For the last several months we have been working on NANOS++, the replacement of our old OpenMP nanos4 runtime. The design objectives that are driving the development are:

Christian Terboven, from Aachen University, wrote a nice summary of recent discussions in the OpenMP language committee which I recommend for people interested in the development of OpenMP.

Next week is one the major events in the OpenMP world: the IWOMP workshop.
 
There is a full day tutorial (where I'm presenting the 3.0 Tasking stuff) on Wednesday.
 
Thursday and Friday are devoted to contributions. A quick look at the program shows some promising ones. And it's clear that the tasking stuff is dominating this year's edition.