The document discusses new features in MySQL replication in versions 5.5 and 5.6, including:
1) Semi-synchronous replication which helps ensure that data is replicated to at least one slave;
2) Delayed replication which allows transactions to be delayed on the slave for a specified time period; and
3) Features in 5.6 such as server UUID, crash-safe slave using replication tables, multi-threaded slave, and global transaction identifiers.