We have a dedicated core team of people working on improving Second Life and keeping it fresh. Naturally, we don't like to announce new features until we're absolutely sure that they're going to ship on a predictable date, but here are some features that we can talk about. I referred to some of these projects in my Meet the Lindens interview.
o Experience Keys - Actually, this feature is already out, and it allows Premium creators to create experiences using experience keys and experience tools. We know that there are several creators working on some really impressive experiences.
o Chrome Embedded Framework - CEF will replace the old WebKit method. This will fix a lot of problems, such as media on a prim. The new framework will also add a lot of functionality.
o Community Gateways - we're starting (re-starting) a trail program to allow specific communiies to attract, register, and on-board new users themselves.
o Premium Membership - we've been adding additional benefits to Premium Membership over the last several months, and we have a new benefit coming in August!
o New Starter Classic Avatars - Out last Avatar refresh added several new mesh avatars, and this project will modernize the classic (non-mesh) starter avatars and their animations.
o SLURLs - There are a whole lot of paths that someone clicking on one of your SLURLs on the web might end up, and many of these paths are, shall we say, non-optimal! This project will clean up those paths so that visitors can more reliably get to where they're supposed to be.