Is LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2 LiveCycle ES2 or ES1?

Hi,
I am confused with all the LiveCycle release conventions.
Is LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2 LiveCycle ES2 or ES1?
I am using Designer ES8.2. I manually added some PDF metadata to XDP form in the XML Source tab. After the XDP form gets redendered to either static XFA PDF or dynamic XFA PDF, the PDF metadata I added manually is lost. I was told there is a known defect with LiveCycle ES1 and it has been fixed in ES2. So, wondering whether ES 8.2 is ES1 or ES2?
Thanks!
lcfun

Designer 8.x = ES
Designer 9.x = ES2

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