"Drupal 8.3.0, the next planned minor release of Drupal 8, is scheduled for Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Minor releases include new features, usability improvements, and backwards-compatible API improvements."
"This award was created in honor of long-time Drupal contributor Aaron Winborn, whose battle with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) (also referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease) came to an end on March 24, 2015."
Over the holidays a PSA was released describing an Arbitrary PHP code execution vulnerability in the PHPmailer library. This is a very popular PHP library used on many Drupal sites so make sure you review this advisory.