So Viacoin is waiting to roll out the subsidy reduction hardfork in January (the community reduced the total subsidy to 23MM with halving in January).
There have been regular maintenance releases, another is due shortly.
Next year I'm planning to introduce a new opcode for a type of relative checklocktimeverify being the next piece in the puzzle for retroactive invalidation for more micropayment systems.

Thanks for the follow, I was unable to follow back due to my account being locked (Twitter informed me someone has been trying to compromise my account so I had some difficulties restoring my own access).