In Matt Mullenweg's State of the Word he announced a longer term roadmap than we've had for a while, something I really like. He announced the next phase of Gutenberg, which looks promising, and 9 focus points for the next year, which all seem to be very nice projects. On top of that he announced the intent for WordPress core to support multi-lingual sites, something I've been asking for as a core feature for quite some time now.