Work is progressing on Qora v2, which has been rewritten from scratch. Right now it's complete enough to be tested with blocks fed from v1 to ensure compliance/backward compatibility.
Some aspects of Qora v2 are blocked waiting for 3rd-parties, e.g. we need BouncyCastle (a security library) devs to implement TLS v1.3 with the corresponding Ed25519/X25519 support for Qora's new networking layer.
New UI still needs a little bit more work before showtime.
Other new features are also being built and of course the "lack of exchanges" issue is being addressed.
I don't want to hype features that aren't complete but when they are I'm sure you'll all hear about it a lot!