"Now that Drupal 8.3 is in beta, it is time to look at progress around core initiatives again and see how you can help move one or more of them forward."
Changes were announced for DrupalCon Vienna including canceling some of the planned activities in order to make the event more sustainable. Rachel Friesen explains more on the Drupal Association blog.
Megan Sanicki announces industry pages. "The pages are designed to quickly inform and inspire technical evaluators and connect them to service providers and technology vendors who can help them move further through their Drupal adoption journey."
"The major changes are that it uses a different (and external) parsing library for parsing PHP files, and it uses Composer to manage its external library dependencies."