The upcoming platform update is scheduled for January 24th, 2017.
ChromeDriver has been updated to version 2.27.
Erlang receives an update with version 19.2.
Firefox ESR has been updated to version 45.6.0.
Git receives an update with version 2.11.
Go gets two version updates with 1.6.4 and 1.7.4.
Java 7 has been updated with version 7u121.
MongoDB receives an upgrade to version 3.4.1. This is a major update, including some breaking changes. Refer to the MongoDB compatibility pages for versions 3.0 and 3.4 for more details. A downgrade script is available here, if you wish to revert to the previous, 2.6.12 version.
MySQL gets an update with version 5.6.35.
Node.js has been updated with versions 0.12.18, 4.7.2, and 6.9.4.
PHP gets two updates with versions 5.6.29 and 7.0.14.
RabbitMQ has been updated to version 3.6.6.
New things
The following additions will be available after switching to the release candidate platform.
Elixir 1.4.0 has been added to the platform.
Python 3.6 is now part of the platform.
Scala 2.12.1 is included in the platform.
Node.js 7.4.0 has been added to the platform.
Changes in the final release
The Docker-enabled platform gets two updates with docker-engine version 1.12.6 and docker-compose version 1.9.0.
Java 8 gets an update with version 8u121.
A full list of changes is available in the platform changelog.