Is there an ongoing discussion or list of new features anywhere? I looked in a few likely places and didn't find anything. This leads me to conclude (perhaps wrongly) that it's not general knowledge that such changes are in the works.

I wonder just how many problems new software will take care of. It still can't push use of the low-traffic forums which essentially overlap others in scope. It's just bad forum design to have 4 or 5 different places all seem appropriate to ask the same question. This type of overlap should be minimized.