The main goal of 1.7 will be to improve automated testing, and revamp the add-products experience.

We want to increase our level and depth of Travis testing, while introducing frameworks for local running on other PHPUnit platforms.

For the add product area, the big goals are to improve and introduce new ways of managing variations as well as some Javascript enhancements (autopopulating the dropdowns for downloads on a new price addition).

Some other notable goals are the ability to use multiple discounts, the ability to import/export settings, and the ability to edit the emails sent to an admin on purchase.

These are detailed in this GitHub issue:
#1186

-Chris