Drupal 7.61 - the next planned minor release of Drupal 7 - is scheduled for Wednesday, November 7th, 2018. Minor releases include new features, usability improvements, and backwards-compatible API improvements.
Various media outlets are reporting that a large number of Drupal sites are still vulnerable to the recent highly critical core vulnerabilities SA-CORE-2018-002 and
Drupal 8 will require PHP 7.0 or higher starting March 6, 2019. Drupal 8 users who are running Drupal 8 on PHP 5.5 or PHP 5.6 should begin planning to upgrade their PHP version to 7.0 or higher.