Designer.
From the FAQ:
Testers can download the SharePoint Server 2016 RC-- which also includes the Project Server 2016 RC -- from Microsoft's Download Center. Microsoft officials said users can install the RC directly over SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2.